One Drink Down Hopefully Many More To Go!

Well after much fighting and cheering Grace did drink a 6 oz bottle this morning. I haven't called daycare to see if she has had anymore but at least she got those 6 oz. in her.

Take a Drink Already!

Grace has decided that she doesn't want to drink. It doesn't matter if its water, juice, milk, drinkable yogurt or what not. She has been under the weather today so even more the concern that she is not drinking. Anyone got any suggestions on ways to get her to drink. We've tried sippy cup, bottle, regular cup and cup with a straw.

Nothing else new here to report. Just a cranky clingy child and I am soooo looking forward to going to work tomorrow. (does that make me a bad parent???)

I hate New Year's resolutions!

So, in a previous post I mentioned that in 2008 I was going to get better about blogging so that everyone can be kept up to date with the happenings at the Vrieze household. Well seeing as I only blogged twice in January I am not off to a very good start. We shall see what February holds.

Well this past Tuesday we had the appointment with the Neurologist for Grace. What a waste of time. I wish I could get paid the big bucks for a 5 minute appointment that tells the patient nothing they didn't already know. So anyways he just confirmed that Grace has what is called Low Tone (hypotonia) in her muscles so they are weaker than normal which is why she achieves her gross motor skills so delayed. We just need to continue with PT and keep her moving to build up those muscles.

You know I was chuckling the other day, in March of 2007 when our Pediatrician referred Grace for PT for her Torticollis she didnt' think we would be in PT very long. Then when we met with the PT she didn't seem to think we would be there that long either. So here we are in Feb. of 2008 and we are still doing PT every other week. Someday we will be done, I am guessing now it won't be until she walks and that could be awhile!

Well I still owe you guys lots of pictures and I will get to them soon I promise. I just need to remember to have scott download the pictures since I can't seem to do it right and I don't want to lose the pictures.

14 Months and Two Trips to Disney World

Yep! You read that right, Grace is 14 months old and we just completed her second trip to Disney World. We have kindly told her we are not going back until she is 14 years old. It was an excellent trip and Grace was a wonderful traveler. She really enjoyed seeing all the characters and wasn't even afraid of Beast from Beauty and the Beast. I thought he looked a little creepy but she didn't seem to mind. I will post pictures when we get them downloaded.

Well we have reached a few more milestones with Grace, she is finally crawling on all fours and not just doing the army crawl. She is still getting the hang of it so she goes pretty slow but she is starting to realize she can get places that way. As I said in my previous post I thought Grace was starting to sit up on her own and sure enough she is. She does it the sit up style so she is already working on her abs but she gets from laying down to sitting up and really thinks she is hot stuff!!! Today she pulled her self up to a kneeling position by pulling on my shirt so I guess we are in for some changes at our house.

Well I am extremely tired so I must go to bed.

New Year's Resolution

So one of my New Year's Resolutions was to get better at blogging. I barely ever write on here and am sure that people have stopped reading by now. So hopefully some will come back and see what is happening in the Vrieze household.

Last week at PT the therapist gave Grace an assessment for her Gross Motor Delay. As I had suspected Grace is at about the level of a 9 month old. So this weekend Grace decides that she is going to start doing some new things. I am almost 100% positive that she went from laying down to sitting up this weekend. Even though I never actually saw her do it I am pretty positive that twice when I left the room she was laying down and when I came back she was sitting up!!! Then Sunday morning Scott put her behind her walking toy and she took a stroll across the living room, mind you the living room is not all that big but she still walked and we didn't have to hold the walker so it didn't go to fast! I guess all Grace needed was to be told she was behind to get her butt in gear. Or else they were all flukes and she won't do them again for a while!

I also have to let you nkow that I am a little concerned about my child's pain threshold. We discoverd over the past month that most of her teeth have decided to all come in at the same time and unless myself or grandma hadn't stuck our fingers in her mouth we would have never known! Thats really got to hurt. But then the poor girl bumps her head and cries I just do'nt get it!

Well I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and New Year and that you are able to hold to any resolutions you made.

Whats that I see....

Its HAIR! Yep Grace has beautiful brown hair! How do I know you ask? Well that is because after just short of 7 months she finally is Helmet Free!!!!!!!!!

We already had a tough evening though as Grace has to learn that hitting her head does in fact hurt since she doesn't have the protective cover anymore. She'll learn...pretty quick I am sure.

Well we are off to Highland, IN tonight for Christmas with my grandparents. Will update more later.

1 Year

Yep, Can you believe it Grace is 1 year old! We had her party this past weekend and the poor girl was sick. She had spiked a high temp. Friday just after her 1 year pictures, and I told Scott that if she still had it in the morning we were canceling the party. She woke up with no fever so party was on. After she ate dinner she threw up and about an hour or so later she spiked another fever. Poor girl and bad mom, I should have canceled the party. She did enjoy the toys and stuff though. We saved her cake for another time so she can go at it.

We had her Dr. appt. yesterday her stats:

Weight: 20lbs 30th %
Length: 29 1/2" 50th % ( we don't agree with this, we think she is closer to 28 inches )
Head: 18 1/4" 90th %

We did get referred on to a neurologist just to rule out that there is anything neurological or anything that is causing her gross motor delays. We don't go see him until the end of Jan though by then she could be running, I highly doubt it but she could be.

I will upload updated pictures another time. Right now this mommy has to go to bed.