Liliana Sue

I'm very sorry to keep you all waiting for these updates. With all the love and attention that we try to give Lili, the BLOG is the last thing on our minds. Please understand. Thanks!

We had a doctor's visit last week. Lili is now 18 pounds 6 ounces. Her height is off the charts and her weight is average. They decided to increase her caloric intake to match her size. She now gets a larger volume of formula and we add rice cereal to thicken it and give her some extra nutrition. Dr. Relich, our favorite doctor, gave us some advice on how to fit Lili's weaning off the vent into our busy schedule. However, with Lili cutting some teeth, inconsistencies with her nap schedule, and our work schedules we are still having trouble getting into a routine. Speaking of teeth, Lili finally cut her top two teeth and she was/is miserable. I woke up only to come downstairs to a crying baby. I gave her some oragel and some motrin. She was fine for a while, but when the motrin wore off she was miserable again. I tried to take her off the vent for her weaning and she just was not having it. She was acting like she was ready for bed at 5pm which is odd since she has been staying up till between 7 and 8 pm lately. We let her watch Sesame Street till 6 since it is one of her favorites and we wanted to keep her up as late as we could so that she would get some good sleep throughout the night instead of waking up all night because she went to bed too early. LeeAnn also decided to go to bed early tonight since she has not been feeling well lately either. I tried to keep her up till 9:30 so that she would sleep through the night as well. Next I was waiting for the night nurse to come and Lili is miserable again. She hasn't woke up but she is very squirmy and keeps putting her hands in her mouth. I gave her some more motrin around 10pm. Work motrin, work. I feel so bad for her. If any of you are reading this and it is 10/4/06, please hope, wish, or pray that Lili is having a better day today. Besides that, things are good. LeeAnn and I realized that we were wearing ourselves down. If we want to continue to be as happy as can be when we are around Lili, we need to take care of ourselves as well. We decided to start a date night every other Wed. We went on our first one last week. It felt good to be out of the house TOGETHER, and we knew Liliana was in good hands and having a great time. Thank you nurses who are willing to rearrange your schedules to take care of Lili while we are out on our date night. Anyway, this is the second time I wrote this because it disappeared on me last time. I feel like I wrote it much better last time but hope you all enjoy it just as well. And now I am rambling so I'll end with the latest supermodel pics.

One more update. As I'm trying to upload pictures, Lili's alarm for her heart rate went off. She's still not feeling well and it is after 12:00. I went in ther to give her some love and wouldn't you know it, she had spit up. Poor baby! We got that cleaned up and she still wasn't feeling well. I tried to give her some oragel which she fought me with the whole way trying to keep me away from her teeth. After a few seconds she went to sleep. Teeth feeling a little better. Thank you oragel! If only you lasted a lot longer. I hope you have a better night sweet angel!!!

Picture 1- Pretty Pretty Princess!!! Picture 2 & 3- Sleeping beauty. Picture 3- Beautiful girl and her teeth.