After last writing on this blog over a year ago, it seems time to supply another update on my daughter, Patty.
She is doing great. For the most part. The respiratory problems she'd been going through a year ago have no longer been an issue. And while there have been ongoing digestive problems, that situation has also improved a lot in just the past few months. So after appealing so often for support from friends last year, I just want to share this GOOD news now.
She had her second birthday on March 17th, and we celebrated with pizza and cake. Well, these were more for her parents and supporters than for her-- though she did eat a little, or perhaps a bit too much cake. But it was really good! Thai cake is usually not as sweet as what we are accustomed to eating in the U.S., so it was a gentle over-indulgence. :-)
Now Patty is very active, and enjoys playing with her toys-- at which she needs absolutely no encouragement. She still is not strong on her legs and feet, so must of her activity is in the crawling mode, and she does that energetically. However, she is standing up where there is something for support, in order to play or explore things higher up. She is getting braver and braver-- she'd crawl up the stairs if we let her, but they are slick and hard, and we let her go up a couple... that's it!
And probably Patty's favorite thing to do is watch youtube videos. At two years old, she is a junky! But what she loves to watch are some pretty good videos for kids that I've found. Watching them brings her out in delightful ways. While watching one scene of puppet pigs playing on a slide and sliding into a mud hole, squealing with delight, Patty will say "Mmmmm, hmmmmmm, hmmmmm......", obviously finding the puppet piglets very endearing. Watching another puppet scene, Patty picks up on the humor of it and giggles appropriately.
Here are some photos from over the past several months:
