Monday, May 25, 2009

Proud of our Princess

Wow! Molly has been rather frustrated that she has not been able to use her walker since fracturing her collar bone a couple of weeks ago. She has been cruising along furniture and venturing a few feet here and there to get from one piece of furniture to another. I only realized today how capable she has become at walking independently. I had seen her go as much as 8 feet and wanted to capture it on video... below is a video of her walking longer and farther than we have ever witnessed!

Wait 'til you see this...

Molly Walking around our house (please ignore the mess)

We have had a very good couple of weekends. We went to our friends beach house last weekend and had a blast playing in the waves and relaxing on the beach. This weekend we went swimming at our neighborhood pool a couple of times and enjoyed getting together with some of our neighbors. Molly has loved all of the water time - maybe it even helped strengthen her for all of this new walking?!

Molly has just over 2 weeks of school left, which I think will be a difficult transition - I have got to start planning LOTS of play dates. Now that she has started school she asks most days if we are going to get to play with kids.

Way to go Molly! Here's hoping her bones will cooperate and give her a long while of walking before another fracture occurs.

4 comments:

Weronika mother of Wiktoria said...

Hello Sarah!
I wrote a comment under your last post, but I'm not shure if you read it. Can you give me your e-mail adress, I have a few questions to you about Molly, beacuse I also have a daughter with OI type III, now she is 1,5 years old. We are from Poland and as well as you I write a blog about Wiktoria(www.nasza-wiktoria.blog.onet.pl). It may be hard to read it,because I write it in polish. In your free time please give me a sign on my e-mail: wiktoria07@vp.pl. A showed some pictures of Molly to my family, they were amased. She is very independent.

Sarah said...

Hi Sarah,
My name is sarah too and i just came across your blog while researching OI type III. i am an early childhood teacher and we may have a 9 month old girl with type III OI starting at my work soon. I just had to comment and say how totally adorable Molly is! shes cute as a button! i was really only looking for a bit of info about the disease but as soon as i saw molly i was hooked and i just read every blog entry you've written on here so far! thanks for sharing your beautiful girl with us and i will be checking in regularly.
-Sarah

Amylia said...

Hi Sarah :)

My name is Amylia and I'm an 18 year old student from the UK. I commented on Molly's video on YouTube but I thought I'd comment here too.

I just wanted to say that your daughter is an absolute angel. Reading your blogs and seeing her pictures etc has made me want to help the OI Organisation we have in place in the UK. I'll be doing fundraisers throughout the summer to raise money for OI kids, and I just wanted to let you know that Molly has inspired me.

If you know of any great fundraising ideas, my email is:
xx_pinkpoisoncheerleader_xx@hotmail.co.uk

I wish you all the best for the future and every happiness in the world :)


Amylia
xxxxxx

heycason said...

Hi, Sarah and Jim. I just saw the video of Molly walking around the house. Wow! She can really get around. Can you imagine her doing that in the preschool classroom? She might have to become a part of Operation PeeWee. We do have an opening, you know. haha Please tell Molly that Ms. Karen says to have lots of fun this summer. See you very soon in the brand new classroom!