We painted 19 cupboard doors, 14 drawer faces, a lazy susan, a bread box, and the cabinets, then installed completely new hardware. A big job, but definitely worth the work.
Now for the "bad". Last night we tried feeding Adelle her fist taste of rice cereal and she thought it was very, very bad! She would even slapt the spoon out of my hand when I tried feeding her! She's a funny baby because she knows exactly what she wants and there is no compromising. (Isn't she too young to have an opinion!?) She absolutely will not take a bottle, and she only likes mommy to feed her. You can imagine what this means when we try leaving her with people. Anyway, I tried mixing her cereal with formula and then with water, but she didn't like either one. It was so funny watching the faces she'd make!
She was a happy girl after we stopped feeding her, and decided that her tray tasted better!
Now, for the "ugly". We spent all of Saturday afternoon in the emergency room with Alexandra while she had surgery on the middle finger of her left hand. Poor baby got her finger stuck in the hinge of the rear passenger door of Suzanne's Jeep and damaged it pretty bad. I was upstairs in my bedroom doing Grace's hair when Phillip and Alexa came running in; she was screaming and Phillip was helping her hold her bloody finger out to show me. We immediately wrapped it in a towel, put ice on it, and rushed to the hospital.
She ended up with a fracture on the tip of her finger and broke the nail bed, completely detaching the fingernail. After taking some x-rays a plastic surgeon repaired her finger. She was so afraid and upset that I asked them to give her Verced to help relax her, and I'm glad I did. The repair was so traumatic but she doesn't remember a thing about it. When I ask her what she remembers about the hospital she says she can remember them taking pictures of her finger, them giving her medicine (Lortab), me singing to her and rubbing her back, Daddy rubbing her face, and getting some medicine in her nose (Verced). I couldn't believe how well it worked! She was given two shots near base of her finger and she just screamed and screamed (I told her she could scream and cry as much as she wanted because those hurt!), then when they thought she was numb the doctor began removing her fingernail. At this point they realized her finger wasn't actually numb (ouch!) so they gave her another shot behind her top knuckle. In then end, he stiched her nailbed back together, then re-attached her fingernail to act as scaffolding to guide her new nail back in. We go back in a couple weeks for them to remove those stitches, along with another one she needed to repair a severe cut. The doctor hopes that she'll have a normal fingernail.
She was so wasted and exhausted when we brought her home, but a couple hours later she was up and playing with her cousins. I feel like she has had a miraculous recovery because she has needed very little pain medicine, even though they told us she would be in a lot of pain. It is so hard to see your child go through such an enormous amount of pain (the surgeon said this is a difficult procedure to perfom on adults, let alone children!). One of the most heart-breaking things for me was that she had to miss a princess birthday party she had been looking forward to all week. We had her little Cinderella dress all laid out with her glass slippers and jewelry, and I had just finished styling her hair in a pretty little up-do. She was so sad she missed the party, but our friends were sweet and brought the party to her when she was feeling better.
Here is a picture of her finger, all bandaged and pretty. (I know, I know, it's her middle finger but I just couldn't help myself!)
Here is a picture of Grace all dressed up after the princess party:
