Back at CHOP

Today we are back at CHOP -- don't worry -- for a sedated echocardiogram (ultrasound of the heart). Part of normal care for TGA kids at one year old. Hope's cardiologist has been performing non-sedated echos in a satellite office about every two months, but as she becomes more active it becomes harder and harder to get good pictures of her little heart. As we sit here in the waiting room, it just feels natural to write. It totally brings me back to our experience just over a year ago. I even ran into another family who was here at the same time that we were. Small world.

Yesterday, we had a speech therapist out to the house to evaluate Hope's speech and cognitive development. Hope was awesome. That's not just me talking either. I know I'm more than a little biased, but both the speech therapist and the developmental psychologist -- who saw her on Wednesday as part of the feeding study -- were really impressed with her and her abilities. It's easy, especially in these really busy weeks to get into a funk and to forget how truly blessed we are -- knock on wood, for as I type this I'm afraid I'll jinx her echo results. But every day with her and our other children is such a blessing.

Now, if I can just enlighten the boy to this same way of thinking. Blessings!