Why Eric Isn't A Doctor...And A Little Tilly Update

Well, if you have read my blog before, you probably already know why Eric isn't a doctor. I am referring, of course, to the "candy in the belly button" incident. However, I feel it necessary to give another example as to why I was the one of us who ventured into healthcare.

(You should know that Tilly got tubes in her ears three weeks ago.) So, last week, we took Tilly to the doctor because she had been coughing for over a month. Diagnosis: Sinus Infection. Treatment: Antibiotics for Five Days (Wednesday-Sunday.) On Monday morning, I was taking a shower. (You should also know that I prefer to take morning showers with minimal lighting because I'm not so much the morning person--especially on Monday mornings!) Mid-shower, Eric comes sailing in through the bathroom door, turns on ALL the lights in our bathroom and says "Leslie, you've gotta see this--something's really not right." (Sounds familiar, huh?) He shows me Tilly's ear. It happened to be full of blood--bright red blood. I calmly tell him that if he'd give me time to get out of the shower, I would call the medical exchange and see what we needed to do. I asked him just to clean out Tilly's ear--"It's gonna be okay, Eric. Just calm down...and turn those lights back out for the the love of Monday morning!!!"

Well, no sooner than I turn off the shower, I hear a knock at the bathroom door. "Leslie, I'm sick. I can't do this." Eric is holding Tilly and is WHITE AS A GHOST!! "Leslie, I can't deal with the blood. You're gonna have to do it." At this point, I'm a little tired of the sissy panicking. I proceed to clean Tilly's ear. (Tilly, by the way, is again in no apparent pain.) Eric constantly gets whiter and basically gags through the whole thing. Oh my! Get it together Warford!!!!! Go ahead and keep on doing that exciting engineering.

For those of you who are wondering...the blood is a result of the sinus infection. Not necessarily normal, but no big deal. Dr. called in drops, and Tilly seems to be doing better now.

Tilly still hasn't gotten over the sinus infection. So, Emmi (that's what Tilly will call Eric's mom, Emily) and I took her back to the pediatrician. After a few tests which obviously annoyed Tilly, she was diagnosed with RSV and secondary pneumonia. She had a treatment at the clinic and we've been sent home with an inhaler. (Poor baby!) She's already doing better!!! Thank the Lord!

Earlier in the day, I was feeling pretty bad for Tilly and because I had to go back to work while she was so pitiful. My sister Ashley sent me a text that said, "Poor Tilly. Not only will she have curly, frizzy red hair and probably have to wear glasses, but now she'll have to carry around in inhaler too!" Of course, she was making a joke, and it completely lifted my spirits!

Because I really don't like to post without pictures, here are a few:

Tilly is such a daddy's girl, so I've been letting her play with some of my jewelry... a cheap attempt to kinda balance out some of that male influence if at all possible.

My little book worm...


Don't ask me why, but I love this picture. I really wish I had her whole face...but I just love it anyway!

She even poses in her sleep.

(By the way, the pacifier is just for sleeping these days...sorry Nana!)

Just some pictures

Nana and PawPaw gave Tilly this yellow outfit. I'm sorry it took me so long to post it, Nan!

Since my parents were out of town, Tilly got to hang out with Baxter AND Sophie.

Eric and I went on a DATE BY OURSELVES last night! Since I have maybe 4 pictures of the two of us together since we've been married, I decided to get a picture of us since we are in something besides sweats. You can see why we never have very many photos of the two of us...

ERIC--learn how to take a picture with both eyes open!!!!!

Weekend Wrap-Up

No real big events have happened here in the last few days. However, I do have some cute pictures from the past few days.

Friday we did nothing--that's a fabulous Friday if you ask me!

Saturday, I helped host a shower for Eric's sister Shelli. She is having a little girl in about six weeks. I'll post a picture of her later (none of the ones I had turned out well,) but here are a few photos from her shower.

Here is our gift to Shelli and baby Micah. We got them what we considered "essentials."

Later that night, we went to my cousins' house for dinner. There were four couples there. And of course, these days, four couples means four kids. Here is the breakdown of those in attendance.

Holly and Chris-Isabel, 13 months

Blake and Ericka-Bailey, 4 months

Kim and Justin-J. Dawson, 2 1/2 years (Kim is expecting Ali to be here this spring)

And of course, us with Tilly (who, by the way, will be 13 months on Tuesday)

We had a ball! Here are some pics from the evening:

Here is Bailey with her "bubba teeth" pacifier. So cute!!!! I couldn't get over it!

This morning, we went to church then rushed home to meet my grandparents and their friends who were travelling through town. Eric bought us a new computer this afternoon (I'm loving it, just so you know!) Other than that, we took care of household chores and took it easy.

Here are Tilly and Eric just playing around. Tilly loves her daddy. (Please pardon her hair!)

All in all, a great weekend.

I must add though, that I have been constantly checking on "Kelly's Korner" and worrying about her new baby. I can't imagine what they are experiencing. I cry everytime I read the blog, and then I tell Eric what is going on and cry more. If you haven't already, check in on them and really, really pray!

My Quarter-Life Crisis

Don't ask me why, but when I went to get my hair cut yesterday, I had a hankering to go all out and do something totally different.

So, here I am on the left. Let's call this "the before."

The after...

It is certainly different...

