Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Isabella Jeannette's 1st Birthday!

Isabella Jeannette is 1 Year Old!!!!!!


I cannot believe, my darling baby girl is 1 year old! It seems like yesterday we were heading to Denver to have her. What a year it has been for everyone who know's Isabella. It has been such a blessing.

Her birthday was WONDERFUL!! We went to the mall with grandma and of course Isabella was spoiled by me :) Then it was off to dinner at the Fort Diablo in Glenrock with grandma, auntie and Barb. Daddy suprised us and was able to make it!! He had been working in Colorado. Isabella slept through her birthday, but I'm sure she enjoyed it. :) She will also have a party Saturday when her other Grandma comes up from Colorado.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

1 Week Until Isabella is 1!!!

Wow, 7 days until my little girl is one year old! I cannot believe how quickly this year has flown by. Everything is falling in line for her two parties. One is going to be on her actual birthday and the other the weekend after. I got both of her outfits two and pictures will be done next Friday! :)







HoPEfully we figure out what's going on with her bloodwork. For some reason on this last test her calcium was high. Her endo thinks this could either be a fluke or something to do with her phosperious levels. We will redo her bloodwork next Monday.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Welcome To Holland



*I came across this essay the other day, and it has stuck with me. I think it does explain how I felt when I found out Isabella's diagnosis. The fact she may not do the typical things, be a typical child, ect. I was extremely sad and did mourn losing the normalitity of a typical pregnancy and fearing what to expect.
Looking back now I would not change her for anything in the world. She is our perfect Isabella Jeannette Dice.

Welcome To Holland
by Emily Perl Kingsley


I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It’s just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

17 Days Until Miss Isabella Jeannette Dice is 1 Year Old!!!!!


Wow, only 17 days until my precious baby girl is the big 1 year old. This seems so unreal. It was this time last year, we were waiting on her to arrive, worried what would come after that...
She has come so far since then.
~She is starting to crawl
~She eats everything orally and is starting to put things in her mouth intentionally :)
~She puts one foot in front of the other at tumbling on the balance beam (her teacher was sooooo excited she was doing this!!!)
~She is tracking and holding her head so much better now with her glasses
~She is interacting with her toys and switches wonderfully

~And most of all- She is our pride and joy- our world.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

22 today!

Today is my 22nd birthday, and it has been absolutely wonderful! I couldn't imagine my life any other way.
22, married, with an 11 month old.....perfect to me!!