Happy Birthday, Daddy!

We celebrated Nelson's birthday in West Virginia on Saturday, as well as Daniel's 30th Birthday. To make the night even more special, we all participated in a mystery dinner taking place in Texas in the 1980s. We had a blast and as you can tell -- got very into our characters and the period dress! :) And I just had to add the picture of Laura and me from Thanksgiving Day -- 100 times better than the one of us in our 80's garb! Wow -- that was some hair! :)


Nelson seemed to enjoy his toy train I got him and so did Emily -- I'm not sure she was completely sold on the fact that it was for Nelson and not her. :)

Emily's PT Appointment

Emily had her first physical therapy appointment today. Sarah, her trainer, said she did really well and has even improved since her evaluation a few weeks ago. She gave us a few more exercises to do with Emily and Sarah is real positive about Emily's success with continued treatments. We have a standing appt every Monday and I'll keep you posted on how things go! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

18 Month Check-Up

Emily had her 18 Mos. check-up this morning. She weighs 23 lbs and 3 ozs (43%) and she is 32" long (85%). She jumped up in heigth since her 12 month check-up -- which we figured she had since she's been "starving" the last few weeks! We just can't seem to get enough food for her and she keeps signing for more.

Emily got three shots this morning and was pretty fussy all day. To add to the distress, she is getting over a sinus infection and Dr. Joyce thinks that she might have some affects from allergies as well. So, we're hoping the meds will kick in and she'll start to feel better before the holidays next week!

Other than that, life just keeps moving along as fast as ever! We're all doing well and hoping the snow will hold off for as long as possible! :)

Emily's New Favorite Place To Play!

Never before would I have ever thought I would have to say . . . "Emily, get out of the dishwasher!" Luckily, this time the dishes were clean! :)

PT

Emily had her first physical therapy appointment yesterday (for her delay in gross motor skills, namely her not walking). The therapist, Sarah, said that she could see how Emily was favoring one side of her body over another (her R side for her stomach muscles, her L hip, and her R foot). She pointed out some things that Emily does (like pulling to standing, sitting, etc) that we need to work on correcting. We really liked her and Emily took right to her! She wants Emily to come in once a week, so we'll keep you posted. Thank you all for your thoughts & prayers! :)