5/21 More Firsts: The Quilt Group and Dr’s Office

Mariane Sobodash gave Violet a quilt in a beautiful box. I pulled the quilt out to take to the quilt meeting today and she climbed in and started playing. She then put all the diapers around her. She went to the Hand’s All Around Quilt Group meeting today and was able to meet all the ladies. She had a blast, after about five minutes of warily staying in my arms she was off and running, handing people scraps of paper, taking them back, blowing kisses, and after each thing running back to me for another bite of cake. She loves sweets! What a joy to share her personality with a group of women that have sent so many wonderful wishes, blessings and prayers to us thru the whole process.
We had our first pediatrician appointment this evening. Since we’ve gotten back she goes to sleep around 7pm and has her between 3-4 night terrors each night. Her first around 1am then sometimes another at 1:30 but I can typically sing her back to sleep in her crib, but the one at either 3 or 3:30 is usually inconsolable in her crib so at that point she is in bed with Todd and I which is pretty funny because she immediately stops crying but she flops this way then the other, then crawls on top of me, crawls off, kicks Todd, then is sideways, then is flopping her feet, so needless to say at that point there is no sleep for either of us but she wakes up around 4:30am bright and chipper with smiles and kisses for both of us. It is such a special time for that half hour we lay there playing before getting up at 5am. The other thing we wanted to talk to Dr. Howard about was her nervous scratching; she will scratch at her arms or the back of her neck until she bleeds. I have been cutting her nails daily and dressing her in long sleeves and high necks to help them heal and we stop her as soon as we see her doing it. Unfortunately both of these are common and they typically lesson over time, so in the mean time there isn’t much we can do other that what we are doing already. She has acquired quite the little Buda belly in the last couple of weeks, she only weighs 23 lbs (25% for her age) so we’ll keep giving her food. She is quite the little eater; 2 bananas, 2 hardboiled egg whites, a scrambled egg and 8oz of yogurt is her first breakfast… she just never stops eating! She is at the 50% for head circumference and at 32.5” she is at the 75% for height. Great news! She cried when they strapped her in for the chest x-rays to make sure her cough wasn’t pneumonia and was a total champ with only whimpers when they drew blood to fill EIGHT tubes but she totally lost it (and so did I) when they had to give her five immunizations. What trauma! We all went home and went to bed. Good news is she was so exhausted she slept thru the night with no terrors!