Growing girl and some sickies

We are in Texas right now. We planned this trip several months ago, when Matthew and I thought we would be running in the Cowtown 1/2 marathon.

That didn't happen.

Nobody was motivated in our house to run. Not even Nora or Elyn.

So, since the trip was already planned, we decide to come on and celebrate Nora's birthday...again.

Before we left, we took Nora to visit the doctor for her well-child 3-yr. visit.

He proclaimed her "perfect". I'm sure he says that to all the moms and dads, but we think she is pretty much perfect too. (Minus the fits, the getting out of bed a Guinness World Book record amount of times, recently wetting the bed at night, etc.)

They measured and weighed her too. Nora has ALWAYS been on the smallish side. She has never exceeded the 30th percentile in either weight or height. (Her head has always been around the 75th percentile though, she's got a big noggin!) What were her percentiles for her visit yesterday?

Weight-30 1/4 pounds...50th percentile
Height-3 feet 2 inches...75th percentile

WHAT! She is growing!

We have been commenting lately that she is getting tall and appears skinny. Little did we know...

While we were at the docs, we asked him to check over Elyn. She had woken up several mornings in a row with matted eyes and snot covering her face. Nice, I know.

In the doctors words, she has a "rip-roaring" ear infection.

Two prescriptions later, we were finally on our way to TX.

On the drive, I started feeling bad. Really bad. My throat started hurting, then my ears, then my whole body. By the time we got to my mom's house, my temp was 101.5 and I thought I was going to pass out.

I took some NyQuil and went to bed.

I am feeling better today, if you call sandpaper lining my throat and needles stabbing into my ears "better".

Hopefully some rest and TLC from our family will get us all well.

Have a great weekend everyone!