enssle family

Super quick update

May 27th, 2009 Tara

Anna is doing great! She survived her preschool experience; actually she loved it! She will be returning to Burlington for preschool next year. We have Anna signed up for some fun stuff this summer. She’s doing her therapeutic riding again this summer and we also have enrolled her in Camp Helping Hands. This is a constraint therapy camp held at Boulder Community Hospital’s Mapleton Center. It is a week-long intensive therapy camp that includes casting of her non-affected arm. We are curious how Anna will respond to other kids in casts! Supposedly they do a lot of fun stuff with the kids. We are also getting ready for our trip to Alabama. For those of you who do not know, we will be returning to the ACQUIRE program at University of Alabama in mid-August. Alabama in August…hot and humid and buggy…what fun (NOT).

Noah is growing like a weed! We had his 4 month appointment in mid-April. He has dropped a little in his growth percentiles. He is no longer in the 95th+ percentile for height and weight! At his appointment he weighed 15 lbs. 9 oz. and was 25 1/2 inches long. This put him in about the 85th percentile for each. Noah has hit all his other milestones – he surprised me and the doctor by rolling over from his tummy to back on the exam table. I’d never seen him do that before! Unfortunately, he had a lingering ear infection – a remnant of his viral upper respiratory infection. We’re taking him back to the doctor this week to see if the ear infection has cleared up on its own. I hope he gets a clean bill of health because I really do not want to give him yet another round of antibiotics. In other news, we think that little man is teething. He is a drool- monster. He goes through multiple bibs in a day and everything goes in his mouth for a good chomp! I still don’t feel anything poking through his gums though. Last bit of news…Noah sat in tripod all by himself on Monday! He couldn’t sustain it for long, but he definitely held himself up for a few seconds.

Neal and I are doing okay. We’re both exhausted! Noah’s been acting like a newborn at night lately – wanting to eat every 2 hours. This makes for a very fragmented night without any quality sleep. I’m hoping this will change soon!

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