2 weeks with Nadia

Nadia's announcement photo

It’s 4:30 am and the whole family is awake. Luckily we all got some sleep tonight before Nadia was hungry and ready to play some more. Sunday was 2 weeks that she has been a part of our life and she is just so sweet. She has continued to bond to us very well. We took her to the doctor on Friday and she confirmed that it was a little cold and to keep giving her meds. She thought that her muscle tone was good and that she would really start catching up on a lot of stuff in the next month. She changed the formula to see if it helps with the reflux and we have been weaning Nadia off the Chinese formula and on to the new stuff. She also wanted us to start giving her solids 3 times a day which is a new event for Nadia. She is not quite sure how her mouth and tongue are supposed to work with this, but she gets better every time. The doctor basically told us to give her as much food as she wants as often as she wants since she just weighed in at 13 pounds 12 ounces!!! The doctor also told us that it’s good that she has some stranger anxiety and only wants the two of us to hold her as that shows she is bonding well.

We took her to Grapevine Mills on Saturday to hit the Carters outlet. Most of her clothes are TOO big, so we had to go and buy her some 6 month outfits to tide her over until she fattens up! She enjoyed being in her stroller and checking out all the people and bright lights of the mall. Nadia doesn’t like to be constrained in the car seat, but we have been taking her out a couple of times every day to get her used to it and tonight she seemed a lot better than she has been.

Her Fort Worth debut has been fun. She has seen Grammie, Aunt Paula and Uncle Roger, Aunt Joy and Janis, Laura and a whole lot of people at church today. Everyone swarmed around her today especially the little girls that were in my VBS class this summer and we got some great photos of them with her. I was excited to see everyone at church who had prayed for us and been such a wonderful support on this journey, and I was fine until we went down to communion. We got over near Karen M. and she just started crying looking at Nadia (tears of joy) and so I started crying and then a bunch of people all around Karen started crying. It was sweet. Walt and Lauren brought a meal for us and it was great to just come home and heat it up and have a yummy salad. I was very grateful for that today as I had been up almost all night due to working myself around the clock off the jet lag. I am very happy to be feeling much better each day and not so disoriented.

Nadia will continue to meet new people this week and have more car seat practice. Her Aunt Tahni is coming for a visit on Monday and on Wednesday we are going to a Fort Worth CATS baseball game with people from church and some of the KIDS HOPE USA kids. Some people from our church will be singing the National Anthem which should be great.