Bringing Belle Home: Meeting cousins on Pereira side! Her second week home!

Its the second week home now! She seems to be getting settled into her own crib now and is starting to sleep through the night. We are seeing small strides in her gaining strength. She is grabbing for our fingers and toys now. She is beginning to like bouncy seat some and eggersaucer. She is actually eating some baby food for the first time-she only likes the all natural home made kind that Lilian makes so we are glad. We are thankful she is learning to use her tongue and experience some textures. It may be awhile before we begin introducing anything harder since she only has a speck of a tooth showing! She likes vanilla and chocolate pediasure only-not berry or banana! She is like her daddy-loves that chocolate flavor!
We are still awaiting her blood test results which we should get back any day. We went to vanderbilt last week and had all her bloodwork done-she hated it! Thankfully-a sweet friend went with me so i did not have to be the one pinning her down. We also got an ultrasound. The pictures revealed that she has an inflamed kidney-the condition is called hydro nephrosis. We will go in this thursday and meet with one of the best pediatric urologists at vandy about this condition and any other findings. Hopefully-we can gain a much better understanding of what this means at her appt. Then-we go have her echocardiogram after that appt. Our prayer is that her heart would be perfect! Please pray as we continue to get her little body examined and determine what health needs we may be facing. We feel really at peace knowing that our great God "has formed her innermost parts and knows them well." It is such a huge relief knowing that the Lord already knows every little detail about her formation.

One of the highlights this past weekend was having all of Tim's family together and all the cousins getting to love on her for the first time! I must say-this little Belle was one loved on little gal all weekend! Belle has 11 cousins and counting so far!