The Monson Family: April 2008

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off To The Doctor We Go

We had Chloe's year check up yesterday and boy was it a doozie. She got two shots which she handled pretty well. Before that though Doc had to dig wax out of her ears...again. She has double ear infections, slight sinus infection, allergies are causing red goopy eyes and she has what is some sort of skin problem. Not sure if it is eczema, got some cream for that though. UGH! Poor baby is going to hate the doctor for the rest of her life.

Of course she is off the charts for everything which no one is worried about because Chris and I are both tall and I'm a big girl so we are good there. Here are the stats...

Height: 32" (97th percentile)

Weight: 25#3 (95th percentile)

Chloe took a few steps towards me before she dove for my arms on Tuesday. She is starting to adapt to her new daycare and she eats like a champ. Before we know it she will be playing on a volleyball court or golf course somewhere.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Chloe turns 1

WE MADE IT! Chloe turned one year old on Saturday. The party was perfectly planned...so you knew something had to go wrong. Chloe woke up Saturday morning with a goopy eye. While I was at MeeMaw and PawPaw's house getting stuff ready, Chris called and said Chloe's eyes were getting pink. So he brought her over and sure enough it was pink eye, I knew it. We went to the Family Clinic in DP and the doc had a family emergency so off to Dr. Metz...probably would have waited 4 hours with the looks of the parking lot. Then off to the new Redi Clinic in HEB, won't take anyone under 2. Then off to the Fairmont Emergency place...LONG wait. They said it would be over an hour and it was 1pm...party started at 2. We figured we have to wait, we have no choice we had to get some medicine in her eyes. Well that idea lasted about 10 minutes when this crazy woman kept talking to me while I was all stressed. So I called a few people and we got some medicine. Always good to take care of people in high places, who are doctors...remember that.

So after waiting at Walgreen's (the slowest one ever!) it was time to party....

MeeMaw, PawPaw and Aunt Desi did a great job decorating and getting everything ready while we had our little "emergency." The party was great. Chloe got A LOT of stuff, A LOT! Everyone was there. Even Kegan who had a little surgery on Friday, he made it. Chloe was great even with her goopy eyes. We are so blessed to have such a wonderful family and great friends, and of course our little Princess Chloe. It has been a year of ups and downs but we would do it all over again in a hearbeat.

Thanks to Steven David, our station photographer, we got some great pictures. Steven took 317 something pictures! A BIG thank you to Steven for coming and taking pictures. You can see his website at http://www.stevendavid.com/.