Finley Milligan: Honey Badger

For those of you who have not seen the honey badger video on youtube, it is a funny narration of an African animal who doesn’t care. Todd and I have started calling Finley the honey badger because nothing phases the kid. She throws her food so I take it away, she doesn’t care…I took her to the doctor and he said her throat is really sore has she been eating and drinking…yup, honey badger doesn’t care. So yes, we endearingly refer to our 13 month old daughter in the same tune as an African possum who eats rattle snakes.

Poor Finley spent most of her first month being one sick. It all started with her one year old vaccinations and the flu shot. From the flu shot she ran 104 degree fever and her body covered in fever sores. Following the fever she developed bronchitis, which turned into an ear infection. When I went to check on the ear infection that is when she had the virus which caused the sore throat. She rounded out all of her sickness with a brand new molar (bottom right, just in case I want to remember). Having a sick baby was just awful. I would sleep with her every night on my chest, our doctor told us that crying would really hurt her ears so we needed to do whatever we could to keep her comfortable for the 8 days of her infection. I would be up with Finley all night and then go to sleep at 8 in the morning when I put her down for a nap. We were on this schedule for what seemed like forever.

On a fun note Finley is taking a few steps here and there. Her preferred mode of transportation is still on all fours but she is capable of taking up to ten steps at a time. She stood up in music on Halloween and walked across the room, I was in shock. We had a really fun first Halloween in our new house. Finley dressed as a ladybug and had so much fun in her costume. Finley fills her days pointing at things and hugging her dolls. She is also making lots of sounds and enjoys hearing herself. Yesterday she talked like a pirate with a real low back of the throat voice – “Aye”. Finley also loves her Daddy and has started to get upset when he leaves the room.

I can’t believe Thanksgiving is this month. It is hard to believe it has been a year since we missed our flight to Utah and spent the night in an airport hotel with a tiny baby that had to sleep in her car seat.