D. and I have never done anything for Val. Day. So this year we're taking our girls out on a fancy dinner date. New dresses and all

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Last night our good friend Dan came over with cloves and beer and lots of laughs (as is his way). David and I had a lovely evening together (we didn't get to sleep till after 2). Then our day today started with fresh baked banana chocolate chip muffins, the making of paper lanterns and chains and snowflakes while listening to big band Christmas music and watching the girls dance around to the Nutcracker songs played big band style. Then off to the gym for a quick workout while the girls played. Now to get clean, have lunch and get our Christmas tree which we will decorate with our usual flourish. Tonight I get to see Aaron Strumpel and Todd Fadel and throw back a couple. *happy sigh.

               

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Aliyah threw up right as we pulled up to David's work but didn't get out of the car in time (coloring in the car is a bad idea for her apparently). Always fun trying to clean up a puke covered kid and a puke covered car seat with those crispy public restroom paper towels.

After stripping the kid and covering her in David's sweatshirt and my shawl we went home, got everyone and everything cleaned up (I hate scrubbing auto upholstery, it's like it refuses to be cleaned or something). Now that the car seat cover is dry and the kids are fed it's time to go to the library for books for Shayel's geology project, grocery trip to get Tgiving ingredients, picking David up from a short work day then to the gym.

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Shayel had her MRI last week. She was AMAZING. She laid perfectly still for 25 minutes. Then she had to have 2 more vials of blood drawn for more of those tests and once again she didn't even blink - this kid is hard core.

One of the blood tests was fine (don't remember which or what it was for exactly), the other will take a few more days to get the results (some sort of genetic marker thing)

The MRI showed no joint damage but marked inflammation. They've referred us to the Rheumatologist at Denver Childrens Hospital. We've resumed the Naproxen but need to do better at giving it to her twice a day. She is still experiencing pain and stiffness esp. if she sits for long periods of time or on the floor cross legged. Fortunately horse riding doesn't seem to aggravate it. Hopefully the Rheumatologist will have some better ideas of how to prevent further problems and manage the pain without taking NSAIDs long term (which could cause other problems down the line)...we will hopefully also get some more information regarding prognosis and physical therapy. I specifically would like her to see a specialist about her in-toeing because I suspect it's making her symptoms worse.

This annoyance definitely isn't getting her down or stopping her activity and for that I'm grateful. Hopefully if they land on an official diagnosis of idiopathic arthritis, it ends up calming down and rarely (if never) flaring again.

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