This weekend was a weekend of miracles. On Friday evening after she woke up from her nap, Isabel gradually started acting better and better. We, along with Isabel's Aunt Jess who was here visiting from Atlanta for the weekend, took her to the Mall of America to dinner. When we first got their and put her in the highchair at Bubba Gump Shrimp Factory, she was actually really fussy (screaming, to the point where people around us were starting to look at us), and we thought to ourselves, "Oh no, this was a bad idea. She wasn't ready." And then, the funniest thing happened. As I picked her up from the highchair to put her in my lap, she reached out and grabbed a HANDFUL of my french fries off my plate, immediately stopped crying, and began to eat them. She didn't make one more peep the entire meal, just sat in my lap eating fries, and even allowed me to feed her the pears I had been trying to feed her when she was previously in her highchair! Keep in mind, she has only had fries once before in her life, two weeks ago at McDonald's! Oh well, they are not the greatest for her, but with her weight loss, I say, whatever works!!
Jess stayed with us all day on Saturday as well, and Isabel, though fussy in the morning, was pretty much back to her normal self that day, playing with toys, smiling at all of us, and even crawling and pulling herself up on things. We joked that Jess was just what the doctor ordered, and she might have to take a whole week off from work and just move in for a week to make sure Isabel is completely better!
Isabel does seem to run out of energy quicker, and sleeps more, which shows that she is still getting over her sickness, but these are huge steps in the right direction! We are trying not to be over-confident because last week whenever she would seem to turn a corner, she would then have a setback, but we are pretty sure she is out of the woods now. We are still keeping her out of the church nursery and other places with lots of kids, so she can continue to build back up her immunities, but this week should be a normal week, where Jenna and Camille come over, and Mommy and Daddy work their normal schedules! It will be a blessing to be back to normalcy.
She is eating GREAT, holding down breast milk, formula that is made 1/2 with her regular formula and 1/2 with a gentler formula, pureed baby foods, and even some table food (she had carrots, potatoes, and rice the last two nights for dinner, since we were eating them along with roast).
PRAISE THE LORD that Isabel has gotten better, and it was nothing more serious than a really, really nasty and long-lasting stomach virus. We would like to express our utmost gratitude to those of you (and I know there are many) who covered Isabel in prayer and even asked others to do so. We fully believe that the power of prayer is whay ultimately drove this illness out of her body.
There are new photos taken from this weekend, so you can all see our happy smiling baby back again!
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