Someone in the Broughton household turned three today…care to take a guess who?\u00a0 We didn’t have a party today since some of Ali’s family is out of town and Steven’s family is in New Bern and we didn’t want to drive out this weekend (since we just got back a few days ago from a vacation to Michigan).\u00a0 We had a little bit of chocolate cake, opened a few presents, and had a visit from “Auntie” Amy, but not much else.\u00a0 She’s feeling a bit under the weather — we think she has a little stomach virus or something similar that we picked up on the way back from vacation.\u00a0 Nana and Grandaddy are visiting this weekend, so hopefully that will help her feel better.<\/p>\n
Both Ali and I have been lax in updating the site with the latest news from Adela, however that’s changing.\u00a0 We’ll be updating the blog more often to keep family and friends informed.<\/p>\n
So, to catch up on the last two months…<\/p>\n
Overall, Adela is doing well.\u00a0 From a health perspective, she’s still on her special formula, however at a lower amount.\u00a0 The formula has helped her gain a good amount of weight — to the point that one of her pediatricians is recommending that we cut back some.\u00a0 We’re still working on getting her to willingly eat the healthy variety of foods that she needs — it’s a work in progress.\u00a0 The last few checkups related to her hospitalization have all been good with no concerns from the doctors about any of her bloodwork.<\/p>\n
We did have a little fall a few weeks ago.\u00a0 Adela was playing in the living room and tripped and fell when her foot hit her little blue chair.\u00a0 Ali and I are still not quite sure how she managed to do this, but when she fell, she fractured one of the bones in her right leg (actually, they call it a green stick fracture — it’s not as bad as a normal fracture).\u00a0 It wasn’t serious enough for a cast, however it was serious enough that she needed to stay off of it while it healed.\u00a0 And this was (of course), just a few days before we were leaving for vacation.\u00a0 Well, that was almost four weeks ago and she is still not walking, although Ali and I (and her physical therapist) think it’s probably all in her head at this point.\u00a0 However, before we really push her, we have a follow-up appointment to get more x-rays taken of her leg to make sure that it’s still not fractured — we don’t want to push her if it still really does hurt.<\/p>\n
We have a new communication device called a Vantage.\u00a0 It’s basically a touch-screen computer with icons representing various words.\u00a0 Adela can, depending on the sequence of icons pushed, create sentences and communicate.\u00a0 However, we’re still learning how to really use it — it’s quite detailed.\u00a0 While she’s making steady progress at learning to say new words (the most recent ones are “again”, “me”, and “tent”), we recognize that she will need some additional help in communicating with people outside the immediate family.\u00a0 She still uses some of her sign language, however, she still has the same problem of needing to communicate with people outside the immediate family (that don’t know her signs).<\/p>\n
We just got back from a very nice vacation to Michigan with some of Ali’s family.\u00a0 We took two and a half weeks and went by way of Knoxville (so we could stop at the Knoxville Zoo) and came back through Toledo (so we could stop at the Toledo Zoo).\u00a0 Ali and I like zoos.\u00a0 So does Adela.\u00a0 At the Knoxville Zoo, she was very excited to ride both the carousel (once with mommy and once with daddy) and then ride a camel with daddy.\u00a0 At the Toledo Zoo, she liked the elephant, but was just about as excited when some ducks came waddling over to her stroller.\u00a0 While the zoos were nice ways to break up the road trip, the actual destination of the cabin was even better.\u00a0 Ali and I always look forward to visiting just because it’s so relaxing (although this year I had to “telecommute” some from up there).\u00a0 The cabin is on the shores of Whitefish Bay off Lake Superior.\u00a0 It’s at the very top of Michigan — right across the bay is Canada.\u00a0 The weather was mixed while we were there.\u00a0 Some cold days and a few warmer days, but we liked the cold weather.\u00a0 While it was in the 90’s here at home, it was in the 60’s at the cabin.\u00a0 The only downside about the cold weather is that it wasn’t great for getting Adela down to the beach to play.\u00a0 But we got in some beach time while we were there.\u00a0 Adela loved playing in the sand.\u00a0 We actually bought some sand today for her to play with this weekend in her makeshift sandbox.\u00a0 Some of the pictures are up on her Shutterfly site, so check it out — http:\/\/adelaandfriends.shutterfly.com<\/a><\/p>\n Well, I’m sure I’m leaving something important out, however I”ll post about it next time.<\/p>\n Thanks for everyone’s continued well-wishes, support, prayers, and the like while Adela continues to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone in the Broughton household turned three today…care to take a guess who?\u00a0 We didn’t have a party today since some of Ali’s family is out of town and Steven’s family is in New Bern and we didn’t want to drive out this weekend (since we just got back a few days ago from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pviUd-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raisingladybug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}