Hey Baby Girl,

This month certainly has been a busy one! We've started with the Infant/Toddler program. Your father and I are learning Braille so we can be prepared to teach you and share in that part of your life. We move to a new house, (it's actually a house, not just a dinky apartment). I know this move might be scary for you at first, you'll have relearn the boundaries, but we'll have so many new adventures to embark on! When we move, I am going to do a blog giving tutorials on how to decorate a room for a blind child, and blog about all the new things we will learn together as a family. 

Last week you and your brother got sick. He felt better the next day, but it took you four days to smile and eat again. We're happy to have you back Bug :)! Spring is just around the corner and I cannot wait to begin exploring the outdoors with you and Bronco.  Bronco is afraid of the grass. Grass is green, the color of new life, and it varies from soft to prickly. You didn't like to sit on it last summer because it poked your legs, but seeing as how you like Daddy's gruff, you might like it this year! 

You have been extremely clingy lately.  We know you're learning and growing, and sometimes it can be a scary thing. But your brother needs to be held and played with too. I keep praying that angels will hold you and sing to you, when I cannot.  You're going to be a big sister again in June, and mommy's going to need all the help she can get.  We'll live just a minutes walk away from Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's, and not too far from all your other cousins.  You'll get to spend lots of time with Nana Johnson, since she'll be helping out.  

Though things are stressful right now, I know we can get through these harder times.  As you get older, things will get easier.  I just have to keep reminding myself that these next few years are going to fly by, and I need to enjoy the journey.  I love you sweet girl, and pray for you and your brother nightly.

xoxo Mom  

Dear Abby,

I can't believe it's been almost a year since I wrote to you on here. Our internet was off for the longest time, and then the computer fried (you thought it would be hilarious to dump your milk all over the laptop). Anyway, the computer is fixed and we have internet again so I have no more excuses. You are a crawling champ right now, and can get anywhere you want using the sounds around the room and your "four feet" :)

Recently you started a program called Infant/Toddler. It's a government funded program that forms teams of specialist specific to your needs.  You have a physical therapist, an occupational therapist, a speech therapist, a mobility specialist and so on.  They have all been amazed at what have already taught yourself, but the comment we've been getting the most is about how happy and pleasant you are!

And you are (unless you aren't getting your sleep, but you get that from Daddy). You're 2.5 years old now, your brother Bronco is 17 months, and you have a little sister coming in June.  Bronco has been learning to talk like a champ, and he tries to teach you too.  He watches out for you and gives me the worst looks when you're upset. Most days you let him try to play with you, others you cry at the slightest noise he makes.

The doctors put you on a sleep medication to help you sleep at night, it worked for about two weeks and then wore off. It was a very nice two weeks for all of us, but it only made things worse now that you're not sleeping again.  I know that Heavenly Father is mindful of you and your health and will bless you when the time is right (hopefully before your sister is born).

Aside from your sleeping issues, everything else is going great for you. You're eating healthier, playing more Independently, being more social and just the other day you stood on your own and took 5 steps :)

There are many more things I need to catch you up on, and I've been writing in a journal to you while the computers have been down. So I will make a point to put those letters up here too.

I love you sweetheart <3

xoxoxo
Mom