Aurelia is quite the conversationalist these days. She can say so many words and can understand so much of what we say. It is incredible. She has really transformed over this past month and a half. Here is a video from a few weeks ago.
What a happy girl:
Many of you know that Aurelia took a spill 3 weeks ago and broke her right elbow. She is such a tough little girl. After she got her cast on, she barely noticed that her little wing was broken.
Here she is putting on her brave face in the emergency room.
It didn't take Aurelia long to be her happy self, despite her cast.
While we were in the emergency room, I promised her she could get a tattoo on her cast, just like her Uncle Ian and Aunt Berry. Her Uncle Ian came through and drew a beautiful bird on our Reli Bird's broken wing. Whitney captured this gorgeous photo of her in the Ingram's kitchen:
Here are the artists drawing together:
Mama and her Reli Bird
She loves, LOVES to "blow" bubbles. Really she just takes the wand in and out of the bubbles bottle and takes the lid on and off. When we say "blow" she blows through her nose. Poor thing! She will catch on soon enough.
Today was a big event - we got to take off her cast. Her doctor said it would be less traumatic if we did it at home. She was pretty scared as the cast came off. When she first straightened her little arm, we were worried it was too soon because she cried. It turns out she was just surprised and did not understand what was happening. Now she has full use of her right arm again and she is raring to go!
This was taken this morning just before her unveiling.
We spent most of this morning outside swinging, sliding and playing with ping pong balls. She is such an outdoor girl.
Here she getting ready to eat dinner - no cast!
One last bit of news. Team Kaplan is expecting a new member soon! More details to come . . .
For now, a dance party picture can speak for us. This one was from the day we told the Ingrams:
