Bubble wrap = happy baby

Sunshine's first experience with bubble wrap was a big success. LOL. Look at my happy girl! I think it's so awesome to see her experience these things for the first time!

In other news, we have to go get more blood drawn on Wednesday for some follow-up labs on Sunshine's thyroid. Based on the initial blood work, she may have hyperthyroidism. Well - she DOES have it unless the next blood work comes back with different results. It's very treatable, but I am more concerned right now about actually having the blood drawn. The first experience was very traumatic and took a very long time. Apparently she doesn't have "good veins." LOL. Plus she is very strong and gets very mad ... so it's just a bad experience.

We *tried* to go on Friday for the follow-up blood draw ... but I'll summarize that experience by writing that after 2 hours, 2 labs, 5 techs, 4 bad sticks and waaaay more crying and trauma than any one-year old should have to go through ... we were unsuccessful in getting the blood sample. It was really rough on both of us ... I feel terrible that I have to physically restrain her to cause her pain. Ugh. I know we need it but wow ... it sure does hurt my heart. And we still have to go again with no guarantee we will be successful. She still has a pretty bad bruise on her arm, so I'm going to wait until tomorrow and hopefully find a tech that is good with babies that are tough sticks. Blech.