We made weight!

Madison Claire had her 9 month appointment last Thursday and for the first time she made weight! We were so nervous going into it but the little stinker finally chunked up...a little bit! She was 17 pounds, 8 ounces which moved her from the 19% to the 24%. Her height was 28 inches which jumped her back up to 63%. WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

She was none to pleased for the rest of the visit though. She is very wary of strangers right now - especially men. When Dr. Heil came into the room she practically started crying immediately. He was able to see her exert her will and said, she's going to be a fighter! They did ask us to put her back on the antacid medicine and to continue giving her the soy formula supplementation until her next appointment which will be at one year...how crazy is that!

We experienced some snow in Nashville last week and on our way home from the Dr. on Thursday we got stuck going up the big hill in our neighborhood. There were about 4 or 5 cars that were already stranded on the hill but we thought we could make it up. We got about 3/4 of the way up the hill when we stopped moving forward. I told Ryan from the backseat that he needed to go faster and he informed me his foot was pressing the pedal all the way down but we weren't moving! RUH-ROH! We knew we were in trouble then. We started sliding backwards down the hill and were headed straight for a Jeep Cherokee. Ryan kept saying over and over, "we are going to hit this car....we are going to hit this car". I asked him if he wanted me to jump out and try to stop us and he told me I couldn't. The next thing you know we SLAMMED into the Jeep Cherokee. The first thing I said was "It's okay. We have insurance."

By the grace of God, we somehow ended up doing NO damage to our car or the other car. It was truly unbelievable! It turns out that the guys in the Jeep Cherokee live in the apartment complex across the street and came over just to help people get up the hill. How nice! After we completely rammed their car, they ended up helping us get up the hill. Angels in disguise!