Photos and the Pediatric Cardiologist Appointment

We were hanging out at the tennis courts on Saturday. Chuck got these photos of Miss Nyss. She cracks me up.

I know you can't see her very well in the photo above, but I just like this picture. I love that her tongue is sticking out, this is right before she tried to grab the camera from Daddy!

She is doing a belly laugh in the photo above.



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People laugh when I tell them she is kind of naughty sometimes. The photo below? Proof! This is after she would climb up the steps of the slide, get to the top, then stand. WITHOUT HOLDING ON. So Mommy flipped the slide on it's side. Chuck and I were trying to eat dinner, I looked over and she was standing on the side of the slide. Smarty pants.

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The child loves hats.

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We were hanging out in the car waiting to get Zachary from camp. Look at those chompers.

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We went to her Pediatric Cardiologist appointment on Saturday. Nyssa had to have the EKG, which was no big deal in the world of Nyssa. She watched the nurse put the stickers on her tummy and chest. The nurse then hooked up the things (it's the technical term :) and she had the reading in one shot. Beautiful. Then we had to go in for the ECHO. (It was at the same visit, just down the hallway.) The guy doing the ultrasound was awesome. He did all he could to distract her when she was get restless. We had to bust out a first lollipop. Daddy about had a heart attack because she was laying down (kind of ) on my lap. I figured it she choked we were in a good place to have it happen! She did fine with it, though, so no worries. It lasted about 40 minutes. (Can I mention how cool it was seeing her little beating heart on the monitor? The colors and the sound of her heart beat actually helped distract her for a minute or two!) She and Mommy were covered in ultrasound gel and banana dum-dum residue! When it's all said and done, the Doctor said that she has an "innocent or functional heart murmur." She said that most children outgrow them by the age of 10. Hopefully by the time she's 2 or 3 years old. Such good news!

Nyssa and I are off today! We will spend this week getting stuff together for our trip to Iowa on Saturday! We are looking forward to leaving here. We also can't wait to see what Nyssa will think of the golf cart! There will be so much yard for her to run around in, it will be great! As long as it doesn't rain, we will be good! It doesn't even matter if it's cool, as long as there's no rain!

1st hair cut & Other news

Above is before the bang trim. She was in bad need. After seeing her like this all day on Saturday I figured it was time to bite the bullet and trim the poor girls bangs! Getting that first little snip done was a challenge. Then she figured out something was going on and sat as still as could be for Mommy to finish! (Yes, Mommy cut the bangs. Not to bad except for her right side. She whipped her head around and Mommy got a little high on that side. You can't tell most of the time since her hair is usually all over the place!)

It's so nice to be able to see those pretty eyes! She has also stopped tipping her head way back to look around!

This picture cracks me up. She is telling me "na-na-na-na" and then she would laugh. I can't believe I caught this though!





In other news...we got her 1 one year picture finally taken! Yay! We had them done Friday. She wore a fancy dress (that we got in a bag of Julia clothes) and then her t-shirt that says birthday girl. She did pretty well considering she has never experienced anything like that at all! When the big flash would pop she would jump. The lady was very patient with her, because of Nyssa had to walk around and check things out! The pictures are coming on the 21st, so we are planning on bringing them with us on our trip to Iowa at the beginning of August! I had no idea how hard it was to pick out the poses and all that stuff. I think I got some extras, even with writing down who gets what size! They were just so stinking cute!

This summer seems to be flying so fast. I hate it. The weather has been kind of crazy too. It looks like we have the start of a runny nose. That should be interesting. Hopefully it won't develop into much!

I finally broke down and made her pediatric cardiologist appointment too. It's on July 25th at 9:30am. I'm not concerned about her mur-mur. I'm more concerned with the ECG & ECHO! I know they are painless. They say the ECG take approximately 20 minutes. No problem. The ECHO can take approximately an HOUR. That child is going to have to be strapped down! We will not have a happy girl or a happy Mommy when it's all said and done. It's being done through Children's Memorial Hospital which is good. At least they will have a ton of experience getting through with a child her age! It's just going to suck if we are in the room with her, I don't know if they will kick us out or not!

Happy 4th of July!

The photo above is from yesterday. Before our adventure to the mall.

The photo below is from Friday night. (I have no idea why this is typing in bold, hopefully it won't be this way on the blog) We went to On the Border for dinner (yummy). Nyssa has never had ketchup until this point. We were finished with out meal and Miss Thang was getting rowdy. I pushed her plate in front of her and of course she went straight for the fries. She saw that shiny bowl with the ketchup and looked at me as if to say, "can I?" Who am I to stop her when we are just trying to get out of the restaurant without a tantrum happening! It was so funny. It was pretty darn funny. Fries are now a way to scoop ketchup into her mouth!

We hope everyone had a happy and safe 4th! I can't believe it's half way through the summer already. I was just telling Chuck the other night how fast this summer is going to fly.

It was a rainy, yucky, cloud day out here yesterday. We hoped it would clear up in the afternoon so we could go to a festival some where. That didn't happen. After Nyssa's nap we ended up taking Nyssa to the mall. The mall on the 4th, so wrong. She had a blast playing in the germ infested play area. (Hand sanitizer is a beautiful thing!)

2 years ago we watched the fire works for our town from our parking lot. We watched them from our parking lot last night as well. Well, for about 5 minutes anyway. We let her run around in the tennis court for a while. She saw them but wasn't that impressed. (For the record. Last year was so much easier! She was only 3 weeks old and didn't move! LOL)

She's crackin' me up again. She can now find her nose. Her finger usually ends up, up her nose. But she finds it! Last weekend she decided that she can walk backwards sometimes. Out of no where you see her start to back up. She just laughs.