Nickerson News

Please pray for our sweet girl. We thought today would be the day her Orthopedic Surgeon said, “She is healed. No more brace!” However, today was quite the opposite.

Sage’s hip has been close to being healed since mid-September. We started weaning her off the brace because she was so close to being healed. However, she has made no more progress since then and so now her Doctor feels best that she gets fitted for a different type of brace (supposedly the “BMW” of braces. It is German made and top of the line) and goes back to being in it for 24 hours. If she is not healed by the time she is 9 months, then she will need surgery. I wanted to cry. In fact, the second we got in the car, I did cry. I know there are many more worse things out there and this is “minor” in the scheme of things, but as her mother I just had to cry. I’m sadden for her that she has to go back to being confined. It breaks my heart. She is older now and wants to kick and move and stand and now will be back to being confined.

I am just praying she stays her happy and content self and continues to nap and sleep well. She finally figured out how to be a good napper and I am just praying that she stays that way in her brace. I know God has a reason for all this and we are trusting that He will heal her. I daily have to lay her (and Abel) at the foot of the cross. They are His children and He cares for them and will take care of all their needs.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support for our girl!

for Christmas…Can’t you tell by the look on their faces.

And I just can’t resist a baby in a Santa hat.

or “Santa style” baby leg warmers.

Abel was taking his “once a week” nap so I took advantage of my alone time with Sage. I think she rocked it out in her pink hat.

And I had to put this one up of her furrowing her brow since she has done this since birth. It makes me laugh since her shirt says, “It’s fun to be me!”

She is sporting some pretty awesome cheeks right now.

Now that I have just overloaded you with some Sage Love, your day will be a little brighter.

This post really hasn’t nothing to do with dancing except for the fact that I danced for a good hour with my little man last tonight (to Christmas music) and we both just had so much fun. We turned down the lights, turned up the music and just danced it out. We laughed a lot too. It made me realized we need to dance more.

I get more sappy the older I get and especially seeing my first baby growing into a little boy and realizing my baby girl will be eating food any minute…my babies are slipping away. Too often I hear people say “I want to have my kids young and be done with it so they are out of the house while I am still young.” I just don’t feel that way. Sure, it would have been nice to have all my chicks when I was a spring chicken, but clearly that didn’t happen. Thirty one is knocking at my door. I guess I feel like these are my kids! I want them around! Yes, I want them to get married and start families of their own, but I want to be apart of all that. I want them around and I don’t care how old I am when they are out of the house.

Which leads me to this set of pictures. My boy is so precious (and so complicated), but I am so glad Seth captured this image of him because this is how I will remember my boy. Gazing at a car with his blankie around his neck as his cape. (By the way, these were taken with our new fabulous Macro lens. We are in love with it.)

And I have lots of Sage Everleigh loving coming soon…Oh, this girl just melts my heart every morning.