New Lilly Items!

So yesterday it seemed like it was a day of firsts for Lilly! She really mastered the art and balance of sitting up, so we plopped her on the ground, on her jungle gym mat, and she sat up, and reached for items, marveling at this whole new perspective. She also played with a set of Winnie the Pooh blocks, all while sitting up. She and Mark had a great time, though I don't know who was more excited about tumbling the blocks over, her or Mark. If I had to guess it would have been Mark. We spelled her name out with the blocks. And she only tried to put two blocks, out of many, in her mouth. What an accomplishment!

And last night we left her with a new babysitter - granted Lilly was already asleep, and didn't awake during any of Liz's stay at the house - while Mark and I grabbed dinner with two of our friends. It was a great date, I finished up my antibiotics and prednisone, so I had two delicious glasses of Russian River Chardonnay (2007). Mark had two Pimm's Cups. Delicious.

And Lilly is enamored with screens, anything that flashes. She sees my computer - she jumps and gets all excited. Mark holds her while checking his blackberry her face is all aglow with the newness of the small image. I'm worried that we're raising a technology addict or at the very least overstimulating her brain with these new and fast images.

Olympic Baby

Uncle Sean and Aunt Victoria, Mark's childhood best friend and his wife, who live in London, came to stay with us for Mardi Gras. It was great to see them and catch up. Victoria, works for the government, and part of her job is to manage information between the government and the London 2012 Organizing Committee. So hot off the press (or really shelf) she brought Lilly a London 2012 baby set, complete with 2 onesies, a hat, mittens (one hand says 20, the other says 12, so cute!), and a bib. She's already christened the bib with her cereal, applesauce and peas. Nothing Dreft detergent can't remove. And here she is in her onesie, one pic with the hat, the other without. We hope to take the doodlebug ( or leave her with one of her grandparents!) to London 2012 and Victoria and Sean said tickets are being balloted there now and will come to the states in the fall.

My New Hair Accessory

Mel gave Lilly her first ever bow! Last Thursday we put it on her, and she looks quite cute. She let the bow stay on her head, and didn't fight with it. I was worried that she might swat at it or try and take it off. But nope. She was fine with it! So more bows are in her future!

Random Pictures during JJ's visit

Double Ear Infection, Cold, Cough

So Lilly caught her daddy's cold which then morphed into a double ear infection. Mark got sick the Wednesday before Mardi Gras and had the cold for about a week. Lilly then picked up his cough and runny nose, earlier this week, but that's all it was. Now mind you, our house was a bit banged up, as I slipped on our front steps last Saturday night (luckily after riding in our Mardi Gras Parade) and fractured my left foot and sprained my left ankle. So the Kitner-Mintz household wasn't in the best physical shape (now I've picked up the cold and battling out with my sinuses).

But back to Lilly. She took a turn Friday. She didn't want to eat. She was fussier than usual. And really slept a whole lot more. Saturday morning she woke up just not being a happy camper. She cried. She still didn't want to eat. And when she did eat an ounce she threw it back up, all over JJ. So we called the doctor, thank goodness they have Saturday sick hours, got an appt. for 9:10 and went over there. Dr. G, our normal doctor, was on call. She listened to Lilly's chest and then looked in her ears before diagnosing her with a double ear infection. She said Lilly is so stopped up that its hard for her to breathe, thus the not eating. And she's got so much mucus in her we can expect to see a change in her stools (not for the better) and with all the mucus it was difficult to drain and thus the ear infection. I had horrible ear infections growing up, I had 4 sets of tubes. I just hope Lilly isn't saddled with them. They are not fun.

So we got a prescription for Amoxicilin, the bubble gum tasting medicine and are to dispense it twice a day to the doodlebug. She fights us on it - she does not like the taste, and thus you can see the pink stain on her pjs. We are going to have to start putting it in her bottle so she can get it that way. But we can definitely see her feeling better. She not as fussy, and her congestion has decreased. We've got a follow up appt. in 10 days to reasses the ears. So hopefully we'll get the all clear sign!

Baby Mum-Mums

Lilly loves the baby Mum-Mums crackers. Essentially its a rice cake, but she loves eating them, gnawing on them. You break open a package and show her one and she gets all excited. Mark calls them 'baby crack' At first I was nervous about them, I wasn't sure how she was going to be able to swallow her bites without choking. That is until I tried one myself, not a full one, just a bite, so I could see how it dissolved in her mouth. And it does, quite well, as soon as it goes in and makes contact with the salivary glands, the cracker dissipates. So while I am still quite vigilant during her eating of them, the anxiety has gone down.

She's doing well on her solids as well. She enjoys peas and prunes, though not necessarily together. Chicken and turkey are good as well. Peaches, sweet potatoes and apple sauce are fine as well. I do wonder if she tires of having the same foods over and over again. But every time we put food in her mouth she makes a face, like she can't believe she's eating this and then I guess she remembers she likes whatever she's having and eats it all up!

Smart Baby

Lilly's loving the smart phones. She enjoys to eat mine and last week she enjoyed playing with JJ's blackberry. Similar to her computer dexterity, she is able to swat at the touchscreen and get items to appear, things I didn't even know possible. Not sure if its the generation or the ease of the phones or a combination of both. But she's going to know her way around a computer, iPad, and cell phone before she gets to Kindergarten!