And Then There Were Two 8-20-08

I would like to introduce to you, The WallitschFour blog at wallitschfour.blogspot.com. It is a new blog I've created to keep everyone up to date on everything going on in our household and then some. I will continue to post occasionally on here updates pertaining to Miss Maddie, but will probably be posting more often on the new blog.

So speaking of updates, Maddie is doing awesome as usual. I'm guessing she's about 7 1/2 pounds. She eats like nobodies business every 1-2 hours sometimes! Thankfully not at night. She has slept through the night a few times which has been great. We are weaning our selves off of the monitor. We now have her on it only in the car and at night while we are all sleeping. During the day she is monitor free and we just check her frequently. We've been working on getting ourselves to this level of independance from the monitor, so don't think we just decided to unplug one day and that was that. It's taken some time, but things are definitely feeling more like normal.

Maddie has started being awake more and more. She has the biggest smile (hard to catch by camera, but I'll continue to try). She smiles biggest for her brother though, even letting out the occasional giggle. It's the cutest thing.

That's about it, no new health issues or changes. Just getting bigger and developing wonderfully.

Thank you as always for the prayers and support. We never could have made it through these past several months without all of you!

All Clear 8-7-08

Hey Everyone,

I hope that you are all doing well!

We are doing great. Hunter is visiting with his grandparents in South Carolina. They are spending the week riding around the lake in the boat and jet skis and around Columbia in the convertible. I'm so jealous! :-) I know he is having a great time. Maddie, Mom and Dad had to stay home to hold down the fort. When he returns it is countdown to school. He is excited.

Maddie is doing great. We had a checkup today with her cardiologist. The 2 holes in her heart are still there, but are almost completely closed. They had a really hard time even finding them. We do not have to go back for a year and they don't think she will ever need any kind of treatment for them. PTL!

She saw her eye doctor last week and the ROP is gone. We will not have to see them until next May.

She had an ear infection about a week or so ago and I think she's finally getting over that. I hope we are not headed for years of ear infections like with Hunter.

She has definitely gained some weight. The last post had her at 5lbs 3oz and 17.5 in long I believe. We are now 6lbs 12oz and 19.25in long!!!!!! She'll be 4 months old this Saturday. Whew!