8 MONTHS OLD!!!

Where has the time gone????  My sweet baby girl that was as tiny as a peanut has grown up into the beautiful, full of energy little girl right before our very eyes!!!  As she past over the 8 month mark a couple days ago, I just thought back in marvel at how much our life has changed in one short year.  I will do a big post on that in 3 days, because we celebrate something special on June 24th- you probably can't guess what it is......but I will tell you very soon!  :)

 Our lives are pretty close to perfect, just the way we dreamed for all those years we begged the Lord  for a child. She is so full of laughter, giggles and FUN!!!, she keeps us hoping all the time!  

Currently, she is 17 pounds and still in Size 2 diapers, basically long and skinny!!! 

I hope you all have an awesome week thus far, and stay COOL because the first day of summer is here in Va Beach!!!  It came in with a BANG today!!!  It is over 100 degrees today!  But thanking the Lord for the invention if AC!!!!    Have a great rest of the week and we will certainly be back with pics from this weekend to share!!!!

36 weeks old and Father's Day!!!!

What an awesome weekend we had!!!!  Baby girl turned 36 weeks old Sunday and of course that coincided with Sweetness' First Father's Day!!!  I gave him a personalized frame that says "First Father's Day- 2012" and some of those decals that show your family members that you put on the back of your car.

 She is of course always just so happy and loves the camera now- I think I have taken enough pictures and trained her right!!!

 I love this one- her expression and then her hand's gesture like she is saying "You know I'm cute!!!"   LOL

 She looks like she is pouting, but I just caught her with a serious look!!

 Here she is telling me to get on with showing the pictures of her and her Daddy on Father's Day!!!

 "Yeah!!!!  It's Father's Day and I love my Daddy!!!"

 I just could not pick which one I liked best of my two loves!!

 This is a Daddy's Girl FOR SURE- and I love it!!! 

Since I never had a Dad growing up, and my real father leaves everything to be desired, I am so happy that my daughter does not have to grow up like I did, wanting the love of a man (a daddy) to validate her.  It caused me so many emotional issues, some of which I am still working out- largely thanks to the love of my husband, and the Lord.  But Chloe will never know this pain and burden of feeling like everybody has a Daddy but her.

My Sweetness is the most amazing man.  The best husband anyone could ever ask for, and he dots on this baby girl so much she prefers him over me when she is crying and upset.

Chloe and me are so blessed to have him in our lives, and we cherish his love every single day!!

Happy Father's Day my sweet- you are the one my soul was born to love...

My little girl is becoming a little lady

I snapped these pics this week and she is turning into such a little lady!!!  I bought these little clips in her hair in all sorts of different colors because she is getting her hair in now, so its almost too much for the cute little headbands I have, but not enough to hold the big bows just yet- so these little alligator clips look so cute on her- but she also looks too grown up!!

I thought in the picture above that she looks like a little ballerina!!! LOL

Just a happy little girl!!!

Still waving bye bye!

I loooove this smile I caught in the above picture!!!

Because she is teething like a champ, she always has something in her mouth!!!  She still only has the two little front bottom teeth, but she is working on a whole bunch more for sure!!!

And this was one morning she had just woken up, but we were playing on the floor, and she just looked so sweet, I snapped some more of her sitting up so cute!!!

This is the smile I dreamed of when I was going through all those infertility treatments, and the Lord has been so kind and blessed me with the angel baby of my dreams!!! We are so grateful!!!

35 weeks old already!!!!!

It's Monday, so you know what that means.... yep Baby girl is another whole week older.  The weeks just won't stop coming!!!  But man she is at such a cute age right now.  She is getting SO LONG all her clothes are getting too short too quick!!!!

When we went to the neurologist last week, they measured her length, and she was in the 99th percentile for height!!!  What???  She was such a tiny little munchin for the first 2 months, but she has definitely caught up quick!!  Her head was perfect and her weight was a pound under where she should be, so basically she is what every woman wants to be, tall and skinny!!! LOL  Let's see if she stays that way!

We had a fun weekend this past weekend.  Sweetness' birthday was Saturday and we went to the Aquarium and then out to dinner with the whole family and because it was time for her to go night night, we all headed back to our place for cake and ice cream.

This upcoming weekend is the Va Beach Boardwalk Arts and Crafts Show.  We love that weekend when all these vendors from all over the country come and display their unique art in these tents on the boardwalk and it takes hours just to walk through them all.  Should be a fun day for sure!!!

