So Close

Grace is so close to rolling over. If she is on her tummy she gets caught up on her elbow, if she's on her back she can get to her side but then can't swing her leg over to make it all the way over. One of these days she's going to do it.

Today while feeding Grace her solid foods she decided that she needed the spoon. What an interesting site that was. We gave her one to hold so that we wouldn't make such a mess and if she wasn't poking her eyes out she was shoving it down her throat and gagging!

Well our house is officially on the market. We had two showings yesterday and none today, which was good I had LOTS of laundry to do. Hopefully we will get some more this week and break our neighbors record. They just sold their townhouse in 3 weeks.

I included a picture of Grace and promise to post more when I get a chance for some reason my computer doesn't always like me to download pictures!

6 Months

Yes can you believe it, Grace is 6 months and I actually have time to sit down and blog.

Grace had her 6 month appt. last week and here are her stats:

Weight: 15 lbs. 10oz (50%)
Lenght: 25 1/4" (35%)
Head: 17 1/4" (85%)

As you can see her head is growing much faster than the rest of her body. Because of that the Dr. is concerned about water on the brain. So on the 22nd we are going in for a CT scan. I will update the blog when we know more.

Also on Friday we had another appointment for Grace. As some of you know at Grace's 4 month appt. we were referred to Physical Therapy because Grace's range of motion was not equal on both sides of her neck and she was developing a flat spot on the back of her head. Well we began PT shortly after that and have been able to fix the neck muscle issue however, the spot on the head is not getting better. So last week Friday we had an appt. with an orthotist who fitted Grace for a Cranial Reshaping Orthosis (helmet). Grace will have to wear this helmet for 23 hours a day for 4-5 months. I will post a picture of it when we get it next week.

Please keep that little girl in your prayers as she is being put through a lot in her young life. Thanfully she doesn't remember any of it and can easily and quickly go on with life, talking, laughing and sleeping!

Other updates, Grace has started to eat solids, she loves fruit and oatmeal and tonight we started the veggies, we had squash and she loved them. Hopefully the rest of the veggies go that well.

I will update pictures next week when we have the helmet and know more about the results of the CT scan.

4 1/2 Months

I can't believe that Grace is already 4 1/2 months old. She has turned into such a little person. It is fun to watch her take the world around her in. She studies it really hard. She is still sleeping through the night which makes mommy and daddy happy. She does wake up once or twice to have her nukie put back in her mouth but goes right back to sleep.

Grace had her 4 month check up a few weeks ago. She is 13lbs 8oz, 24 inches long. She is in the 50% for everything. We do have to start physical therapy though because Grace has a major flat spot on the back of her head since she HATES tummy time and favors her left side. The Dr. is concerned about the muscles on her right side since she doesn't use them as much. She says that PT will be short lived and hopefully it will help Grace like her tummy better.

We have reached one milestone in the past week...we have pretty much graduated from 0-3 month clothing into 3-6 month clothing. Now granted the 3-6 month stuff is big on her but the 0-3 is way to small. Gotta love those middle stages!

We have been dealing with thrush for the past few weeks. For those of you who aren't sure what that is, it is basically a yeast infection in the mouth and it is hard to get rid of. I think we are goign to have to replace all her bottles when we finally get rid of it to be sure that everything is clean and not still carrying the germs.

I will post updated pictures of Grace as soon as we get them downloaded which will hopefully be tomorrow.

Schedule's

You have gotta love schedules! I love them even more now that Grace seems to have one. Its a lot easier to plan our lives around since we know what will be her crabby times. Plus, she is sleeping through the night. She goes down between 8:30 and 10p and sleeps until between 4am and 6am. Then has a bottle and goes back down for another couple of hours. Thats really nice on Saturday mornings, like this morning when we didn't have to get up for good until 9am.

As I stated in an earlier blog I went back to work 3 weeks ago. So far its going pretty well. Grace did get her first cold and our first frantic parent dr. visits happened but all is well. She is adjusting well and so is mommy.

Grace is almost rolling over. She gets so close but doesn't quite make it. She is really enjoying her activity gym and the toy bar on her car seat. She has finally figured out that if she reaches out she can touch the toys.

Congratulations to our friends Chet and Heather on the birth of their baby girl Hallie Grace Sat. Feb. 10th, 7lbs. 9ozs. Also congratulations to Scott's brother Ross and Sister-in-law Wendy on the birth of their 3rd child a girl Dakota 8lbs, and 20 inches.

I will have to post updated pictures when I get them uploaded to the computer. We did get her three month pictures done and you can view them at www.flashportraits.com last name is Vrieze and password is grace.

Updates

Nothing new to really update. Grace has found her hand and every few minutes its a new discovery and its great! I can't wait to see what happens when she figures out she has two of them.

Grace is starting to talk to us a little more. She tries really hard to laugh but usually nothing comes out. Its kind of fun to watch. I can't wait to listen to that first little squeal. Right now I just soak in all the smile's and coo's I can get.

Tomorrow Grace starts daycare! I think this day is much harder on mom than on Grace. I always thought I could be a mom who worked and took my child to daycare, not so sure I can. We shall see how it goes. Thankfully we have a very good friend who will be doing the care that makes mommy feel lots better.

As I said in my last blog I will put pictures up once my computer stop copping an attitude and will let me.

Meeting Mickey Mouse

Yes, that is correct, we took Grace to meet Mickey Mouse at Disney World. It was such a great trip. Grace was a wonderful traveler and I just hope that keeps up as she gets older. We were down there with my parents and it was nice to spend some time with them and also as our small little family. We were also able to see some good friends who live down there one day at Universal Studios.

When my computer will let me I will upload some pictures from trip, but right now its being moody!