Rory is 2!

I did mean to post this on her actual birthday. But this new baby is making my life very hard. I am still very sick with morning sickness, though the meds do help a bit. We are praying that things will be better very soon, but so far it is just coping with the symptoms. :o)

Rory turned 2 on the September 2nd! We had a little cake for her and it was super fun to sing to her and have her "get" what was going on. Best moment of the night?

(after Rory blew out the candles...)

Cady: "Rory what did you wish for?"

Rory: "Cake!"

Oh the simple things!

We have been so lucky to have Brady's parents come and visit us this past week! We have done some very fun things (no pictures on my end...sorry just not feeling up to all that) and I was very proud of myself for going out and braving the world despite the fact that I still want to toss my cookies most of the time. It was fun. Brady and I even got to go out on a movie date! We haven't done that in a long while!

I do want to say that my mom-in-law is wonderful! She pretty much cooked and cleaned the whole time she was here. It was very nice for me and I am soooo very glad that she was more than willing to help out. She is totally awesome and we love her so much!

We also took Rory in for her 2 year check up. She is getting taller! She was 93% for height!!!! Sadly she was only 3% for weight which was a HUGE difference. This is the first time she has been seen at the base clinic here and so I brought up my concerns. I'm not sure if I have ever posted about this here, so I will be cover everything now. Rory has had chronic diarrhea since she was about 11 months old. I'm not sure if she had some before that since she was still having the soft baby stools. In the last year she has only had THREE solid stools. Three. None of this seems to bother her, though she does get more rashes than Cady ever did (for obvious reasons). She also eats like crazy. She eats more than I do most days and we often joke that she eats like a 400 pound man. I spent a day calculating her calories a couple of months ago and she was getting close to 3000 calories in a day. 3000!!! And yet she only gained 3 pounds this year.

Her old Dr would just tell me it was toddler diarrhea and that it would go away. It's not. So I brought it up to her new Dr at her appointment. He was concerned, especially with how far apart her height and weight were. She is developing just fine in every other way (above average for a lot of things) and she doesn't show any signs of malnourishment, but we are thinking that is because of how much and how often she eats. The Dr decided to start with some screening and stool tests that would help us eliminate or focus in on one problem or another. He was very honest that this could be something very simple or it could be something very serious or it could be nothing at all. I am just glad to be looking into it and hopefully be getting some kind of answer.

So we have another appointment in two weeks for results. We were sent to the lab to have her blood drawn. Er...yeah. I was NOT looking forward to this. Then the lab tech tells me that she will have to come back a couple more times. HUH? Because she only weighs 22 pounds they can only take 10 milliliters of blood at a time. So the poor girl was going to have to get poked more than once so they can get enough for all the tests! Well it turns out I was worried for nothing. Rory is totally not bothered by having blood drawn. She has great veins like daddy, and despite her size they were able to find a "juciy one" (tech's words not mine!) right away. I bear hugged her and there was another tech to hold her arm straight and Rory just watched as they poked her and drew the blood. No crying. No fear. Just sat and watched. Crazy kid. :o) So at least I don't have to worry about the future blood draws! lol. As we were getting her taped up the Techs hand me a brown bag with all the tools for collecting her stool samples. I have to collect three stools in three different cups, I have to collect stool for a vial, and then I have to collect three different smears for the smear cards. Yeah. Thats like 7 different samples. Thankfully I was told the smears could come from the three cup stools (thank heavens). My problem now is how to collect these from her diaper since it's DIARRHEA and just absorbs. Saran-wrap is going to get me some, but I'm thinking that could be really leaky...ugg. They are just going to have to deal with what I can get I guess.

And I'm totally sorry that I pretty much just talked about poop for a whole paragraph.

Once those results come back we should know something! I hope anyway.

On to more interesting things. We are flying home to visit family and to have Rory's Birthday party this week! YAY! I can't wait. It will be so nice to see everyone again and catch up!

Thats pretty much all thats going on with us! I did put up a girl/boy poll for the new baby, so be sure to vote! We should be finding out sometime in October!! YAY!