New Skills

Callie has been a busy little bee this month and now has a couple of new skills!  The first is using her index finger to poke.  I have to admit I did not even realize this was a milestone with Owen.  There is so much that he did that I took for granted.  Things are different with Callie and we celebrate every single tiny...

"Baby!"

We just started introducing sign language to Callie at her speech therapy sessions.  During these appointments we introduce signs and sounds to her through play.  This week she surprised us by immediately picking up the sign for "baby".  She was shown a book with pictures of babies and then shown the sign.  She immediately started imitating her therapist and we were amazed!  It was yet another...

Decided and Scheduled!

After a long week of mulling over whether to get Callie the g-tube PEG or button, and to Nissen or not, we have come to a decision!  We are sticking with just a PEG for now.  It feels so good to have this decided.  I did a great deal of research and was able to connect with quite a few moms online to get more opinions.  It was interesting to learn people seem to feel strongly one way or another about the Nissen....

Little girl with her little backpack

When it is time to eat, Callie's tube hooks up to a bag of formula which is connected to a small pump that fits into a little backpack.  Here is a picture of her all hooked up.  Isn't she looking grown up...

Decisions, Decisions

Well, it was another busy week.  In addition to therapy, Callie had two doctors' appointments.  The first was with Dr. Im, a physiatrist or doctor of physical medicine.  He specializes in pediatric rehabilitation medicine.  My special mom friends all take their little ones to see him and I was told he is excellent at predicting a child's physical abilities.  At our first appointment with...

Allergy Update

We finally received an update from the allergist last week.  Callie had blood drawn for further allergy testing at last month's EoE clinic appointment.  The results were misplaced and then with the holiday weekend we did not receive an update until the middle of last week.  She tested NEGATIVE for everything!  Can you believe it?!  I started getting excited and hopeful that perhaps she is not...