WHAT A YEAR!

Adeline was born a little over a year ago. It is SO hard to believe. She has changed every day and is now such a beautiful (we know she gets that from her mama), happy little girl. Everything to her is fun...well except sitting in the car by herself and baths, but other than that, she is the happiest little girl we have ever seen...and SO social. She doesn't let anyone come in her view without saying "hi" or "bye bye" and everyone is a sucker for those beautiful blue eyes (ok, so I can't take the credit for those!). Mike and I feel that our lives are more complete with her a part of us and love her more with each passing second!
So it's really hard for us to look back a year ago, last labor day, when we made that frantic, desperate, scared to death dash to Vanderbilt Children's, little Adeline was only 11 days old. That day and the next few weeks in the hospital are however, always in the back of our minds. Over the past year, we have given her heart medicine every day, every 8 hours. It has become part of our daily routines and the funny thing is Adeline LOVES her syringes! So it is fitting that this is the week we will stop her meds for 5 days. We will then go back to Children's (hopefully not in a panic) for her electrophysiology study in September 11th. If all goes well, she will stay off her meds for good...that is if she has "outgrown" her arrhythmia. We feel very optimistic about this since she has done fantastic since last September and has even been taken off one of her meds since April. We are please asking for your thoughts and prayers to head our way for the next 2 weeks. Pray for little Adeline to be able to be med free and also pray that the 5 days we are at home without it, she is fine as well. Those will be very scary days for us as we closely monitor that precious little heart!
Now on a health check up note...Adeline went to the pediatrician last week. She is doing fantastic! The little squirt is only 16 pounds which puts her in the less than 3rd percentile in weight! I guess I shouldn't complain though since she isn't walking yet...duh, who could walk in a barely size 2 shoe anyway! She will be walking any day though...if she would just let go of my hand. She has 6 teeth and is getting one in the back too. She LOVES to sign and learns news signs every day. Every animal is "woof", but I guess that's what happens when you live with 2 dogs. She is starting to talk also. Her new favorite thing is to throw something on the ground and say "uh oh".
She will be moving up to the "inchworm" classroom at her preschool this week. She skipped a class which will put her in the big kid class...so not only is she small to start with, she will be the youngest. Oh well, I'm confident she can hold her own!
There will be more to come in the next few weeks.
Be thinking of us...

Adeline turned ONE on Saturday August 23, 2008. We had quite the party of over 50 guests at Grammy and Granddaddy's house in Knoxville. She enjoyed ALL of her gifts as dada opened them! She wasn't quite sure about the cake at first, but she definitely got the hang of it. Thank you to all who came to the party to celebrate with us and to everyone who couldn't be there but called...she is truly loved around the world!! A special thank you to Grammy and Granddaddy again for hosting!