4months today!!!

Just four months ago was Gotcha day!!! Can't believe it's only been four months! Feels like at least 6 already! We are having a blast too!! She is an absolute joy and so.. yes.. flippin cute!

She is still wearing 12month pants.. but 18month tops.. with the sleeves rolled up! She hates having to put on all these clothes during the colder days! What more mommy.. sheesh let me go play!

I took the video yesterday... she was walking back and forth to her play table holding her bag! Here's a pick from lunch today. I got some cottage cheese.. and YUM!! she loves cottage cheese!!!

Monday is her next follow up appt with the surgeon. I'll make sure to update anything from the appt then.

For now.. Happy New Year!!!

ZaiJian

~Donna

Merry Christmas!!

soo cute!!

a Box Rocks!!

It's here, we finally have our child and it's Christmas.. been praying for this day for a LOOONGG time. Well it's not quite Christmas but man are we having loads of fun..

First of all.. holy cow this kid is popular! I swear we get a box at the doorstep just about everyday with more stuff for her! Christmas presents are going to be everywhere Christmas morning. I've been stashing them in our room and we'll put them out after she goes to bed tomorrow. Have two more presents that should come in today.. whew that's cutting it close. Not that she'd realize they were late! We'll make sure to take lots of pictures!

She is soooo close to walking without holding on. She wants to practice all the time. She stands up and holds our hands.. backs herself up and lets go.. then RUNS towards you! It's soo cute! Every other day or so she backs up farther and takes a few more steps before falling forward. I'll try to get a short video and post it!

She's napping now. She had some issues sleeping last week, but that seems to have resolved itself this week. Must have been a growth spurt. She's 20.5lbs!! now and we measured her and she's gained about an inch! yey! She still wears 12mos pants.. 18mos falls off.. but in shirts she's 18mos wide.. but not her arms.. I have to fold up the sleeves.. So right now we can wear 12 & 18mo shirts but really only 12mos pants.. again,ll gut no butt.

She is really starting to enunciate her words. She says "all done" very clearly with a defined "D".. and hello. we hear those "ls" really well. Now that she can hear more clearly we can see the difference in her talking. Lots of cute cute cute baby babble.. love it!

So .. I'll try and post early next week with the Christmas pictures.. for now here is a REALLY cute one.. and the second is from a box we were playing in!.. of course boxes are totally awesome!

ZaiJian

~Donna

Another Video!

Who needs a fancy pushing toy when you can use a laundry basket! Quite maneuverable! Frank and Maria enjoyed the ride too! (Maria is her doll and Frank is the frog)

ZaiJian

~Donna

Update

So her post op appt went great. She's healing and we no longer have to do ear drops or antibiotics. We have to stay on the yogurt consistency diet tho.. that sucks. This girl likes to eat! We can move to soft foods next week.. pasta and such. Which is what she was eating before so that's good. Just no cookies, crackers and stuff for 6 weeks.

She is eating well. We've been making soup and stuff and using our hand blender to blend stuff for her and buying baby food. It costs more but easier for those time when she's hungry and you just need to crack open something on the fly. I don't know if she' gained or lost any weight. I'll try and remember to weigh her tomorrow. Otherwise she's doing great. She finally slept through the night with no wake ups last night. She's been really congested. They said that she would be because she's never been in her life and she doesn't know to snort that stuff out of her nose and of course swallowing is different. It is getting better, she doesn't snore as much and the drool is lessening.. MAN the drool!!! it's been.. yikes!! again she wouldn't swallow (guess it hurt or was weird). Like I said it's not as bad. Had to buy those bibs with cloth on outside and plastic on inside so she wouldn't be soaked, esp since it's so freakin cold. COLD!!! HATE IT!!! It's not even freakin winter.. ug

So here are some cute pics from the last few weeks. Enjoy! Note how her hair is growing in!! looking even cuter.. if that is possible! As Aunt Nancy says.. she's so flippin cute.

ZaiJian

~Donna

Nap the other day.. she's in there somewhere.

Love the poofy hair.

Enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Feet sticking out of her crib!!

Home Sweet Home

We were released this morn and home by 12:15. She fell asleep in the car and it only took David a few minutes in her room to get back to sleep. Then I finally ate something and we all napped for an hour or two.

Let me just say she is amazing. She's doing great. After her nap and a snack she was sooo excited to play with her toys she was just a jibber jabbering away! We didn't need the arm braces during the day. She just doesn't put her fingers in her mouth. Actually I left her with one arm free all last night in the hospital. It was a rough night. She was up here and there and of course every time the nurse came in with meds or a vitals check. She really hates getting her blood pressure taken. God Bless Liz the night nurse, Robyn wanted to play around 1230am and I was beat. She took her down the hall with her to hang out and was able to get her to eat more jello and drink some. I go 2-3hrs of sleep. THAT was awesome.

She had a good amount of drooly blood from nose, mouth and ears at first but it's lessening. Now she's just drool drool drool. She doesn't want to swallow, must hurt some. Dr. was happy with her healing already and she ate some so we were allowed to go home.

The pain she is experiencing the most is from her IV spot. The original IV done in the OR got bent or something and they removed it yest afternoon because she couldn't get it to flush. So we took it out.. well Robyn wasn't drinking so we decided to redo it in the other arm for the night so she'd have fluids.. well however this person did her arm.. man she looked like she had Popeye arm! poor thing, and when we got home it was sore!!! she did NOT like us touching it and there were blisters and raw spots.. it's just awful! So we took the bandaid off and tried to clean it up some and I put some neosporin and some gauze so it heals up some tonight. She has her arm braces on mostly because we can't be sure she won't put her hands in her mouth. Don't want to ruin anything and have to go through this again!

So thank you EVERYONE for all your prayers we could feel them coming our way. I can't say it enough how blessed we are to have Robyn, she is just an angel.

ZaiJian

~Donna