We have a teething child.

6 days. 6 days and we'll go in to see the orthopedic doc. 6 days we'll have that magical xray to tell us how her hip is doing. 6 days and we'll see our baby girl's legs again. For how long, I don't know. She might go back into a cast. This is what I'm prepared to hear. This is what I'm preparing myself for. I did it for six weeks. But I won't be doing it alone for the last 6 weeks. I think I'll be going back to work in August. Hopefully part time so Lainee won't be in someone else's care for too long. She did recently have her first sleepover at her babchi's house. The next day I had to pull and replace all the gauze from her bandage because it was soiled. It could've happened on my watch, yes. But I felt bad that it happened on my mils. And the gauze smelled absolutely rancid. I also got a peek at her incision. It looks really good, nothing oozing (I would hope not anyway it was to be healed after 2 weeks, didn't smell after I removed the gauze. No redness and not painful for me to poke at. I shoved some clean gauze in there so the bandage wouldn't touch the incision and repaired the bandage with more bandage lol.

6 days and our baby girl will be 8 months old. 8 months. A lot has happened in that time frame. She's our everything even though she's a banshee. She's my baby girl. My one and only. My little boy's baby sister. And she's teething. It's sooo close to breaking the surface. She chews on everything. Her teething vs my son's teething 3 years ago. Man, I'd take an ear infection with every tooth over her being fussy and in a cast. But. We go day by day. It's gotten us this far. 6 days out of an answer.

I watch some things Alek does for Pip. And I love it. He's never trying to hurt her or seems jealous when I'm trying to do things for her. He's the best big brother any lil girl could ask for. I hope they have that bond for life.