hipsters

marit's that is. we had her pediatric ortho appointment this morning. if you didn't know, sweet snuggles has hip dysplasia that has MUCH IMPROVED praise God, but we still see the orthopedist regularly. her x-ray looked beautiful today and she held so still while they "took a picture." the doc was very happy with how her little femoral heads are angled in her hip sockets and we are so thankful! being the conservative doc he is, he did encourage us to still let marit sleep in her brace (it has been 20 months of brace life now) for as long as possible. sometimes dysplasia can creep back up in children prone to it. so we are planning to give her a few days break and see if we can clear up this heat rash it has caused and then keep pressing on with brace-wearing. she is such a trooper! he did say that he thought "we have won this battle" which almost made me cry. she told dr b "tink you" and we headed home.

in other news, we have the sweetest little golden retriever puppy in our family now. he has been a lot of fun and fairly easy thus far. i will post a proper intro with a picture when we figure out what to name him...