messed up captions!

Clearly... on the last blog the captions got messed up. Ava's name somehow got deleted! If you can't figure out the rest then you're just sad. I know I'm mean. SO WHAT! Oh. Sorry. Read on and enjoy the information and photos of the sweetest member of the Anderson family.

The good, the bad, and the obviously adorable

Last night...for the first time... Magnolia rolled over! Granted it was from her back to the front and she did it with complete ease - which leads me to believe she would have done it earlier if I'd given her the chance. Anyhoo, we're excited.


This week, Magnolia had seemed exceptionally fussy and we just couldn't seem to ever get her happy for any extended period of time. Her sleeping patterns have seemingly gotten worse and more erratic than they've been in months and it's been hard to get her back to sleep after her nightly feeding(s)(sssss).

Well, Wednesday night was horrible. Both Jordan and I were up all night with our crying little monkey. Thursday, Magnolia and I went to IKEA with sis-in-law Heather , Grandma Cessie, and cousin Beth. Although she was fussy, Magnolia did OK for most of the 4 hours (YES - 4 HOURS!). Then...MELTDOWN. In the check-out line the back arching, red-faced, screaming monster came out! ...And this screaming basically continued until around 7:30 that night. It was about this time that Jordan and I decided to make a trip to an afterhours clinic.

We walked in and after a few minutes were called in to see the doctor. THIS GUY.....basically he said, "I don't know what it is. It could be anything! She doesn't have a fever or an ear infection. It could be anything!". We agreed and reminded him that's why we were there. He then said, "You need to go to an emergency room at a children's hospital and have some blood work done and x-rays". As you can imagine, this scared the you-know-what out of me. He followed his previous statement up with, "you need to go to the ER because one time, I told a lady that her baby wasn't sick and then a couple months later I was named in the lawsuit when something came up wrong with the baby".
AWESOME.
We ended up going to our pediatrician for a second opinion Friday and he said:
1.) that doctor was about as unprofessional as can be and he didn't think it was at all necessary for a trip to the ER
2.) She shows signs of eczema on her sweet, precious, slightly crusty face. this could cause itchiness and in turn - tears.
3.) She also has a virus that takes about 2 weeks to get out of your system. Where she got it? No one knows. It starts as a fever then manifests itself into a rash. Lovely - and makes you feel not so hot and in turn - tears again.

She seems to be feeling a bit better today and is smilier and gigglier than she's been in a long time. Just happy to have a bit of Magnolia back.

Also since my last blog - Jordan turned 29! I turned 29! and we celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary! Wee! I'm not good at math but I think this means we're OLD.

Here are some new Magnolia pictures. WARNING - She's ridiculously cute.

She'll sit in this every month to see how big she's getting!

And here is some stuff Magnolia's done recently:


Grandmommy came to visit...






Went to the aquarium and met these guys. Not fishes.



Aquariums make me very very sleepy.





My cousins and Aunt Lisa.





Aunt Mandy came to visit!




And Ava...







and A.J. too!






Then we went to Oklahoma and hung with Uncle Jason. He was so comfortable with me!



I ate some cereal and wiped it into my hair and eyes.





DELICIOUS!







That's about it for me in the last month! I've been busy!