Katy’s 9th Birthday Party at the Farm
Katy has a big heart. its the way God made her and its awesome. i don’t think i have ever shared the circumstances surrounding her kissy fingers. now seems like as good time….
the day she was born we had no idea we’d have so much to deal with. at the time it seemed huge. now it seems strange that it seemed so huge. we started noticing little differences as soon as she was born. most notably we saw webbing on a couple of fingers, short crooked fingers on her left hand, cleft tongue, and cleft palate. our wonderful pediatrician warned us that multiple anomolies that we COULD see often meant there were things that we COULDN’T see and they could mean she had a chromosomal abnormality. that could mean BIG stuff. she was tested for everything. ultrasounds, heart tests, blood tests, hearing, eye sight…nothing unusual. she was diagnosed with a random recessive gene thing that usually caused nothing other than what we could see and she had surgery to repair her palate, separate her fingers and remake her tongue when she was 10 months old. it wasn’t fun, but it certainly could have been much worse…even the random things we delt with could have been more serious. they told us that we would have to have another surgery when she got older to straighten her fingers. but since then, her fingers have become so uniquely “katy” that no one, including her, wants to change them. i call them her kissy fingers because three of them come together and are the same length and i can kiss em all at once. i had a print made recently that i can wear around my neck. katy’s kissy fingers are the BEST.
so…now she’s nine years old. and she’s loving and funny and so cute (can i say that even tho everyone says she looks just like me??). katy is perfect just exactly like she is.