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!