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!!!

Master Bathroom Remodel.......It's finally finished!!!!

Yes it is finally finished!!!  It has been completely done for about 2 weeks now, but stupid blogger would not upload the finished pictures so I could not post this post without the finished pictures. 

So for those of you who don't know, we had a leak in the pipes in the internal wall between both of our bathrooms, and it was a very slow leak, not a gusher, so of course our homeowner's insurance refused to cover ANY of it!!!  Arggggg.  But we HAD to fix it because we had black mold that had begun to grow back behind the walls and behind the old timey tile that was in there and had been installed all wrong whenever this house was built about 20 years ago.  So we hired Serv.Pro to come remediate the mold, and they did a great job of scrubbing the mold and then containing it all and demoed the entire room down to the studs as you can somewhat see in the first pic below.  However in the first pic, we had already started putting the new dry wall back up.

Two very major things had to be done in this bathroom to have what we wanted done.  The first was the drain hole had to be moved from the left (for a normal draining tub) to the center (what you see below) for our new tiled shower.  So we hired a plumbing company who busted the concrete of the slab of our house and moved the drain from the left to the center for this new drain pan that you can see installed below (it's the white thing with the blue protective liner still on it).  The second major thing that was done was the toilet was moved 4 inches to the left to give us a wider shower. So once again they had to bust the concrete slab and move it over, as you can see the freshly poured concrete just infront of the drain pan in pic below.  4 inches may not seem like alot, but it makes a HUGE difference in the shower width!!!

Also in the picture above you can see how the plumber ran the copper piping all the way around the back of shower so we will have a double headed shower when it's finished!!  SWWWWEEET!!!

Then all the new drywall was installed by a drywall company who did it SO fast and made it look SO easy (which it is NOT!!!) I was very pleased with how perfect it came out!!  They also put insulation between each of those studs you see in the above picture.

Then the tile guy which we came to really be good friends with, he was at our house so much, he installed DurRock, which is a concrete type of drywall that look grey that is on all the walls of the shower.  It holds the tile up very nicely and securely.  You should never hang tile on drywall!!

And after her got the Dur Rock hung he began to hang the tile we had picked out!  In the pick below you can see the two places where the shower spickets will be coming out of the tile on the left and right side walls.....

I think its funny to look at the Du Rock in this picture and see it says 20% off!!!  Our tile guy got us a deal on it when he bought it- and every little bit helps when we added up the total cost of the LITTLE renovation!! HA!!

And then the next day, he had ALL the tile hung in the shower!!  He had the idea of doing it straight on the bottom of the decorative line and then angle it at 45 degrees above the decorative piece!  I LOOOOVE the way it turned out!!  And I should mention that I choose those decorative pieces to go wit our tile- I usually cannot envision anything, but with this I was able to see how pretty I thought it would look!!

And then we asked him install some shelves for us to sit all our bottles of "stuff" on, I mean where was the shampoo and such going to sit?  On the floor of the shower???  No way!  So he cut out a small area and put up these 4 really cute corner shelves, that are so functional and really sturdy!!!

And here is the finished tile from a distance....  he also put the same tile on the floor at the 45 degree angle before anything else was installed.  Looking good....

Below is a closeup of the decorative tile I selected, the little green pieces area actually clear crackled green glass, sooooooo pretty, and then the little "pencil" pieces on each side really added to it I think- they were outrageously expensive but I think it adds so much to the overall look of the shower.

Then we had to search for the right shower doors that fit our little shower.  we went with sliding doors because its not a huge bathroom and it would keep it open instead of having a door opening all the time.  We got this set at Home Depot, and they narrowly fit, with little room to spare- but I love hop they are frosted gradually from eye level down, the entire door is not frosted glass- that way you can see out while in the shower.

Our tile guy stayed and installed it for us because he actually had to grind out pieces of tile so the sides would fit!!  He was amazing!!  Highly recommend if anyone needs tile work done in Va beach area!

Then we primed and painted and began to add the finishing touches!!!
New light fixture, new medicine cabinet, new towel ring.....

The plumber came the next day to install all the hardware in the shower and the sink faucet.  The shower is so cool, we can have 2 heads of water spraying on you at one time or you can just have either one on at any time.  So to accommodate this we had to have a new 50 gallon water heater installed, but the other one was on its last leg anyway.

 The third mirror we bought and brought home was finally the one.....it fit in our space and it was the right color.  So Sweetness and I hung it in about 5 minutes and we love it!!  Oh and by the way, I hung that new toilet paper holder hanging out on the bottom of the picture- that was all me baby!!!

 so just a few last shots of the finished product.......  My side with my bottles of "stuff"

 Sweetness' side with his bottles of "stuff"...... and a small sliver of our brand new white toilet.

 And last but not least, a pic of the vanity we settled on, and I do mean settled on.  It is a very long story not to be typed her, but just suffice it to say that no vanities are made today with left side drawers  30" width that do not cost $639 for the vanity.  We spent a small mortgage on this renovation and I was not dropping that kind of money on a vanity just so we could ave left handed drawers like the old one we took out, but alas this one looks just fine and it is actually growing on me.

So there it is, our new Master Bathroom!!!  We love it, and it makes taking a shower every morning so much nicer when you are so tired, to turn on those bright lights and have the massaging shower heads massaging your shoulders.  Hopefully this will add value to our home and we will get a lot of enjoyment out of this room!  Hope you enjoyed the renovation!!!