HAPPY HOLIDAYS ABBY TOWN!

Written Friday Night, December 22nd, 2006

Hi Everybody,

Thanks to all of you for everything this year. Stay tuned as we're looking forward to a great 2007. Abby is sure to make more wonderful strides and of course there's the new baby thing! Since I had work off today I was able to go with Kelly and Abby to Abby's therapy appointments. I am happy to report that she is doing fantastic with her baby food. She loves to eat from the spoon. She still hates the milk from the bottle though but honestly, who cares?! I'm just excited that she is taking so well to baby food. Abby is also doing very well with her physical therapy and is progressing well.

All in all, it's a good report.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Be Good!

Ryan, Kelly and Abby

A Quick Update on Mommy

The Doctors Appointment went well on Thursday. Kelly got to see the little flutter on the screen which is the heart beat. Kelly's doctor said that Abby's little brother or sister is about the size of a grain of rice at this point. That's crazy! Something that small can make Kelly feel THAT horrible? Wow.
Anyway, I'll get some more pics up soon.

Oh yeah, the due date for Emma, Maddy and Abby was August 3rd. Take a big guess what our new baby's due date is. Yep! August 3rd.

Try that one on for size.

Written Wednesday Night, December 13th, 2006

Wooops!

Sorry to be so late on this one friends. I was, uh….well…hmmm… Okay. No good excuses come to mind at the moment. Not to worry though, as Abby is still doing pretty well. Momma now feeds Abby a mixture of milk, rice cereal and baby food twice a day and she seems to like it. Peaches, bananas and pears are the flavors. Today she did very well with the peaches flavor. She is really starting to learn how to open her mouth and seems to handle this more solid consistency a bit better than she has been able to handle her milk. In fact, her bottle feeding has taken a giant step backward. She doesn’t take anything from the bottle anymore. Sometimes not even one sip. This is called oral aversion, which is when she doesn’t want anything in her mouth. She obviously doesn’t have it too bad because she’ll eat the baby food mixture but she certainly has it when it comes to the bottle. This means that momma has to pour the milk into a syringe and push the milk through her G Tube into her stomach over about an hour and a half period. Not fun for momma considering she eats every 4 hours.
Other than that though she’s still our happy Abby! She wakes up with a huge grin on her face and is in good spirits most of the time.
As for momma, the pregnancy is kicking in. She gets hit with some nausea waves every day but thank goodness for Zofran. It works well for Kelly and definitely takes the edge off. Tomorrow is her first doctor’s visit complete with an ultrasound!

Thanks for all the love and prayers Abby Fans. It’s been a long road.

Take a look at this picture, taken just a few weeks after Abby was born. She was so tiny I could fit my wedding ring around her hand.



Now look. She can barely fit more than a few fingers through it!

WE HAVE GREAT NEWS!

Written Monday Night, December 4th, 2006

This past week has been another good one for Abby. She is doing well and continues to steal our hearts on a daily basis. She doesn't like to take naps and is very hyper. Hmmmm…that’s a shocker. We can thank momma for that one. She is starting to roll over but has trouble getting her arm out from under body at the end of the roll, so she resorts to yelling and calling out for help. She is a determined little one though and will figure it out soon. She also started to laugh last week. I haven’t heard it yet but Kelly said it was one of the most heart warming sounds she’s ever heard.
Abby did throw up quite a bit this weekend. We think it's because we have increased her feedings a bit too much. Today Kelly scaled back the amount of milk from 4 ounces to around 3 to 3 and a half and that helped a lot.

On Sunday we got special permission to take Abby to church to give her a baby blessing. It was great to sit there in the congregation for the first time with my new family. Abby looked beautiful in her white dress and mommy was looking gorgeous as well. After the blessing Kelly got up to say a few words and she let the congregation know something that I figured we were keeping a secret for a while longer. Clearly I was wrong. It seems Kelly’s excitement has gotten the best of her. So for those of you that don’t know already, Kelly and I are pregnant! Yep. That’s right team. We’re pregnant! All on our own too with no infertility treatements. Let me tell you, this way is MUCH cheaper! How crazy is that? We’re very much at the beginning stages of it all and since Kelly had a pre term labor her first time around she is susceptible to pre term labor again. So… looks like we can continue the prayers for at least another nine months!

Have a great week everyone.


Abby's Management Team