Ella has made so much progress this summer! She’s saying so many words now. Sometimes they surprise us and we don’t understand them right away. Like yesterday, she hit her head on the table and then looked at me squarely and said “huuuuu”. I thought she was saying “home..” which she says as we approach the house in the car or she wants to leave from somewhere. But Etan figured it out. She asked for a “hug”. That is the cutest. She had her endocrinology appointment last Tuesday. As I figured, they don’t know what the issue is but did seem concerned that her growth, both weight and height, have bottomed out. She’s just about fallen off the growth curve and has put on weight or grown in height since about a year ago. She had blood tests and urine tested.
\nWe should be hearing back from the doctor (Dr. Krauel) within a few days. But the head doctor, Dr. Spack, seemed pretty convinced that is not hormonal or thyroidal b\/c if it were that kind of problem, she would continue gaining weight while not gaining in height. He suspects a nutritional problem and recommended seeing a nutritionist.
\nMaybe she is just not taking in enough calories for the amount of energy she puts out. I don’t know about that theory. To us, she seems to eat quite a bit — much more than Netta. Oh well, it is possible that they won’t find the answer, at least not in the near future. In the meantime, we’ll try to keep her calories up.
\nOtherwise, Beth is leaving us next week which is a huge change. She took Ella to the movie theater yesterday and Ella was very content (for about 45 min.) to watch a movie and eat popcorn. Then she started saying “home”, “home”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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