Ellie's New Look

Ellie was fitted for her first brace last Friday on March 12th. Her Bone Doctor is Dr. Showalter from Boise. We will be going to see him every two weeks for as long as she has it on. We should know in 8 weeks whether the brace will help her hip displacement or not. If it doesn't they will take the brace off and that will be that. We did find out that if the hip harness does not work, she will still have a good chance of walking. So this is great news to us! Ellie weighed in at 8 lbs 7 oz this week. She is getting fat rolls all over and it is pretty amazing to see her looking so healthy. So far we have stayed away from sickness. We are a little more than halfway finished with being homebound. It seems incredible to think that she is almost two months old. She has been such a fighter from the very beginning and she continues to amaze us with her strength and spit fire personality. Her lungs are getting stonger and stronger. She wakes up the whole household when she wants to eat at night. She has figured out how nice it is to be held. This makes it a little tougher for us to get anything done, but she is worth it and babies grow so fast anyway that we might as well take advantage of holding our little Ellie. We still feel an incredible spirt when we are around her. I hope that she will always have that spirit. Heavenly Father is blessing us immensely through angels in heaven and on earth. Thank you to all those that have helped us out in one way or the other, whether you feel it is big or small. All of the service you have done is a huge blessing to us! Thank you, thank you, thank you!