Max & Kaylee

or i suppose i should title this one, 'L's first "real" bath, as she's been getting a sponge bath every few days. but finally her umbilical cord/belly button area healed and she was able to have her first immersed bath last weekend. she was a rockstar and did so well. only time she cried was when i took her out...i think she got cold then :)

yesterday, we found out that it looks like eliana has only one kidney! during my pregnancy, at the ultrasound, there seemed to be some abnormalities with her kidney(s), so the dr said they would do a follow-up ultrasound on her once she was born. we went to the children's hospital last thursday where little ms. L had her very own ultrasound done. she was great...slept the entire time! the dr. called yesterday with the results and it looks like she has only one kidney! cool, right! the dr said it is nothing urgent or anything to worry about...many people are born without a kidney and lead completely normal, healthy lives. she wants us to have a follow-up appointment with a pediatric urologist to make sure everything is working right, but she was not at all worried! after doing some research, it looks like just about 1 in 750 people are born with only one kidney and many don't even know for their entire life (unless they have some kind of scan done, they wouldn't know!). people with one kidney don't have to follow special diets (well...besides eating a healthy, well-balanced one, of course...) and are sometimes encouraged to not participate in heavy-contact sports in which their kidney could be damaged. i think it's amazing what god can do...when a person only has one kidney, their other kidney often increases slightly in size and compensates for the missing one. i think that's neat!