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.

Hailey and cousin Wiley

Hailey and her little helpers

Hailey looking at her bracelet from Mimi and Pop Pop

Happy Birthday Hailey!

Well last year at this time, I had Hailey about 30 minutes ago. Who can believe that it has been a whole year that we have been so fortunate to have Hailey in our lives. I don't know where time goes.

She is not completely walking yet. She is talking 5 or so steps, here and there. She is holding on to everything i.e. kitchen chairs and using them to walk. Hailey does not want help doing much, she is so independent.....not sure where she gets that from. LOL With that being said, it is hard to hold her hands and help her walk because she wants to do things on her own. She currently has 10 teeth and the 11th one is coming in.

We took her to Logans for dinner tonight and she had a hotdog and french fries. After dinner, we took her to the mall and got her ears pierced. She was such a trooper. She only cried for a minute on each ear and then she was ok.

Tomorrow we are having a Winter ONE-derland party for her. We are so excited. Stay tuned for more about the party.

Below are some pictures from dinner tonight and her new ears.

ready to eat some birthday dinner

"reading" the menu, deciding what I want to eat for my birthday dinner

funny faces

getting read to get my ears pierced

I got my ears pierced!!!

Coming soon.....

So I know that I have been extremely slack about the blog.....it has been a month since I last posted. I have been extremely busy hosting Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve and soon....Hailey's birthday. Below are some pictures but I plan to post more and catch everyone up on what Hailey has been up to on Sunday.....stay tuned.

From Grandma and Grandpa (McDonald)

From Mimi and Pop Pop (Mickey)

From Aunt Jamie and Brian


This was Jamie's goose when she was growing up.

Thanksgiving

Well it has been a while since I have posted. Things have been very busy.

We made our annual trip to Georgia for Thanksgiving and Hailey did wonderful. The trip took about 8 hours on the way down, she slept for about an hour and was an angel the rest of the time. I was really worried about how she was going to act after being strapped into her car seat for such a long period of time but it was a great trip. The trip back took a little longer because we stopped to see Paul's grandma who is 93 and had not met Hailey yet and then we had to drop off his 83 year old aunt. Hailey did well most of the trip except the last hour or so, she was tired of being in her seat and was ready for bed.

While we were in Georgia we went to go see my aunt and uncle, who also had not met Hailey. Below is a picture of my Uncle Steven and Hailey. We had a very short but great visit.

Below are some pictures of her first Thanksgiving meal

Quick update

Well I know I have been very slack....I haven't updated in almost 2 weeks. Things have been so busy at home and at work, hopefully they will slow down but I doubt it.

Just wanted to let everyone know that Hailey is now letting go of when she is standing up. She wobbles for a minutes and then falls down. She is well on her way to walking.

She is also getting her first molar. That makes 9 teeth. I really can't believe my 10 1/2 month old has 9 teeth......it's crazy.

I will probably not have another opportunity to post until after Thanksgiving but I will try.

Halloween

Hailey is so young and doesn't even know what Halloween is, but we wanted her to enjoy her 1st Halloween. We got her dressed in her costume and put her in her red wagon and walked around the neighorhood with the kids next door and across the street. She had a blast.