Big day today!!!

Today is Ellery's first day with no reflux meds!!!! I'm incredibly nervous - I so badly want her to be off of the medication and I just hope it works!

We've been reducing the number of times a day she gets it for the last 3 weeks and today is the day to go "med-less"

If you could spare a good thought for all to go well we'd appreciate it!

Oh! and on Friday afternoon Ellery pulled up to standing while holding onto her Bumbo seat!!! what the heck!!??!! she's not even 8 months old!!!

Milestones R Us

Apparently our house (or my mom's lol) is milestones r us lately!!!

Friday Ellery said her first word . .of course it was Dada!! That's okay. . . .lol it was actually on the way home from the GI doctor ROFL and we called Daddy right away and he heard her and got a little choked up :) :) awww

Then I just got a call from my mom. . . Ellery Monkey is crawling. . .now all weekend she's been up on all fours and rocking back and forth and sort of scooting and hopping forward....today she's actually hand/knee crawling!!!!!!!!

oh my word - watch out Belle

LOL

Oh and today Ellery is 7 months old.....

new pics:

GI update

We went to see Dr. M at Children's on Friday afternoon. Ellery is 18lbs 1oz and 26.5 inches (by their measurement. . it's so hard to get an accurate length LOL)

Anyway. . we saw Dr. M and he seems really pleased with Ellery's progress. He's surprised that she's able to hold yogurt down but not regular formula.

At any rate - starting tomorrow we're decreasing Ellery's meds from 3x per day to 2x per day; after a week we'll go to 1x per day. . then stop entirely. If it works and she's able to stay off the meds we don't have to ever go back to Children's :) YAY!!! If we need to put her back on the meds he wants to see her again.

Fingers crossed that it works out :)

Ellery overload!!!

We had a mini photoshoot yesterday morning in our bedroom. . . and those are some of the cutest ones. . .. some are blurry but she's still cute!!!

We had a busy busy weekend - Saturday was Zoe's 5th birthday party. . it was a Curious George Pool party and the perfect day for it!! SO HOT!!! Ellery just loves swimming. . .we don't even bother with the float anymore. . she'd rather be held and dipped through the water. She especially loves it when Mommy or Daddy holds her under her armpits and floats her along on her belly. She kicks up a storm and just smiles and laughs!!!

Yesterday we had a BBQ at my parent's house - Ellery was in a GREAT mood all day (per usual) and swam and was passed all around then had a good long nap in her room and came out for more swimming, a bottle (al fresco LOL), gerber puffs, a sippy of water and more being passed around. She was asleep before we were out of my parent's street LOL

I can't believe she's going to be 7 months old next week