Thanksgiving hangover

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I hope our friends and family had a great holiday - we sure did.  We actually had a great 5-day weekend, very relaxing time off.  On Wednesday we made the trek over to St. Paul to the Children's Museum.  We thought it would be fairly quiet, as it was the day before the holiday but apparently lots of other parents had the same idea, and it was a pretty full house.  Still, Leah had a great time exploring a few different areas.  She loved the play grocery store and restaurant, had fun in the light room, and loved all the water tables.  Surprisingly, a lot of it was wheelchair-accessible and she was able to do pretty much everything that other kids were doing.  It was fun watching her explore and interact with other kids.  We could have stayed there all day!  

The one downer to our holiday was that Leah had an ear infection and pink eye... though the pink eye might have just been a symptom of the ear infection because her eyes never got really gunky.  Either way, we headed right into the pediatrician's walk-in clinic first thing Friday morning and got her on an antibiotic and eye drops.  She had been really cranky and fussy all week, which I thought was teeth.  Insert mommy guilt.  Now that she's been on medicine for a few days, all is well.

Today we transitioned her room into a big girl room.  We got some new window coverings, replacing the navy blue fleece blanket that had been hanging on the window for 2 years.  Yep, we stay classy in our house.  Then we changed out her crib into a toddler bed, which she had fun playing in until bedtime.  It will be a little adjustment for her, but it means that our baby is growing up.

In other news, 2 weeks ago we got Leah fitted for her Hip-Knee-Ankle-Foot orthotics (HKAFO's).  It was actually a pretty lengthy process where she had to be casted all the way up her leg and her lower back.  The orthotics will have a brace around her lower back and hips, and then braces down her legs.  It will have a hinge at the hip and at the knee.  The entire process took about an hour, and they should be ready in a month or so.  I am very excited to see how she takes to being upright and learning to walk.  

That's all for now.  We're looking forward to Christmas!  This year is going to be so much more fun at her age.  So far her favorite thing is the nativity set and baby Jesus.  She loves babies and likes holding the baby and putting the baby in with the baby's momma and the baby's dadda.  This will be a fun holiday!