Ummm, hi.

I was just sitting here listening to the quiet and realizing how little attention I have given to my blogs recently. My days used to be filled with "I've got to blog that!" type thoughts and I just don't have those too often anymore. That makes me kind of sad.

It sounds SO cliche, but I am a busy mom and that is that. My brain is in so many different places at any given moment that it can't handle anything else. At all. That is why I don't remember to return my best friends call.s That is why I go to all the effort of dragging the girls out shopping and then get home just to realize that I totally forgot what we went for and have to end up asking Larry to stop on his way home anyway. That is why when the girls are asleep or other wise occupied I like to do things that don't require my brain to work at all. Such as watch stupid, uninspiring reality TV. Or eat. So I hardly ever get the urge to blog anymore. And when I do I am usually interrupted by a kid or a dog or a husband or a Thin Mint.

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An actual update that has nothing to do with my lack of blogging: Allison had her four month appointment this week along with a trip to the Ear, Nose, Throat specialist. She is twelve and a half pounds and is growing perfectly. She is healthy and happy, except for her continual congestion. So we went to see the specialist today and we are back to the reflux theory. We are going to try Prevacid tablets on top of the nasal spray and Zyrtec. I feel like that is a lot of medication for such a little baby. She doesn't mind taking it, except the nose spray. She could definitely do without that. There were a few irregularities he saw, her throat is a little swollen due to the reflux (according to the doc), the cartilage around her voice box hasn't fully matured yet, and her septum, the wall separating her nose, is pushed to the right. Her left nostril actually breaths a lot better than her right come to find out. He wasn't too concerned with the cartilage issue. He pretty much said she just has to grow some more. He did say that if the septum didn't correct itself and gave her trouble later in life they would have to do surgery. But really, everything looked pretty clear. I breathed a giant sigh of relief and walked out confident and optimistic. I just want my baby to be able to breath. That's it!

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