Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Sleep Study results - great news!

Finally we got the news regarding Amelia's sleep study in November. Everything looks good, much better that the first study back in May. It means that the surgery that Amelia had in July improved her breathing significantly. She had few breathing pauses but lasting just a few seconds and the doctor was not concerned. Her oxygen intake level improved as well. She does not need to see ENT doctor yet, no problem with tonsils and adenoids which makes us very happy. Amelia's pulmonary doctor said that she does not need another sleep study for at least a year which is great!

Ami finally picked up the speed in her gross motor skills development! All her therapists are very impressed. She is spending more time on the belly, playing with toys in this position. She gained a lot of strength in her arms and legs, kicking an pushing herself up (just a bit). Physical therapy is no longer a torture to her, she started having fun with it. She is more focused on the toys and ready to go for her favorite ones! Hands up high, nice stretches across, she really rocks! This past Tuesday Amelia's out patient PT focused on showing me how to position Ameila in the chair and during play to support good posture and straight legs, awesome ideas! I will take pictures and share the ideas with you in my next post.

And last but not least - Amelia is sitting very well in her bumbo seat playing with toys on the tray attached. As you know she loves to play piano so voila! This is world premiere of her playing solo (without daddy's help) :

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Friday, November 27, 2009

Piano player

Amelia and Daddy love to play piano together. It seems Ollie always likes to join the fun!

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Amelia also mastered self feeding! Well, little rice puffs to start with. She goes crazy about them. She does not care for rice cereal but inhales these instead. Go figure!


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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Sleep Study number 2

We just came back from the hospital where Amelia had her second sleep study. First one was when she was just four months old, back in May. It showed some apneas, obstructive and central as well so everybody was curious to see how it improved since the decompression surgery in July. It was her first sleep study after the surgery. So far we know that her oxygen intake improved significantly which is a great news! The study was again - great experience. Amelia was very brave and did not complain very much! Just a little. We got very nice and caring sleep lab technician, Rhonda, actually the one we met during last sleep study, so we felt very confident and comfortable.
Amelia fell asleep even before she got the wires on her head! She did not care that it was a hospital room, new strange place.....
After Rhonda attached all the wires and wrapped her head, we were even able to make her smile (with a little help of her favorite toy :-). As you can notice, I again asked for the "adult" bed so Amelia did not have to sleep alone in that scary crated crib! It made the world of difference!


She briefly woke up few times during the night, but fell asleep with no problems. Anyway, it is so good to be back home!!!!! Now it is time to wait for the results and it takes about 4 weeks! Eternity! I will keep you posted.




Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Halloween album

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Monday, November 2, 2009

Halloween Memoirs

I have tons of Halloween pictures from this year and previous two. Ever since we have kids Halloween is one of our favorite holidays! The magic, the costumes, a lot of orange color! I will most definitely make a smilebox album in the near future but now a little treat- Ollie and Ami in exactly the same outfit and photo setting!

Ami, Halloween 2009, 9 months old and Ollie, Halloween 2007, 3 months old. Who is Who????

Sunday, October 25, 2009

photo album

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Amelia visited her best friend


Amelia just returned from her first trip to Baltimore. She did extremely well and was laughing all the time! She was so excited to visit her "twin sister" Ivy. Girls got together second time and played nicely together. Somebody at the museum asked us if they were twins and Ami and Ivy were not even dressed in the same outfits yet!
Ivy's parents were so kind to host our entire family for the extended weekend and we all had a terrific time!


We coordinated the outfits again and had a cute photo session!

But wait! There is three of us now! We got together with another cutie pie - Tessa, just 2 months younger Little Princess! What a bundle of joy...... So hard to tell them apart!



















We were also extremely pleased to meet one little gentleman - Nathan! Mom had to hold him as he was running away from the girls! Too much sweetness can be dangerous!