Cardiologist

7 months, 2 days
Sleep: ok
We went to the cardiologist, Dr. Penn Laird, today. He said Savannah definetly has a heart murmur, but he is 98% that it is not a major or minor problem, but more likely extra vibrations of the heart tissue. That was excellent news. He did an EKG and an echocardiogram. He had a hard time with the latter because she was grumpy. However, he ended up getting a good picture of her heart. Anyhow, now all we've got to do is call the surgeon and schedule her an appointment with him.Yesterday Savannah took her diaper off by herself. She was sitting on the bed in our bedroom, and I looked over at her. She was playing with the little strap on her diaper, but I thought nothing of it. I looked over a minute later, and she was sitting there smiling with her diaper wide open (and it was dirty too). Needless to say, I was shocked. So lesson learned, we are now keeping shorts or pants on her. She surprises us all the time with the things she figures out how to do.She's still not crawling very well. She'll scoot around our bed a lot. We got a bed rail for our bed so she won't fall off, and she likes to scoot to it and scratch it and look at us through it. No teeth yet. But the little nubs under her gums are much bigger and closer, so any day now I think! And she tries to chew on EVERYTHING!! She's eating solids (fruits and veggies and cereal) at least two times everyday. She gets mad when I don't shovel food in her mouth fast enough. In fact, today she grabbed the baby food jar and stuck her hand in it. And then when I was feeding her, she kept trying to grab it. Oh, that reminds me. Today at the cardiologist they measured and weighed her. She was 26 1/2" long and 14.1 lbs. So she's grown a little since her pediatric appointment. And my arms can tell! Yay! Asleep at last. Well, I will write more later. Hopefully, I can get back to updating more often like I was. Bye for now.

Mimi comes again

6 months, 4 weeks, um, well, she'll be 7 months old in 6 days
Sleep: ok
Savannah had her 6 month checkup on September 1. She's doing great. She weighed in at 13 lb. 11 oz., and she was 25 1/4" long. Dr. Tucker found a heart murmur which we are going to have checked out by a pediatric cardiologist on the 21st. It's most likely nothing to worry about, but we are just taking precautions, since she is going to have surgery to remove her extra thumb sometime soon. Speaking of her extra thumb, that is her thumb of choice now. She chews and sucks on it so much that it just turns bright red. I guess I'll let her enjoy it while she still can. Mimi came to town on Friday afternoon. Savannah recognized her right away and flashed her a great big smile. And then in church on Sunday, she kept doing her little squealy laugh and tried to talk to Mimi, so we had to go to the nursery. She's making a little progress crawling wise. She's on all fours now, but she doesn't move very far, just a few inches. However, she's learning. She's sitting up very well...with no hands. One day she was supporting herself with her hands, the next day she was using both hands to pick up her toys and swing them all over the place, and she didn't fall over one time. Oh, we were at Mom's the other day, and Savannah was playing on her blanket. I'd scattered a few toys about a foot away from her so she could practice crawling. She tried to crawl a few times, and then I guess she decided that was enough of that, so she grabbed a section of the blanket and pulled on it till she could reach all of her toys. It was so funny. Oh, and she's been eating solids just fine. She's tried a lot of different fruits and veggies, and so far she's only had a problem with carrots. Next month we are starting on meats and stuff. Woohoo! Anyway, I gotta go, going over to Mom's to see Mimi. Later.