Littlest had two appointments up at CDRC/Doernbecher.  The first was an audiology appointment.   They have amazing ways of testing hearing the tiniest of babies.  They can test the response of the acoustic nerve among other things.  Littlest did great in her right ear, but it was a bit decreased in the left.   They found that she had fluid behind the drum on the left and so they think that is causing the slight decrease in hearing.  She will be seen again in six weeks to see if it’s cleared up.  They also have a sound booth that they check to see if she reponds to sounds.   I got to check my hearing in that one too.   I passed, at least I think I did.   The only problem in the sound booth was that both Daddy and I had loudly growling stomachs.  So that started the giggles.   The audiologist probably wondered why Littlest kept looking behind her!

Then after a long wait, we were seen at the feeding clinic.  Littlest’s weight and height is doing great!  They decided that she can go to step two foods and rice cereal for one meal a day.   Also, we can now mix her formula at 20 calories instead of 27 calories.  It was wonderful news.   The ARNP checked Littlest physically and developmentally and she is still a bit behind what a six month old would do (six months is her adjusted age, 9 months actual age).  We already are working on that with the OT.  The nutritionist, ARNP, and speech pathologist  all were exceptionally happy with our million dollar baby!

Since we already were in the big city and had some time before we had to pick up Bug, we decided to actually have fun.   It’s been so long since we’ve done anything like that we didn’t have a clue what to do.   We ended up in the Pearl intending on finding a cool place to eat then window shop.   We’re lame and ate at Baja Fresh because it’s cheap.  Then we browsed around Powell’s and finally went home.   We were parked right next to Anthropologie.  I wanted to go in, but I was afraid I would like what I saw and want to buy, so we did looked in the windows.    It was a good afternoon.  Daddy and I had a chance to spend time with Littlest without Bug and we spent time together, which is rare anymore.