But other than that- we just work all week and the days go by so quickly, and then the weekends are spent trying to love up on this little girl as much as possible.  She is sooo fun right now.  She will sit up and play with me on the floor, and boy does she absolutely love her bath time.  She never wants to get out!!!

She loves to stay in there and splash and splash!!!  I will have to take some pics of her in there next time I think about it!

And I always wanted to catch a shot like the one below because I think she has the most beautiful eye lashes and this picture is just perfect!!!  I might get this one blown up it looks so pretty with her headband of felt flowers our friend made for us!

Other than that, everything is same ole same ole, and that's how we like it.  Boring and drama free....  I hope this week is a wonderful week for all of you who read our blog, and I will be getting ready to celebrate Sweetness' First Father's Day!!!  Yeah!!!  Chloe loves her Daddy.... more on that next week  Stay tuned!

Genetic test results are in.....

Well yesterday afternoon, Baby girl and I went back to her Pediatric neurologist to discuss the genetic testing results, as well as get her check up on her progress and development. 

Even though I thought I had prepared myself to hear the news, no one EVER wants to hear that your child has a genetic disease that could potentially and probably will cause her harm and pain in the future.  But as we suspected, the diagnosis of Neurofibramatosis-1 has now been confirmed genetically. 

Chloe has the most common genetic mutation, a misspliced exon (all my scientist friends will understand) at chromosome 13 that leaves her without a vital tumor suppressor protein most people have.  Therefore it is very likely she will grow tumors and such in her body and the severity of it depends on where they grow, how big and other factors.

With all of that said, I will say that I am in good spirits.  I held her and offered prayers for her to Jehovah Jireh- My Provider.  I know The Lord has blessed us with this incredible, beautiful, perfect baby girl after begging the Lord for a child.  He knew exactly what He was doing, and He was not surprised yesterday.  Chloe is His perfect amazing creation, and we will love her and support her no matter what.

So to all of our prayer warriors and friends we are asking for continued intercession on her behalf, that the Lord would HEAL her completely!!!  He can and I am trusting Him to keep her safe.

I will move heaven and Earth to get her the best possible care if it is needed, but we are relying on our heavenly father, who is in control of all things, to protect her and let her grow up healthy and happy.

Thank you again for all your prayers, comments and support.  We will be just fine- I know who hold our tomorrows!!!  Love you all---

BIG milestone- Baby girl can sit up by all by herself!!!!

I am so proud of my little momma!!!  She is sitting up without any help now!!

These pictures were taken Saturday evening June 2nd, after she had a bath to get ready for church the next day.  She didn't even know what she really did.  But I went crazy I was so happy to see her do it by herself!!!

 I caught this funny little face...

 And she knows how to wave bye-bye now..... its so cute!!!

 Sometimes she doesn't trust herself, she looks a little pensive here as she bites all 4 fingers!!! lol

But this Momma's heart was so worried about her NF delaying her developmental milestones.  And so far it has not at all from what I can see. 

But speaking of NF, I am taking her to her neurologist this afternoon and I hope they have finally gotten the results of the genetic testing back.  We never have found out the results of does she have the NF gene or not??  They drew her blood over 7 weeks ago, so hopefully it will be all good news today!!!

34 weeks old!!!!

Baby girl is growing so fast and she is so beautiful.... I feel so blessed to be her Momma!!!  Yesterday she turned 34 weeks old and I adore this set of pictures I took.  There is not going to much commentary on this post, I just wanted to post these beautiful pictures to be printed in this blog when it's printed into a book!!  My beautiful girl!!!

<3   Be still my heart!!!!  <3

 This is her pensive look, she was thinking for awhile and then she turned on the charm again!!!

 I love this picture, she looks like she is wanting to give me a big hug!!!

 Miss mischievous!!!

 Chloe, this week you are up to 19 pounds, and you are sooo long I am goiing to have to move to 9 month clothes soon just for the length.  Everything is so big on you otherwise but I think you are going to be a tall slender beauty!!!

We are still in Size 2 diapers and trying to use them all up before we move to Size 3, and you are really loving your bath time now!! You love to splash and eat your bath toys, and you never want to get out when its time to dry off. 

I adore you more everyday if that is even possible, and I can't wait for each new milestone as they come!!!  the same day these pictures were taken, you reached a HUGE milestone- YOU SAT UP ALONE for the first time.  It is such a big deal, the next post will be all about that by itself!!!  Now that you can sit up we can do soooo much more together!!!  Love you to the moon and back sweet girl!!!