Getting settled in

Well, we seem to be finally settling back in at home, after 2 weeks here! With some help from Nana, we were able to clean just about everything in the house except for vacuuming upstairs, and about 90% of the hospital stuff and new items are sorted and put away! It feels so much better to finally have regained a little organization (well, as much as you can have with a toddler and a baby in the house I guess). We've had some issues with Emma Kate's sleeping throughout this whole ordeal, and it has gotten a little bit better since being home. She's still not quite back to normal (she was a great sleeper prior to this happening) but she's doing better- every few nights she has a "good" night where she only wakes 3 or 4 times crying, and only some of them require soothing. Last night she woke at about 9:30 crying pretty bad and somewhat inconsolable, but after that, she woke at 10, 11, and 12 with a little fuss and settled easily on her own. From then on, it seemed quiet and she even tolerated a diaper change around 4am. She woke up at about 6:45 in a pretty good mood and ready to go! It's good that she will sit in the bed and play or talk with me until it's time for her toooobs to come off, and then it's pretty straightforward after that.

Emma Kate is doing well with her nutrition- she has gained weight (even over just the last week she gained 0.26kg) and I am waiting to hear from her GI doctor about reducing her calories in the TPN again- if we continue doing well, hopefully she will be off it in another 2 weeks or so. We're so ready to have her back to normal again- I'm afraid she's gaining too much too quickly (think OCD in horses...) and she's already outgrown about 75% of her fall/winter wardrobe we bought just a couple weeks before she went into the hospital! Her vocabulary is growing by the day and she will occasionally sit and talk to herself and just spout off a bunch of her words like she's having a conversation. Also, I just noticed this morning while brushing her teeth that she is getting both of her bottom second premolars!! Holy cow!

Baby Gretta has a checkup on Monday and we're anxious to see just how very much she has grown... she's outgrown much of her wardrobe as well, and all the old clothes from Emma Kate are getting into summer items for the next size bigger! So much for reusing all her clothes again, this little one is growing by leaps and bounds! She has become quite chatty, is grabbing for toys and holding them to look at, she watches Emma Kate's reading videos, and is generally a jolly little elf! She does still have her moments of being a pterydactyl, but we're trying an early bedtime for her and that seems to make the evenings much better for everyone involved!