Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Getting Settled In

We're starting to settle in a little more and more everyday. Ellie is a hoot that's for sure. She's definitely developing her personality and it shows even more everyday. I'd say right about now it's more of a spoiled personality ;) She's been extra winey lately, but it could be a tooth. She won't let us feel in her mouth to see. The past couple of days we've had a hard time getting her to drink more than 2 oz at a time (and not taking more than an hour drinking the 2). We're really hoping that it's a fluke so we'll see. We got her enrolled into Tricare up here and then scheduled her a dr's appt for her 1 year follow up. At that appt I had a nice little "cheat sheet" explaining Ellie since birth with all of her medical issues which was helpful (and I'll keep up to date and pass out to who needs it). Apparently there are other children in the area with SOD/ONH too! I asked the pediatrician to hand out my info, I doubt she'll do it but as you all know, I'm serious!

We have her endocrinologist appt coming up and we're trying to get PT, OT, and a feeding therapist going as soon as possible. But #1 on our list now is finding some one watch her while we're at work. Luckily, Dusty has a little more time off work but it's not much and we're scrambling. Dusty called around and found a daycare in her therapy place so hopefully we're comfortable with taking her there otherwise we nervously have to leave her in the care of a nanny that we're looking online for. It will all work out right? Yeah, try reminding a mom who has to give her baby to someone new, it's terrifying!





Monday, September 12, 2011

O HI O

Hi all! I just wanted to do a quick update to let you know that we made it to Ohio! We got up here Wednesday of last week and we move into our house and get our shipment today! I'm excited to finally have a place to call our own again and I know everyone else feels the same way.

So far Ellie has done well with the traveling. I actually bought her a Scentsy Lamb that she started sleeping with before we left and while I'm not sure that it's helped her adjust or sleep it's brought me piece of mind that she has a few things that are just the same. We have also continued to use her night time Violet dog that plays lullabys. None of it has really helped her stay asleep through the night. We're running into the problem of her waking up at 2:30-3am. She doesn't cry but she does bang her legs/feet on the pack and play (and bed) until we get up. Dusty and i are hoping this stops when she gets back in her crib and a more solid routine...

Well it's time to get all the stuff out of our temporary lodging and take it over to the house. I'll probably have a better update this weekend since we don't get internet until Thursday.