After a mild start to winter, there was finally enough snow to go tobogganing. Elizabeth and her best friend Owen had a great time in the snow.

Tobogganing in B-town

Merry Christmas!

Elizabeth and her cousin Madison on Christmas day.

Happy 2nd Birthday, Elizabeth!

Elizabeth had a great birthday. She got lots of presents (an easel for drawing pictures and a big wheel bike) and her cake was shaped like Dora's backpack. When she was asked how hold she was, Elizabeth held up 5 finger and said "twooo". Her vocabulary keeps expanding, she's recently added some opposites, "over" and "under". She's starting to use two words together such as "open door".
December has been a rough month for Elizabeth. She was in the hospital twice. First, she was admitted for pneumonia and RSV which is common for preemies. It is evident that her lungs are still very fragile. As result she will be receiving monthly RSV immunization.
During her first visit, she contracted gastroenteritis and needed to go back to McMaster for dehydration.
Since, Elizabeth has been eating very well to make up for her lengthy illness. She even ate broccoli...

This Halloween Elizabeth was an elephant.
It may not be obvious from this photo, but she had a great time.

Once again, time has flown by and Elizabeth is 19 months (corrected). It is hard to believe that she will soon have her 2nd birthday. Elizabeth continues to surprise her parents with what she learns. Some of the new additions to her vocabulary are 'thunder', 'tractor', 'chicken', and 'brum' every time she sees a car driving by.
Elizabeth started crawling a couple of months ago and has perfected her new skill and wanders through the house including on the stairs.
Elizabeth's schedule is still quite busy. She is now seen by a multi-disciplinary team in the area and has just began to see an occupational therapist and a speech pathologist who help her with her eating and sensory difficulties. She will also be seeing a physiotherapist that will help her walk.
Her audio-verbal therapy is going well too and just today, Elizabeth had her visit at Sick-kids hospital to get her ears checked. According to the test results her hearing loss has improved since her last test :-), and her audiologist was amazed with her progress.
Just recently, Elizabeth went to the pumpkin farm and saw some farm animals. When she got to the chickens, she said 'chicken, ummmm' (chicken fingers are her faivourite food).

hanging out.

What a busy summer! Elizabeth continues to be an active girl; she's always on the move. She is now 19 mnths (actual) and 15 mnths (corrected). She has lost her baby fat :-( and turned into a tall skinny toddler weighing 18 lbs (with her big brown eyes maybe she will be runway material).
Elizabeth wows her parents every day with new talents; she's now figured out how to sit up independently and pulls herself up to stand and is very proud of herself. She continues to get around on her belly as she isn't able to stay on all fours for prolonged period of time. She does love to walk around while holding on to someone's hands and can stand up (she usually says 'up!' as she is doing it) to play at her activity table or in her crib when she doesn't want to go to sleep. Elizabeth is doing great at speech and associates many words with objects. She likes to babble and says a few words like 'ball', 'bye, bye', 'dada', 'grandma', 'diaper'.
Foodwise, she is doing great as well and is willing to experiment with textures. For dinner today she had hamburger, pork with corn and pureed pears.