Well, we managed to keep Meghan healthy for 6 weeks straight!  It was the longest amount of time she has ever stayed healthy and we enjoyed every single second of it!!  However, Meghan has hit a little rough patch lately and has been very irritable/emotional, not sleeping the best and has come and go fevers - but - it's pretty common for Meghan to run low grade fevers - especially when has sensory overload (too much activity/overdoing it).  She did end up with an ear infection, cold and cough a week ago, which is still lingering, so I think that is contributing quite a bit to the crankiness - as well as FINALLY getting a boat load of teeth.  On top of all of this, she's recently had a couple falls - hitting her head both times :(  I called Children's and spoke to Meghan's NS nurse practitioner and she reassured me as long as she isn't showing any abnormal neurological symptoms (which she isn't), she is okay.   Jeff and I know what we need to watch for - but it's more reassuring for me to hear it come from the neurosurgery staff that she's okay versus hearing it from the local doctors who I trust...mmmm....not so much.

Meghan started speech therapy.  She understands way more than she can say, so the first thing the speech therapist wants us to do is to introduce basic sign language to Meghan.  That way, she has a way of being able to communicate to us - and others.  Luke thinks it's pretty neat to teach Meghan some of the signs he's learned at school!  The first group of signs we are introducing are Mom, dad, drink, eat, puppy, I love you, all done and book.  She's signed "more" for a few months, so we have 1 sign down!  We were also given great ideas of things to work on with her each day to improve her speech.  PT/OT is going good.  For some reason, Meghan's left side is weaker than normal lately.  Her left side has always been her weaker side, but she sometimes goes out of her way to use her right side, even when using her left side would make things easier on Meghan.

We hope everyone has a wonderful Easter!  Last Easter was spent in the hospital with Meghan after she had her shunt placed, so we are looking forward to having an uneventful Easter at home this year!