Pediatric Stroke News

Not trying to scare anyone but simply raise awareness of Pediatric Stroke, this is a VERY informative article. Everyone should read! Yeah for recognition by the AHA!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0812-health-strokeaug12,0,4530329.story

It seems as though now that I have lived through the experience with Olivia, I see stuff about pediatric stroke everywhere! We are very fortunate that Olivia is one of the lucky ones!

This is one of the girls' favorite things to do... go for a wagon ride around our apartment complex. The baby will stay quiet for 2 hours just being pulled around in the evening. It is something we do very frequently but never take a picture of.

Lance bought the wagon a couple of years ago with the dream of filling it with kids to pull around... I think he got is wish!

Happy Birthday Lance!

Happy 28th Birthday Lance! I love you!

Thank you for being the best hubby in the world!

Olivia's first ponytail

Olivia's hair is now long enough for a full ponytail. I don't know many 6 month old's that can have one. She also has 6 teeth! When she smiles all we see are her pearly whites!

What am I going to do with my big girls?

Olivia is growing so fast!

I had to post some new pics up of Olivia because she is getting big so quickly. She will be 7 months old in a week! I am soooo sad. I want her to stay a little baby forever!

She is now rolling onto her hands and knees in preparation to crawl. It's funny because she gets on her hands and knees and then starts crying because she doesn't know where to go from there! She is also pulling up to stand on everything. She is successful in doing this but not very stable, so we have to help her and watch her closely. I am amazed at how fast they grow. I love my babies!

Olivia only likes milk

Ok, so I thought Olivia was this happy, easygoing, go-with-the flow kinda girl. Boy, was I wrong. She has turned into the wants to be held all the time, eat only what I want when I want it, and do whatever I want and not what you want kinda girl.

Which brings up my problem... the girl won't eat babyfood!! I've tried rice cereal mixed with breast milk, mashed bananas, mashed peas, mashed carrots. Now, this is not like I've only tried for a few days and I'm a little worried. I've been trying to start solids for 1 1/2 months! She will suck on prezels and pickles, as well as sliced apples and whole carrots. This leads me to believe that she doesn't like the soft/mashed foods texture. Has anyone heard of a baby refusing foods like this?

Anyone have any ideas and/or advise for me? I'm in no hurry to wean her, I'm perfectly happy with extended breastfeeding. I just worry about her nutrition. Maybe I can skip the mashed foods stage altogether and let her practice safely on whatever she will eat?

I need ADVISE! Thanks!

What stroke?

Olivia has a passionate obsession with paper. Any kind is sufficient for her, but she especially loves magazine paper. During Sunday dinner I set her on the floor with a magazine and she went to town. She was totally enthralled with ripping it into little tiny pieces. It takes a lot of hand coordination and thinking for a 6 month old to do this. We were watching her very closely and both hands were very strong. Yet another miracle that the stroke didn't effect her hand strength!

You can clearly see that the pile in her lap is fairly large. She sat on the floor with this task for an hour! I didn't know babies her age could do ANYTHING for that long except sleep!