New Milestones

Today marks one year since Ruby's brain injury turned her life upside down. While she is not yet fully recovered, she just continues to make great strides. She's been seizure free for the last two months, with the exception of a one week hiccup as we weened one of her her medicines completely. It just turned out that she still needs a low dose. So we're right back on track as of about a week ago.

At the time that we were released from the hospital last December, the doctors told us that we should wait a year or so before putting Ruby into a "big girl bed" to keep her safe from any possible head injuries. Last night was the big night! Our little Ruby beamed in her new bed, which was little more than her same old crib with the front rail replaced by a toddler rail and some new sheets and quilt. We're so proud of her! She keeps telling Melissa things like, "Molly doesn't have a so cute new big girl bed. Only me!", "I have my own bed!" (which she told her teacher today), and "Oh, so cute!" She is just so excited about it. It's very cute. It's such a great milestone to see her reaching and it's so satisfying for us, as parents, to see her at this point. By the way, you might notice that those are some pretty great sentences that she's putting together these days. :)

A couple new samples of "Ruby sentences":

• "Mom, Mom! I need my glasses. It's too shiny out here."
• Regarding a young man smoking, "Mom, hey Mom. You see that boy? What he doin'? Ooo, he blowin' hot!"
• Song requests in the car, "What that song, Mommy? I don't . . . I don't . . . I don't like that song. I want a new one." To which Melissa replies, "it's the radio, Ruby."  ;)

She's back to parroting all kinds of words and phrases all the time. She's just doing a great job with her words! What a joy it is to get to hear what's going on in that little brain of hers again.

Ruby has another MRI next week. We don't expect to see anything remarkable, but that's actually a good outcome as a stable brain is a good thing. It's been quite the year for our family, but we didn't do it alone. We can never say thank you enough to all of our friends and family who have been with us throughout it all.

God is good.