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Elise is one!

My baby is one!  Being so close to Christmas there was little fanfare, but I rocked her to sleep the other night and shed a tear or two!  Truly "the days are long, but the years are short." She is such a blessing, and we love her! 

I took her in for her one year.  I talked with the doctor about her crazy diapers.  (Her output is amazing.  I will spare the world the details, but she poops a lot and leaks through everything right now-disposable and cloth.) The doctor thought that we need to dig deeper into her dairy issues.  She is small-but eats a lot, pees a lot, poops a lot and has eczema.  So he wants two weeks on soy milk, followed by rice and coconut finding what works best with her system.  Our fridge looks funny right now with three different kinds of milk in it!  I will not complain though.  A dairy allergy is pretty small potatoes in comparison to what other parents have to work though with their children.  I am thankful for our happy healthy little girl!  She was 19 lbs 7 ounces and 26 1/2 inches.  (About a pound less than Audrey but an inch taller.  She is long and lean- not a roll on this baby!) We had a good laugh that Reuben weighed this at 4 months! 

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