Not much going on...

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I would just update everyone to let you know there isn't much going on here. Sofia has been up coughing every night for the past week and a half. This means that we are all exhausted since Sofia is coughing at night isn't sleeping well which wakes Ali up and Jason and I are up a lot taking care of her. We still sent Sofia to school last week though since she seemed ok during the day. This week is school vacation week so Sofia will be home with us all week. I decided yesterday that I was going to take her in to see the doctor since her cough had been around for so long. I called the doctor today and was able to bring the girls in this morning. It turns out that Sofia has bronchitis. I'm glad we brought her in to be checked. We will bring her back in next week to have her checked again by the doctor. It is one of the interesting differences between pediatricians here and pediatricians in the United States. In the U.S. when we go to the pediatrician they prescribe medicine if necessary and then send you on your way. There is no check up to make sure you are better. They assume if you aren't better that you will call. Here, in Prague, when you see the doctor and you are sick they prescribe medicine and then they want to see you in a week for what they call "control". I'm not sure why it is called control but it is basically to make sure you are all better. On one hand I find this nice that we will be assured that our children are in fact healthy. On the other hand, I find it annoying because I don't want to make the trip back to the doctor if my kids are fine. I guess in the end I will just be happy that my kids are being well looked after by their doctor.
When we go back for the "control" visit out doctor will give me information for taking Sofia to an audiologist. I feel like she doesn't hear as well as she should. It could be she is just a toddler who gets absorbed in her playing and doesn't hear me or she could just be blatantly ignoring me but I want to make sure it is that before I yell at her! :) I'm hoping her lack of hearing is just wax in her ears that once cleaned out will make her hearing all better. We shall see.