Ja’Dei Grant is the typical feisty 18-month old – when her siblings bother her and she doesn’t want them to, she lets them know; and when they’re not giving her attention when she wants it, she knows how to use her baby wiles to get it. And then there are the temper tantrums, which her mom Dereka Grant says are legendary. “You can tell when she doesn’t want anyone fooling with her – and then she will be like ‘I miss ya’ll, come’. She loves her sister Ja’Dal and her brother Ja’daj,” said Grant. Her mother said the toddler definitely has her own personality that really comes through despite the fact she was born with a number of abnormalities, which to correct, meant she would have to undergo many surgeries over her lifetime, with multiple surgeries taking place in her first year of life on her eyes and to repair a cleft lip.

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