Birthday In Da House

We are alive!!!! The blog stopped for a while there as we have been recuperating.

Good gracious that cold took the house by storm. Kalista is completely over her cold bug, but Jen and Matt are still fighting the tail end of it. Luckily, it didn't stop any of us from celebrating Matt's birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT (DADDY/HUBBY)!!!

We have plenty to talk about since we have had some appointments and revelations.

* Kalista had her first babysitting experience last weekend. Our awesome friend, Bev, came by and spent the morning with Kalista since Jen had work and Matt had a training session to go to for work. Bev took some pictures of Kalista and her beautiful hairdo. Sounds like they had some good girl bonding time.





** Kalista saw Dr. Dohil, her GI specialist, this past week and they changed out her g-tube. It looks so white and pretty again. YAY! We were told that we really need to get her eating by mouth sooner than later. It is so much easier to say than to do. We must say that she has come a long way since she has been home. She now takes in about two spoons of baby food twice a day and will tolerate the spout of her sippy cup in her mouth. She even does this gumming motion when she drinks from it. From our appointment, we decided to try weaning her off of Prilosec since we are not seeing any benefits. We are actually seeing that she may be retching less now that we took away one of the doses during the day. We are also due for our next swallow study since Dr. Dohil wants to figure out why Kalista continues to retch and why she may still be resistant to eating.

** Speaking of eating, we are about to start our individual occupational therapy/feeding sessions with Adriana in two weeks. Goodbye Ann and Lil' Steps for Little Feeders! We really hope Kalista will get that lightbulb moment where everything just clicks and she is able to take her daily milk volumes by sippy cup. Meanwhile, we will keep working on textures, taste and fun with Marshallows. They are so FLUFFY!!!

My marshmallow mole keeps moving!

** Kalista also saw her physical therapist, Tami, this week. We are meeting milestones!!! She is doing so good with her crawling stance and may skip crawling altogether since her belly gets in the way. We are working on sitting to stand, kneeling and standing with support. We better start baby proofing the house since it may not be too long before she starts walking and running. The dogs are going to get picked on for sure, especially Bella, Kalista's favorite one.

Kalista: "Bella....get off mom and dad's bed!!!"