doc, take two

so since I had the day off (ha, ha) yesterday daddy wanted me to take Adler back to the doc. the shot of Benadryl is not helping clear up her issues. we are well past 3 weeks with this persistent runny nose and cough. so back we went. we saw our regular doc this time and she prescribed some medicine. I want her to be over it but Rigby has also started a cough and next week we are going to be with cousins all week so don't want to be passing it around. since our pharmacist always give us extra medicine (they don't have the small fluid ounces that is prescribed for Adler.) they tell us to just throw it out. Instead I gave Rigby a shot of it last night and again with Adler this morning. As she was not coughing this morning I probably wont give her any additional. I don't want to over medicate but I do want to knock it out of her system if I can before we have to go 3 weeks with her snotty and coughing.

sleep in

two days...that is all I got. two days where Adler slept in her bed all night long. last night she was up crying for mommy at 3am. I brought her to bed to snuggle and she was asleep in a matter of seconds. daddy was snoring away too. so there I am laying there awake for a good hour before I could finally drift back to sleep. then next think I know I hear Rigby open her bedroom door. I roll over and look at the clock and notice it is almost 7am. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we need to leave for school at about 7:30a. so we are on super duper fast speed this morning. well Rigby and I were, not Adler she was puttering around and taking her sweet time to eat and change and brush her teeth. we still made it close to on time so there was no major melt downs on my part or the girls.

shaggy dog

Adler is a total shaggy dog. she needs some kind of hair cut/shape. I don't want to though as she just still does not seem to have enough for me to whacking any of it off. the only real problem is her bangs they are always hanging in her eyes and they are now down to her mouth and sometimes get in her mouth and food. ugh!!!! what to do...

doc visit

Adler has had a cough but it has gotten increasingly horrible sounding over the weekend. so I had daddy take her to the doctor yesterday. it was all for not, at this point. the doctor told dad that it appears that Adler is almost over this bug and to just give her a dose of Benadryl at bed time to help dry her out. She has a bad post nasal drip and I think that is what triggers the cough. so I dosed her last night and I got to sleep the whole night though. YEA ME!! I did wake up at 3am and wondered if I had over dosed her. I went to listen at her door and heard her snoring. I was back in bed and asleep in a matter of seconds. I like not having to share my side of the bed.

rock stars

today I was in Adler's class putting up her book bag for the day. I saw her folder and was checking to make sure that we had all her creative papers at home. I saw some of her classmates names. one was Mariah and one named Prince. it made me laugh she goes to school with pop stars. There was also a kid with the name of Styles. And I catch grief that Adler is too outside the main stream.

not very nice

Adler is still fussing in the middle of the night. this normally coensides with daddy getting home or decompressing after getting home. so daddy picks her up and brings her to bed and shoves her up against me. that is all she really wants is to touch someone while she sleeps. well last night she was a very fit full sleeper. she was asleep but constantly moving. this is not always the case. long story short mommy did not get much sleep...don't know about daddy. so when it hit 6:30a today we had to get up whether we wanted to or not to start our day. I sure did not want to but so be it. after letting the dog out I set Adler on the kitchen counter and she told me that it was "NOT VERY NICE" that I woke her up. she would just keep repeating that I was "NOT VERY NICE" for waking her up. I just had to laugh right in her face. it was so stinking cute...I did not bring up the fact that it was "NOT VERY NICE" that she kept me up 90% of the night. errrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bug on a rug

so when we get up in the morning Adler still likes to be carried. since I can still lift her I tote her around. first thing we do is go let Chopper out to go potty. then sometimes she will stay there to let him back in. other times she will need to go with me. my next stop is the bathroom to have that early morning pee (I know, I know too much info.) well, she will sometimes accompany me and then she will snuggle up on the rug in front of the sink and wait for me to pick her back up again. it is so stinking cute.

2 modes

Adler only seems to have two moods these days 1.) snuggle and hold (this one I mostly love) and 2.) cry baby. this girl can wail for well over 10 mins. after a few minutes I like to go back and quiz her and see if she even remembers why she is crying. sometimes she is tired, sometimes she did not get her way, sometimes the wind hit her wrong. but the funniest part is she can never answer why she is still crying and caring on.

my twin

so funny Adler's teacher called her my mini twin today. that is funny as she does kind of look like me at that same age. the best part is that she speaks like me. she says the thing that I say and sighs like I do when I get exasperated with her. she kills me as I see her mimic me. which is not ALL bad but is not ALL good either.