Doing GREAT!

It's been a while since I updated the blog but I thought tis the season to share wonderful news. Sophie is an all star and is eating like a champ. She still has her g-tube and probably will through winter as a fall back in case she gets sick over the winter. But I am very happy to report that in the last seven weeks she has only been tube fed six times. She is still drinking formula to keep her calories up but she also gets all of the naughty stuff we shouldn't have like creamer, cups of 1/2 and 1/2, Ice cream, Mini Candy bars and so on. As far as food rule breaking...she breaks all of the rules that I had for Liam. Because she needs more calories and most likely always will she gets more treats than he did, but she still eats good stuff too. She eats broccoli, carrots, zucchini, lettuce, apples, oranges, and chews on lemons. She has also enjoyed the pleasures of happy meals. She loves the burger patty. She takes that out and eats that. she has even eaten 75% of the two patties that are in a mcdouble. Ok so that doesn't sound like something to brag about but once again think she needs calories. She is almost 2 and is only about 20 pounds and 32 inches tall. She is one lean mean Sophie eating machine! Sophie is also chattering up a storm she has over 40 words but only uses about 12 commonly. I think NO and MINE are her two favorites. This morning she was eating a bagel and our dog Bentley came up to her and she looked and pointed at him and said NO (she did not want him to get her food). She also utters Uh Oh quite a bit as well.

Sophie and Liam do really good playing with each other, it Liam thinks Sophie is being bothered my someone he doesn't really know he'll put his hand on her and say My Sophie, kind of telling them not to mess with his Lil sis. Although they are quite typically brother and sister. She'll have one of his toys and he'll come over and say that's mine and take it away from her. She has learned fast because when he has one of her toys she'll go over to him, extend her hand and continuously say, mine, Mine, MINNNNE.

Unlike Liam... Sophie recognizes that it is bedtime and will go to bed while she is still awake. Se is also a snuggler and loves to sleep with her stuffed friends.

If you were to see Sophie you'd never know that she started life as she did. She runs, walks and climbs like a billy goat. She plays as hard as her big brother does. She also has an incredible attention span. She can play with play dough for an hour. She really studies things and she is smart as a whip.

As much as we have been through with Soph we would never trade the experiences we have had. We have been blessed with so much, we have so many wonderful memories of Cincinnati, our nurses, doctors and our Ronald McDonald House family, not a day goes by that we don't think about our experiences and the wonderful people who touched our lives forever.