Madeline

Madeline...our little fighter. Where to start...She is doing amazing! After the NG tube was removed, she just blossomed. Last month, we started on solids and we thought that we were going to have trouble getting her to eat. Boy were we wrong. She went NUTS for baby food from the very beginning. We figured that she was ready to try solids after seeing the way she watched us eat....she would follow the spoon to our mouths and back down to the plate. Now when we feed her, she flaps her arms wildly and you can't get the spoon in her mouth fast enough. So far, she loves anything we give her. She has also started eating teething crackers, because she has 2 tiny teeth coming in on the bottom.

At 5.5 months, Maddy started sitting up on her own. I swear it happened overnight. She is one strong girl. I thought for sure she would be behind, and would not be sitting up soon because of the surgeries she had. But once again, she surprised us. She loves to sit on her musical gym and chew on whatever she can hanging in front of her. She loves looking at the dogs and squeals when they get close to her.

Maddy loves to be swaddled to sleep and nap (just like her sister did), and she loves her binky when she sleeps. Most often she naps in her swing, although she won't be doing it much longer because she flops around too much for comfort. She is still sleeping in our room at night, but we are going to transition her to her crib soon, maybe next month.  Just yesterday, she slept for the whole night. Hopefully this becomes the norm.

During diaper changes, Maddy loves to laugh, wiggle, giggle and grab at her feet. She is a squirmy girl. Maddy loves to watch Hailey, and she will track her all over the room, just taking in everything. Hailey can always get her to smile.

It looks like Maddy with have sandy colored hair, although in some light, it does look red.

Maddy continues to do well with drinking from the bottle. She is finally capable of drinking a whole 4 oz at a time. She is no longer spitting up and just recently we were able to stop thickening her fluids. We couldn't be happier with her progress. She has another appt at Children's next week, and we are hoping they don't want to see us again until she is a year old.