She Sucks!

Literally!  The surgery worked!  She can suck through a straw now!!!!  It was 5 months to the day of her surgery (Jan. 27) that she finally used a straw and has continued to do so.  Of course it was a double-caffeinated beverage that I was drinking and said, 'sure, you can have some because you can't use a straw,' and she takes a giant gulp as I watch the liquid go up the straw!  I yelled out in surprise and startled her.  We then got her a chocolate milk with a straw right away and I kept raising my arms and yelling in happiness and had to explain to the lady at the counter that she had been physically unable to do this before and had surgery and now - SUCK!  She didn't seem to care ha ha ha!  It was funny because just the day before I was forcing her to poise so I could take  a pic of the roof of her mouth to see what progress the dent has made with filling in (if any!).

I love that you can see the scar around the toothline that shows just how much was filled in!

I know it was three days before I posted, but the days are busy now that we are always outside!  This most wonderful news definitely couldn't wait long though ;)

She is proving to love summer and water just as much as me.  And boy, oh boy!  Her skin is going to be dark.  Her region generally had the darker skin tones and she is going to follow suit for sure!  She fights me with the sunscreen in the morning (mostly just the back of the neck which furthers my theory that she didn't like the bucket hats because they touched the back of her neck with their brims) but we get it on and reapply if we get wet but she is still going to be very obviously of darker than me (and Mike, well, he is always pale though so I'm not counting him) and I said it might be the first times that strangers might think she is not our biological child.  I always LOVE playing along with people who say she has my smile or looks just like Mike.  It's easier than explaining the whole story to a total stranger! LOL!  Meanwhile, anyone who knows genetics would know that two blue-eyed people could not produce a dark brown-eyed child.  Genetics was my favourite part of science in school!  As her hair is growing in it is getting lighter though and might be more of a golden brown than a chestnut brown that I thought she would be.  We shall have to wait and see!