Update on the Em

Julia was so nice to come visit us in the hospital and bring balloons and a duck that cousin Phineas picked. She litterally hugged that duck all night and just LOVED it! She got spoiled with a few new toys.

The last picture of those cute litte legs. Emilee in her hospital gown.

This is how we go shopping. She can not sit up or bend at the waist at all, so all high chairs or shopping carts are out. We have this bean bag that is our everything! I feel a little weird packing a bean bag into a grocery store but oh well. We can't get too many groceries or she will be buried in them but it's good to get out of the house any way we can. (We also use a bouncer seat instead of the high chair.) I get some looks and people ask how she broke her leg... or more like what did I do to break her leg and I explain it was a hip problem she was born with and this cast is going to fix it. :)

Still cute as ever! This cast never dampened her happy personality one bit.

ONE MONTH DOWN!!! It has been a month since Emilee's surgery. In two weeks we will go back for a cast change and all this will be half way done! For that I am glad. We are doing good, it has made life a bit more complicated but all in all not too bad. She crawls around just as good as before (well maybe just a little slower and more grunting involved, ha ha, but it's heavy!) It really is amazing to see how well she has adapted. The nurse said that the babies just go on with life and think nothing of it except that their clothes seem unusually stiff that day. That sure made me laugh. She stays in one spot if on her back, which never happened before, which can be kinda convient at times. And I can put her in bed at night and she has to lay there and fall asleep (a blessing in disguise???) instead of immediately standing up in the crib before I could even get to the door. On the other hand though, she does wake up at night in frustration from lying in the same spot without being able to move or roll over. There was a horrible horrible diaper blowout last week which seemed like the end of the world at the time, but since we have learned some tricks to keep the inside of the cast pooh-free. Pantieliners have worked wonders! I never thought my little girl would be needing feminine hygine items before turing one. I line the inside of the cast with them like a diaper extension in case of leaks and it has saved us from any more diasters.