Wow, I guess I have some check up to do here. Elle is doing great busy, busy. She is now almost full time walking . She still has only stood up in the middle of the room a couple times. Yet, she walks almost all the time. She seems to understand more and more each day. She started giving hugs this last week, Love this! Still no talking but is starting to communicate more and more each day. Yesterday at therapy they wanted her to walk down the hall and she sat down and shook her head no, we were both surprised. She hadn't done that one yet. We held a shower for my baby sister this weekend. when everyone started arriving she started to get really nervous, she wanted down and then started pushing me toward the stairs and wanted up when we got to them. That was huge she knew what she wanted and communicated it very well. We are just loving watching her . She started eating more food, its usually one day on, one day off. Her small motor skills are getting better, she picks up a fork and will eat small things off it. Its pretty exciting to see her eating more, she doesn't eat much at one time. We will keep working on it. We are also working on her drinking out of a cup, so far not a lot of success but over time we will get there. At food therapy we got her to sit in a chair with a tray, huge victory!! We now have that chair on a chair! this will help a lot with getting her to eat.
Elle, has another ear infection and bronchitis. Poor baby she has had this ear infection since we got home. We went to a ear nose and throat specialist. And we decided to put tubes in, her ear canals are very narrow. Lots of fluid behind her ears. She goes into surgery for the tubes later this month. We are trying breathing treatments to try clear up the whizzing. Praying that works, if not we may have surgery to remove her tonsils and anodes.
Elle's likes
her bottle
feeding her self with a fork
sitting in the grass
zipper pjs
her siblings
walking around pulling everything off the coffee tables and counters she can reach
opening all the drawers and cabinets in the kitchen, she doesn't pull anything out just opens them
music, she can dance right to the beat
climbing up on the couches
when her daddy comes home, love watching her do her happy dance each day when he comes home
fruit, she seems to really like real fruit not baby food fruit
dogs and cats, she loved my mom pug well we were there. he seemed to love her too.
Elle's dislikes
paper
water bottles
water any way, baths, putting her hands in water
getting messy, she hates her face, hands, or feet dirty
groups of people, but did pretty good in a group sitting in her stroller
loud noises
breathing treatments
Elle, still shows a lot of signs of autisms but each day they seem to be getting less and less. Less head banging, less whipping her head from side to side, less rocking. She is still a super star at our house. Her sibling still cant get enough of their baby sister. They hate watching her cry for any reason. After her breathing treatments each kid wants to love on her, feeling so bad for her for getting so upset. I love how God has glued this family together with this sweet little girl. They all agree on something, they love baby Elle. They still fight over who gets to hold her and they all want a turn helping feed her.
God has giving us such a precious jewel. I feel sorry for anyone who ever try's cross this little girl wrong , they will have 8 siblings to answer to.
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