Happy Easter!!!

Addie was very excited to stop her Easter basket on Easter morning!!

Easter egg hunt!!!

Addie didn't care much for the actual hunt but was very excited about the treats!!!!

Our fun Easter eggs!

This year instead of just dying plain old Easter eggs, we decided to jazz hem up a bit!! What do you think? Addie especially loved the little mermaid and Peter Pan!!

Yes, that is kale!!!

Easter bunny!!!

future photographer??

The last time (and every time) i take my camera out Addie is fascinated. I let her have a "turn" to see how she would do........she thought it was pretty cool!

Hi!!!

Makin' cookies!

Addie had a fun time decorating her Easter cookies!! Gramma Chris made her the super cute Strawberry Shortcake apron (she made me one too , yay!)

Blue is her color!

Addie was hammin' it up for the camera today. I just love how great she looks in this blue shirt with her blue eyes!

Just for laughs......

Who couldn't resist this??? Too funny!!!

Too cute not to share

I love this coat!!!

My little gardener

Addie and I have been having a lot of fun gardening this spring.... She is really enjoying relocating the dirt from one pot to another

Christmas at Disneyland!

We finally got to see the wonder of Christmas at Disney! It was so amazing! They really go all out with their decorations. It was also the dirt time we went with Addie walking. She had a really great time! Her fave rides were the little mermaid, monsters inch, a utopia and pirates. She got to meet tinker bell (she is obsessed with her right now) and Lightning McQueen and really liked both of them. She didn't want to have anything to do with the other characters including Santa and Minnie......

   

Getting her "high fives"

Addie is going around getting her high fives after walking today. She also learned how to say "high five" and I think it is so damn cute!!!

Addie is walking!!!!

Today Addie really started walking! She took about 10-20 steps at a time back and forth about 30 times. She was so excited and would wait for her "yays" after each time and then go around and get high fives from everyone. She even tried it on her very own a few times without any coaxing from mom. By the end of the night she was exhausted and her poor little legs were like jelly.

Addie was diagnosed with bilateral CDH at birth and wore the Pavlik Harness from 5 days to 3 weeks. This corrected her left hip. After that she wore a hip abduction orthosis until 5 months when she had a closed reduction followed by 12 weeks in a Spica cast. At 15 months she had a Salter Osteotomy on her right hip and was in another Spica cast for 5 weeks. The pins were removed 2 weeks post surgery. She is now 21 months old, her hips look great and she is WALKING!!!! Yay!!!! Praise God!!!

Today is the day I have been looking forward to for so long! I am so proud of her and can say emphatically that it was worth it!!!!!

Thanks everyone for all your support and advice!! For those of you that are just starting your journey, it does get better! One day you will look back and realize that everything your LO went through was what brought you to this day and you will be so happy! Keep your chins up and your eyes to God! He WILL get you through!!!

COOKIES!!!!

Today Addie and I made chocolate chip cookies together for the first time. We had a great and messy time! She loved it and was such a great little helper. I think I might have a tiny chef (or tiny foody.) I know I shouldn't let her eat the dough but how can you make cookies and not have a little taste? 1 lick never hurt anyone, right?