So, our baby. She is 9 lbs 12 oz at last reading.. still about 20 !/2" long..... and almost 15 months old. She is a tiny, mighty, LOUD thing. She'll be taking her bottle (we're still giving her formula, due to her size) and start grinning and attempt to keep sucking....totally unable to do both, but that smile behind that bottle.... Breathtaking.... and I love that she recognizes people now. Her favorite of course, her mom.... and her dad....she just starts yelling when he comes in the room. Loves him to pieces. I get a kick from the legs when she sees me, starts moving those little fat feet..... when Grammie great approaches her, she starts smiling soooo big, and same for Hallie and Kip. Kip's favorite name for her "Hi, pretty". Hallie played tea party with her yesterday, so she was not only crowned in her blue paraphenalia, she had on Payten's pink stuff too, with the crown around her waist. Pretty fun.
We dyed easter eggs at Lacey's on Saturday... Grammie had all her grandkids and greatgrandkids in an Easter egg extravaganza. Laynie sat in her bumbo on the table and supervised. Fun was definitely had. We divided the finished eggs in groups..... kids eggs, stay at home mom's eggs, and the architects eggs. All of them totally different, totally wonderful. Then Brian hid 122 plastic eggs in my backyard.... and Kaylie kicked our booties in the finding dept...of course, she's closer to the ground.... and Laynie and Lacey found the eggs with the big money.... Laynie came out the winner with $11! Everyone else got quarters and candy.... all in all a good day.
Laynie's calendar shoot was a blast at Frontier City. They came up with a creative and wonderful way to display her. :) With the stuffed animals at the game area. She sat in the middle of stuffed doggies about the same size as her and just never was sure what we were trying to accomplish. We got some sweet smiles out of her, and the doctor that nominated her, Just nussed and loved her.. telling us.... so many families wouldn't know how to embrace this challenge. Your family has blessed me, by the positive and wonderful way you approach this gift. What we know, and people that know us know....WE are the lucky ones. Anyone that has met Laynie can tell you....we are the lucky ones.
Everything is status quo with our baby. She sits in her basket, in her boppy, in her bumbo, and as long as she is propped, she is steady. Our Sooner start physical therapist talked to Lacey today about a research study that will make available to Laynie a small wheelchair with a gear shift. "Do you think she could handle that"? We both laughed and laughed over that... for one thing, we visualize a hot wheels with a seat on it, driving her all over the house.... but the thing is, when she gets to move around, that's when her learning will take place. Right now, she has to depend on us for EVERYTHING. We move her, rock her, roll her, move her legs, etc. She basically uses her hands and can move herself from the waist up, but everything else, she is totally dependent on us for. A chair will give her freedom. If she can figure out how to push the button and realizes that she is going to move when she does it....wow... wheelchair nirvana. The challenge will be getting something small enough for her. A hot wheels wheelchair. Just imagine. :) It'll be marvelous. She has two molars on her right side and she is about to cut her left molar on the bottom...poor baby...what a terrible way to teethe! She hasn't been sick, like usual, with the teething thing.. so..wow.. The big ones first...but like everything about Laynie....special and unique. :) We go to the pediatrician for her 15 month well baby check on the 16th (can you believe it!) so I'll have more to tell you then. When I pat on her bumbo tray and say "pat, pat, pat your tray...now you do it" she looks at me a minute and I'll be ding dogged double doody, she patted back! I thought, that was an accident, and did it again....and to my utter astonishment and delight.... pat pat pat right back. :) God is good.
She has been selected to do a TV commercial that will film on the 14th. Channel 5 is doing the Children's miracle network thank you for our sponsors, and Laynie Payne train is going to be in it. This didn't set well with our movie star wannabe- Aunt Hallie, who complained....that is JUST NOT FAIR. Lacey said "You don't have any extra chromosomes, that's why you didn't get chosen." And that shut her up! :) Thanks for all your prayers through the last few months...it's been a rough ride, but I am finally understanding that God has the perfect plan for me, and it's not MY plan, it's His. And I have learned through Laynie that all things are possible, and it's letting go and believing....really believing, that will set me free.
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