This year is going good so far for Caitlyn in school. She really enjoys herself, and we are told that she has a little friend, Tristan, who likes to share whatever he has with Caitlyn. Eric hopes that this isn't the beginning of boy troubles! (daddy's...aren't they all the same?) As long as we can keep her healthy through the winter, I think this will be a year with great progress!
As for staying healthy, it seems to be easier said than done...If you recall last year around this time, we saw an ENT and decided Caitlyn's tonsils and adenoids had to go. That wasn't a fun experience by any means. But, Caitlyn started gaining weight in no time, and has put on 5 1/2 lbs since her post-op weigh in. She was also healthy for the first winter since being born. The first year, she just had bronchitis onces in February, followed by pnuemonia in August...The second year is when all of the problems really started...(looking back, this also happened to be right in the peek of her regressions. We thought the persistent 4 1/2 month long sinus infection was the cause of her loss of speech) The third year was a little better, but still not fun...between age 2 and age 3 Caitlyn didn't put on any weight. Anyway...That is just some background on the sinus issues that she suffers. The pattern she follows is: infection, antibiotics, healthy for 3-4 weeks, then it all starts over. Her ped. says there really isn't a next step, so we are trying nasal spray as a preventative...we shall see...I really don't want to lose the weight she has gained. So far we have sat at 34.5 lbs since April of last year...We'll take it! So we are just finishing our round of antibiotics, so we shall see what happens!
What would an update be without any pictures? Here's a few!
Have you ever seen that comercial for the Campbells Soup to go drinkable containers? Caitlyn really reminded me of that on this night while she was drinking her yogurt smoothie! (ofcourse you can see that some missing was involved)
And here is this one, just because I think she has the most beautiful profile. And look, she's getting red in her hair!
And here, just because she is so peaceful when she sleeps! She is just really getting into pillows, and doesn't she just look soooo comfortable?
Thanks everybody for reading!
2 comments:
Yea...new pictures!!
She is SO beautiful, and drinkable yogurt.....I have not tried that with Brooklyn. Good Idea!! I can completely relate to the sinus junk. There was actually a big RettNett discussion about sinus trouble with our girls. interesting. Man, it just stinks that they have so many issues they have to deal with. I am not sure if you saw the blog but Brooklyn is hope with a fever. She is pretty sad. I just took a 104 temp. UGH!
The picture of her sleeping is great - you know sleepy pictures are favorites of mine! Give her a hug for me. (not that she knows me but I feel like I know her!)
She is growing up so fast! I think she looks so much like you. :)
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