teeth

We're up to 4 yes FOUR teeth! My goodness!

Third tooth

Ellie cut her third tooth, top to the left (her right). Such a big girl!

random thoughts

Ellie is applauding all the time, its hilarious. She loves to play in the dishwasher. She pivots on her butt around and around. She's convinced she can walk, which results in a lot of falling down after about 2 steps, hahaha!

Weigh in!

She did it! She weighs 16 lbs 5 ounces!!! The GI dr said that if she hits the growth chart then he'll cut us lose. We have to come back in Dec and see where she is. I can't believe it! She's turning into a normal kid! We're almost done w/PT (since she's close to walking) and now we're almost done w/GI!

1 year check up w/EI and PT

Since it's been 1 year since Ellie started Early Intervention w/Babies Can't wait/Children First/Easter Seals. Our social services coordinator came back so we can set new goals for the coming year. Last year our goal was to have Ellie be able to sit alone so I can leave the room without falling over, and if she did fall over, to be able to catch herself. We're MILES past that point. Really, all that's left is walking and talking. Our services coordinator even said once they stalk walking often a huge upswing in speech will follow. Our PT was there during the one year eval and was exceptionally helpful in helping the coordinator fill out all the paperwork. I guess since she knew what the paperwork was looking for, she knew what to say to help the coordinator in filling it out. Ellie's met a ton of milestones. In fact, the coordinator was almost reluctant to mark Ellie as "delayed" but the PT convinced her that Ellie was moderately delayed so we could continue LOL. She said her speech and walking was delayed so that was good enough. Our goal is to have Ellie pick up and put toys away in her box via walking. Although it looks like Ellie will be walking soon and we'll be able to voluntarily back out of the program. We can re-enter if we feel she's starting to lag behind again. It makes me happy and nervous.

Walking- sort of

She pushed her walking toy across the living the last few days. She's been able to cruise around the couch and coffee table. She can even go back and forth between the two. It may still take a while but it looks like she'll be walking soon-ish. She gets weighed on Thurs.

I'm only slightly disheartened since my 3-month-old nephew got weighed today and he weighs 15 lbs 4 ozs. We're praying Ellie is 16 lbs on Thursday.

weigh in and sippy straw

Ellie weighed in at 15 lbs, 11 ozs. We have 16 days to get to 16 pounds! We can do it! Only ounces to go!

I was also able to get her to drink from a sippy straw for the first time ever! A mom had suggested putting a smoothie in there, and she was right!