Well, it's been quite an eventful New Year thus far. We had some daycare issues and to make a very long story short, we are back at the old daycare...in a new location. Do you follow? We are having to drive quite a bit and sometimes it gets very frustrating but we trust the teacher Millie has now and that's most important. We realized that trusting Millie's school, no matter the distance, was very important. So the daycare search continues...As you saw earlier, we have started Millie on solid foods. About 2 weeks ago we started her on half breastmilk, half formula. She is drinking more and more and it's been tough to keep up. She is enjoying her rice cereal and loves chomping on that spoon. We don't have much time after the drive home from daycare so Priya, our teacher, is feeding Millie now once a day. I think we will up it soon because she is taking to it very well.
Millie's new daycare is in a Jewish school. All food must be Kosher so we are currently looking for baby food that is Kosher. I am not allowed to make the food at home as I don't keep a Kosher kitchen. I heard Target might have the food we need but Kroger and Walmart do not. I think I am going to look for some this weekend. I am getting "Super Baby Food" from the library soon. It's supposed to be a great book on how to start kids on solid foods. I already have another book with great recipes in it. I would like to make my own baby food as much as possible. Once we do start introducing food, we will do a new food about every 3-4 days to make sure she doesn't have a reaction to the food.
Speaking of reaction...We went to a wedding (click here to see the pictures) this past weekend and left Millie with our neighbors. They have been wanting to babysit so it was a perfect opportunity as we had an afternoon wedding. We dropped her off around 10:30am and picked her up around 2pm. At the first diaper change, Linda (our neighbor) didn't notice anything unusual. But the 2nd diaper change, she noticed a red rash appearing. By diaper change #3, it was really noticeable. We picked her up and she was in her normal good spirits. Smiling, talking, seemed normal. After we got home, we took off her clothes. The rash was everywhere. And you can see the little bumps that started to form. We gave her a bath and called the on call nurse. When we took off Millie clothes, she was trying to scratch her redness. The nurse didn't think it was that serious but thought we should call our pediatrician because of all the redness. It kinda looked like a sunburn...with bumps. She wasn't warm with a temperature. We called our Pedi and she told us to give her 2ml of benadryl. After the benadryl and a nap, the redness started to go away. By that night, she was still pretty splotchy but better. Sunday she was a little bit better but it had moved to her hands and legs. By Monday it was kinda gone but had moved back onto her belly. From what we can tell, by Monday it was gone. Kinda scary!
The neighbors have a cat but so do we. But their cat goes outdoors. We have a dog. Neighbors have no dog. We couldn't think of anything else that would have triggered it. I haven't changed the laundry soap since she was born. We called upon Dr. Emily and she came through with another fabulous email diagnosis. Basically it was "Pediatric rashes are 1) rarely serious 2) usually mysterious. The majority of them are usually viral or due to a minor (and probably impossible to figure out) contact allergen." So who knows if we will ever know. I just hope it doesn't come back!
To see pictures of the rash, click here.
We are learning some sign language that hopefully she will pick up on soon. We know "eat" "water" "cereal" "banana" "cracker" "more". Most babies are able to sign back sometime between 9-14 months.
Let's see.....what else. Grandma Terry AND Mama D are making an appearance in Atlanta soon. We are very excited to see them in February and March!
We finally ordered and paid for the new doors for our house, post break-in. We can't wait because letting the dog out in the front yard is a big PAIN! Our backdoors are boarded up right now and we can't wait to get those fixed. We are getting the same front door and a slightly different back doors. I'll take pictures as soon as they are up. It should be another month but at least we are a little step closer to having working doors again. We will replace the computer soon hopefully.
Engine 11's grand opening party went very well. They did a little revamp to the website, you can check it out here. E11 was closed for MLK day and so was our daycare so it was Mat and Millie day. They had some great bonding together.
I think that's it for now! Hope you are all are doing well!