Yesterday we had the occupationl therapist and nutritionist over for a visit. The night before Arianna went to bed at 1am because she had a late nap, so I actually had to wake her up for this appointment and she wasn't happy. She did play with the OT, instead she just cried and sat on my lap. The nutritionist did get her measurements and she is weighing in at 21 pounds without any clothes or diaper!!! She is 81 cm in length and her head is growing well too....I can never keep up with that one.

Then we had the speech therapist come over and man was she impressed. I really need to get some video of her talking. It's just blowing us away at home much she is saying. I even bought her some of those alphabet letters for the bathtub and this morning I was holding up the letters pronouncing each one and she was saying them too. Of course, only a few but it's still amazing to me!

Then today we took her to the hospital for her follow up renal (kidney) ultrasound. For those who don't know...Arianna was born with both her kidneys (it's common for 22q kids to only have one kidney) but she had hydronephrosis of her left kidney. At our last ultrasound back in Sept. 07' this was resolved but the urologist wanted to wait and year and double check to make sure things are still looking good. The lady who did the ultrasound said everything looked good so that was reassuring. For once, I'm not worried about the test results but I'll still be picking up her results for my own records. I can't tell you how helpful our medical record book has been. She has seen so many doctors and when we see one of our specialists and they ask about a certain procedure, blood test, etc. I just whip out the ol' book and there is the answers. :) We go next month to see the urologist and hopefully that will be the last time we see him.

The rest of the week should be nice and relaxing with the exception of my doctor's appointment tomorrow. We might even have a fellow heart mom come over sometime this week to hang out. Her baby is 4 months old and also had tetralogy so it will be nice to get together and talk. I'm so curious how Arianna will do around a baby. I'll make sure to post some pictures.