New Record!

Lynnea has now been home from the hospital for 33 days, beating our old record of 31 days! This is a pretty exciting accomplishment! We have had a wonderful month at home. Ashlyn and Lynnea get along so well, and it's good to see them together. Both girls have been doing fun things this past week. Ashlyn has been enjoying rubber stamps -- she's a scrapbooker in the making, and she also enjoys playing dress-up -- the best thing she came up with this week was wearing Corey's socks because she was convinced that they fit her. It was pretty funny. Lynnea has been sitting in the high chair, mostly playing with toys while she's in there, but we have started offering her solid foods. She's tried pears and rice cereal (I think...I'm not really sure if she actually swallowed any of the rice cereal, but we offered it to her). She doesn't like eating solid foods, and she still gags anytime anything comes near her mouth, but we're taking it slow, and hopefully she'll figure this whole eating thing out sometime soon. We also tried putting her in her excersaucer for the first time, and she seemed to like that. During physical therapy this week, her therapist put her on her tummy for some tummy time (which she always hates), and Lynnea very promptly rolled herself back on to her back completely unassisted. She did this a couple of times, which is very exciting. She is also getting better at sitting up -- she still requires some support, but she's making a lot of progress.

We still don't have any idea when she will have her next surgery. We've tried to call Dr. St. Louis several times, but still haven't been able to contact him.