6 Months

I wanted to spend some time sharing about my precious baby, Naya. She is incredible! She is the answer to our prayers and the perfect addition that has made our family complete. Naya is most definitely a Mama's girl, but lights up when Daddy and sisters are anywhere in sight. She has become a wonderful sleeper and thrives on being on her schedule.

I cannot even believe that it possible that she is already 7 months old! Naya is blowing me away by all her milestones and accomplishments. In fact her 6th month was jammed pack full of "firsts." Here are what this little lady can already do:

• Eating solid foods. She loves to eat, especially squash, bananas and her rice crackers.

• Waving. She uses her little waves to say "hi," to show us her excitement and also to tell us she wants something. It's adorable to see her little wrists moving like crazy.

• Saying "dada" and "hi." She does lots of babbling, but these words are very clear. She has also said "ma" on 2 occasions, but I've been the only one to hear it, so I'm not sure if that counts.

• Sitting up. This caught us by surprise! She has always been a pretty stiff baby and has enjoyed being propped up to sit and standing up. So when we let go to see if she could sit, we couldn't believe that she stayed. She looks too little to be sitting up already.
• Clapping. Daddy and Naya have been practicing patty cake together and she started clapping on her own. It was so sweet to see her clapping her hands and getting so excited about it.

• Getting ready to crawl. She will be crawling before we know it. She props herself up on all fours and moves back and forth. But in the mean time she just rolls everywhere she wants to go.

Everything is happening WAY too fast! I just want time to slow down, but Naya seems to be wanting to keep up with those big sisters of hers. I just want to hold and snuggle my baby for as long as I can. Fortunately, I can keep doing that for the rest of her life.

I also wanted to give a little update on Naya and her health issues we recently discovered. For those of you that don't know a little over a month ago we discovered that Naya had a serious kidney infection, so the doctors decided to run some tests, one of them being a VCUG. The VCUG revealed that she has Vesicoureteral (urinary) Reflux on both sides of her kidneys. Basically her ureters are bringing contaminated urine from the bladder back up into the kidneys. We met with the urologist and he said that there is a 30% chance that it will heal on it's own. So he wants to wait a year and have us come back every 4 months to do an ultrasound on her kidneys. They also put her on preventive antibiotics to keep away the infections. They will determine if surgery is necessary after a year if there is no change in her condition or if it has gotten worse. So far she has had 2 infections, but seems to be responding to the medication. We are praying, and asking for prayers, that it will heal on it's own and quickly and that there are no more infections.

This is Naya at her Urology appointment looking pretty cute