Bella and Monroe

Speak To Me: Bella's First Words!

This comes to us from four independent sources, all reliable and known for getting the facts just right:

Bella Marie Minker (age 11 months and counting) has spoken her first words!!  She was sitting at her great grandmother's house (Grandma Goodman from North Carolina ), when she looked up at her Aunt Debbie and said: "Aunt Debbie!"

Naturally, this amazed everyone as prior to this point in time, Bella has only uttered beautiful, yet non-intelligible babble.  So, surprising as it is that she went from mere baby ramblings, to complete phrases of human identification in mere hours, we are still blessed and excited to have her speaking now.

allegedly she also can sing the B-I-B-L-E, but let's just not talk about that.

stay tuned for future posts chronicling the biggest first birthday party in Team Doughten History!

Rise and Walk!

in some recent developments, Middie Mom is now walking across the street from her house under the supervision of her therapist!  She's also been going up stairs and progressing very well since returning home!  Please continue to pray for Auntie Ann and Porkie Pop to have strength and wisdom in caring for her.

Since there are no pictures known to exist of Middie performing her therapy, we will use a picture of Porkie Pop and Bella: