Heart Update

We drove to Dallas yesterday for Caelyn's heart check up at Medical City. Her O2 sats were 96 (yay!), we did an EEG and an echo. She was so tired that she slept during the entire 45 minute echo. :)  Everyone kept commenting on what a wonderful baby she was, and how sweet she is. Well...duh. ;)  Anyways, Dr. Kao told us that Caelyn's left pulmonary artery is about 1/3 smaller than the right one, and it also leaks a bit. She said it will eventually need to be replaced (probably in her teens), and that most likely be another open heart surgery. I was thinking they would do it through a catheter, but Dr. Kao said that if it's the original valve they are replacing, they would need to open her chest up. Any consecutive valve replacements after that would most likely be through a catheter. But, we will just cross that road when we get there. As of right now, Dr. Kao said Caelyn looks great, and the valve should not affect her activity levels or her heart function. So we are pretty happy about that.
This past weekend, Caelyn was not feeling good, so I took her to the doctor. She ended up having double ear infections and a cold. So my sweet baby has not been feeling good this week. This is the very first time she has gotten sick. Hopefully in a few days the cold will start clearing up. She is on antibiotics for the ear infections, I think her ears already feel better. 
At physical therapy today, the PT was very impressed at how much Caelyn has done in the past week. She is sitting up on her own from laying down, and she is no longer rolling across the room. She does this kind of inch-worm type crawl. She gets up on her hands and knees and lunges forward, lands on her stomach, and gets up on her hands and knees again. It's so cute. The PT also spoke to a speech therapist and wants Caelyn to start that soon. So next week we will to PT and ST.
We are ready for the Holidays!! I can't wait to start shopping for my sweet baby girl. She is so spoiled. Haha! I've decided I'm going to hand-make as many gifts as I can. I've already made a few things...can't post it incase that person reads this. ;)
Well, anyways, here are a few cute pics for you to enjoy.

 We played dress-up one day...this is my pretty girl in her Christmas dress.

Caelyn sleeping during her echo at her heart check up.