Whew, the test was negative!

Not MY test, people. Isn't ONE CHILD enough for you all already?

Anna's test. Because she's a little water addict, we were concerned that something serious might be going on. Her blood work at the pedi's a few weeks ago turned out fine but they were still after us for urine results. Here's the deal.

At that pedi's visit, they stuck a little bag to Anna's girlie parts and left it in the diaper to collect. We waited in the exam room for her to pee. However, since we had starved her and deprived her of water, we got nowhere.

So we took her home with the bag still attached in her diaper. After another hour or so, we had pee-pee! We also had poop. Bummer. It went into the bag. That was ruined. Now what?

We tried to get away with just not doing it but the nurse called us a week later and asked what's up with that? So Paul picked up another bag. Anna protested. She walked funny but got used to it. After an hour, we had pee-pee! Laid her down on the diaper changing table, and the dang thing got soaked with pee, it unstuck itself and leaked out into her diaper.

Joy, we get another round of this.

I go back to the pedi's office and pick up THREE extra bags. I explain our failures and the nurse says, "oh, you can't lay her down to collect it. She's gotta be standing up!" Otherwise the pee will do what it just did to us: unstuck from the bag. I have hated that nurse for the past 2 years. Really. Ask Paul.

Seriously? Anna will LOVE this one.

Take 3, I swear we're going to get this one to work. Anna protests. Wouldn't you? She's looking at us like we're crazy. She walks funny and then an hour later, we have pee-pee. It takes both Paul and I to make sure she stands up while we get this thing off of her.

Jesus. I guess it beats a catheter.

Turns out the results are normal. Nothing funny going on. All this to confirm that our daughter is a water addict like her mother. I mean now she needs to keep it in her bed at night. She doesn't drink it, but she needs it there. It's her comfort object I think.

I know I never go anywhere without my water bottle too.

But I wonder if her addiction was foreshadowed by the fact that I was thirsty every minute of every day of the last few weeks of my pregnancy? I mean I couldn't SLEEP because I was so thirsty. And they had to induce me because my amniotic fluid was so low. Even back then, she was sucking it down.

This one!