"nine" month well baby visit

even though olivia is ten months old, today was her "nine" month visit. no shots, which was good, but they did have to do this finger prick thing to check her iron levels. i don't remember them doing this with luke at this age, but her iron was fine nonetheless.

so here are her stats, more for me.

height: 28 inches (dropped to 46%)
weight: 20.75 pounds (up to 69%, surprise, surprise!)
head: 18 inches (up to 84%)

the doctor said she looks great and will see us back at one year. she suggested doing away with bottles, since she does fine with a sippy at this point. she also said we can go to all table food if we want and stop the baby food. olivia prefers table food so this is great. she also said we can start whole milk at about 11 months, no need to go organic, hormone free will do it.

oh, and her ears looked great for once.

yay for a good visit!

and some pictures, just 'cause.

sneak peek of nathan

what i've been up to

a birth announcement i designed for the mom of these little cuties. i love doing design work whenever i get the chance and had alot of fun with these.

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(back)

i think i have fin rot

i think i might have touched my mouth after touching sharkie's fin rot water and now i am feeling really sick to my stomach. oh, please don't let me have fin rot. nick thinks it's the two bowls of left over spaghetti and meatballs that i ate for dinner, but i think it's fin rot.

off to lay down with a cool rag on my head.

sharkie has fin rot!

i was telling nick that sharkie didn't look too good today. he has been swimming kind of sideways. so being the super observant person i am, i totally did not notice that his tail fin has completely come off! nick was like, what happened to his tail? so i googled it and apparently it's pretty bad. the fin rot will continue up their tail to their body and they die a slow, painful death. poor, poor sharkie. i am so sad. nick just said 'well, i guess it's time to get a new sharkie'. but i don't want a new sharkie, i want this sharkie. i am the worst goldfish mommy ever!

okay, so drama aside, there is hope for sharkie. well, if the fin rot has not reached his body. i am going tomorrow to get antibiotics to start treating him. yes, you heard me right, i will do everything in my power to save this little member of our family. so what if he only cost 23 cents. we love him.

tonight i am doing a total water change and tank scrub down. i think the culprit is this cute little shark that luke found at walmart that he wanted to put in sharkie's tank to keep him company. it had some weird fuzzy stuff growing on it. i may put a call into walmart as well to let them know they are selling contaminated, fin rot infested goldfish tank decor and need to put a recall in place immediately. kidding...kind of.

and now a note to sharkie, in case he does not make it through the night.

dearest sharkie,

although it was not immediate, i have come to love you. i love how you wiggle/wiggled your little tail back and forth and looked at me every morning as i poured my coffee.

i love how quiet you are and how, even despite the fact that you have a flesh eating bacterial disease slowing killing you, you don't complain. you just keep on wiggling that little tail fin nub with a smile in your eyes.

i will help you through this dark time. sorry about the fake shark from walmart. we had no idea.

love,
mommy