Playing Peek-a-Boo with Buggy

Peek-a-Book with Buggy! from Brooke Wisian on Vimeo.

Life Without the Spica--Yay!!!

Well, we have been Spica free for almost two weeks now!  The day of the cast removal was pretty horrible for little Abigail.  The sound and vibration of the cast cutter/saw scared our little girl pretty badly.  We did everything to comfort her; however, she was so upset there was not much we could do.  I have never heard my baby cry so hard and for so long in my life!  After the cast was removed we immediately went to radiology where Abigail had another x-ray.  After about one hour of waiting for any news the doctor came in and told us her hip looked great and we were prescribed a rhino cruiser brace to wear at nights for the next 3 months and then we are to go back to the ortho. surgeon on July 12th to have more x-rays to determine the hip position at that time. We continue to pray for good news; however, we are so blessed we could not ask for more as our lives are so fulfilled with our little buggy!

So now Abigail is wearing her brace at night but she continues to keep her legs out in the froggy position.  I guess I was being naive when I thought that for some reason when the cast came off my baby's legs would immediately start moving again.  Boy was I wrong!  The doctor told us that it may take up to 3 weeks before her legs really start moving as they will be stiff for awhile.  I cried of course when I saw what her leg looked like once the cast was removed.  So much flaky, dead skin and the bruising--wow, the brusing was everywhere on her little leg.  She also had one skin ulcer on her right hip but it is almost all healed.  I also thought Abigail would love taking a bath for the first time in 3 months---again I was wrong.  It has been almost 2 weeks now and her little leg has looked better than ever---no more bruises and no more dry skin.  We are so enjoying our time snuggling up with our buggy and feel so blessed to be her parents. 

We also took Abigail in for her 9 month weigh in--hahaha!  She weighs 23.5 pounds and is 30.1 inches long--all in her 97th percentile!  She has learned how to wave "bye bye", blow kisses, claps her hands when you say "Yay!" or "paddy cake" and her newest trick is playing peek a boo.  We are so proud of buggy and love her more than she knows. 

Also, on a side note, Clayton put in a little vegetable garden in our backyard for Abigail and we have a little sign in the garden that reads, "Abigail's Garden".  Hopefully we will have some good veggies to feed her by the time she is really chewing. :-)

A little blurb of Removing the Spica-didn't film too much b/c busy distracting buggy

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Buggy loves her Bella and "Big Chicky" doll

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Happy Easter From Us!

Happy Easter--From The Wisian's!!

Abigail and her Grandpa Don on Easter--looks like she doesn't know what to think of her Grandpa Don in this picture, but believe me--she is a Grandpa's girl alright!

I recently put up a cute flower canopy in Abigail's nursery.  We have been trying to make it look girly girl since the bedding is gender neutral.  It looks so much cuter in person I must say.  Abigail truly lights up everytime we walk into her room.

We drove to Palacios, Texas over Easter weekend to visit Clayton's mother and his brothers.  We walked to the pier to see the water and Pelicans.  It was the first warm day of the year so of course I lotioned Abigail all up with her California Baby Lotion and Clayton used an umbrella the entire time. Abigail's skin is so fair that she burns so easily--skin just like her mama.

Looks like Abigail is trying to hold onto her hat to prevent it from blowing away in the wind--such the girly girl already!

Sweet picture of our buggy herself and then a nice shot of her mommy and daddy--couldn't be any happier with what God has provided us. :-)

My sleeping beauty--couldn't dare wake her before going to work but oh did I want to give her a big hug and kisses--I just let her rest instead and stole some sugar when I got home.  Clayton gave Abigail her first Mo-Hawk before bath time on Monday night--she seems like she enjoyed it--oh no!

"Talk to the hand mama!"

My wonderful attempt to make Easter cookies--they looked nothing like the cookie cutters that I used.  They were suppose to be flowers, a bunny, and little chicks--looked nothing like that.

Well, that is all for now.  We had such a wonderful first Easter with our little buggy and feel so blessed to be here as a family.  God has listened to our prayers and he is ever present in the eyes of our little girl.  We hope you all had a blessed and wonderful holiday and pray to see you soon.  Until then, take care!

All of our love, The Wisian's

Our Buggie

She is becoming such a big girl holding her sippy cup; however, little Abigail does not  necessarily enjoy drinking from the sippy cup.  She rather drink from a straw or the cup itself--such a big girl!

Still kickin' it in her spica!!

She loves teething biscuits!

Okay, so I will try to update you on our little girl's latest development and progress since my last blog.  (Abigail is sitting on my lap right now and doing all she can to grab the keyboard so this blog may be short)  Anyway, our little buggie's first tooth poked through on April 7, 2010!!! We are so proud of this little tooth and I cannot wait to brush it!! Of course we had a nice big poopy pants with the arrival of that first tooth and of course this all had to happen when she is in her spica so naturally the poop went all over her back, legs and everwhere else it could fit!  I spent two hours trying to clean the best I could--I used everything I could think of to get the poop out but I know there has to be still some in that left leg where the cast prevents me from getting to.  It will be so lovely to see what that little leg looks like when they remove the cast. :-(

On another positive note, since Abigail has been in the cast her fine motor and language skills have developed far beyond her age.  Her pediatrician was impressed with her development and skills in these areas.  It is partly due to of course our daughter just being so naturally smart but also because she is in the spica cast and when other babies are more focused with learning how to crawl and walk, our little Abigail is more concerned with mastering what she has work with--her little hands and her voice.  She has learned how to prop herself up while sitting on the couch and when a toy falls out of her reach she stabilizes her entire body with her right hand while she bends her whole upper body down and picks up the toy with her left hand and then brings herself back to sitting upright.  Her motor planning has gotten so much better during these past few months.  We have been so incredibly blessed with this beautiful baby girl and we love watching her grow everyday.  It is truly amazing how children really do learn something new everyday--so inspiring!