First Steps

Q recently started taking her first steps.  Here is a video reenactment.  She actually took the first steps slightly earlier in the day but we didn't have a camera ready and had to record this a bit later.  She's 15 months in this video, let's see how long it takes her until she's "officially" walking.

If you listen closely at the end of the video you can hear her congratulating herself as she takes her steps!  Haha, I guess she didn't know what the big deal was, why we were all screaming but she decided she'd scream with us!

Meeting Aunt D.

B's brother, L, was married in July 2011 - just days before Q joined us.  Shortly after they were married L returned to Canada to start college and D remained in Peru (her home country) while they began the visa process.  They lived apart for 15 months before her visa was finally granted.  She arrived in Canada on November 9, 2012.

We (especially Y) were so excited to meet her so we planned a trip up to Canada the following weekend.  She is truly a doll and we are so very lucky to have her join our family.  Y absolutely adores her and she can often be heard talking about her or asking to call and talk to her on Skype or even on the telephone.  She is wonderful with children, so it's really no wonder that the girls came to love her so quickly.

Having left my own family after getting married I can understand how difficult it is for her to be so far away.  But my own distance from my family is small in comparison to hers.  Not only did she leave her family, she left her entire culture to travel to a land that was totally unknown to her - it's almost a whole different world for her, literally.  I am glad that she is here and very fortunate for the opportunity to know her.

15 Months

Note:  This post has been dated for the actual date of Q's 15 month well baby but as I'm writing this she is actually 17 months, because of my delay this will likely be a brief post and will include information concerning the 2 appointments with the specialists she was referred to.  My apologies, I'm behind!

At 15 month's Q weighs 21½ pounds and is 31 inches long and she is still not walking.  Because of this her pediatrician wanted us to take her to see a pediatric neurologist.  During the course of her checkup he (the pediatrician) heard a heart murmur that he wanted to have checked out further so he also referred her to a pediatric cardiologist.  Other than these 2 things, she checked out perfectly.

We were able to get her in to see the Neurologist the following day, he said everything seemed normal but he wanted to have some blood work done just to double check and make sure there were no neurological defects going on...all turned out fine but she goes back for another checkup in January.

In early December she went in to see the Cardiologist and while she does have what is referred to as an Innocent Murmur, it's not something that we should be concerned about.  If it remains at the age of 5 she would like us to return and have her checked again but for now, we were told not to worry, it will not have any affect on her day-to-day activities.