answered prayers... and a biting baby

In my last post, I mentioned that I was dragging my feet about scheduling Julianna's surgery to open up the blocked tear duct. The thoughts of my little baby girl being put to sleep for surgery scared me to death. I know parents go through things like this all of the time but it's really tough when it's your own child. Since the appointment with the ophthalmologist, I have been praying that Julianna's eye would heal itself and the tear duct would open up on it's own. Julianna's appointment was in the second week of February. For the past 2 weeks, there have been no signs that anything is wrong with Julianna's eye! Her eye hasn't been watery or goopy at all. Since she was born, I have constantly had to clean her eye--at least every hour!

God answered my prayers. I know that without a doubt. When I met with the eye doctor, he told me that he doubted that it would open up if it hadn't by that point. He said that they usually don't open up on their own. Thank you, God for answering my prayers! There will be no eye surgery for Ju Ju!

In other news, Julianna is officially a biter. She has always nimbled on me here and there but now she full on bites! As in, leave a mark on mommy's arm bite! She just sunk her teeth (all 4 of them) right into my arm and then laughed. I had no idea that I would be having "don't bite" conversations this soon! She even continued to try to bite me. She thought it was a game or something! Let's not play that game, I like peek-a-book much better... it's less painful!

Josh is enjoying his trip to El Salvador. He has sent me a picture of a dress that the women at the plant he's visiting had made for Julianna. It's such a beautiful, handmade dress. I can't wait for Julianna to try it on!

why hello, two front teeth!

I have been too busy to blog lately. There hasn't been a dull moment and my computer is infected with a virus so I have had limited access to a computer outside of school.

In the past few weeks, Julianna has been doing so much. She eats pretty much anything now. She even devoured her first cheese quesadilla at San Felipe last week. Her two front teeth also have made their appearance. They are about half way in now and it's too cute!

Work has been really busy. I'm trying really hard to work smarter and not harder. I'm not sure how I'm doing with that! Being a working mommy is much harder than I ever thought it would be but it's worth it. Yesterday I took a half day to take Julianna to the ophalmologist about her blocked tear duct. She had her eyes dilated and really did well with all of the examination process. She even did well with the hour long wait in the waiting room. She's a good girl! Doctor told us to continue to massage the corner of her eye but we're going to go ahead and schedule the surgery to open up the tear duct. She's going to have to be put to sleep and that terrifies me. But she's in good hands, God's hands! If the tear duct happens to open up before the surgery, we can cancel it. Either way, I just wait her eye to be all better. I know she'll be glad when mommy doesn't have the clean her eye ten times a day.

Josh has been incredibly busy too. At the end of the month, he'll be flying to El Salvador for business. Julianna and I will miss him so much. It's been a few months since he's had to travel anywhere for more than a night so he's spoiled us with him presence. I'm sure it will be a neat adventure for him though!