Avery ~ 6 months

Avery had her 6 month well baby visit today. No immunizations though, due to her slight case of pneumonia. [while in Indiana we noticed Avery was just not herself on Sunday. She was extremely cranky and was crying like she was in pain. She also had not being eating hardly anything for the past couple of days. She wasn't sleeping very well either. I finally broke down and took her into the ER thinking she might have an ear infection. She didn't have a temp, her ears and throat looked fine so they decided to do some tests. She had an IV put in to draw blood (in the foot) and she was literally covered in blood all the way up to her knee and the bed was soaked around her foot. They put a catheder in her to get a urine sample and then took x-rays of her chest. Everything came back fine, except for the x-ray........showing some fluid in her left lung. She was put on antibiotics throught the IV....but at some point the IV came out and so then they had to jab her with a shot to the muscle :( She was such a trooper........and so was Allie. It was a looooonnnnng 5 1/2 hours there.]

Once she's done with her antibiotics we'll take her back to get her immunizations up to date. Other than that she's 15 lbs 10 ounces - that's 34% on the chart, 25 inches long - that's 30% on charts, and her head is at around 15%.

I know she looks chubby now, but it's looking like she'll be a petite on once she gets moving around. She's pretty much sitting up by herself. She usually leans forward too much, but can keep herself from falling over by using her hands to stop her. She is soooo close to rolling over. I really think that could happen any day now. Crawling should be sometime in the near future, she can really get her head pushed up with her arms and pushes off with her feet, but doesn't get anywhere yet. She has the cutest smile and beautiful eyes. She is so loving and still a mama's girl. Loved her rice cereal until she got sick.......I'm sure she'll still love it once she's feeling better. Then we'll start giving her some veggies too. That's about it for now. We love our little "AV" ( as Allie calls her.)