Saturday, February 28, 2009











Thought I would post some new pics of the girl and my new haircut! The first couple are Emily the baby that I watch. She's grown and changed so much. Addison has already changed a ton too! I love my new haircut! I was getting kinda tired of the long hair and decided to chop it all off. Nathan loves it! He'd been begging me a while to cut it short like when we first met. It's so easy to do! It takes like two minutes to dry and then I throw some stuff in it and it's all done! No clips or flat irons!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Thought I should post a little bit about what's been going on with Addison. We went to her 2 month check up and ran into a couple problems. First off she was still jaundiced and second she has a slight head tilt problem.

They had me formula feed over the weekend to make sure it was just breastmilk jaundice. Which it was! That wasn't that big of a deal other than all the stress going along with it. I hate bottle feeding! You have to deal with washing bottles constantly and pumping constantly and feeding in between. And, like Alex, she doesn't do well eating from a bottle. She was finally starting to get the hang of it by sunday night. I'm just glad she only wakes up once at night! When we went in on monday her levels had dropped and we were so happy about that.

The head tilt is called tortecollis. I had noticed it before and was going to ask the doc about it but then she brought it up first. It's pretty common I guess. It's that the neck muscles on the one side are tight. It can cause problems later on like their head not being symmetrical and their eye to be lower on the one side. They said it's better that we caught it early and it'll be quicker to treat this way. We had a physical therapy session today and hers doesn't seem very severe. They showed me a bunch of things to do with her to stretch out those muscles and fix the problem. She loved it too. They had her laying on a mat and she totally dug all the things they were doing with her. She was happy all the time except when they were doing things she didn't like. She even started falling asleep at the end all by herself laying flat on her back on the mat. It was pretty cute! They were very impressed by how strong she is and how much she was talking. She can push herself up on her hands and was even trying to work her knees under her. They said they'd call in a couple weeks for a follow up appointment to see where to go from there. I think they're kind of hoping that it'll just get better with time and strength that she builds in her neck.