The wild one

As Caroline's personality continues to blossom it is becoming more and more apparent that she is going to be our wild one. The one who doesn't listen. The one whom thinks that the rules don't apply to her. The one who will break curfew and the one who will tell her Dad, "I don't do A.M. radio" (sorry Ellen! It was just too perfect not to use that quote)

I am hopeful that this is just a phase. The phase of being a one year old. Where "no" has no meaning. I keep reminding Evan that we have to redirect her if we want her to stop doing something as this is the only way with a one year old. But deep down both of us know she is a firecracker.

At 15 months old Caroline climbs onto everything! A week ago our babysitter sent me a text that said Caroline was trying to climb on the back of her dining room chair and the chair fell back onto her but not to worry, she was ok! Two weeks ago she got away from Evan, booked it to the basement stairs at Grammie's house and fell down 4 or 5 of them before she was stopped. A few weeks prior to that she  tried to stick her finger into an outlet (!!!) but thankfully was stopped by Daddy and Liam. (Caroline your skeleton will turn on and off and on and off if you do that!)

Caroline had her wellness visit last week where she is weighing in at 17 lbs 7 oz and measuring 29 inches tall. She is now back in the 5% for weight and in the 20-something % for height. It's quite amusing watching her walk around the library or anyplace where there are other children around. She is quite smaller then the babies who can't walk yet so it's almost eerie watching her cruise around so easily.

Caroline talks all the time and probably has 20-30 words she will use, most without prompting, some she only says when she feels like it. She knows all of her body parts, where to go when we tell her to go to a certain room and has begun to make animal sounds when asked or while reading a book.

Her hips have even gotten better! We had her check up with Dr. Akeson in Peoria last month where the x-ray showed that her left hip had improved almost 10 degrees (from 46 to 36 in just four months) and her right hip had improved 5 degrees (from 36-31). So wearing her harness has improved things greatly and we will continue to put that on her at night for as long as she will allow us to do it. We also don't need to return until she is 2 years old for another x-ray. (we were going about every 3 months for xrays) At 2 years of age her hips should be at an angle of 25 degrees (in relation to her hip socket and the femur bone) so please continue to pray for her that God will continue to heal her and surgery will not be needed.