What's A Girl To Do?

What is a girl to do while her mommy cooks? Why, discover new drawers in her mommy's kitchen of course!

I volunteered to make dinner for someone at church and while I was cooking Addison found a new drawer to play with. Yes, that's one of my drawers with the ziplocks. So I'm sure every day she will want to pull every last plastic bag out of that drawer and drop it to the floor. She seems to enjoy this type of activity...she tossed my purse Saturday, pulled every last tissue out of the kleenex box a couple days before. And when I removed the ziplocks from the drawer (and her), she decided to play with the drawer below that one.

Which coincidentally, makes a perfect little boat for Addison to play in! How convenient! She was pretty proud of herself for getting into the drawer. As usual, she couldn't figure out to get herself out of it. But it kept her entertained while I cooked, so who can complain? Truly, this just illustrates how Addison is pulling up on a much more consistent basis. She pulls herself up constantly! It's so fun to watch her discovering new things and testing out those legs of hers!

I didn't realize they both had their eyes shut! Ha! Kinda creepy! Anyways, the point is Addison continues to develop this skill, which is such a milestone for her. We're so excited to see her continued growth and development.

And just a side note, her procedures went really well this past Thursday. The scope of her esophagus, stomach and small intestine looked good. The doctor said he would find out more from her biopsies. She also had her MRI done and the impedence Ph probe. We don't know the results yet of any of the tests. So when we hear, we will let everyone know. In the meantime, here are a few pictures of Addison with the probe..warning, it's kinda disturbing :(

Roger is feeding Addison in this picture. She has the probe in her nostril and down her throat into her stomach. It's then taped across her cheek, around her ear and down her back. You can see the probe under her leg. It's attached to the machine, which is that little black box hanging on the chair. It recorded every time we fed her, if she was sitting up, laying down, coughing, crying, etc. It also recorded the Ph of her stomach.

On her arms were little stints called "No no's" or "No Nose" I'm not sure which phrase the nurses kept saying. Anyways, they kept her from bending her elbow and reaching her hand up and pulling out that probe!

Addison really is such a good natured little girl! Look at that smile despite the tape, probe, no no's. She was so happy to be eating and drinking! We had to feed her on a strict schedule...every four hours. She could eat and drink for 30 minutes and then nothing until her next feeding four hours later. This was her last feeding before she went to bed that night, and she was so thirsty! I cried with relief when she went to bed and we made it through the whole day without her pulling the probe out. Seriously, tears of relief! So that's my little trooper. She was so happy that next morning to get the probe out of her! And I didn't realize it, but the No no's also kept her from giving me hugs -- which she happily did again after we took the No no's off. I missed those little hugs so much! So sweet!

Finally, (this is the longest post ever!) Roger started his new position with the police department today. He is an accident investigator now. Of course, he has a new schedule with his new position. Good news and bad news with this change -- the bad news is he works from 5 p.m. until 3 a.m. The good news is that he works 4 - 10 hour shifts with three days off! What I'm getting to is that I promised myself that I wouldn't stay up all hours of the night while he was working. Here it is, midnight, and I'm still blogging. So I'm going to bed right now. Good night all!