Over the last few months Getty and Teagan have been getting to know each other. Getty's mom, Kate, and I have been doing the same. Let me just tell you that I have grown to love this family already.
Teagan asked me a week or so ago if she could ask Getty some questions and have me type them up and put them on the blog. She wanted to know some different things about Getty but she really wanted other people to know more about her new friend. Teagan wanted to write a little something herself. So, without further ramblings from her mom here is Teagan in her first blogging debut.
Hi bloggy world!
I'm Teagan. The one my mom tends to talk about a LOT on here. My mom "met" Getty and her family first and introduced me. Now Getty and I are friends. My friend Getty has a disease called SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) which is what she is "known" for around the internet. I don't really think about that part when I think about my friend. I think about, well, my friend Getty. I wanted you all to get to know her too. So, I asked my mom to type up some of my questions and Getty's mom and dad helped her answer them. Neat questions like her favorite color and why she is called Getty "Owl". Also some kind of important questions about SMA and what it's really like. One of these days I hope to get to see Getty in person. I bet we'll both be wearing tutus and cuddling up with our stuffed animal owls while watching a funny cartoon together. Because you see I love owls too. That might be another reason why we're such good friends!
Well, I'll let you read the questions I asked and the answer she gave now. Goodnight bloggy world!
Love,
Teagan
1) Why do your mommy and daddy call you Getty "Owl"? Because when I was born, mommy thought I had a wise old soul. I didn't fuss, I didn't complain, I was happy to be here. Mommy and Daddy taught me how to "hoot" when I was two weeks old and I have been hooting ever since. I have have big blue eyes like an owl.
2) What is your favorite color? Blue, like my eyes.
3) How many owls do you have? I have over fifty friend owls in my room. We talk all the time.
4) What is your favorite book? Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, my mommy reads it to me every night.
5) What is your favorite thing to do with your mommy? We like to talk about all kinds of stuff.
6) What is your favorite thing to do with your daddy? We like to sing together. Daddy sings me songs all the time.
7) What is SMA? It is something I was diagnosed with when I was even smaller than I am now and it keeps my muscles from getting strong. But it also means I get lots of extra special love and attention from my mommy and daddy.
8) How do you eat exactly? Can you taste stuff? I get to eat through a tube in my tummy. Mommy let's me suck on fruit once in awhile and I like that.
9) How do you take a bath? Mommy and I take baths together. She holds me while I get to move my arms and legs around. I like when mommy moves me back and forth in the water, I feel like I am swimming.
10) What is your "brother" like? Cooper is always around making sure I am safe and happy. He licks my face all the time and it makes me giggle. He also likes to cuddle with me.
11) Do you have a favorite doctor? Dr. Givant, she is silly and she always makes noises with me.
12) Are you scared when you have to go to the hospital? No, not at all. All the doctors give me lots of attention and they take good care of me.
13) What kind of music do you like? I enjoy when mommy and daddy sing to me and I also like Edith Piaf. I don't know what she is singing about because it is french, but I always sing with her.
14) What do you want people to know about SMA? I want people to know that with enough money for research, it can be cured. Even though I have SMA, I am a happy girl that loves to live every day right next to my mommy and daddy.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Friday, December 3, 2010
Teagan's Christmas
Well, in about 23 days Teagan will be celebrating her first Christmas. This time last year she was celebrating inside my belly. This time last year I had my hospital bag almost packed and anxiously got through Christmas wondering with each weird feeling if we were going to have a Christmas or New Years baby.
As Christmas approaches this year Josh and I have had numerous conversations on what we will get Teagan for Christmas. Josh has jokingly (well, probably not really) said he is just going to wrap a box up for her because she will get more joy out of a box then most anything else we could get her. Honestly, he is probably right. We've decided that Teagan isn't going to get a lot for Christmas because we don't want her thinking presents is what Christmas is about and to be frank she will be 11 mths and is not going to remember that we didn't get her a million things for her first Christmas or that we did. Each set of grandparents has gotten her one big thing and I'm sure a few little things. Josh and I have bought her an adorable stuffed owl from Dwell Studios that when I opened the box I actually squealed a little bit. It was also all I had not to give it to her right then. Josh will be making Teagan shelves for her room that go along with the new theme we have started in there. I've bought her a few stocking stuffers and she will get some books. That is pretty much all she will be getting from us. She has enough clothes and toys and has never gone with out. I "rotate" her toys she she never gets bored with them.
