And from this day forward, you shall be known as Darth Pink

Emerson received her new helmet last Friday. The helmet is to correct her plagiocephaly...that's a long fancy word for flat spot on the head. She's to wear it 23 hours a day. We are working our way up to that by increasing the time she wears it everyday. Today was 13 hours. She doesn't seem to mind it so much. I am amazed at how she is able to just go with the flow.

On August 16, Emerson turned 9 months old. Seems like she was just born and I marvel at how much she has changed from when she was first born. This girl has just about the sweetest disposition that I know. A few fun facts about her:

* she LOVES meat. She eats every bite and then some.
* she can push herself backwards, sometimes all the way down the hallway if we let her
* she has a dimple on her right cheek
* she loves music and dines to ABBA Greatest Hits every night
* no teeth yet, just lots of drool and gnawing
* she doesn't like bananas
* she has said Mama and Dada
* she knows who Monique and Ana Nicole are
* she is over her reflux
* her favorite toys include the TV remote, the phone, the cell phone, the baby monitor and my reading light
* her current stats are: 16.25 lbs (10th%) and 26 in (5%). She's a petite one but proportionate per her pediatrician
* she is still getting PT for her torticollis

Prior to the helmet going on, Emerson had a CT of her neck (not to be confused with the CT of her head that she had following our car accident) to check that there wasn't something else that was causing the torticollis besides muscle tightness. The results were not encouraging, but they could be worse. We are going to see another specialist and will know more after that visit, so I will share more as I know. Emerson is going to have a few challenges ahead of her, but nothing that we can't overcome.

Everyday, her father and I look at her and just give thanks that our beautiful baby girl is here with us. We can't imagine her not being here and wonder what we did before she got here...well, actually, we do remember. We just think this alternative is better :)