8 Months Old

Our little girl is 8 months old now.  She is doing great.  Right now she is enjoying a week with Grandma and Grandpa Buck visiting.  She had her first experience fishing and clam digging down on the Kenai Peninsula.  Her Daddy caught his first king salmon on the Anchor River.  She is all over the place--she has perfected the army crawl but only crawls on hands and knees a little.  I am sure it won't be long.  She is used to being with Mommy most of the time and is starting to have a little separation anxiety when she goes to the church nursery or if Mommy just gets too far away.

Brian and I had our hearts looked at and are relieved to know that we have nothing to worry about and no need to limit our activity or do anything different than we are doing.  The Cardiologist told Brian his heart was "above average" for his age as far as fitness, and he was a little disappointed that it wasn't "excellent!"  I had a tiny little hole that she said was really common (25% of the population has one) but she didn't expect me to ever have any kind of complication with that.  

We have a busy few weeks ahead.  After this trip with Grandparents, we have 4 or 5 days at home before we head down to Houston for Aubrey's next appointment at Texas Children's on June 24.  Then just before the 4th of July, Julie's parents and Aunt and Uncle arrive for a week or so.  Brian is working on a really big project at work that has him very busy all day long and won't be slowing down any time soon.  With all the soccer, softball, and visitors, it seems like a pretty normal summer for the Bucks!  Day to day we would still never know Aubrey has HCM except that we have to give her the medicine  3 times each day.  We found a new little device to put her medicine in that makes giving it to her really easy.  That is kind of a relief.  We will probably wait until that appointment on the 24 to update the blog again.  Thanks for reading!