Ear Infection and Violin Recital

Today was a very busy day, mainly for Kylie and partially due to last night. Tiffany called me this morning to tell me that she is fairly certain that Kylie has an ear infection. Last night Kylie had a very hard time sleeping because every time she laid down she started to cry because her head was hurting. Unfortunately due to a lot of past experience for both Mommy and Daddy, we both recognize this as a tell tale sign of an ear infection. So they were heading off to urgent care to have it verified and get some medicine to help her feel better. Fast forward an hour later and we have a confirmed ear infection and apparently what would have been another case of strep in a few days had she not had the ear infection. They prescribed her some amoxicillin which will treat both the ear infection and the onset of strep, so she should be good in a few days, and hopefully tonight she will sleep a lot better.

After all of that we still had something very exciting to new today; Kylie’s first violin recital! She was the third to perform and she did wonderful! At the time when I was sitting in the audience watching her on stage all by herself playing Twinkle Twinkle as Pepperoni Pizza I was so proud and happy! But as I sat watching the rest of the recital I noticed something, when many of the other kids were up performing their recitals their teachers were with them, but when Kylie was up there she was alone. Afterwords I found out that Kylie’s teacher (Aerial) had asked Kylie if she wanted her to go up and perform with her and Kylie said “No, I want to go by myself” and so she did! When all the students were done performing their recitals we all went to Roma’s to have some pizza and celebrate. Here is a video of Kylie’s performance that Mommy was able to get with her camera.

There Goes the Second Tooth

Kylie lost her second tooth this afternoon! It had been really loose all weekend long at Daddy’s house but Kylie would not let Daddy pull it out, she said she wanted it to come out at Mommy’s house. So today when I brought Kylie back to Mommy’s she convinced Kylie to let Daddy “wiggle it” and see if it Kylie's Second Lost Toothwould come out after Mommy tried and was not able to get it out. Daddy once again held on to the tooth with a napkin and gave it a gentle wiggle and it popped right out. Kylie was shocked that it came out and that she “really didn’t even feel it” (that’s how loose her tooth was) and is excited that the Tooth Fairy will again be visiting her, but this time at Mommy’s house. Now she has lost both of her front bottom teeth.

The Tooth Fairy Visits

Well the tooth fairy did come last night, and left Kylie a whole dollar and a certificate of congratulations for loosing her first tooth! Kylie was so happy and excited when she saw it. She is, however, different from Mommy and Daddy when we were little. When the tooth fairy came to visit us when we were little we couldn’t wait to check in the morning to see; Kylie on the other hand was up and awake for nearly 30 minutes; in fact she had come in to Daddy’s bed for a little while, before asking if she could look under her pillow to “see if anything was there”.  Then again she did sleep in on Christmas, so maybe we shouldn’t be too surprised.

Kylie Lost Her First Tooth

Kylie's First Lost ToothIt was really loose and Mommy had tried to pull it out but she said she couldn’t because it wasn’t ready yet. However, when Daddy came over to get Kylie for the weekend he looked at it and said that it was loose enough and Mommy just couldn’t get a good grip on it so he suggested that Mommy try holding the tooth with a napkin so it wouldn’t slip. Mommy tried that and still couldn’t get it, so she had Daddy try. After a little wiggle Daddy took his fingers out of Kylie’s mouth and Kylie said “See it just can’t come out yet.” Daddy smiled and so “Oh, really?” and unfolded the napkin to show Kylie that her tooth DID come out! Kylie was very surprised and really excited because that meant the Tooth Fairy would come to Daddy’s house!! Daddy asked Kylie if she wanted to go out to dinner to celebrate and she said “yes” and when asked where she wanted to go she said “Red Crabs” so off to Red Lobster we went. What a great day! Click on the picture to see other images of her missing tooth.