Saturday, November 28, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!


The Olson Family went and saw Grandma G for Thanksgiving in Fort Collins. It is always nice to go "home" for me and have mom's home cooking - nothing better. Here are some photos of Gracie as the turkey and checking out the turkey.

Cutest little turkey



Checking out the done turkey


What is that thing?????



Eating dinner



So Grace has begun to roll over. We missed the first time - I was in the bathroom and Brian was at the Broncos game - I came back to find her fussing on her stomach. Then daycare said she is indeed rolling. Well I finally witnessed it along with Grandma G on Friday, we were very excited. Brian is still waiting for a sighting. I am sure she will be rolling a ton soon. We will try and capture it on video. Santa visited us early and got us a video camera (thank you Grandma G) and we are in the process of figuring out how to use it and getting it charged up. Stay tuned.

And finally Grace getting ready for her first black shopping trip with GG. Notice Grace's shirt, it says "What Santa doesn't bring me, Grandma will." :o)




Happy Thanksgiving!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

4 month stats

Today we took Grace for her 4 month check up. She weighed in at 11 pounds 12.5 oz (23 percentile) and 24 inches long (53rd percentile). So she is a bit small in the weight department, but average on her height. I was concerned she wasn't gaining enough weight, but the doctor said she is staying on her own personal growth curve and that is good and as long as she stays on that she is fine. So we just have a little mini lady on our hands.

She got her shots and it was hard seeing her cry, but she is doing well and is off at daycare. When we dropped her off she was sleeping, I'm sure she will do plenty of that today. And the doctor said we can start cereal if we want and if Grace is interested in it. We might try in a week or so during the Thanksgiving break when I am with her more and not at work.

Otherwise, she checks out great. We have a healthy happy baby!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Grace loves her thumb


Here is Grace sucking her thumb. It is one of her new favorite things to do and it is so darn cute.


Also, if you want to order any of Grace's 3 month photos, here is a link to the Snapfish album. Enjoy!


Sunday, November 15, 2009

One more photo...


Grace is very into the TV lately. Here she is staring at the football game daddy was watching today instead of playing. The funny thing is she looks pretty amazed. This was taken when the Redskins faked a punt and got a first down - she liked that play! :o)



Happy 4 month birthday Grace!


Today marks Grace's 4 month birthday. It is hard to believe she is 4 months already and that we are approaching her first Thanksgiving. She is startng to play more and more in her exersaucer and is very close to rolling over. On Wednesday we take her in for her 4 month check up and some more shots. Here is her monthly photo today with Pooh and shock of shocks I caught her in a smile.


Here is another photo I got of her smiling a day or two after her last surgery. It is so exciting to finally catch her smile on camera - it's the small things in life.



Grace is also starting to drool like crazy and is constantly eating her fist.We have even seen sightings of her sucking her thumb. Grandma G caught it on camera so as soon as I have that photo I will share it here.

We went for our one week post-op appointment recently with Dr. Oliver and he says all is looking good so far. We get a break from seeing him for about 3 weeks, which is nice. We now have to patch her good (left) eye to get her to use her right eye. She only sees light in that eye right now and nothing is in focus since she doesn't have a lense right now. We have tried the patching a couple of times and she has made it about 5 minutes so far. She gets pretty upset that she can't see everything. Grace is a trooper though and did her best to look around and stare at the light. Hopefully as we continue to patch she will get used to is and last longer and longer. The cutest thing though was when I took the patch off of her eye the first time she was pretty mad at that point and had both eyes closed tight - I told her to open her eyes a few times and when she did and realized she could see everything again she gave me a huge smile. It was so sweet and made me even more thankful that she at least has the one good eye.

That is all for now. Annie


Thursday, November 5, 2009

Update

Grace had surgery number 4 yesterday. She did great as usual. For once the doctor did NOT find a new problem which is a huge relief! Dr. Oliver had to remove scar tissue from her retina which is a very meticulous process and so the surgery took about 3 hours. He also had to remove some eye oil that she had to more of than she should. There is a 30-40% chance that both the excessive oil and the scar tissue can come back, so we aren't out of the woods yet, but there is no talk of a surgery in the near future yet which is nice to hear. As she gets older though it is interesting to see how she reacts to the anestehsia. This time around was like she was after her first surgery when she was only a month old where she was way more out of it. Come to find out they gave her some morphine this time - apparently since she is older and weighs more they can give her this. She is still pretty mellow and fragile today so I decided to stay home today with her while Brian is at work making us some money to pay these hospital bills. I am very thankful for a great boss at work who is understanding of me needing to take time here and there so soon after my maternity leave.

So, for now Grace is doing well. We have to keep a patch on her eye for the next week and do some eye drops and will go back for a check of the eye next week. Dr. Oliver is hopeful that she will get some vision, but he isn't sure yet how good it will be. Right now we know that some light is getting through, but since she doesn't have a lens in her eye nothing is in focus. We will soon begin patching her good eye to get her brain to use her right eye even if all she can see is light. Dr. Oliver is great in knowing that it isn't realistic to patch Grace for long periods since she will likely get pretty mad when we cover her good eye and we appreciate the Doctor realizing this - it makes it easier on us as we work with her. And eventually we will try a contact again to hopefully get items into focus once her eye heals from the recent surgery.

Otherwise, not much else to report. She weighed 11 pounds and 10 ounces yesterday. She is likely still pretty small since babies typically double their birth weight by 4 months from what I've read (which means in a couple of weeks she should be around 16 pounds - probably not going to happen), but we will chat with the pediatrician about that in a few weeks when she has her 4 month check up - hard to believe she is almost 4 months old!

We thank you for your prayers for Grace and keep on praying that she doesn't have to have surgery any time soon and that when we do start patching her good eye, that she will use her bad eye and help make it stronger.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Happy Halloween!


Here is our little Winnie the Pooh.



And a little pumpkin too.