Its amazing to me how fast a year can go by! We have had a lot happen over this past year.
First Lyla was born, which was just amazing all on its own!
And for first time parents she really gave us our share of things to stress over!
First of all she just didn't want to come out! So after four hours of pushing she ended up coming out by c-section. Then the Sunday morning after we had her when I was packing up getting ready to be discharged and finally get to go home they come and tell us "Lyla might not get to go home today." WHAT?? She had jaundice that they were worried about. She did get to come home with me that morning (thank goodness) but we had to take her for blood work that Monday and Tuesday and thankfully the jaundice went away on its own and she was just fine!
Then there was her belly button. We didn't REALLY notice it until the day it fell off. I guess we thought that it would all fall off but it didn't. For any of you who don't remember what it used to look like or maybe never saw it, you can see it in this picture:
It was like a big ball sticking out of her little belly. The doctor told us her belly button was herniated and most likely it would start to be normal over time and if that didn't happen she would have to have surgery when she was 4 years old to fix it. Luckily, that also cleared up on its own! Now her little belly looks totally normal! She has a little bit of an outie, but nothing too drastic!
Other than those couple of things she had a pretty easy first couple of months. I went back to work when she was 8 weeks old and we all had a good transition with her starting daycare. Then in September she got her first cold. The beginning of the end for our healthy little girl! That cold turned in to a double ear infection that just refused to go away. After being on more antibiotic prescriptions than I can really count we were sent to an ENT who decided that she definitely needed tubes put in both ears.
So we scheduled her surgery for the beginning of January, surgery time came and Lyla had another cold so we had to postpone until the end of January. We got the tubes in and it seemed like a success.
We went for her follow up appointment a month later and they couldn't do the hearing test because she had some drainage so we went back on ear drops and scheduled to come back in at a later date. Gary took her back and they decided her left ear was good but her right ear had some kind of blockage and we had to reschedule to come back AGAIN and have that checked out by the doctor. So the day I took her back we found out she needed to have the right tube removed and replaced. In the meantime she had an awful cough that day and he recommended I take her in to her pediatrician. So I did and she had bronchialitis. So we got a machine to keep at home and do breathing treatments with her.
She had her second ear surgery a few weeks ago. When he went in to fix the tube in the right ear he went ahead and checked the left ear and its a good thing. Her left ear was all messed up too. So both tubes got replaced and everything seems to be working much better now! We go for our next follow up on the 20th.
Other than Miss Lyla being sick A LOT, she has been an absolute joy this first year and quite the little overachiever! She learned the art of rolling pretty early on and would roll from one side of the room to the other. Then she started crawling over Christmas and by April she was walking! Now she pretty much just runs everywhere she goes!
And she has been eating like a champ lately! She will pretty much eat whatever you put in front of her. She loves ice cream, hot dogs, mac and cheese, peas, any kind of pasta really, cheese.... Basically whatever you give the girl she will eat it!
She is really just such a little sweetheart. People would never even know that she's been sick because she is always so pleasent to be around. And sometimes she has her off days, but don't we all? Her laugh is infectious and she will talk your ear off, although we have no idea what she is actually talking about! She loves to throw things off of her tray then chime in with an "uh oh" like it was a complete accident. She loves all kinds of animals, especially dogs. She loves music and loves to dance.
I have put a lot of effort in to taking a picture of her each month on her monthly birthday and I am going to continue to do it each year on her birthday. It makes it really fun to watch the progression. So here is Lyla's first year in monthly birthdays:
I think I am done rambling for now! ;-) Lyla turning a year old just has me reminiscing about the past year and all that has happened! And please don't anyone read in to this thinking that I am ready for a second because I'm NOT! All the things I hated about pregnancy are still very fresh in my mind! And my stretch marks and c-section scar are still very visable in the mirror every morning! I love Lyla more than anything in this world and right now she is all I need! Her and her wonderful father that is! <3
