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Suzanna

“Congratulations, it’s a girl,” announced the nurse excitedly as she held up the screaming miracle that I had just given birth to for my inspection. “A girl!” I gasped in disbelief as I had been assured by the ultrasound technician that that my baby would be a boy. Trusting in this certainty I had even come up with the name Devon for my son, derived partially from the first name of one of my best friends, Dion and my little Sister Yvonne whom I affectionately called Vonnie. In fact the majority of the gifts I had received at my baby shower such as baby blankets and baby clothes were blue. After a quick observation I came to the conclusion that this was indeed a girl and a healthy one at that, weighing in at 8 pounds 9 ounces and a full 22 ½ inches long. I should have had an inkling then that she would grow up to be a fighter looking by all appearances older and wiser than a baby should, her tiny fists clenched like a boxer, ready to take on the world.

I decided to name this new little bundle of joy Suzanna, after the heroine in a romance novel that I had been reading. I thought the name sounded very poetic not to mention I was in a panic to register her birth before I left the hospital. I had believed her to be a male for so long I had to totally change my thought process and accept the fact that Devon was now Suzanna. By the time I left the hospital I was deeply in love with my new daughter and was more than ready to show her off to friends and family.

For the first few months there was no noticeable difference in the behavior of Suzanna and that of her brother and sister at the same age. If anything she seemed to be much more aware than the other two and even seemed to want to communicate at a younger age. She spoke her first word when she was just over three months. I was bathing her one night and out of the blue she said “cookie”. I had secretly hoped that her first word might be Mama or even Dada, so cookie was a total surprise.

I soon noticed that she had a very large attention span for her age. When she was about 8 months old she had shown interest in the children’s television program Barney, so I thought it would be nice for her to have video. I could sit her in her baby chair and Barney would entertain her for half an hour while I caught up on a few chores. She seemed to love hearing Barney and the other characters on the tape singing and would gurgle along happily. I never realized how much she was picking up from the video until one day when I was visiting my parents. Suzanna was just over nine months at the time. We were all sitting in the living room watching television. Suzanna had been playing happily with one of her toys. I was not really watching her closely at the time but my Mother quickly got my attention as she noticed Suzanna trying to pull herself to a standing position for the first time as she held on to my Dad’s foot for support. We watched mesmerized, as she stood there for a moment all on her own, very pleased with herself for what she had accomplished. Her happiness was short lived as she lost her footing and fell back and hit her head on the floor. I got up quickly to comfort her but was absolutely blown away when she didn’t start to cry but instead started singing the theme song from Barney. “I love you, you love me.” She was not even ten months old and she was singing a song and in the right key to boot. She did that many times after that too. Instead of crying she would sing. There was no doubt in my mind that this was no ordinary child.

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Suzanna