Fifteen Months Post Transplant

Georgia,

You are becoming so independent, picking out your clothes and dressing yourself, climbing into your car seat, overall wanting less help with everything. 

You are full of conversation, last night as we were looking at a book you pointed to a purple car and said "buy one".. I said, "you want to buy a purple car?" you scrunched up your nose, tilted your head to the side and said "umm, ya!"  The conversation continued and when I asked how old you need to be to drive a car you said, "ahhh, ummm four half." 

You are learning your colors and have purple and orange down.  You are counting higher and higher, and can go up to 15 then start to skip around until hitting 23.  You have almost mastered your ABC's and are very proud of this.  Your favorite game is hide & seek, you run to your closet, hide behind the curtains and call for us to come find you.  We come in and say things like "Where's Georgia, is she at the beach?  You'll reply "no" with a giggle... "is she at the store?".. laughing harder "NO!" then finally we say "is she in the closet" and you pull the curtains back, and with a huge smile exclaim "YES!" 

We are working on identifying feelings and often talk about things that are frustrating and things that make you happy. The other day you told me that you were frustrated that Lauren has a cold, then said "Lauren cold, all done!"  You miss your cousins.

At night you talk about who is going to sleep, you start to name off several people, stop and say "ahhh, ummm.. who else?" then name several more.

You continue to grow, seeing your pants get shorter is so thrilling, and we (finally) had to buy you some new shoes!  Last week we started the re-immunization process, necessary but not fun.  Life is moving forward and it feels so good.  We are looking into some kids classes for the summer and continue to count the days until cold and flu season is officially over.

Happy 15 months post transplant my love, we are so very proud of you.

 Tiptoe through the tulips

 Swimming in the bath has become a favorite activity

Your hair is getting so long it gets in your eyes

but you rarely let me pull it back.

 Where is Georgia?

 Ta-da!

Georgia O'Handsaker?  Not quite an O'keefe but I love it!

A little video of you doing what kids should - run!