One more sleep

Tara's tucked up in bed and has NO idea about the surprise tomorrow! YAY! It's been a gorgeous past few days - playing with Ruby and Gracie. Had a divine barbie tonight at the cousins - Tara was apparently jumping on the trampoline ("like a frog" she said) before we arrived - farewell dinner for my mum before she goes to Syria and Europe. We've left Cas and Jadie there for a sleep-over (very excited) and told Tara we've gotta go to the hospital early tomorrow morning. We did have a few tears when she went to bed coz she can't bear to sleep alone. It's now after midnight and we're frantically tryna finish work, tidy the place and get ready for tomorrow's early start. (Oops. Just realised - we're waking up in about 5 hours. Argh!) 

We've been putting the cream on Tara's wound - but not noticing much of a difference yet. Small prayers please! She's been loving having her bandage off in the shower and bath - altho' she can't put her leg in the water, she is able to clean it with a cloth - she caresses it and is so tender and sweet with her stump, really bonded so beautifully with it. She squeals with delight when we say she can take the bandage off. Very cute. Very gorgeous. I told her tonight that she looked like Marilyn Monroe before she was famous (when she was still Norma Jean Baker and had curlyish brownish hair) coz she was lying on the bathroom floor in a Marilyn-type pose - and she said "but I'm Tara Maria, not Marilyn. And I'm more interesting." Then she said maybe she was only interesting because of her leg but I told her there was heaps more - her spirit, her heart, her attitude. My mum overheard a great conversation between her and one of Alec's friends this afternoon. "What happened to your leg?" "It got cut off." "Why?" "I had a broken bone in there." "Oh, will you stay in the wheelchair forever?" "No, I'm going to get a pretend leg." And then they got on with playing. OK, OK, must sleep!