Good doctor visit!

Another huge praise... Elyse's cardiologist appointment went well. I was really worried that Dr. Cottrill would be concerned that she had not gained much weight, but she wasn't! She said that Elyse had doubled her birth weight by six months and on her way to tripling her birth weight by one year so she wasn't concerned. She and the nurse agreed they didn't think Elyse's low weight was due to her heart, rather to small parents. :-) She is stuck on about 14 lbs right now but has just now started eating the baby food well so we're hoping that weight will start increasing. She is a baby on the move, definitely crawling around the house and trying to pull up on everything in sight. We need to babyproof the house quick! We're just sure that she'll be walking in under 2 months, she wants to so bad. It's amazing! Dr. Cottrill was so impressed with where she is developmentally. It's so amazing that you would never know there is something wrong with her heart. She is so incredibly strong. God is taking such good care of her and blessing us all unbelievably!

Fun times in Disney World!

The spring break trip was a success! Let me first say that I would have never have done it without my parents' help. My sister and Blake (who is one month older than Elyse) decided at the last minute to go with us. We had a blast! They were good on the plane and loved playing together the whole trip. We managed to go to the theme parks one day, which was plenty. The other days were spent at the pool, shopping, and eating out!

Our little girl is a week shy of 8 months old and has made big developmental jumps in the past two weeks. She is pretty much crawling, it's just a little sloppy right now. :-) She is trying to talk and said "da da" yesterday. She is finally opening her mouth to eat her baby food! Yay... bring on the calories! And she is super close to sleeping through the night, thanks to her daddy who has been doing sleep training with her the past few nights. She is only really waking up once during the night and Ryan is able to "pat" her a few times and she goes back to sleep on her own. We are so excited to be close to getting a good night's sleep consistently.

She really just gets more precious everyday, doesn't she? :-) We will go see Dr. Cottrill in a couple of weeks and I will update the blog and let everyone know how that goes. Please keep praying for her heart to stay as strong as it has. We are so blessed by her good health.