Finally got to the Neuro today, and the verdict is:

We will have a 9 month old football player....in other words, they want her to have a helmet.

I've come to terms with this. It's harder on mommies than on the babies. They get used to it after a day or so and could then care less. She said we will probably have to have her in it for 2-3 months, 23 hours a day. But, it's kinda like braces, could be a shorter time, could be a little longer.

Brain/developmentally she's fine, it's really just cosmetic but at the same time we've noticed that her ears don't line up exactly across from one another and it's because of the way her head is growing and the helmet will fix that. I really don't want her sun glasses to not fit in the future!!

They were hoping to send us across the street today to get measured for it but they couldn't fit us in, so back we go on Tuesday : ) Then it takes about a week to a week and a half to get it in.

Here's a website/blog that talks a little more about flat spots/helmets: http://www.kidisplints.com/ with some pictures of what they look like. Some are clear, or white, I've seen some in colors, no doubt we will "decorate" it for her!

It's good she's getting it now while it's cold out that way she shouldn't have to sweat in it.

The neurologist office was right across the street from Norton's, you actually park in the same garage and go across the catwalk, so after the appointment we went over to Norton's to see if we could see any of the nurses on 3C or in the Intermediate Nursery.

The RN that I liked so well, the one that made rounds with the doctors everyday was there and she was excited to see us. She took a picture of Mallory with her iphone so she could show Elizabeth, Beth and some of the other nurses we got to know so well. Dr How was making rounds too so we got to see her which I was happy about. She was like, we were just talking about you earlier today, guess my 7 weeks stay made quite an impression....I can imagine it goes something like this...."you've only been in here for 3 days, we had this one patient who was here for 7 weeks so don't feel so sorry for yourself," lol!

We then made our way down to the intermediate nursery, there were only 2 nurses there that we knew and they weren't 2 that I was as familiar with and can't for the life of me remember their names, Paula, Barb, Margot and some of the others weren't there today. So, I wish I could have seen more of them but maybe when they have their homecomming in the summer.

After making our rounds, Mallory sucked down a bottle in the parking lot at the hospital and then we made our way to the mall : )

I like Oxmoor Mall because it's not as crazy as St Matthews and had all the stores I needed to go to. We made our first stop at California Pizza Kitchen so I could have my most favorite salad of all times and then went into the mall. I had goals, makeup at Sephora and Snow Leopard at the Apple store and I accomplished both.

Then we made a trek to Babies R Us right down the road. I wanted to get Bean a jumper thingy because she has outgrown her swing (she now sits up enough that she can grab the little leaves and birds on the mobile, I think that's a sign she's too big now) so I wanted something else but I wanted it to be different than the exercauscers at Mom and Mrs Carole's, so I got this....and it's farm themed!! Wasn't bad to put together and she seems to really like it. Here's a video of her jumping in it once I got it put together:



Ben's parents are headed here for the weekend tomorrow morning. I've got to squeeze some runs in tonight and Sunday and then I will play around with my updated imovie and iphoto and the app store on the mac now that I have the right software updates!

Here's a few other pictures of Mallory....note the one where she is sucking her big toe, tonight she would take a bite of baby food and then chase it with a suck of her big toe! So her toes ended up with baby food on them too!!