A Growth Spurt

When we got Grace dressed this morning the first outfit we had on her was alittle short so we switched it to a pair of jeans. They were getting short but I figured we had a little more time with them. Well I guess I didn't pay close enough attention because when she got home today from Daycare she was playing in the living room and her pannts were about 1 inch too short. They looked quite funny, however, I was really excited because that meant she was growing and a lot in a short time period as we had those jeans on last week and the week before and they fit! Maybe she will take after her daddy and be tall!

I'm A Little Behind

So its been awhile since I have blogged. I can honestly say its not because nothing has been going on. This month has been crazy with all sorts of different things going on.

We got our new carpet in the basement and it looks wonderful!!! It is so nice to be down there now and play with Grace. We have been out of town two weekends one weekend Grace and I went to La Crosse to see my parents and one weekend we went to Appleton to see some friends.

Grace had her 4th or 5th ear infection adn the urgent care Dr. started talking about tubes. I guess that will be a discussion with the pediatrician when she has her 18 month appt. Grace also has gotten the diagnosis of having Reactive Airway Disorder (RAD) or as most people know it Asthma. So far this year it seems to be only triggered by upper respiratory infections so hopefully that is the way it will stay. I did find out from the Dr. though that it is not uncommon for kids with low muscle tone to also have asthma, so we shall see what happens.

I will have to upload pictures later when we get them off the camera.

Carpet At Last!

Okay, we don't technically have our carpet yet but it is coming on Friday and then we will finally be able to put our house back together after 6 loooooooooooooooooooong weeks of having our house in shambles. I wonder if my mood will be better when I can finally feel organized again!

***Also, change to post about Grace and her braces. She will actually be getting fitted for them in May not this month. Everyone involved decided to wait a little bit longer.***

My Child is What?

So if you read my post below you will see that I made mention of a nurse at our Dr. appt. on Wednesday. I am not sure if this nurse doesn't know much about kids or was just trying to be nice.

She had to do a weight and height check on Grace. So since they don't have a non-standing child's scale she had to weigh me holding Grace and then me. I told the nurse she was about 22 lbs and the nurse did her math and Grace was 22 lbs. Her comment was "Wow what a big girl!" So then we go back to the room and she measures Grace and she is about 31" long. She again exclaimes how big Grace is and says "so what is she wearing 24month clothes?" I really had to hold back my laugh. I kindly told her no that Grace was still wearing 12 month clothes. She then proceeded to tell me that it must just depend on the brand. I just kindly nodded and thought in my head, would you like ot come look at the closet and the dresser and see what size clothes we have in there? But i refrained.

Never since day 1 has anyone told me that Grace was a big girl, its usully just the opposite.

The Decision Has Been Made!

What a confusing two days! Grace's pt asked us to consult with our pediatrician about what her thoughts were on bracing Grace's feet so that she doesn't pronate so much (roll her ankle inwards). So Monday when we were in for a pneumonia re check I asked her. She told me she didn't really have an educated answer but knew who we should see. So she referred us to a Dr. in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitaton. I called Tuesday morning to make the appt. figuring it would be several weeks out before we saw her. Well they had to call me back and called me Tuesday afternoon and asked if we could be there Wednesday afternoon at 1:40, after I got over my shock I said yes we will be there!

So Wed. we went to see this dr. (remind me to tell you about the nurse) She was a great lady and really knew how to work with kids and young kids at that. She knew just how to distract or talk to Grace so she would do what she wanted her to do. She was quite impressed with how well grace handled all the poking and prodding and stuff and I said " I think she's used to it its been happening for over a year now, different Dr's same thing!" Anyways she told me that yep Grace was going to need braces but still questioned as to when, as is the PT, which is why we went there for another opinion. Well she decided that Grace could wait and we would see her in 2 months and then go from there. She told me not to expect Grace to be walking in that 2 months but she could be wrong. So we set up our appt. for two months from now, knowing that would be the time we get the referral for the orthotics.

So fast forward to this morning, we go to PT and am telling the PT about our appt. yesterday and she was very surprised we got in so quickly! Well becuase the appt. was made and finished before we saw her again, she had decided to get Grace fitted for the braces at our next appt. in two weeks! So I told her what the other dr said. So after some discussion we decided to go ahead with it for several reasons: 1) It will take awhile for the braces to come in 2) Grace is going to eventually need them and her feet aren't growing in leaps and bounds so her growing out of them is not a worry, 3) I am just ready for this part of the process to be done. We have been going back and forth on the brace issue for months now and I am just happy that we finally ahve a definite answer that YES she will need them. The only cons to her getting them now is that she may regress in her gross motor skills because the braces will make things harder to move around in but she will quickly learn how to redo everything with them on!!!!

I put in a call to the DR we saw on Wed. to see if she was okay with us bracing Grace at this time, so that if she is not I can contact our PT and have her cancel the appt. with the orthotist. I have to say that our PT was kind enough to schedule the orthotist to come to our PT appt. and the orthotist was kind enough to come to our 7am PT appt. so I don't want to wait too long to cancel.

So that is the update on where we are at with Grace. I keep telling myself that someday this will all be over!