Two Month Doctors Visit

Ann Fleming had her 8 week checkup with Dr. Smith at Childrens Medical Group in Madison. We LOVE Dr. Smith-he is great with babies and really great with us, explaining the million questions that we have too. Plus it doesn't hurt that he came highly recommended from our friend Crystal Downing and he is a pet owner/lover too-he has a diabetic cat that gets insulin injections twice daily along with oral hypertension meds daily-he must be a great client. i'm excited if some of my clients come in once a year for a rabies and maybe a heartworm test. :-)
Anyway, Ann Fleming likes Dr. Smith too. An 8 week check up for baby also=SHOTS!! It was her 1st set- i started her on Tylenol the night before really worried that she would run a fever and be really irritable afterwards. I, too was a little anxious about the shots even though i give shots everyday to pets. Ann Fleming was a champ thru the whole check up. She loves changing clothes so taking her clothes off makes her happy-watch out daddy-i think we have a fashionista on our hands. If she like changing clothes this much when she's 2 months old, imagine how much she will love clothes when shes a teenager. I hope she's not like her aunt kelsey-the kid loves shoes and buys a pair at least every week-i think she told me last night she now has 68 pair of shoes after she had given some away and sold some too. (good luck abby- her roommate at ole miss-her closet is only 23" wide-i don't know how she will ever get all of her shoes much less clothes in that small of space.)
Anyway, back to ann fleming. We make it through the exam-checkup. Her statistics are pretty good-she's growing like a weed.
Weight-13#6oz (90-95%)
Height-2 foot-(over 95%)
Head-39 1/2 (over 95%)
What can you say-she has a big momma & daddy-both with big heads too.

So Dr. Smith excuses himself-he said the last baby he gave a shot to was now in college and he doesn't want to be the bad guy. The nurse comes in-First we get the oral rotavirus vaccine-she loves that (oral=hence eating!) Then, she grabs her legs and holds them down the side of the table. things are not going well. Ann Fleming HATES her legs to be bound. The child can't stand to be swaddled either-we tried when we got home from the hospital and she would kick and go crazy on us. So we unwrapped her and tried the sack-that didn't go well either. the miracle blanket-NOPE she wasn't having it. So we stopped trying to doing anything besides cover her with a blanket and tent it at the bottom. Back to the shots, she went balistic when she held her legs down-turned beat red before the shots were even given. I was trying to comfort her somewhat however, I don't think that I did a very good job. I think that I even teared up a little bit. Her daddy's eyes were red, but he said he was laughing at her. The shots were fine, she just didn't like her legs held down. She got 3 shots total and got 2 bugs bunny band-aids. Why didn't they have cute band-aids when we were little? As you can see from the pictures, she screamed but after she let her legs go, she was happy. We stayed on Tylenol throughout the day and had some errands to run while we were in the area.
She did have some bleeding and slight redness where she received her injections but otherwise didn't have any problems from her shots. Next check-up/shots at 4 months. Here are the pictures of our visit. If you're looking for a great childrens clinic that is clean and fast, Childrens Medical Group in Madison is great-we have only been for well-baby visits so far-lets hope it stays that way, but we are in and out in a flash. it takes us longer to get there than it does in total time we are in the clinic. Their website is www.childrensmedicalgroup.net. The clinic is super clean, nice waiting area and clean rooms. Everyone is super nice too. Enjoy the pictures-thanks Mamaw Peg for the cute new outfit-it fits perfectly!!!




Ann Fleming getting examined by Dr. Smith

She is not liking her legs being held down!

Can you say we are beat read and screaming loudly?

Telling mom all about that lady holding her legs down!
The funniest part of the day was when the nurse was leaving the room she said bye to Ann Fleming and we all three swear she said bye back. We all just looked at each other when she said it with Roy Long eyes.
Quick facts about Ann Fleming at 2 months
She eats 6 to 6 1/2 oz of formula at every feeding. She gets some breastmilk whenever mom can make enough-it only equals about a drop. Mommas not making much milk and was about to starve me to death when I was a newborn.
She is quirky-and already spoiled rotten. She knows how to work both her momma and daddy.
She is a great baby-very laid back and relaxed and can travel and go anywhere.
Her favorite napping/sleeping place is in her Chicco red car seat. (its the only secure/constant place she has had so far in her little life)
She grins and smiles all the time.
She still loves her lamb swing.
She is fighting sleep bad-does not want to go to sleep-she's afraid she will miss something.
She is super strong and can kick off of you if your not careful.
She holds her head up really good but is still a little wobbly.
She wants to know what is going on around her and looks around constantly.
She loves to snuggle with anyone that will take a nap with her.
She absolutely loves to change clothes-she gets so excited and smiles and grins at you.
She still loves to take a bath.
She still has a head full of hair although it has gotten a little lighter since she was born.
Her hair is so long in the back that she has a rat tail (or mullet?)
She is a bundle of joy and I can't believe how fast time is flying by. Royann

Beach Bums

Last week we spent the week in Orange Beach with family while Royann got her CE's for the year. It was Royann, Ann Fleming, Nana, Pi, Emily, Ashley, Aunt Margie, and Me. We all had a good time despite the oil in the gulf. I spent most of the time playing golf with friends that were also in Gulf Shores. Ann Fleming had the best time with her grandparents. She didn't want to take pictures though.

