2nd tooth and 10 months old!

We have been busy here in the Souders' household! Joslyn has gotten her second tooth last week! She looks so cute with two bottom teefers! Her first tooth is really showing now! Just too cute! She likes to stick her tongue out and rub it against her newly found teeth! hehe.
She is a standing on her own fanatic! She can hold toys in her hands while standing, transfer the toys from hand to hand while standing, and shake Mackinac's toys while standing! (she loves his toys! hehe)
We think that Joslyn is not 100% human! hehe. She has this thing that she will screech ALL the time. She is not upset, sleepy, or sad when she does it. She does it while playing and just looking at us! We call it her monster scream. Here it is:








She is down to one dose of meds a day now... and very close to trying no meds at all. We are so excited that she may be able to have no meds! WAHOO!!!!!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day! Joslyn had fun celebrating with hearts and flowers while mommy had yummy chocolate! We even made daddy a special card and Joslyn got to color!!!!! It was a wonderful day!

From Joslyn Olivia growing up

Jacky

reflux not doing so well and well visit update

Poor Joslyn. She has been having a rough week with her reflux. She was doing pretty well after we put her back on her Zantac.... but then a few days later she began having horrible feeding issues. She would arch her back, scream, cry... latch back on for a few seconds and start the whole thing over again. So we upped her dose to .8 ml (the doc said we can give her 1 ml now.) I had been eating something different during breakfast so I stopped that yesterday. I had been having one piece of toast with apple butter on it. Today she ate better than she has been. So either the medicine is helping, she was being hurt by the apple butter, or a combination both. Reflux is not fun. It is heart breaking when you know that all she wants to do is eat... and she can not. It is not a hunger cry she is doing. It is a painful cry. It is just so sad....It is a feeling that I can not describe. I feel so helpless.. all I can do is try the maalox and try to calm her down. She arches her back so much that you can barely hold her. She gets sooo stiff that you can't even cuddle with her. It just brings me to tears.

On a happier note. Joslyn now weighs 11 lbs 15 ounces. (This was after a feeding. Before her feeding the doctor weighed her and she was only 11 lbs 10 ounces. We were upset that she only gained 10 ounces in one month.... but I fed her and weighed her again and found out that she got 5 ounces in that feeding. So we were much happier!!!)
She is almost 25 inches long and her head is 16 inches long.
This puts her in the 5-10% for weight
25-50% for height
and 25-50% for her head.

The doctor is not concerned about her weight as she is gaining. She said that Joslyn just may be a petite baby, however if her weight slows down and she drops in the % then we will have to look into that more. But so far no concern! wahoo!!!!!!! Joslyn got one shot and her RotoVirus vaccine. We will go back next month for her other 2 remaining 4 month shots. Breaking them up is working for us. She seems to not have a bad reaction at all. I had to give her 2 doses of Tylenol.... but other than that no fever, no rash, no red mark where she got her shot. She did well.

Right now Joslyn is sleeping so peacefully! I wonder what she dreams about. Sometimes she will laugh in her sleep, giggle, smile and she is talking in her sleep right now! So sweet... the sound is just so sweet.

Jacky

PS little pooky is 20 weeks old!!!!!