Dr.'s Visit and Basketball Game

We went for a one year check up on Friday. Tilly was not really excited about the three shots she received. I say over and over "I promise, you'll thank me later when you don't have measles, mumps and rubella" (or whatever vaccine she is getting at the time.) I also try to cover her eyes so she doesn't see me while getting the shot and relate my face to the feeling of getting one of those awful shots.

All in all, she got a good report. Here are her stats:

Weight: 26 lbs. 7.7 oz--97th percentile (good to be ON the weight chart again...)

Length: 30 inches--55th percentile

When we got home, Tilly slept for over two hours. When I woke her, she was not in the best of moods, and her hair speaks (loudly) for itself...

It didn't take her long to cheer up though.

After a bath, she was in a great mood. Here she is giving herself "sugar" in the mirror...

Saturday, we went to Magnolia to see my sisters play basketball. They won!!! Some of our family came in from Louisiana to watch the game.

Here are Eric, Tilly, Pa Paw, Uncle Charles and Maw Maw.
Here are Amanda, cousin Jessica, Eric, Tilly, Uncle Greg, Nana, Paw Paw, and Ashley.

Tilly wanted to run out on the court all night! We finally let her play with the basketballs...


Sidenote: Tilly is getting tubes in the morning. Please say a little prayer for her. Thanks!

Why We Almost Went to the ER

Tilly has an "innie" belly button. (Random, I know, but it is an essential part of the story.)

Tonight, Eric, Tilly and I were just playing in the living room like any normal night. Tilly was playing, and for some reason, Eric picked her up. When he did, he happened to touch her belly button. (She was fully dressed.) He said "man, Tilly's belly button feels really hard. Then he kind of held her up, and I noticed through an outline in her onesie that she looked like she had an "outie" belly button. My initial thought which I expressed to Eric was that it may be a hernia. I've heard these are not uncommon in children. Tilly was in no apparent pain or distress, so I did not panic. I just asked him to take off her clothes and look at her belly button. He pulled off her pants (never an easy thing because of her ham bone thighs) then unbuttoned her onesie. When he raised the flap of her onesie to see her belly button, he turned four sheets of white, quickly covered her back up and said "something is really wrong....something is really wrong....it's gonna be okay, but something is really wrong." I scooted over to her to see for myself. Indeed, it did not look right.

There was a pink substance in her belly button. I felt of it, and it was hard. When I touched it, she didn't even flinch. Then, I pulled out a pink, pea sized piece of some sort of CANDY!!! Eric fell out on the floor as if he had been holding his breath throughout the entire ordeal.

Don't ask me how that candy got there...I can only assume she got it from one of the kids where she stays during the day. I think that someone else stuck it in there, because I know my child, and she would have EATEN candy--NOT put it in her belly button!

Eric said, "Leslie, it is a good thing you were here when I noticed this. Otherwise, I would have taken her to the emergency room! I thought her intestines were coming out of her belly button!!"

Oh dear.

The Prodigal Blogger Returns...with presents! (At least a few pictures of them...)

It already seems like Christmas was about two months ago, but I wanted to share a few pictures of how ours went.

I was able to take off work the whole week of Christmas--joy to the world, for sure! :) We went to watch my sisters play basketball (they play for Arkansas Tech) on the Sunday before Christmas. My Nana and Paw Paw came to the game, then we all went back to my parents to do Christmas with them. (I HATE doing "Christmas" on any day but Christmas, just so you know--I'm such a brat, but I can't help it!) Anyway, here are a few pictures from that night. Tilly is wearing her Tech basketball shirt--so cute!

Here she is in the hat Nana and Paw Paw gave her. It had matching gloves too!

Not exactly sure what Tilly thinks, but I'm pretty sure her face here says, "get the camera out of my face and give me more presents!"

Here is my Paw Paw sitting beside me. I'm sure we are watching Tilly. You know she is the center of attention around grandparents and great-grandparents!Here is my Nana with my dad (her son-in-law.) She was clearly very excited to receive a new digital camera!

After our Sunday before Christmas events, I was able to get several things done around the house. I even stayed up ALL Tuesday night wrapping presents, making presents, and taking care of some chores. Christmas Eve was somewhat of a blur. As you can see, Tilly was a big help with the laundry...

On Christmas Eve, we went to my parents to do our Christmas with them.

We had a fun night! Once we finished exchanging gifts, we did some prank Christmas carolling. Let me explain. We knew some friends were having a really big Christmas party. I would imagine they had somewhere around 30 people there. Anyway, we all went to their house, got out of the cars, stood right out of their front window (where they could see us as their blinds were open) and sang "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" in the most awful, off-key, shrill way you can imagine. It was so much fun, and was very well received! Maybe you had to be there.

Here is my sister Ashley as she is about to open her gift from her fiance. Hmm...I wonder what it is??

Here is what my dad gave Tilly for Christmas. Very interesting.

I'm not sure that why Tilly is holding this bag, but I know she didn't get anything from Victoria's Secret!
My favorite Christmas present:

Sadly, for some reason, we didn't take any pictures on Christmas day. I'm sure someone did, and if there are any good ones, I'll post them. MY camera was MIA for about a week beginning on Christmas day. We did Christmas with the Warfords, and had such a fun time. We played games (which is quite the Christmas Day tradition) and had a hilarious time. Since I don't have any pictures from their house, here is a picture of Eric and Tilly at his aunt and uncle's house a few days ago.

This is what Eric fondly refers to as "The Titanic." I'm not sure which one of them enjoys it more. I do, however, know that it makes me a nervous wreck!