Getting Home Before 8:00

If we get home before 8:00 it is a very early day for us. Does anyone remember the eighties doughnut commercial about the guy that repeats the same thing each day(he is walking out the door at 4:00 in the morning and saying " Got to make the doughnuts" then walking back in late that night saying "I made the doughnuts"). That is what Royann's and my life feels like lately. Here is our schedule:

1. wake up at 5:40
2. make the coffee
3. shower
4. dress
5. pack the car( i feel like I am packing for vacation each day, it is a lot of crap)
6. leave by 6:30 and drive to Greenville
7. get there and unpack all this crap
8. work all day and maybe get a lunch
9. pack the car again (all that crap again)
10. drive home
11. Unpack all of this crap again
12. try to get get home before dark and which lately has been unusual
13. eat
14. shower
15. go to bed and repeat over

If we do get home before dark, we get to do one of our favorite things. We feed our fish from our deck on Mossy Lake. We have even bought a automatic feeder for when we are not there. When I say we have fish, we have fish in biblical proportions (hundreds). They are on top of one another trying to get to the food. We have all kinds, catfish and bream, big and small, dark colored and light colored. Royann has even started to name them. We have a Scarface, Black Man, and Braveheart(because he will come close to Royann on the deck).







This is Black Man

Same Genes and I Don't Mean Blue Jeans!

You don't think they came from the same gene pool do you?

Talk About Some Crazy Family Pictures

I found this site the other night while on the internet. I can remember taking a lot of pictures just like this. I think by the time Ann Fleming gets old enough we will have a few with her also. Take a look it is great:

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

Here are some examples:
1. Great pregnancy pic in the swamp
2. Logjam
3. Sometimes the only way to get little ones in the picture

Down Goes Betty!!

Betty was a huge part of Royann's and My life. She has been with us through thick and thin. We made many trips and had a lot of heart to heart discussions in Betty on our way back to Muscle Shoals, Al. We have had Betty since we got married and she will be missed greatly. Her transmission and electric dash instruments started going out last week and I started thinking I would hate to have a new baby and wife on the side of the road with a dead Betty.She had close to 200,000 miles and has given us her all. The thing I will always remember about Betty is the way she would growl at people walking down the sidewalks and cars in the lane next to her. She would especially growl when a good looking BMW or Cadillac would pull up beside her. (She had a problem with her muffler, so it sounded like growling and she would talk to us and passers by.) We took the plunge and got another Tahoe last week. It is basic everything in it. We think we stole it. It has 20,000 miles on it and belonged to the GM of Gray-Daniels before us. We had to buy from Gray-Daniels because they are big supporters of 4-h. Betty gave off one last growl when they pulled it around to switch stuff out of vehicles. I don't know if it was because she thought we were racist(Betty was black and the new truck is white) jealous, tired, or just telling us she loved us one last time. I want to think it was the latter.


We will miss you and always remember you Betty!

Some Things Aren't Always as Glamorous as We Thought!!

When I was a young kid I went to Mid-South Wrestling with my uncles and cousins. We had a great uncle that would not miss a match when it would come to the Civic Center in Greenwood, Ms. He couldn't drive so I think that is why we went. My Dad and uncles would load up and make the trip to Greenwood just for him. Even though these were the days when it wasn't much of a Soap Opera and it was more wrestling than talking. My Dad would always remind us it was fake and just enjoy my uncles having a good time. There were good guys and bad guys back then. I remember my cousin one time getting so scared of Kamala he climbed under his chair when he came out. Kamala was no little man. He was 6'10 and 450 lbs. I ran into a few years back in Como, MS where he is a truck driver now and told him the story. We always pulled for the Junk Yard Dog because he was from Tchula. Any way back to the story, I rented the Civic Center this past weekend to host The CTA Reunion. The first thoughts that popped into my mind was being a kid and going to those wrestling matches with my uncle. He is dead now. I remember as a kid watching as the wrestlers came out of their dressing rooms to the excitement of the crowd and thinking about what five-star accommodations they must have had back there before coming out. I remember thinking they must have a state of the art gym, five star food, gold plated toilets, and this huge glamorous dressing rooms. All my hopes were dashed this weekend when I made the trip back to the dressing rooms. This is what I found:



We had better accommodations in our basketball locker room at MDCC.