I used to wonder what “little people” looked like when they were little.
Then I had one. Turns out they’re incredibly adorable. This is my now 7 year old at age 2.
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June, 7, 2007 — nicedeb34 Responses to “And Now For Something Cute”
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June, 7, 2007 at 8:59 pm
As much as I love my 13 year old daughter, it kills me that she is no longer the adorable 2 year old that I remember.
Your little girl was an stone-cold cutie, Deb. Of course, after seeing your pictures, I am not surprised in the least.
June, 7, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Well, she has achondroplasia, which has its own set of distinctive facial features.
So I don’t know how much of her cuteness comes from me. But she is a little cutie patootie.
June, 7, 2007 at 9:21 pm
One time when she was about that age, we were in an Irish Import Store, and she was standing next to some dolls. When she moved, the proprietor was startled, because from the corner of her eye, she had thought she was one of the dolls.
June, 7, 2007 at 9:54 pm
She’s got your eyes.
June, 7, 2007 at 10:01 pm
That’s a great story about the Import store. She does look like a perfect little doll. And this is an excellent picture.
I know nothing about achondroplasia. All I can say is that having my kids a) changed my life and b) is probably the greatest thing I have ever done in my life.
I doubt I could have handled as many as you have, but they are, each and every one, an absolute blessing.
June, 7, 2007 at 10:16 pm
That is for sure.
June, 8, 2007 at 10:44 am
Quite the cutie.
June, 8, 2007 at 1:59 pm
love the hat.
Almost making me rethink my position that there is no hat that ever looked good on a woman.
June, 8, 2007 at 6:55 pm
I just got pic’s of my friends daughter.
She’s got that same pudgy little girl smile at just about everything she see’s.
Kids are cuwote.
June, 8, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Aaaaack! I can’t see her cute lil precious face! Why is the picture cut off?
Deb, can you email it to me? I wanna see.
June, 8, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Nevermind, I can see the whole image in IE, just not Firefox. Will have to investigate.
And she is just gorgeous!! What a doll.
June, 8, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Thanks, guys.
I was awash with fear before she was born, because we knew she was going to be some type of dwarf, and the medical profession made that seem like a bad thing…
Then I saw her.
From the day she was born, she has had the uncanny ability to make other people smile.
June, 8, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Is she a little person? or was that just fear?
June, 8, 2007 at 11:07 pm
She has achondroplasia, the most common type of dwarfism.
But it only occurs in about 1 in 50,000 – 100,000 births.
June, 8, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Isn’t that the one where if she were “normal” she would be 5’2″ but she will end up being 4’10″ with slightly shorter limbs?
She won’t be (pardon my lack of words) borderline disabled like some of the other forms of dwarfism, she will basicly just be a rather short woman right?
June, 8, 2007 at 11:27 pm
I was just wondering, cuz I think the form of dwarfism, that I think you are talking about (I don’t know) is the one that basicaly only requires a stepstool, rather than an interior decorator and stuff.
Is diagnosis that good, that they can define it in the womb?
Sorry, I was already thinking about serious things, and now I’m even more curious than usual, sorry if my language offends, I don’t mean it to.
June, 8, 2007 at 11:28 pm
No, without some type of medical intervention she probably won’t reach 4′.
Limb lengthening is expensive, (and painful) but it’s on the table.
June, 8, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Nah, it’s no big deal, really, she’ll just be very short.
And yeah, an ultrasound can pick up on short limbs. But like I said, the med. profession treated it like it was such a worrisome thing, I was horrified.
All that melted away when she was born.
June, 8, 2007 at 11:39 pm
She’s flogging adorable! Those big cheeks! you can’t help but pinch them can you niiiiiiiicedeb?
Even when she protests, you do it anyways.
June, 8, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Also, random comment.
Everyone who is 2 years old, well. . . ..
they uhhhh, they tend to be rather little people.
I don’t know if you had other children who were dunking at age two, but at age two, they all tend to be rather little.
June, 9, 2007 at 12:00 am
You know why I know there’s a God, WP? Not think, but KNOW?
I asked for it!
During the pregnancy, and for a short time afterward I totally forgot about this little prayer of mine, from a year or two before.
