Sofia is 11 months!

Wow, it really is only one month before my baby girl turns 1! This year has gone by way to fast. I haven't checked her height lately, but Sofia is now 21 pounds! Sofia is doing good, she has been a little under the weather for over a month now, but the doctor started her on some oral sterroids last week, so hopefully we will see a change. Today is the last day and she doesn't sound too much better to me. I will call tomorrow and see what we can do next. She is also being treated for Pink Eye, an ear infection and she has a virus and everything that goes along with it! It has been a crazy Spring Break! Sofia now has two bottom teeth and one on top. She can stand for a few seconds and then lets herself fall. She can walk with her toys and along the couch and she tries to climb up on the couch! She is everywhere and into everything! I take care of my Sister-in-Laws kids now during the week and Sofia loves it! She really enjoys beign with other children. Lilli, her 3 year old, is really determined to get Sofia walking. The other day I had left the gate open to the stairs and Sofia crawled to the stairs, so I just got behind her to see what she would do and she climbed all the way up! She was so proud of herself!

We have spent our Spring Break trying to get everything organized and ordered for Sofia's Party! It is going to be huge of course, but she deserves it! I chose the Supergirl theme. It just seems to fit with everything she has overcome and of course the "S" emblem! Her party will be the Saturday, April 21. We will have a bounce Castle and an inflatable waterslide. My brother wants us to have a snowcone machine, so we will! (he loves to make them, he is 12) I am really excited about it! Baby Jaylyn, who was born the same day with CDH, will be joining us and and her Mommy and I and the girls and our families will be going to the hospital on the girls actual Birthday for a little party there. I am not sure if you all remember, but I had told you all the in the NICU Sofia was next to a 14oz baby whos Mother Ivan and I new from the summer we met, anyway, I went to Academy last week and she works there! I was kinda scared to go up to her cause I did not know how her baby was. But, she saw Sofia and I and started crying cause she was so happy to see us! Her baby Akasha is doing well and finally got out of the hospital on September 26. She is 2 days older than Sofia. So, we plan on getting together with them sometime soon. Then Melodie , Jaylyn's Mommy, called me on my way home from Academy, strange huh! She said Jaylyn is doing well, but she only weighs 13 lbs 7 oz and is 29 inches long. So, hopefully she will start eating well and catch up. She was larger than Sofia at birth.

Okay, well Sofia will be waking up soon, so I need to get things done. Thank you all for your continued support and for reading. I have "met" several new Mommies expecting CDH babies, so please keep them all and their little ones in your prayers. Please keep all CDH babies in your prayers. God Bless

Love, Catherine