My Other Little Girl Is Growing Up Too!

Exciting Day! Baby B is minutes away from getting her SPICA cast off!

Day Brita came home from hospital with cast on.

Day cast comes off. Looks how much longer her legs are!

 A, R, and C decided they wanted to be in the room to watch. As C said he is good at calming her down. The kids were so sweet and were cheering her on and such a huge support to her. They have had lots of opportunity this year to learn to support family. 

Baby B is very sensitive to noise and so this was no fun with the buzz saw sounding cast taker offer!!! The technician that took off her cast is a super nice guy and so kind and fast!

 Yah! The spica is off! We want to be done with hip displasia! She had the cast on one day short of 7 weeks. "A" is wearing the cast like a crown! Now B does have to wear a splint for 20 hours a day for 3 more weeks and then she will go to wearing it nights and naps.

Bummer to still have the splint but we are making steps in the right direction!!

 The kids wanted to go out and celebrate and Babe and I agreed!

Macaroni Grill was unanimously agreed upon!

What a great thing God has done helping us through this!

The technician said he thought it was possibly the cleanest spica cast he had ever removed.

I had prayed and asked God to help me.

I will do another entry about our spica cast journey but for now I want to announce it is OFF!

I felt like I was having a kid graduating from kindergarten or something! 

This was a big step in her development!

Our ortho dr.'s office is great and people were so excited to see Baby B and how big she had gotten and excited we were done with the journey. These people know what it takes and can genuinely rejoice at the accomplishment.

The Dr. was so happy with how she was acting when it was all done. She was handling it well and even giving little smiles. When she got home big brother R put her on his chest and she loved that with every once in awhile putting her head down on him. So sweet! She loved hanging out with brother after an exhausting afternoon.

I have noticed she doesn't want her left leg bumped and is definitely favoring it but it will heal in time. I didn't know what the first night would be like after she got her cast off but thankfully she did well and it was WAY better than the first night after she got it on! Babe and I both just about keeled over from exhaustion the first night she had it on!

Here is what the kids and I read in devotions the morning of her cast removal:

Psalm 92:1

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: