My poor little lamb(s)

Miss Astoria Rose has been struggling with stomach pain for quite a long time…months actually. Every time I would go to make a Dr. apt, she would start feeling better. When she complained of it hurting, she would be on the floor flailing and crying, and I would feel so bad. I knew it wasn't bathroom issues, or hunger pain because she is regular, and a regular eater. :)

THEN, she started getting these awful hives all over her arms and legs, and sometimes her stomach. They get so bad that she scratches them until she bleeds. They usually last 2 weeks, then she has a few days without them, then they strike back again. 

The night of the Superbowl, she began complaining that her stomach hurt again, and I also noticed that the hives were in full force. So I decided to call the Dr. and get her an apt for that next morning. He gave her a full check up and suggested we do testing. So my poor little lamb got blood drawn and an ultrasound. Both of which, came back normal. Which was definitely good news…but I kind of hoped we could figure out what was causing at least one of her ouchies. We were referred to a Dermatologist, but we don't go in until the 17th. I wish it was sooner, in case the hives temporarily go away while we are there, and then come back after we see the Dr. If the dermatologist can't explain the hives, we will have to go to a specialist. ($$$$$$$) 

so I'm really hoping we can get this figured out soon.

here are some shots I took to show the Dr. in case they go away before the Dr can see them

getting her blood drawn was pretty sad to watch. They let her sit on my lap while 2 nurses worked on her and one nurse entertained Sylvie. They did great.

she told me she wanted to be done with her ouchies and that she would be happy if they went away. So here is her "fake it til you make it" happy face. (with "water" still in her eyes)

I let her pick dinner that night since she had to get all the testing done and she picked 7-layer dip. Ate at least half of it! That's my girl.

a view of the kids watching Tinkerbell while the adults watch the Super Bowl! :)

my other poor little lamb. He did homework til 1:30am almost every night this last week. He started feeling sick, so he went to bed at 10 on Saturday night and slept for 12 hours. Stori said she knew how to make him feel better. So she put her hat on him and gave him his phone. :) He woke up feeling much better---which I'm sure it was from the hat/phone.

 Love waking up to the cute pitter patter of her feet, walking down the hallway to our bedroom  each morning. She always asks if it is 'eight zero zero' yet. So I will show her my phone so she can check the time---if it's before 8 she will go back to bed, but if it's after 8 she celebrates in bed with us! :)  I need to just get her her own clock for her room.

On one of our hundred walks from last week, we noticed all the cute duckies. Stori said, "here ducky ducky ducky…" 2 seconds later they swam over to the path and walked right up to Stori. She was so excited and fed them all her goldfish snacks! :)

Dan bought all of us girls BYU LAW shirts, and Stori was very excited to model hers. She was born for this ^^Backpack, scarf, belle apron, glass slippers, and gunther eyes.

Can't quite put in words how much I love these stinky cheese-string cheese faces