Friday, December 11, 2009
SEVEN MONTHS

In the past month Lily experienced her first Thanksgiving, started Upward Cheerleading and has started to get very excited about Christmas. This season brings about a lot of firsts for her and it is so exciting to see them through her eyes, very different from the usual firsts with a baby.

Thanksgiving was kept pretty simple. We stayed home all day and then went to have a Thanksgiving Dinner at Lily’s Aunt Tammi’s house. She was amazed at all the food and gobbled down tons of Turkey and absolutely loved giblet gravy (something her mother will not touch with a ten foot pole) on rice. After dinner we went around and said what we were thankful for. No surprise to me Lily was Thankful for her mama and daddy. Just a few days before Thanksgiving she said one night before bed pointing to a book on her nightstand titled, Thankful Each Day, “I thankful for my mommy, I thankful for my whoooole family”.

During November Lily started Upward Cheerleading practice. The first practice she would not do a thing. I was very frustrated so I left the room. I watched her through the window and she never did a thing. I came back in the room just as they were handing her the uniform. I saw a slight smile on her face. She ran right home and tried it on. I think the uniform did it. The next practice she halfheartedly participated and then the next she did great. Down in my heart I knew she just needed to adjust but I wasn’t very patient with her, thankfully all turned out well and she cheered the first game on Dec. 5th and loved it.

Lily has started preparing for Christmas. She has been making crafts, learning Christmas songs and has me reading a Christmas book every night before bed. She asks a lot of questions and seems to have this whole thing figured out. She understands that we celebrate Christmas because it is when Jesus was born and that Santa comes and will bring her some toys. She is asking for the baby doll that walks and talks, ATM machine bank, a doll with long hair.

Lily has become obsessed with snow and snowmen. She asks me repeatedly when we are going to get snow and I kindly explain that we may not get any snow because we live in the South. She was very disappointed so I told her we may go on a road trip to the mountains to look for snow one day. The very first time she asked me to pray before bed was for snow. I don’t usually pray for things like that but how could I tell her no, so I prayed for snow. She also loves books about snowmen and asked me if they are real. I explained no that they are not real except in books and songs. So funny. We have got to get this girl some snow!

I have noticed lately that Lily is growing. We recently had to go up 1 ½ sizes in shoes and some of her size 6 pants are getting too short. She still hasn’t gained a lot of weight but we are happy with the few pounds she has gained. She eats a lot so I fell eventually she will gain more.

This past month we had an appointment with an endocrinologist. We have been waiting on this appointment for a long time hoping it will give us some answers. She was very nice and very thorough. Lily has had to have several tests done and we will meet with the endocrinologist again in a few weeks. We are pretty sure she has Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type 1 or more commonly known as Brittle Bone Disease. Type 1 is the mildest form and luckily she has not had many broken bones. I am ready to know for sure so we can know whether or not there is any treatment we need to do now. We probably won’t have a definite diagnosis until January. I am just so thankful she has a family and good medical care now to take care of her.

Tune in next month for Lily’s first Christmas. I feel certain it is going to be fun!