Today Mia had more therapy and it seems to be helping alot. She's real close to being able to sit up on her own. She still needs more arm strength to roll over, but we keep working on that also. We are so pleased with how well she continues to do.

She got weighed today also and is now 13 pounds 3 ounces. Slow and steady...makes me think of the turtle and the rabbit. We're just thankful that she keeps on growing!

We also tried carrots today for the first time...Mia was not excited at all about the orange things...as soon as I gave her a little her lower lip came out and closed up the mouth, she did not want that. We'll give it some more chances though.

Mia's scar is healing real well, we think that maybe by next week she'll be able to start wearing her helmet. We imagine that it is not going to be a fun adjustment, so please pray that she'll tolerate wearing it and that it will be a good fit. After we wear it a few days we'll go back to LA for any adjustments and then it should be good for awhile.

Mia also got weighed today and she is 13 pounds 2 1/2 ounces. It's not a big change from last week, but at least it is a little more and she isn't losing weight. Thank you for continuing to pray for her on this issue.

Cousins

Mia has lots of cousins on her mommy's side of the family, but only 1 cousin on her daddy's side...and that is cousin Joy. We've sure enjoyed spending time with them this past week and it's been fun having the babies together. Anyway, Lisa got them these "Little Rome Rompers" because Tim & Rachel & Joy will be in Italy and she thought it would be fun to have the cousins take pictures together. Here are a few of those photos...

P.S. Mia, you used to be that tiny...even smaller when you were born...it's nice to see how big you're getting! We love you, Mommy and Daddy.

More Therapy!

Mia had her first visit from her "teacher" with the superintendent of schools. She teaches kids 0-3 years and she visits the homes of some of her "students", like Mia. So she'll be working with Mia 1 hour a week on some of her basic skills. Today was just an informal visit and she assessed her to see where we were starting from. Next week the real work will begin. :)

She said, "when Mia is 18 months you can send her to school!"...oh my goodness, I started to get scared, I don't want to send my baby to school...I was getting separation anxiety already...but then she told me that it is 2 hours twice a week and parents are required to stay with their babies. That calmed me down and I thought this could be a great activity.

Anyway, Mia is doing real well with the sleeping thing...one more night of 7 hours of sleep! Yay! It feels so good. Please keep praying for her feeding...I am calming down a bit and not so worried, so thank you for praying for me, it's working!

Sleep

It has been a long time (aside from hospital stays) that Brad and I have gotten a full nights sleep. Partly because I feel like I need to wake Mia and feed her in the wee am hours so she'll get more food in her body. Well the last couple of days I've done that she has fed horribly when we wake her at 7. So last night I decided to let her sleep. We fed her at 11:30pm and she didn't wake up until 6ish. And then when I fed her at 6:30 she took her full bottle, which was so nice. So we're going to keep on trying that...and it felt so good to get a full nights sleep! We might finally be past the waking up in the middle of the night phase...wow, 8 1/2 months later...very excited if we are!

Please continue to pray for Mia's shoulder/arm strength, we continue to work on building that up with therapy. We continue to be so thankful for God healing her.