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Wow! Talk about a long time since an update!

Well Lily is doing just great! She took her first airplane trip in January for Matt and Jenna’s wedding and she had a blast! She was SO good on the plane, it was amazing. She colored and played with toys and read books and even took a nap! She’s perfect! While we were in Arizona we had a great time! We visited with a lot of family and relaxed. Lily had a blast at Oma’s house. The night before we came back she started her signature cough and breathing fast. We had a couple of vials of medicine but definitely not as many as we should have had… now we know! Since she was working so hard to breathe, it pretty much wore her out and she slept almost the whole flight home and car ride. The next day we took her into the Dr and it was pretty yucky. I was almost positive we were going to make another trip to the hospital. Luckily the Dr gave her some medicine and put her on a strict schedule of medicine. Since flu and RSV season have been exceptionally bad this year, he wanted to keep her free of any breathing issues. We were told to start breathing treatments at the first sign of a cough and she also gets two scheduled breathing treatments twice a day and singular with dinner. Knock on wood, it is working! She has had a couple of coughing issues but I’m sure it would have been MUCH worse with out the pre-treatments! So it looks like she will continue with this plan until Spring time, then we will get rid of one and then hopefully by summer we can be medicine free until flu season comes around again.

Lily is such a trooper though. She will adjust the mask when it gets crooked or comes off of her face! Hilarious!

We are still going to physical therapy for her torticollis however it is getting much better and I think we are getting close to being done! The therapist said that she has the rotation and strength to keep her head straight, her problem now are the giant knots that are in the muscles. The therapists thinks that if we can work out those knots and continue with her progress we should be done soon! I really like the therapist but it would be great if we didn’t have to go every other week. Thank goodness for insurance!!!

Lily is walking and practically running these days. She holds our hand and will walk to the car from daycare. She is such a big girl! We are working on forward rolls and she loves them! Future gymnast

She is talking up a storm still. We can understand more and more words so that is nice but she still talks a lot and we have no idea what she is saying. She can say: mommy, dada, papa, eye, nose, no, more, hi, bye bye, help, nice, thank you, done, up, eat, ball, and probably more that I can’t remember. She is really good at parroting what we say, so be careful what you say around her!

Lily’s favorite things to do include coloring and playing with her baby. She feeds her baby and lays the baby down and puts the blanket on the baby. And that blanket has to be perfect. She will stand there for several minutes to make sure that the blanket is straight and flat – no wrinkles – I have NO idea where she gets this! She also loves to read. She grabs a book from her basket, walks over and says “up.” So we pick her up, open the book and about two words in she closes the book and says “done.” She’ll get down and get another one and start the process over. We go through about 10 books before bed time, and we will read about one all the way through.

Daycare is going really well too. Lily moved up to the Toddler room! It was pretty sad to leave Infant 2 but she was ready. In the Toddler room they sit in real chairs, no high chairs, no bibs, and they sleep on little cots, no cribs. Its amazing! Now that the weather is getting better they get to go outside and play which is great!

As for future plans, Lily is going to be a Flower Girl in my cousin’s wedding in September and then in our friend’s wedding next April! She is a busy girl!