Updates

It’s been quite some time since I’ve used my blog, but I have missed it.  We will now be updating on Mia via this blog instead of on Facebook.  We will also be using this blog as a fun way for everyone to keep up to date on things happening with everyone in our family!

My first instinct is to update about Mia because it has become second nature to me, but lets start elsewhere!  Art and I are doing very well.  Art has been spending his extra time restoring a 1961 Ford Thunderbird.  It’s a beautiful car, but we will be selling it once it is all set to go! 

I have been enjoying spending time with a few of my good friends and being a mommy.  There are days when I feel like ripping my hair out, but I wouldn’t trade that for the world.  My girls are growing up too quickly.  I have also become quite addicted to fantasy football, weird, I know. 

Izzy started preschool in August and loves it so much!  She goes twice a week for a few hours each day.  We’re looking forward to her holiday program tomorrow.  She’s also in gymnastics once a week and seems to be a natural (or at least we think so)! 

And our miracle Mia, well she’s a miracle!  She’s walking around everywhere and quite literally gets into EVERYTHING.  She’s as curious as they come!  She’s trying to say more and more words and her little personality evolves more with each day.

On the medical front, we received some much needed information from our cardiologist this week.  Art and I have been unsure what the plan will be for Mia moving forward and now we know.  Mia’s left pulmonary artery is narrow and needs to be watched.  This is proving to be quite difficult because our little wiggle worm will not stay still enough for the doctors to get a clear echo.  We were thinking that she would need to be sedated for a procedure of some sort in the next few months.  Because she is doing so fantastic in all other aspects, a sedated procedure will not be done until May or June.  At that time she will be having a cath done in preparation for her third open heart surgery, the Fontan.  Her Fontan surgery will then be done in August or September.  Although things could easily change, that is the plan as of this week.  It is comforting to know what is ahead, but also scary to think that isn’t very long from now.  We can just continue to take things day by day!