Happy Birthday SweatPea!
It's your whole hand birthday! 5 years have flown by and we are so blessed to have you in our family.
It's been quite a year for you. You are so close to being 30 pounds, we will just round up and say you made it! That's a 2 pound gain from last year, it's a slow gain, but we'll take it...slow and steady. You are now 40 1/2 inches, which is 3 more than last year, good job growing!
This year your creative and imaginative side have overflowed. Each day you tell me who you are and who everyone else is also. You prefer to be called by your imaginative name rather than your real name and often times you respond better to it, so Mama obliges. Some of your favorite characters are Professor Quigley, Ming-Ming and a Kangaroo.
Your speech has continued to make great gains and it's getting easier and easier to understand you! Praise God for this!
One of our prayers last year was for you to learn to control your bowels. We are learning patience in this area, but we've made great progress and you now sit on the potty once a day and are clean from bowel movements for 24 hours. That's been a huge step forward. We are realizing that it might take you more time to get to where you can do it on your own, we continue to trust God and His plan for your life regarding this.
This year you had one major surgery to fix your tethered spinal cord, by the grace of God you are healing well. We pray that it will help improve your bladder function.
This year we are taking a break from school and your are home with Mama and Calvin. That has been fun and challenging all at the same time. Sometimes you and Calvin get along really well, it is so nice, but quite often there are tears and sadness. We hope that you both can learn to play together and get along, but recognize that this is normal sibling behavior. Let's just pray for Mama and Daddy about this one.
We love you SweatPea! We are so thankful for another year with you!
Love,
Mama, Daddy, Calvin & Brother #2 on the way...
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