Smiles and Coos!

Thought you might like seeing her in action. Can you believe she's 3 months already? Time flies by so fast!

Pictures, physical therapy and the hearing test

Practicing lying on her side during physical therapy. Look at those chubs!

She has lots of personality.

She started trying to suck her thumb. Sometimes she gets it in, sometimes she doesn't.

Wow, it's been a while since my last post. Faith continues to grow and is as cute as ever! In February she got her 2 hour hearing test at the hospital in Portland and passed with flying colors! Although it was a long test, we were very happy with the results.

She also started her physical therapy recently. Just some tips and tricks the PT told us to use to get her on the right track. So far she is doing great. And the kids love the time we get to focus on her exercises. Because it's mostly a time to play with her. A visit with the doc showed a good growth and she's around the 50th percentile for both her height and weight for a baby with down syndrome. All in all, lots of good news.

Our Little Love Bug!

Faith is growing healthy and strong. She is now a good 9 lbs. One of her new found talents has been cooing and smiling. She has many awake moments, whereas before she slept almost all the time. Having older siblings who love and adore her are her constant entertainment and she will quite often affix her eyes on them. The only thing she's battling right now is thrush (yeast infection in her mouth), but I have been treating it with some homeopathic medicine and it is slowly subsiding.

Everyone at our church has fallen in love with our little "love bug". I bought a new outfit for her that suits that saying. Thank you all for your prayers and support once again. She is an amazing little girl! Here's a sneak peak at that outfit:

She's so alert now!

Cheeks "R" Us

Her new Valentine's Day outfit

A little cuddle time with mama. I LOVE IT!

Yippee! Faith doesn't need open heart surgery!!!

Thank you for all your prayers! Faith does not need open heart surgery!!!!! The hole closed on it's own. What remains are 2 holes that are normal in newborns, but usually closes around 3-4 weeks of age. Even if they were to remain open, when she is 3 yrs. old, they would only need to catheterize the holes to fix it and not have any open heart surgery at all. God is faithful.

The only other hurdle left is her hearing in the left ear. They did a newborn screening test for her hearing and her left ear failed it. So we need to go to Portland where they have better instruments to test her there. Please pray that her hearing is normal and that it won't affect her communication later on.

Love you all,

Gizelle