New House!

We are very excited to have moved into our new house over the past weekend.  We had a blast living with my parents for a few months after we moved back from Denver, but were ready to be back on our own and have more space again!  We were all pretty exhausted and depleted when we moved so were so grateful to have a place to move into that we didn't have to worry about anything at.  Mom and Dad - here is a shout out to what great parents and grandparents you are.  We would not be where we are today without you!

Believe it or not, this was the 4th house that Lucy lived in (5th if you count her 4 months in the hospital!)  We took her home earlier than expected from the NICU, so lived in Colorado Springs for a few short weeks with her, then moved to a temporary apartment in Denver for the month of November while I finished up working at Dish and while we got used to having her at home and took her to many, many follow-up appointments.  The, it was on to Grandma and Grandpa's while we looked for a house here in Minnesota!  For those of you who know me, you know that I thrive on routine, so that is an indication of how unsettled our lives have been in the past year.  We are very grateful that those days are behind us for the most part and we have settled in our jobs, our house and getting back into a routine!

Lucy riding off into the sunset - leaving Grandma and Grandpa's House!

Lucy is adjusting well.  She's had a bit of a cold this past week, so sleeping has been a challenge in general as she's been waking herself up from coughing and then sees a brand new room and gets a little anxious.  Jason's been a rockstar at soothing her back to sleep in the middle of the night! :)  She loves to explore the many rooms and windows and to watch the neighborhood out of the big living room window.

Rediscovering toys and books that were in storage

Our welcome committee!

Next week we have esophagus dilatation #4.  Her eating has been better, I think.  She's been very picky about eating baby food - I think she's over the blandness of it and wants real food!  So, she's been eating lots of Cheerios, Yogurt Melts and teething biscuits in addition to the few bites of baby food she'll eat.  Now that we are settled, we'll start to experiment with our own pureed concoctions to see what flavors and textures she'll tolerate.  She has totally mastered drinking out of a straw!  I'm so proud of her.  We've been diligently letting her practice every day with a therapy cup that I ordered online.  It is a soft plastic squeeze bottle that has a reusable straw with it.  We were squirting a tiny amount of liquid into her mouth through the straw until all of a sudden last week she figured out that she can suck on the straw herself and get something out of the cup.  She is still only drinking a tiny bit, but she can do it all by herself!!!