10 Weeks

We made it to double digits! This is a happy/sad time. I'm so excited that she is starting to smile and interact, but my baby is growing up. AH! Pretty soon she'll be 13 and i'll be re-reading these blogs wondering what in the world happened to our time. We DO have a little while before that happens though... :)
OK so what did we do this week? We were in Memphis for Chelsie and Brian's wedding showers last weekend. That was a BLAST! Once again we only held Ava during feedings and at night time but it is VERY nice to know she is around such a loving family. And honestly, it's nice to have a little break! We arrived Friday (a little late because Chad had an INTERVIEW! and got a job at Best Buy!) and got to meet Brian's mom who came in from Iowa for the shower. Spectacular lady! Saturday went very different than I had planned. In the original plan I was going to wake up and in the morning time head out and look for dresses (for the wedding) and then I had a couple things I had to buy for Chelsie's lingerie shower that night. I'd buy those, be home in time for lunch and then have the afternoon to get the punch and stuff ready for the night. What really happened? Well to answer that we have to go back to Thursday... I had what I thought was a pimple on my chin but it was huge and under the skin. Not one you could just ... 'get'... if you know what I mean. Friday on the way to Memphis it became bigger and started swelling all over my chin. Now we are to Saturday. I woke up and my entire chin was swollen out to my jaw. I looked like Jay Leno (Chad's quote, not my own). Not only was it swollen, but I had a hole instead of a zit and it was bleeding. Even better. Not only was it swollen and bleeding, but it was hurting. Not just the kind of hurt that you kind of forget about and then remember when you aren't doing anything else either. The constant throbbing pain that you CAN'T forget about. This only got worse and worse. Anyways because of this I was on the phone all morning with my Dad trying to figure out what to do. Duh duh duh DUUUUH : diagnosis staph. Who gets that? Apparently I do. He called in some meds for me thank goodness. These were just antibiotics though and wouldn't help with the pain. That's ok, I just needed something. Anyways long story short, after lunch I finally went out around 2 to do my errands. I went to pick up the meds, called my pediatrician to ask about the antibiotics, went to the mall to look for the dress,got lost, got a blister, went to walmart and then went back home. I got there right before dinner was finished and still hadn't mixed up my punch for that night which was suppose to chill for a couple hours. FAIL. I wasn't changed for the party either. Chad and Mema noticed I was stressed and they jumped in and made the punch for me as we sat down for dinner. Amazing. We ate quick, I ran downstairs to change and then we were off! Chad came outside to see us off and asked me "are you sure you have everything??" (my mommybrain has been awful lately. yes, its a real thing.) I of course said "yes! bye!". 7 minutes down the road we get a phone call. I left the veggie tray. Of course I did. Turn around. Met Brian at a gas station. Ok, NOW we're off! Traffic. Showed up about 3 minutes early haha.
The shower was great! We played some games, opened some gifts, ate a lot of some food. Chelsie got some great stuff too!
We got home about 11 and headed for bed. My mouth was throbbing. BLEH. Throughout the night it just got worse and by the morning time when the alarm went off to go to church i just couldn't do it. I hadn't slept at all and knew I needed to before the shower so we slept in.
We ate lunch with the fam and then headed out to the church for the final shower of the weekend! Ava came along and was a hit of course. She's just too cute.
The shower was wonderful - the food was so pretty and really good too! The punch was some sort of pink lemonade and sprite? or ginger ale? or something. fizzy pink lemonade. Great.
C&B started opening gifts and got so many great things! It's amazing how generous people are. I went around and took pictures of the shower and would check on Ava now and then. Got to talk to several people I haven't seen in a while. Good times!
After the shower we came home, packed up, and headed back home. Chad and I talked the entire way home. I don't think we ever turned the radio or music on. I absolutely love when we do that. We did that on our first 'date' to MO and I still love when we do it now. I'm just so glad I have a guy who will talk to me for 4 hours on a road trip haha


OK that was last weekend. UPDATE on staph? here we go. Got home Sunday. I ended up taking some hydrocodone from my c-section which lessened the pain but it was definitely still there. I thought that stuff took out anything. Whew. Monday I called a dermatologist and set up an appt for Tuesday morning. We went out and got some pants for Chad's new job (hooray!!) and did some errands but I was hurting so bad that I was grumpy and so we ended up coming home. Tuesday we went to the dermatologist. She basically looked at it and gave me lots of "oh you poor thing" and " oh sweetie" with looks of pity. They then stuck a needle in  my throbbing chin and tried to put some numbing medicine in which hurt like nothing else but it would just come out through the hole in my chin so that didn't really work. (Skip on down a little if you get queasy reading gross stuff haha) They then pushed very hard and squeezed all the nasty puss out of my chin. Yes. I thought there would be some fancy vacuum or something they hooked me up to but no. They squeezed and pushed and it hurt so bad. BUT after we left and got home the pressure part was doing a little better. The next day, it was LOTS better. Today (Friday) I didn't even wear an awesome band-aid on my face because it is basically gone. No more pain, a little bit of swelling still left, and a little redness. The redness, however, is due to an allergic reaction I had to the band-aid the put on the thing. Really? Ugh. I also asked about this redness stuff I've gotten under my wedding rings for a while -- yep. Allergic to the white gold. How does this stuff happen to me? haha its quite humorous really. Oh boy.


Basically this week has been taken up with Dr. visits but other than that we've been spending time with Ava of course. I went over to GiGi and Poopaws house (hehe) Thursday night when Chad played soccer and ate with them. Today (Friday) we went out to the outlet mall and looked for a dress for Ava to wear to Chelsie's wedding...and ended up buying her 2 other dresses and not finding a wedding dress. Hm. It is just so easy to do. Then we went to eat with GiGi and Poopaw at Cozumel!


This next week a lot is happening. Tuesday Chad starts work, Thursday I start work. I cannot believe it is time for that already. I cry every time I think about it. Thursday I'm already planning on not wearing any make up because it'll be gone by 9 AM anyways. Still several days left though! Staying positive!

PS here you can see how the staph chin affected my smile. Wonderful. And no, you can't see the actual bump because I love photoshop :)