Busy Busy

Well Ok, Bella hasn't been that busy....but I certainly have. Which is the reason I haven't posted in a long while.

In February we went and had an annual check-up with the cardiologist. Everything looked good, and in fact one of the two holes had pretty much closed up. They are not too worried about the remaining small hole (PDA), most children and adults can live with it. So we don't have to go back for two years. Which anytime you can spread a doctors appointment out that far, is great news for us.

Next up is her cleft palate clinic yearly appointment in March. There we will see her doctor that performed the surgery in December to make sure everything looks good. We also see an ear, nose, and throat specialists, and auditory hearing specialists, a pediatric dentist, a nutritionist, and the geneticists.

I have been really busy working and we also just got our house re-roofed. So Bella has had to put up with her Grandma Judy and Jesse taking care of her. Here are pictures from their play session last Monday, when Jesse was home supervising the roofing crew.

All work and no play makes..........

Wait a minute I thought this was play not work. I must be mistaken, you see Bella doesn't nap. We try and try and try, everyday to put her down. Most days she prefers to lay in her crib and chew on her hands, she just refuses to shut her eyes, no matter how tired she is. But you see, right now all things we would consider play, Bella considers work. And Bella doesn't like to work. So when she is playing, a.k.a working, she finally chooses to sleep.

Wouldn't a nice nap in a crib be more comfortable!!

My first big tooth!

Now Bella starting getting her first tooth around Halloween, she would have been 13 months at that time. Shortly after that a second lower one starting poking through. But they didn't fully come through and are still just little tiny, sharp, beginnings of teeth. But yesterday we discovered that one of her top teeth is poking through. And I'm happy to report it looks nice and flat, like a tooth is supposed to look. So we will have to see how far that one comes down. I'm wondering if maybe her teeth along with the rest of her body has low muscle tone, and it's just going to take forever for her teeth to move down?? I don't know so I'll guess we will wait and see. I'll try and get a picture if her tooth starts coming through enough that it can be seen.