Food for the Photo Fiend

"Those lights are aMAZing!!":"Are all of those for me?"
"I think I like Christmas!":"Can we play with 'em now?":

Where's Waldo, I mean, Maggie?:Maggie really does blend in a little here:
A new discovery... TOES!:

Auntie Katie and Uncle Paul got me this outfit for Christmas! Mommy's new favorite!:

"My Little Peanut":Great Grammy trying to get Maggie to take a nap:More success for Great Grampy:

8 degrees outside = get the snowsuit:
All bundled up:
Maggie and Daddy:

Maggie is rolling over now! The first few times she did it, we acted like she won the SuperBowl. A few days later, she rolled over and we didn't make as much noise as usual, and she looked at us like "Hey, this is where you clap and cheer!" So, of course, we will oblige with the appropriate fanfare from now on...

Our endoscopy appointment was bumped last week, so we are rescheduled for February. Still no vomit free days yet, but we feel like there has been improvement. For a while, she was still vomiting 3-4 times a day. I noticed that she would vomit about 15 minutes after her Zantac dose. So, just to experiment, I stopped the medication. Lo and behold, less barfing. I also noticed that about 4 hours after her Prevacid dose, she would vomit up these sandy, grainy, black beads (the Prevacid is a solu-tab, and even though we dissolve it with water it still has granules in it). So I also stopped the Prevacid. Once again, less barf. We are now down to one, MAYBE two big barfs a day, so I feel like it's a step in the right direction. I have a call in to the GI doctor's office to see what their opinion is, but my thought is "First, do no harm". I'm holding her medications for now.

The Daley Dairy will soon be out of reserves. I can't believe we've gone through almost 34 gallons of breastmilk! I pumped for 6 full months, and Maggie will have gotten breastmilk for about 9 months. Not bad, if I do say so myself. We are currently mixing Nutramigen into the breastmilk to amp up Maggie's calories to 22 cals/ounce. She seems to be tolerating this well, so we are hopeful the transition to all formula will not be a difficult one.

We also got the go ahead to begin baby foods and cereal next month. My parents got me a Cuisinart for Christmas, and I plan to make my own baby food for Maggie! We all hope that she enjoy eating and between that and the introduction of a sippy cup in the next few months, we will hopefully be able to take out the NG tube for good! Please keep this in your prayers!

~Sara