Wednesday, April 6, 2011

What We've Been Up To...

Nicholas is now able to sleep in peace & quiet because on Monday he received... the Trilogy! It is an awesome new ventilator that is much, much quieter than his old one. He also loves the "Ramp" feature on it which makes the pressure start out low and gradually gets up to his prescribed setting as he falls asleep. Now I need to go to Costco and get a cart/shelf for all of his machines and equipment. This is Nicholas and his buddy, Grant. Grant is such a sweet little boy and loves "Nicky" so much! Nicholas has been wanting to sit-up more and more and his neck pillow gives his head just the right amount of support. Our wonderful neighbor & good friend, Leslie, recently cleaned out a closet full of her children's baby items and passed on a bath chair to Ella. She loves it and it makes bath time so much easier.
Tonight Ella started sitting up on her own. She's such a big girl!I love this photo of the kids...Ella is able to make Nicholas laugh and they just love each other more and more each day.
I ordered this birth announcement for Ella's bedroom from my absolute favorite site (etsy) and then found a frame that I wanted to use to frame it. Because the frame is an 11x14 and the announcement is an 8x10 I decided to create a scrapbook paper and ribbon border for it and I think it turned out great.
Ella rarely takes a bottle since she is with me most of the time, but I pumped some milk the other day and gave her a bottle before she went to sleep and she refused to let me hold it. She wanted to hold it all by herself. She's exerting her independence at 6.5 months old. Boy, are we in for it!

1 comments:

Paula said...

What a great post. I enjoyed reading all the pieces--perfectly titled. Nicholas looks so cute sitting tall in his chair and Ella is such a sweetie. Look at the grip on that bottle! What a precious picture of the two of them :) I love the birth announcement and thanks for sharing the website. I'll be ordering some items myself!