Progress

It's been several months since the last post - we've been very busy having picnics, "trimming weeds," going on bike rides, chasing each other and playing outside with our friends.

We think Janie is finally over her string of ear infections - we cut out the dairy 100% on July 3 and she hasn't had one since. No tubes!! Just a change in diet. The ENT confirmed that she has small eustachian tubes like her mum and bro and said she can probably have a little bit of cheese or yogurt every now and then, now that the fluid has cleared.

Janie took her first few steps on July 1, took a few more consecutive steps towards the end of July and by early September, she decided that walking was going to be her main form of personal-transportation.

Unfortunately though, the poor thing has spent much of the last 6 weeks in Mommy's arms as she hasn't felt well - first the flu, then a really really really bad cold. The doctors had thought she might have Whooping Cough! It was a terrible experience for everyone involved, but after about 3 weeks of it now, I think she's on the mend.

Janie does a lot of talking right now, but not much of it in a language the rest of us can understand. She clearly says "eyes" when she points to her ears, and when I ask her to say please she uses her own sign-language sign for it by putting both fists on her chest (kind of like a gorilla). She also does a very convincing 'scary dinasour' roar upon request.