Monday - A Better Day

Gracie was fever free through the night and all of today, although she tossed and turned and groaned all night. You could tell her stomach was bothering her. I was able to get an 8:00 a.m. appointment with a pediatrician this morning. She was great. She felt the fever was unrelated to the constipation and after examining Gracie felt that it was a pretty bad case of constipation, but that there wasn't any intestinal blockage. She sent me home with a great plan. Step 1, increase the amount of Miralax and give it to her in juice, Step 2 give her Ex-Lax. She also gave me some great ideas for foods to help and said to really push the juice. The goal was to have such soft stools that we actually have "blow outs". Once that was established, we need to keep her really soft and keep the increase of Miralax constant for the next 2 months, whether soft or not.

I was getting the Ex-Lax ready to give to Gracie when she was able to have a bowel movement. She ended up having three of them today. YAY - success. We could tell immediately that Gracie was feeling much better. Much more active and happy. She did alot of singing today too.

We gave Gracie lots of blueberries today. She loves them and they are supposed to help. She went around the house calling them "boo berries". It was so cute.

Daddy came home from work around lunch time and I headed to work for the afternoon. Gracie was a good girl and took a good nap. She was also full of lots of words. Jeff asked Gracie "Who is Gracie?" and she replied "me" and pointed to herself.

Gracie was in the tub tonight when she was making a new sign that we just couldn't get. She was very purposeful about it, so we knew she was trying to tell us something. She was also playing with her duck and it sounded like she was saying "quack" or something, but she was not liking when we asked her if the duck said quack. Finally it dawned on me that I thought she was saying "cracker" only she was touching her wrist rather than elbow for the sign. When I asked her if it was "cracker", her eyes lit up and she signed it again and said "cracker". She was so excited that we knew what she was saying.

She was very verbal today. It was very fun to hear her talk and repeat words and come up with words on her own. Each day seems like a new day of learning.

Gracie was very tired tonight. I'm hoping she has a peaceful night of sweet dreams.

Thank you to all for the prayers.

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie