Friday, August 27, 2010

August

I am a bad blogger this month! On a related note, where did this month go? Anyway, here is what we have been up to the last little bit.

Chloe is still on the feeding tube every night. The first time they delivered her formula I had to laugh because it was all boxed up with paper work and had a pharmacy label on it. At least insurance will pay for it since it is medically necessary!

Very official looking formula! I especially love the line at the bottom that says that this drug is intended for the patient only.

The other day I let Chloe play with the wipes box while I ran to throw a diaper away. She usually likes to drum on the top with her hands. I had no idea she knew how to open the box and pull out the wipes! So I did what any good mother does, grab the camera, of course!Jillian's new thing is to ask me to tie her blanket around her and she walks around the house pretending she's getting married. She's even dug out some silk flowers for her bouquet. I asked her who she was marrying and she has a variety of answers but the most common is that she's marrying her Aunt Tami. I did tell her that Tami is already married to Uncle Eric. So then she says she's going to get married like Tami. I told Jilly that this would work much better!Another exciting thing for Jillian is she's finally moved into a big girl bed! We moved both girls into her room and it's worked out pretty well so far. Nap time has been interesting because I can't get them to nap at the same time or for the same amount of time so someone is always waking the other up but night time is going well!Jilly on her new bed. She was so excited for Tinkerbell bedding.

And just in case you wondered: These two just adore each other!


Thursday, August 5, 2010

Helmet

Last week Sean and I took Chloe in to get fitted for her helmet. I was ready for the messy process of casting. Much to my surprise the place we went to uses this fancy machine: They just put her in the machine, Sean held her there, and in about 30 seconds scanned her head to make a 3-D model. They trimmed up her image on the computer so that her feeding tube (which she was wearing while she was scanned) and her hair were not skewing the results and sent it off to Florida where they make the helmets. Then 10 days later we went back in to pick up the helmet. Oh, and we got to pick a cute pattern for the helmet which I was excited about.



Chloe trying it out for the first time.


She doesn't mind the helmet too much but we're still working our way to wearing it all day and night. In a couple days we'll be up to wearing it 23 hours a day.


She is so cute! Also, Chloe has gained one pound in a week! We are excited that the night feeds are working. She is looking a little pudgy these days and is getting heavy to carry around. That's what we like! She is up to 14 lbs 3 oz and is 25 inches long.