5 weeks home

Busy, is a understatement.  This last week has been super crazy. Elle is doing great. We have gone to the PT, speech, vision, hearing, and genetics. All this last week well finishing up a crazy spring sports season. To be honest I hit my wall, yes we are doing great but this momma is tired.  There is a season for everything and this sports season is ending. I love watching my kids do things they love but the endless running is , well its almost over. I am not complaining just explaining :) I feel more rested today, my sweet hubby surprised me with a date night. He knew just what I needed, I do love him. <3

Back to Elle, with all the testing she is rounding out to be right about 5 months developmentally,  in some things  she is closer to 12 months others she test closer to 3 months.  Nothing has surprised us. We mostly just wanted a base line to see where we are starting.  And to see how far we can go. Her hearing showed moderate hearing loss, constant with untreated ear infections. This could be temporary hearing loss or permanent.  Time will tell, we are waiting to hear from our pediatrician to see if he wants farther testing or to put tubes in. She can hear just not much below a normal conversation level. This can sometimes affect how she is understanding what we are saying.

She is starting PT, OT and speech once a week. Which is busy but they are back to back appointments,  making it about a 2 hours once a week. Not so bad.  We see the nutritionist next week, I am excited to see him. I want a base to start off .

Elle drank her first bottle outside the house,  we were super excited about this. We watched a football game in the stands and she did great. I was worried the noise would be to much but she didn't mind. Of course we stayed on the far end and kept to ourselves,  just to keep things calm.

Elle's likes

Her siblings
Her mom and dad
The vacuum
Looking at her reflection in the fridge
Pushing buttons in the microwave
Licking everything
We have gotten her to lick some food off a fork, pasta! Of course she only licked about 1 calorie off it but its a start. We keep offering and every once and awhile she will try it.
Hats, everyone else's hats but her own ;)

Elle's dislikes

Doctor offices
Strange PEOPLE
touching water
Crinkled paper
Water bottles
Bathtime
Having her nails clipped
Different bottles, she will only drink out of a tommy tippee bottle
Spray sunscreens

Each day is a new adventure with her, we love watching her soak up the world around her. The kids are all still doing great with her. She gets lots of loving every day.  We are getting nap time down and bedtime. Nap time is doing better then bedtime.  Nap time is getting closer to the same time every day.  Bedtime not so much, we keep trying but she is all over the place with it.
Bonding is going really well, when we came home from our date night. She heard my voice and giggled and crawled right to me. With a big old smile and wanted to just sit with me. Then everytime she would look up at me she would giggle. Just love this little girl.