Molly is 11 months old!!

Molly is 11 mos old

Molly is doing well. She is beginning to sit with support better and managing to sit with out support for a short period of time. She is very proud of her self. She is feeding her self crackers and just today she is grabbing her special sippy cup and able to hold it up for a short time to feed her self. Molly is no longer on a bottle she is using a transitional sippy cup. It has "D" handles on it for easy grabbing and a longer spout to help transition from a bottle to a regular sippy cup. Molly will still take a bottle but she would have to re-learn how to suck from it again. Molly has a very high pallet and combined with poor oral motor skills makes it difficult to suck. She was a great nurser, but she would nurse for an hour each feeding and finding a bottle for her was a challenge too. Molly was able to learn to take the NUK bottles and now the Born Free transitional Sippy cup. She is getting better at grabbing things with her hands and holding her head up so much better.

Molly is moving her body much more and definitely trying to sit up by doing little crunches; She defiantly wants to do it.

Molly is still extremely happy and tolerant of her therapies. Even cutting teeth and more then one tooth, she is doing well and smiling while do it.

Speaking of teeth: POOR POOR MOLLY! Molly is cutting 5 teeth all at once. Yes people, I said 5. She has done this before but this is a record. Molly has her top 4 front teeth and 3 bottom. She is in the process of getting her first year molars and the 4th bottom lateral front tooth. I believe there might be a 6th tooth in there working its way in too. I can clearly see the outline in the gums of all four molars. The gums are tearing from the centers of the molars. This is causing a lot of pain for Molly in the middle of the night. The maximum dosage of Motrin, piggy backed with tylenol, 3 hours later, isn't cutting the pain. She grinds her teeth and tries to gnaw on the edge of her highchair tray because she cannot get a good grip on teether toys and get them in her mouth to chew on to relieve some of the pain. Those darn hands!!

Today I was able to look in her mouth and see that the bottom molars are tearing through the gums first and the bottom front lateral tooth is too. The top molars are starting to tear through and the eye teeth are showing their outline in the gums as well. She is going to have all her teeth by her birthday at this rate. Because of all these teeth I have given her the Nick name Chick-a-lette. Her teeth are so big compared to her sister's teeth.

Molly gives good kisses, nice and wet when asked and she also most definitely waves Hi. She is at 4-5 month milestones and progressing.

We Saw the neurologists a few weeks ago and She saw nothing alarming with Molly but if something is there, only time will tell because her nervous systems is still maturing. The Neurologist had blood work done to check for Metabolic disorders which she thinks is not the case because Molly is growing to well for that. We have a MRI this week to look at her brain. We also saw the orthopaedic last week and was prescribes hand splints ( I will get into more about this in another post)

We are waiting on our appointment to the Dr. of physiology and rehabilitation and the Developmental pediatrician. I am curious to what they will find if there is something. The one thing we do know about Molly is that is is significantly delayed but progressing and that's all that matters right now.

I do have to say it is very hard to have 1 year old that is not doing what I expect a 1 year old should do. I feel like I have had a newborn for a whole year. Many of my friend's Babies who have been born months after Molly are passing Molly by and it is hard not to feel heart broken. However, I feel that everything happens for a reason. I do not know what that reason is yet but I know I will learn it soon. I tell myself maybe it is Gods ways of saying I am done with having babies by giving me a newborn baby longer then expected, hoping I will not want to do the new born baby thing again. (Not sure about that, yet) I don't know why Matt and I were given this challenge but we accept this challenge and will make the best of it. Who could resist this challenge with that face and those cheeks. She is just so Sweet!!

When I am with Molly it's just Molly; I don't know her any differently, it's with out her I see everything she is not doing. She is going to be one and yet it doesn't feel like it is time for her birthday yet. It will be 1 year since she entered our lives and we cannot imagine it any other way.

The face of Molly looking like she is saying ooo. That is her new and favorite face. She makes this face all the time. It is the cutest thing ever.

Halloween!!

Mikaela had a wonderful time at halloween this year. She actually understood the whole idea of halloween. I was so excited!! My excitment didn't last to long because my own little medium sized girl told me after about 4 houses that she was going to do it by herself. BY HERSELF!!! I was so proud but bittersweet at the same time. She went to the door rang the door bell all on her own and said trick or treat and thank you. Awe!!! We told her about which houses were the ones to go to and after about 3 houses she was telling us which houses to go to. the ones with teh lights on and Halloween decor.

This was Molly's first Halloween. She just hung out in the stroller and loved watching all the the kids and the lights.

Both girls got pretty wet as well as Mommy and Daddy. Thank goodness it was a warm fall rain. The girls had a nice dry stroller with an umbrella, between houses. Mikaela brought home a decent amount of treats. I tried to convince her that if she traded in all her Halloween candy to the Trick or Treat Halloween Fairy she would be given a speical toy. Nahh!! was her answer. I want to keep my treats. Daddy loved her answer. Oh well I tried. Mommy and Daddy have eaten most of the girls candy anyway.

PRESCHOOL!!!

Mikaela started preschool last month. It was a rough start for her. Her first week was fine , she went willingly and never looked back. However, her second week well not so hot. She made it very heartbreaking for Mommy. The teacher in me knew she would be fine and each time I walked out without looking back. She definantly showed the teachers and staff what she is made of especially, her lungs. After about two weeks of crying the whole way to school, she is starting to except school. Slowly she is begining to talk about things she does at school and remembering other kids names. She has her own fan cub. When we arrive, the kids all yell her name and come running. They help her get ready to leave, fold up her blanket and get her bag . The kids are very cute. She leaves earlier then most of the kids do. Last week she would get upset when I got her dressed to leave, but then her attitude change to happy to go but still no smile. She is liking school, so she says, but tells us she has a horrible, terrible, no good bad day. She wants to be home with Mommy. I am hoping this week goes better for her. She wants to like school but wants me to stay to play too. I would love to but on the days MiKay is at school I am off with Molly to her playgroup at the Early Intervention office.

She did not want pictures taken.