Children's Hospital

We spent the night at St Louis Children's Hospital on Friday night. Took Madison to the Emergency Room around noon & she was given an IV and admitted. She had been fighting a sinus infection for the past few weeks & the oral antibiotics were not working. Chest xrays determined that she had pneumonia, bronchiolitis and Human Metapneumovirus (a respiratory virus). Even with the IV's administering fluids & antibiotics, her fever spiked again to 104.7 on Friday night. Another dose of the IV antibiotic seemed to help on Sat morning & she was finally acting normal on Sat afternoon. We were released last night & are home now. She is breathing normal with no fever - doing 100% better than a few days ago. The Dr's at Children's Hospital are working with her pediatrician to try to find a reason why she keeps getting so sick. I definitely recommend Children's Hospital - the staff, nurses & Dr's are great!

Big Girl Bed

We took down the crib & set up Madison's big girl bed last night. I think we should've left the crib up...it was a long night! Good thing the bed is only 6 inches off the ground - she fell out at least 3-4 times. Then she would drop her Dora pillow & cry until we came in & picked it up. I don't think she realizes she can get in & out by herself yet & no one got much sleep last night.
Madison's hair is long enough for me to French Braid & it looks so cute! I don't do it often since she thinks it's funny to mess it up! She's got quite the attitude if you couldn't tell!!