[blparent] Cute story and update

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Just keep that info coming, Bridgit.  I was thrilled to read how your son is 
doing, and Penny is just adorable.  Sarah is going through a lot of testing 
right now, so she can be challenging to deal with.  But she's a sweetheart. 
I had to go get a tooth extracted this morning.  She wanted to go with me. 
I said she needed to stay with her daddy so the dentist could work, and she 
said, "But I won't let him hurt you.  I'll shoot him with my friend Will's 
potato gun if she hurts you."  I felt she had touching intentions, even if 
they were misguided.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Bridgit Pollpeter
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 3:54 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blparent] Cute story and update

For her birthday, which was just November 27, she kept telling people
she wanted chocolate for her b-day when asked, LOL!

Since I'm talking about her, another cute story is that she now will get
her baby doll and mimic what I do with Declan. The other day she sat in
the rocking chair with us and fed her baby with its bottle then when I
went to burp Declan, she put her doll over her shoulder and burped it,
smile. She has a stroller for her baby and a diaper bag with all the
things babies need. I want to get her the play crib for her dollie I've
been tracking for sometime online now.

And while I'm bragging about my kids, here's an update on Declan. He is
doing so much better. After switching completely to breast milk and a
new reflux med, he's doing so much better. He's way less fussy, seems
much more content and happy and the reflux symptoms have almost
diminished. He has an episode every now and then, but the symptoms
aren't near as bad as they had been.

And just this past weekend, he not only started using a regular bottle,
but he started drinking the entire thing or close. Before he'd been
using a special bottle that, depending on how you rotated it, the flow
was different. At first, he needed a slow flow while he developed his
breathing and swallowing coordination. We had been on the medium flow
for a while now, but I accidently had rotated it to the regular flow the
other day, but when I realized this, I discovered Declan didn't seem to
have a problem handling it. We tried a regular bottle, and he seems to
be handling it just fine. Fingers crossed, smile.

He'll be four months at Christmas, which I can't believe, grin. He's
rolling up on his side and playing some game-type things. Like he tries
to place his hand on my mouth so I will kiss it or he kicks against my
body as I lean over him so I rock back. He's still not cooing much, but
he moves his mouth a ton like he's trying to make sounds. He's starting
to chuckle too.

Okay, sorry for the information overload about my kids.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter, editor, Slate & Style
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/

"If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can
satisfy, we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for
another world."
C. S. Lewis

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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:25:20 -0700
From: "Jeri Milton" <jjmilton at cox.net>
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Cute story
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Hi Bridgit. Haha. That's cute. I guess this makes Christmas shopping a
bit easy doesn't it? Smile. By the way I love the name Penny. You don't
here that name very much anymore. It's very pretty.

Jeri


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