In the last month, we have brought Sophie home from the hospital, moved in to our new home, several doctor appointments, football games for Shane, and just enjoying our life.
Let's begin with Sophie! I am continually amazed at how well my daughter is doing, at how resilient she is. What she has gone through so far, I bet none of us would come out with the happiness and joy that Sophie has! Is it because she is "simple minded"? Possibly, but I choose embrace it!
Every single day, Sophie is doing better and better. She is wanting to stand ALL OF THE TIME, with assistance of course. That is the one thing that makes her the happiest. Sophie is now sitting up by herself. She is still a little wobbly, but she is getting the hang of it. The only thing she hasn't learned is to use her arms to brace herself or to push herself up yet, so it is funny when she gets off balance and falls over with her hands behind her head! Yes, I do let her fall, she needs to learn somehow! Our little miracle has also learned how to pick up her paci and put it in her mouth...this is HUGE! Sophie has visual impairments that are limiting to her. How limiting, we aren't sure but we do know that she doesn't see very well. I am sure you can just imagine the excitement I felt when we were all sitting at dinner and Sophie was in her high chair. She was playing with her toys and all of a sudden she reaches down, picks up her paci, and sticks it in her mouth!! My jaw dropped and I teared up! What an accomplishment.
We did have a little battle with an infection, but with some Keflex it is doing much better. Her incisions looks fantastic, her breast bone is healing, and she is overall....a new Sophie! I still have my sweet sweet baby girl, but she is doing more and more, and always happy. She has so much more energy, a better appetite (although she is still only 20lbs), and overall, her quality of life seems to be better. All from just closing the ASD hole in her heart!
Shane is adjusting to living in a new house. We love our new place, so much more room and it is a home that I am proud of. Shane didn't want to move because his best friend lived literally down the street from us and they just started walking back and forth to play with one another. Although we are in a different school district, we are keeping Shane in Adrian, as of now! He is struggling with some behavior issues as well as grades. We just had his homeroom switched around because of the quality of kids in his class. The boys mainly. Hopefully we will see things start to improve for Shane both socially and academically. He has a long road to go, but we know he can succeed, if he chooses to. If he chooses not to, we will move him to Madison schools, which is right next door to us!
Shane's football team went undefeated this year. It was a great accomplishment for those boys because they didn't have too many returners for this season. Playing with a new group of kids can sometimes prove to be difficult. Not for these boys. They were unstoppable. It is a little bittersweet knowing that there are a few boys that Shane will never play football with again because of their age difference in school. That for me, is a little sad because I love their mamas!
Dan and I were standing in the kitchen the other day after our new fridge was delivered. We were talking about our new home, the things we have, how well Sophie is doing, and how we have a healthy son, and he looks at me and says, "Life is Good"!