Are there things I've found that I just wanted to jump on and buy her that very second? Yes. There are so many things I would love to give to her but honestly it's pointless right now. We don't have a lot of storage space and we aren't rolling in the Benjamin's so "stuff" is something we are trying to do without. I have to admit it has been an adjustment for me because I am quite the shopaholic. I have a hard time passing up any kind of sale and feel like Teagan or I "need" everything I see and like.
I don't want this post to sound all "holier then thou" because it's not. It's a decision Josh and I made as parents. I just remember growing up having and entire playroom of toys and to this day I can only remember 10 out of probably hundreds. I don't want that to be Teagan. I want her to appreciate everything she has. Sure she will still have her favorites but I don't want her to have a bunch of unused or unwanted toys laying around the house. We will also probably do the "clean out" process after Thanksgiving every year to make room for the new stuff. If there is stuff she doesn't love anymore then why not give it to somebody who might want to love it for a while?
Anyway, this post went a little longer then I'd hoped. Here is that adorable owl she is getting for Christmas this year:
Stuffed Owl from Dwell Studios
As Christmas approaches this year Josh and I have had numerous conversations on what we will get Teagan for Christmas. Josh has jokingly (well, probably not really) said he is just going to wrap a box up for her because she will get more joy out of a box then most anything else we could get her. Honestly, he is probably right. We've decided that Teagan isn't going to get a lot for Christmas because we don't want her thinking presents is what Christmas is about and to be frank she will be 11 mths and is not going to remember that we didn't get her a million things for her first Christmas or that we did. Each set of grandparents has gotten her one big thing and I'm sure a few little things. Josh and I have bought her an adorable stuffed owl from Dwell Studios that when I opened the box I actually squealed a little bit. It was also all I had not to give it to her right then. Josh will be making Teagan shelves for her room that go along with the new theme we have started in there. I've bought her a few stocking stuffers and she will get some books. That is pretty much all she will be getting from us. She has enough clothes and toys and has never gone with out. I "rotate" her toys she she never gets bored with them.
Are there things I've found that I just wanted to jump on and buy her that very second? Yes. There are so many things I would love to give to her but honestly it's pointless right now. We don't have a lot of storage space and we aren't rolling in the Benjamin's so "stuff" is something we are trying to do without. I have to admit it has been an adjustment for me because I am quite the shopaholic. I have a hard time passing up any kind of sale and feel like Teagan or I "need" everything I see and like.
I don't want this post to sound all "holier then thou" because it's not. It's a decision Josh and I made as parents. I just remember growing up having and entire playroom of toys and to this day I can only remember 10 out of probably hundreds. I don't want that to be Teagan. I want her to appreciate everything she has. Sure she will still have her favorites but I don't want her to have a bunch of unused or unwanted toys laying around the house. We will also probably do the "clean out" process after Thanksgiving every year to make room for the new stuff. If there is stuff she doesn't love anymore then why not give it to somebody who might want to love it for a while?
Anyway, this post went a little longer then I'd hoped. Here is that adorable owl she is getting for Christmas this year:
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Hoot Hoot.
Have you ever seen a real live owl? Not in a cage. Not at the zoo. Not in captivity. Not on tv. But in REAL LIFE.
Well, we were lucky enough to have this experience on Sunday evening. We were leaving our community group meeting and as we were coming up on the exit to the development I thought I saw a cat in the middle of the road. As Josh slowed to a stop we saw it was not a cat but an owl. It was beautiful. It was eeriely still though. I sat there for a moment very still and then realized, I have to take a picture! I struggled to quickly get my "everyday" camera out of my pocketbook, zoomed in and took a picture. The picture turned out to be crap. Then somebody pulled up behind us and the owl looked at us one more time and then flew away. It was one of the most breathtaking things I have ever seen. I've seen birds take off before but the grace of this mysterious creature was nothing like I'd ever seen before. As Josh drove off he told me I should call Joe and Lauren and tell them Harry Potter was in their neighborhood (only some people will find that funny).
The picture didn't take very well because I got a little flustered when Josh told me there was a car behind us. I did find a picture on the internet that resembles our owl even though I haven't found a picture that actually does the beauty of this bird justice. I also found by researching that it was a "barred owl" or a "hoot owl". Teagan and I decided to call the owl "Owly" after her new favorite book from her baby pen pal Eva.
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