(And believe me, this story is so weird, it’s not something I would share with just anybody.)
I was up late one night, feeding #4 a bottle, and thinking about the t.v. show I had watched earlier that evening.
It was a documentary about the making of The Wizard Of Oz. They had showed clips of the Munchkins, and Judy Garland talking about them on (I believe it was) The Jack Paar Show.
Now Judy Garland was quite the raconteur, and tended to exaggerate her stories. She liked to talk about their raucous behavior on the set, drinking, partying, one of them asking her out… Jack Paar asked her how tall they actually were. She held out her thumb and forefinger and said, “Oh, about 2 inches tall!” and the audience howled with laughter. But I remember thinking, “Jeez, Judy…” And I felt kind of bad for the unfairly maligned little people who had worked on the set.
They interviewed Billy Barty, (a famous dwarf who was in TWOO) about it, and he said, nah, that stuff didn’t really go on, oh maybe there were a couple of rowdies in the group, but most of them were very professional, and felt privileged to be there. Which sounds a bit closer to the truth than Judy’s stories.
Okay, so there I was thinking about all of this, and suddenly I was filled with compassion for these people….it was one of those moments in my life where I felt very close to God. I wondered what it was like to go through your life so short, and what it was like for the children, if they’re the size of children as adults, what do the children look like?
So I told God, that if I ever had any more kids, I’d like it to be a little person. I was actually thinking in terms of adoption.
It was just a little one on one with God that I never shared with anyone, and promptly forgot about myself, until after she was born.
Then I went Oh. MY. God!!! I can’t believe you did that!
June, 9, 2007 at 12:14 am
I can understand that deb. My faith or lack there of is well explained, but if there is one, I believe that I have had numerous opportunities to look in his face, (the pic of me and T is taken at uluru, steals your breather to look upon it) and while those experiences make me WANT to believe in him and I still don’t makes it obvious to me, that it’s VERY easy to look into the eyes of a child and find him.
I understand, though I can’t relate exactly.
June, 9, 2007 at 12:23 am
I know you can understand that, based on your internet ramblings, I can’t help but feel like you have more “soul” than most religious people I know.
Hope you don’t mind me saying that.
June, 9, 2007 at 12:23 am
I lack religion, not faith.
June, 9, 2007 at 12:26 am
Hmmmm.
Have you read my 3 ex terrorists post? I spent some time on that.
Did I do a good job, thinking like a moonbat?
June, 9, 2007 at 12:44 am
I think I commented that you are acting like a blogger in at least one of them.
June, 9, 2007 at 10:56 am
WP, also, I’ve always had a problem with the terminology. As you mentioned, all 2 year olds are “little people”, so that’s not the best way to let it be known that your child is a dwarf. I hate the word dwarf, (it sounds subhuman) even though it’s the correct clinical term. Midget can be used to describe proportionally short statured people, but the term is mostly considered an epithet, and not to be used in polite society, (which rules out AOS HQ). It’s a tough problem.
June, 9, 2007 at 6:10 pm
She is a qt and a blessing. Congratulations, nicedeb. And congratulations to the qt; she has a heck of a mother.
June, 11, 2007 at 1:14 am
and a hot one.
November, 5, 2007 at 9:56 am
nicedeb Says:
June 9th, 2007 at 12:00 am
You know why I know there’s a God, WP? Not think, but KNOW?
I asked for it!
NiceDeb, I really don’t know how I got on this thread, but I started reading it and your story that I semi-quoted above gave me the chills.
It sent them straight down my spine.
I’ll email you my “how I know God exists” story sometime.
November, 5, 2007 at 10:27 am
Please do.
November, 5, 2007 at 10:55 am
Sorry this is so late in coming. Like I said before, I am new to all of this & am going through all of it, little by little. This one really got to me. What this “little” girl lacks in height she doubles it in her brain. She will be a great asset to the world, & I truly mean that. Of course, having nicedeb for a Mom surely helps!!!!! This “little” girl could someday be a fantastic First Lady!
May, 7, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Oh my … she’s ADORABLE!!!!!
May, 7, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Wow, Deb…what an amazing story, and what a GORGEOUS child!!! What a blessing!