Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

About our girl at 29 months

I am finding myself forgetting lots of Nina stuff as she gets older. I do not keep up with a baby book so this is what we have for memory sake.

Favorite TV show: Yo Gabba Gabba (hands down)
Fav book: Currently Bear Snores On and Good night Philadelphia

Items she sleeps with in crib: Glowworm, big baby, little baby, dolly, baby elmo, elmo, foofa, little blanket, big blanket, cookie monster... we go over each of them before she goes to bed.

Fav meal: chicken and fries. Last night I tried to give her BBQ Chicken and she screamed NO I WANT MY CHICKEN! (which of course is frozen chicken nuggets)

Fav toy: little people stuff

Friends Ava, Lilah, Bobby ,Hannah, Emma and Matthew, Gianna, Adelina, Baby Lucia, Max

Fav activities: tap dancing and playing babydolls (feeding and putting them on the potty and to bed) being chased around, singing songs. We make up silly songs a lot.

What makes her laugh: silly faces, tickles under her neck, playing in the 'big bed' with us.

What makes her cry: time out for hitting, being told No, Getting her hair washed

Nina has quite the sense of humor. She loves to call us other names.
She called Jason "Uncle Daddy" and will call me by the cat's name. She also talks in different voices to be silly. She just laughs all the time.

Neonatal Follow-up Updates

I always try to remember to update the blog about developmental and physical evals b/c when Nina was a baby I sought them out on other blogs like a madwoman:)

Last week we went in for Nina's 24 month(adjusted) Neo-natal follow up evaluation.

Early Intervention stops adjusting for prematurity after 2 years, but the follow-up programs adjusts until 3 years old. So this visit was based on Nina at 24 months old adjusted.

Stats:
26.8 pounds (80%) (gained 1 pound in 6 months)
32 3/8 length (30%) (grew a little over 2 inches in 6 months)
18 3/4 head (50%)

Development: her language and cognitive skills are well above normal. They had her do most of the stuff I mentioned in my EI post.

Her gross motor skills were slightly immature-they said she had mild low muscle tone and want a PT eval (which we just had with EI, so I called for a do-over from the County)
They want her to be able to jump from the last step to the floor. I thought she was just a cautious kid...and she needs to work on walking up the steps without using our hand so much for support. I thought she had trouble with the steps b/c she's a bit tiny.

Maybe if I had her tap dance for them.....

C'est la vie....

I guess we'll know more after she gets a through PT eval next month.

Nina is missing one canine tooth which is bizarre to me. She has 17 teeth in right now. Her molars have not come in which is fine, but the one canine missing is weird. Hopefully it's just super late and will erupt someday. If not, I hope there's an adult tooth up there. Nothing I can do about it, but get an x-ray, and I chose not to put her through that.

So in all, she's doing great. Dr said we are lucky given her shit beginnings in the hospital.

Tap Dancing!

Nina is a hoot! She loves dancing especially when wearing tap shoes.

Today she had fun sliding on the floor in them after the dancing was over!

Ocean City NJ

Had an excellent 4 day mini vaca with Jason's side of the family down the shore.

Nina had a blast! Her cousin Ally painted her toe nails for the first time to get beach ready.

We went to the beach daily and Nina liked playing the sand and in the baby pool. By the last day she made her way to the water (she was hesitant until then, and she loved it.
She told her Grandma, "I like it".

We went to the boardwalk and she had her first slice of Mack and Manco pizza. She went on the roller coaster once with me and once with Jason. She loved the rides, she even went on by herself which was a first. (it was a jeep that went in a circle)

Dot's donuts in the mornings and PB&J for lunch on the beach.

It was a fab time and we are hopeful the weather holds up for the rest of the week since our family is still down there.

Par for the course

Took Nina to ER Saturday afternoon for vomiting almost 48 hours. They sent us home after pumping her full of fluids.

Took Nina back to ER Sunday morning for vomiting Sunday morning. They admitted her.

She was dehydrated both times. Blood sugars in the 30's and Ketone galore. She reached the point where even a sip of something made her vomit.

Once admitted, she recovered quickly once they stabilized her sugars.
She was eating and drinking by 2:30pm yesterday. Jason spent the night with her and they were able to d/c the fluids by early morning.

She was discharged late this morning and doing great.

We are reading "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" and HIGHLY recommend.

They closed the book on her!

I had the early intervention team come out this morning to eval Nina.
The team consisted of OT, PT and Speech.

Nina did awesome. She is age appropriate (28 months)

They had her do tasks like the peg board, color grouping, stringing beads, naming objects and actions in word books, drawing a circle and straight line, shape sorting, blowing, cup stacking.
She could do it all!

They want her to work on jumping off surfaces. (oh fun for me) like the bottom step to the carpet. Hello ER???
For speech, they want her to work on ending one syllable consonants.
For OT, there were no recommendations. (yeah Nina!)