Little Susanna

Well, little Miss Susanna is now 8 months old, and as precious as ever. She’s been loving the world of solid foods—this was her first taste a couple of months ago. Caleb got a big kick out of it—he thought the faces she made were hilarious!

She’s very expressive and loves people, grinning and babbling and charming her way into the heart of everyone. Somehow she's managed to wrap us all around her little finger--especially her daddy. It’s hard to imagine life without our Suzaney.
During the last several weeks, she had some intermittent periods of fussiness, lethargy, and lack of appetite, and at first we chalked it up to theething, growing, just normal baby stuff. But recently we began suspecting something different, especially in light of her size. She was over 12 pounds when we moved, but now she is very thin for her age—still just 12.5 pounds. So we took her to a clinic and had some blood tests run to see how she's doing. The tests showed that pretty much everything was normal, for which we were so thankful; the only thing of concern was that the enzyme levels in her liver were a bit elevated. The doctor said she may have had a bout with Hepatitis A, which would explain the recent symptoms and weight loss, and he ordered more frequent checkups to keep an eye on her. Meanwhile, we are to keep her on a strict “fatten ‘er up” diet. I’m sure she’ll enjoy that as her palatal horizons expand to include ice cream, pizza, and fried chicken. Just kidding! =)
We’ve definitely been holding her a little tighter these days as we’ve been reminded how fragile life is and how vulnerable we are. Thanks for thinking of her as she continues to grow and hopefully become a much plumper version of her sweet little self!