The curly-haired tot has defied all odds and had overcome countless obstacles to wow the world
THIS is the moment a two-year-old girl who lost all her limbs to meningitis clutches a pen and draws a smiley face.
In a video posted on Facebook by mum Freya Hall, 22, of Somerset, clever Harmonie-Rose Allen can be seen controlling the pen by gripping it between her amputated left arm and her cheek and draws a perfect smiley face.
A second video shows the curly-haired tot balancing on her prosthetic legs as she plays at a toy kitchen, shifting her weight from side to side – something her mum says is “amazing”.
Mum Freya added: “It shows she is getting a lot more confident with her legs. She is just amazing. She can do anything.”
Little Harmonie was struck down by deadly meningitis B in 2015, when she was just ten months old.
Doctors told Freya and her partner Ross Allen, 24, that Harmonie’s case was one of the worst they had ever seen and gave her a 10 per cent chance of survival.
Miraculously, the brave little girl defied the odds and beat the killer bug – but lost her arms, legs and the tip of the nose in the process.
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The youngster was fitted with her first pair of prosthetic limbs last November and is on her way to taking her first steps unaided.
Ever since, she has overcome countless obstacles to wow the world, including taking her first supported steps on prosthetic legs and starting nursery.
Freya said her little girl has always had a flair for art.
She said: “Even when she was in hospital she used to do painting. She had a strap around her arm to help her hold the pen.
“As time went on she started thinking it was best to use it between her cheek and her arm.
“She saw other children at nursery not using a wrap and holding a pen with their hands, so she was looking at that and thinking she didn’t want to use the strap.
“Her nursery said some of the other children can’t even draw like Harmonie can.”
She added: “It is amazing. She is not even three and she can draw a smiley face and do an ‘H’.
“It just gives us comfort knowing she is going to be fine at school. There is nothing she can’t do.”
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