Teag turned 8 months old on friday and has been so happy these last few days. Our nights have been a little rough but hopefully once those bottom two teeth pop through things will get back to normal! Here are a few pics from this weekend. Happy 8 months teagee girl!
I caught Gav & Teag in one of those cute brother/sister moments tonight and had to share. Teag is finally getting big enough (and loud enough) that Gav has started to notice her more and 'play' with her. He talks to her about his toys, lets her hold his favorite trucks, and wants her to come in his room. I laid Teag on his bed for a minute while putting away the laundry and found them in the bed laughing tucked in together. So cute!
The NG tube made a brief appearance over the weekend after 3 days of bad eating and throwing up. Teag just wasn't acting like herself and didn't want to eat very much at all. When I would try and get her to eat more, she would gag and throw up- sometimes just from looking at the bottle! I hadn't been feeling the greatest myself, so I assumed she was feeling like me and just didn't have much of an appetite. She just doesn't have the reserves to go for more than a day or two without eating alot so on Sunday night we put the tube back in. Thankfully, by Tues. evening she was able to eat enough on her own that we were able to take it out and get back to normal. I did enjoy the tube for giving meds though, thats the only part about the whole ng that is nice!
I took her in to the pediatrician on Monday just to rule out anything else that could be bothering her. Its always hard to know if its just a 'normal baby' thing or a heart issue when she seems a little off, and of course I always assume that its a heart issue.... Everything checked out ok though and the Dr. seemed to think that part of her not wanting to eat and crying at night is due to teething. Teething?! How nice if it really is something that simple! 
Here's a picture of her chest wound today. Its still pretty bad, but actually much better than it was. The dr. said she was close to needing a skin graft in the beginning, so he's impressed with how its healing..... You can see where her skin has grown in filling the hole that used to be there. Now she just has those two open spots to work on before its healed over.
I just wanted to post a quick note for all of you who follow our sweet heart friend baby Mia. Last night they got the call and right now she is in surgery receiving her new heart!!! Mia has been waiting 4 long months for her new heart and has been such a little fighter. Her mom Mimi is amazing and has been so strong and faithful as they've waited day after day for this day! Please keep Mia and her family in your prayers today that she will continue to be such a little trooper and that her body will accept her new heart! We're so excited for them and so grateful for the other family that made such a selfless decision in giving their baby's heart. Today IS the first day of Mia's new life!!! Yay for answered prayers!!! (you can follow her blog here)
Here's another recent video of Teagan. She's really been expressing herself lately and I finally caught a little bit of it on video! She makes us laugh with all of her new sounds. Teag screams and grunts alot but in a happy sort of way- here are a few of those 'happy sounds'! Sorry its a little blurry!
Gav has seen some of the campaign ads on tv and wanted to know who McCain and Obama are. So we had a '3 year old' discussion about how everyone is going to vote today for a new president. He thought about it for a moment and said,"I want Santa to be President! Then we can have presents today!" ha...
Here's a short video of T's new 'trick'! Now whenever you ask her a question she smiles and shakes her head no- to everything!
Halloween was so fun this year! Gav dressed up as a 'Lightening McQueen' race car driver and Teagan was a sweet pea! She actually loved her costume and was all smiles the whole night. Gav was really into trick-or-treating this year and we were out there for almost 2 hours! He had to have a whole conversation with every neighbor that opened the door! He'd say,"Hey guys! Trick or treat-ing!" "I'm a raaaace car driver!"
Teagan had her swallow study on friday and thankfully it went really well! I had to bring a few empty bottles for the barium and they strapped her into a foamy booster seat in the x-ray machine. I fed her barium in different thicknesses to see how she swallowed and then we mixed some barium into a jar of baby food pears and fed her that. She hated the taste of all of it but swallowed enough down for the tech to get the pictures needed. It was determined that she isn't aspirating at all (yay!) and that she has a little reflux. We knew about the reflux and she is already taking Zantac for it so the tech didn't think we needed to make any changes. We will be seeing a speech therapist/feeding specialist starting next week though to see if we can get Teag to eat more. Right now there is no talk of needing the NG tube back in (yay again!) but she's not gaining much weight at all. So hopefully the therapist will have a few new tricks to help us pack on the pounds!
