Friday, October 30, 2009

Her Extra Chromosome



Not long after Little Miss was born a small hemangioma appeared on her chest. I wasn't too worried. Her pediatrician often pointed it out in those first weeks of her life and told us it would most likely develop into a strawberry shaped mark and start to break up at about a year of age. Instead of forming a strawberry shape it formed more of an "x," I started calling it her extra chromosome. It was my little reminder of that special part of her.



And that's what it looked like to me. And, well, I took a lot of science classes in college.
I pointed this out to her doctor which he got a kick out of and then would refer to it the same way every time he saw her. I noticed recently it's starting to change a little. It's starting to do those things her doctor said it would when it begins to break up and eventually disappear. It made me just a touch sad. It means that she's getting older. Moving out of the baby phase. Into the toddler phase. I wonder how she'll feel about always being my baby. No matter how big she gets.




Tell me how you really feel.

1 comment:

SuSu said...

I'm thinking she didn't want her picture taken...in that manner. That's just what I'm thinking she is thinking.

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