Saturday, November 25, 2006

Hi!

Ellie has been moving towards words for the last week or so with solid consonants and a repeated 'na, na, na" when she is grumpy.

Yesterday afternoon her words had a good H to them and this morning, she looked at Abby and clear as bell said "hi!".

Which is great fun and makes sense since that is the word that she hears from the stream of nurses who stop by to say hello all day.












Ellie's recovery is going very smoothly so far. She is off of heavy drugs and is weaning off of tylenol as well. To look at her you would never know that anything happened. She is standing up, playing, rolling onto her belly and is just very, very happy these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAi9vUgXr4s

Her ostomy is working as we had hoped- liquid flows from it very freely meaning that there is very little pressure on her bowel and also meaning that her bowel is moving things through.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Ellie! (Hola!)

Wow, she looks so great.

Barbara Krause said...

Amazing kid. I love the "look, dad, just one hand" thing she did part way through the video. Ellie is teaching us all a thing or two, isn't she?!

Have a great day.

Hugs,
Barbara