Maaahvolous March

Hi everyone - We have been having soo much fun lately that I have forgotten to blog!
Marleigh is absolutely adorable and getting much thinner too. Dylan is the best big brother - he is soo sweet to her.


We do have some good news. Marleigh is no longer on Blood Pressure medicine! YAY! She is back down to 70/40 which is just about right for a baby. What a relief, now we do not have to go to the doctors office every week. Of course on her last visit (this past Friday) she was diagnosed with a double ear infection! Good Grief right? Hopefully she won't have the same problem as Dylan and need tubes put in. She is starting to get those two teeth on the bottom so that is probably contributing to her discomfort.

Probably in May we will have an overnight EEG in the hospital to see if things are starting to normalize. So I'll let you know how that goes.

In the meantime we have lots of fun things planned. It is Dylan's birthday this week (4 years old!!) and Keith's Mom Kathy flies in on Wednesday. Then later in April we are heading to Florida to visit my Mom, Uncle Kirk, Great Aunty Mary, hopefully Uncle Billy (&family) and several friends.

Here we are at Disneyland - it was sort of an early Birthday Present to Dylan and I. We went with our good friends and had a wonderful time.

Things with her OT and Infant Development Specialist are going great. She is making huge improvements each week, and can even sit up all by herself now. We are working on strengthing her arms and legs so she can work toward crawling. Her new thing is rolling from her back to her front - sometimes she rolls back to her back too! It is like she is spring-loaded. The moment I set her on her back she pops over to her tummy. And she is a chatterbox!

It is so wonderful to feel like we have a normal baby. I still get lots of comments on her chubby cheeks but now I don't feel like I need to do a lot of explaining. It is such a relief, I just keep trying to stay positive and hope that the worst is behind us.

The other day I sat her in the grocery cart seat, so she was getting a lot of attention. A Dad stopped us on our way in to the store and he said there is an old Chinese proverb that says a bald head on a baby with who smiles easily is a sign of great intelligence. I sure hope that is true!!

Love and hugs,
Erin