Mickey Moments: Jan 13, 2010

No Pain, No gain

Ok, so I usually post all about Hailey. This time I am posting about me. I have always wanted to be a runner but it has just never been something that I have been good at. I have always talked about running a 5k some day but never have done it. A couple of months ago, 2 of my girlfriends and I starting talking about running....they have never run either. We kind of talked about it for a few months and never did anything about it. We decided right before Christmas that we were going to start the "couch to 5K" training program after the new year. Well we have been training for 2 weeks now. We train 3 days a week pushing the kids in the jogging strollers. It is not easy to train with out the stroller and pushing the stroller and Hailey is even harder. But I guess, NO PAIN NO GAIN. It will all be worth it. We are registering to run a 5k on March 20th.

Getting tubes

Well the Mickey house has been a whirl wind for a few days. Hailey had her 12 month check-up at the doctor on Monday. She weighed 28.4 lbs and was 31 1/4 inches long. She is over the 95th percentile for both height and weight. She grew 9 1/4 inches in one year....who can believe that. They gave her 3 shots and pricked her finger for blood. Well we found out that Hailey bleeds like me....free flowing. She had to have 4 band aids on her finger and I walked out with blood on my shirt. It was a heck of a visit since she is also having trouble with her ears. (read more below)

So, to give you a little background.....Hailey had her first ear infection in October. The doctors put her on Amoxicillin, which didn't work.....then augmentin, which didn't work....then as a last resort, she received 3 shots (1 each day) of high amounts of antibiotics. Over Christmas, she had another ear infection. We skipped the amoxicillin and went straight to the augmentin, which again didn't work. We then tried the 3 shots again. This time it got rid of the infection but we found out Monday that she still has a lot of fluid still sitting in her ears. The poor girl has been tugging and digging at her ears for a while and wakes up crying in the middle of the night. It is so sad. So, our pediatrician got us an appt with the ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) doctor for this past Tuesday. I took Hailey to see the specialist and he confirmed that she had fluid sitting in her ears and that we have done everything we could do. The next step would be to place tubes in her ear to help the fluid drain. The tubes usually stay in about 1 or so and then will fall out. Well, with all of that being said Hailey has surgery tomorrow morning at 8:30 to have the tubes placed in. The doctor happen to have a cancellation, so we quickly grabbed it. We have to be at the Surgicenter at 7:30 and should be home by 10. The procedure itself is only about 15 minutes. I will try to post in the next say or so to let everyone know how she is doing.

Hailey's birthday party

Last Saturday we had Hailey's 1st birthday at our house. We had about 35 family and friends and it was AMAZING. We are so lucky to have some many wonderful people in our lives, who care about Hailey. Hailey appeared to really enjoy herself. She had about 13 other kids to play with at her party. She was pretty funny when we put her cake in front of her. First, she dabbed her finger in it, just tasting the icing. Then she dug her hand in the chocolate and just started playing with the cake. After cake, we decided to have Hailey sit down and open some of the wonderful gifts that she received. She opened alot of gifts and she had many WONDERFUL little helpers. It was so cute. Below are some pictures.