Growing!

Mia weighed in today at 21 pounds 11 ounces! Thank you God! It's so exciting seeing her moving in the right direction. We know that as she gets stronger, walking will get better. We are still about the same as last week, but we keep working on it. :)

5 Steps!

Mia took 5 steps, all on her own tonight! It was so cute and awesome. I had her on the bench and I asked her to stand up and come towards me...I was really close at first, so it was only about 1 or 2 steps, but I thought, hey, let's see what she'll do if I back her up. So I did and she was great...really wobbly, but correcting herself as she went, I think she could have taken more, but when she got to me, she was reaching out for me to catch her and fell into my arms...how exciting and awesome is that! Praise God!!!!

Mia weighed in at 21 pounds 7 ounces today, yay! Praise God! So excited that she's finally moved up the scale. Hopefully we'll be able to retain the weight and keep moving forward. We have started giving her more corn oil with each meal, so that small change might be making the difference. And I have noticed her occasionally eating better, not consistently, but at least once a day she does eat better. So yay, we'll take it!

Away

I got to go away this weekend to a woman's retreat with our church. Daddy was a brave soul and took care of Mia while I got away (he did get a little help from Grampa and Nana), but I do commend him because I signed him up to take Mia to a birthday party on Saturday with people he had no clue who they were. Anyway, they had a great time and here are some pictures to prove it...no, those are not fake nails or fingernail polish...you have to look very close, they are heart stickers. :)




Today we went to LA to see Mia's intestinal surgeon. He is super pleased with how everything looks and now we don't have to see him quite so often, which is a huge praise because the less driving to LA, the better!

Since we went to LA Mia didn't get weighed, so I'll do that tomorrow and post how she's doing.

LA Again

Yesterday Mia and I made our first trip to LA alone. We went for a family funeral and I didn't know how we'd do, but surprisingly, the trip went really well. I had bought a holder to attach to the back of the car seat for the portable DVD player...that was a life saver. After watching several Baby Einstein movies and too many to count Elmo's world, we safely arrived and she was happier than ever. On the way home she napped part of the way and watched DVD's the rest of the way. I'm not sure how parents survived before DVD players, but it was huge for us. My hat goes off to single parents who do this all the time because it was a long day to say the least, but I'm grateful that everything went well and it was really nice to see family who we hadn't seen in awhile, many of them pray for Mia all the time and so they got to see her for the first time. Funerals aren't easy, but we rejoice that my cousin is in heaven and we'll get to see him again some day.