48 weeks and Table Time!!!!

These last 2 weeks I have been so busy I havn't updated this blog like I used to and like I want to , but one thing I don't ever miss is her weekly picture!!!  She has changed so much and we are so mesmerized by her personality as it unfolds and we begin to see who Chloe really is......

 These pictures were taken of course yesterday on Sept. 9th, it was also grandparents day!!!  So we headed over to my parents and Chloe gave a card to my Mom for Grandparent's Day and it just made her sooo happy!!!  I have dreamed of moments like that for years and it was so nice to see them come true!!! We also gave my precious Nana a card, as she lives with my parents.  It as such a nice day celebrating the love of grandparents after having just said goodbye to my other grandmother last Thursday Night. 

 So we are in full swing preparing for our precious little girl's very first birthday party in 4 short weeks!!!  How is that possible?  I remember holding her for the first time, and here we are celebrating her 1 year of life!!!  I am excited to say that it looks like Chloe's birth mommy may come to her party!  I think that would just be wonderful.  She says her and her boyfriend are going to try to come down from Pennsylvania!!!

 Miss Priss is very close to walking now!!!  She stands up and holds on to everything and walks around things, so its only a matter of time before she lets go and takes those first steps!!!  That's when Mommy is really going to have to put on my roller skates to keep up with her!

 She is doing so well now at eating solids.  We have to cut them very very small because she still only has 4 teeth, but she is good at picking up small pieces and getting them in her mouth, and then of course rubbing it all in her hair!!!  But she loves the bath time after dinner every night so it's all a win win situation for her!!!

 I just adore her so much- I fall in love with her a little more every day......some days it makes me so nervous, so afraid something will happen to her-- I just can not imagine my life with out this angel.  But I know the Lord gave her to us, and she is His child, so I must trust Him, even when I want to worry.

 We went to the neurologist last Wednesday for her 10 month checkup, and she is progressing just fine.  No more cafe au lait spots on her skin and no gross motor delays which is sometimes found in children with NF-1.  But she was a slight bit concerned that Chloe does not have a large vocabulary, and was not babbling a lot while in the room with her, so she is has recommended a speech therapist evaluate her just to see where they think she is.  But I'm not totally sure she needs that- she babbles all the time with me, but I guess it can't hurt to have her checked out.  And we also are going to have her hearing tested once more just to be sure that's still okay as well, but I see no deficits with that either!

We also scheduled that dreaded first MRI of her whole body for Oct. 18th.  She will be sedated so that is what makes me so nervous, but our Children's Hospital is wonderful and I know they will take excellent care of her.  I will talk more about that later!

And below are some pictures from Chloe and her precious little friends at nursery school.  I happened to stop by last week at just the right time to catch "table time" when they all get a seat at this table and sing bible songs and learn their colors and numbers!!!  Oh my good gracious!!!!  This is got to be the sweetest thing ever!!!

And I don't know if this will work or not, but I also took a short little video of the singing!!!  It makes me soooo happy that my angel get all this reinforcement of Christ's love for her all day long!!!  Leave a comment and tell me what you think!!!  (No one ever comments anymore....is anyone out there????)

47 weeks and standing in the crib!!

Baby girl is a mess!!!  She is sooooo full of herself and so full of life!!!  I can hardly believe she will be 1 yr old in 5 short weeks, but what a celebration!!!!  I remember back one year ago during this time, and what an absolute wreck I was for the impending birth of my girl!!!  The Lord has been so very faithful to us!!

I don't have much time to post today, but I had to include these precious pictures of my girl standing up in her crib for the first time the other day!!!  I turned the corner to get her in the morning and there she stood sooo happy and pleased with herself!!!

I just LOVE these faces she gives me!!!!

I also love the bed head she has in these pics, she is just so precious!!!

I have so much to write about, and not much time to write.  My grandmother (on my Dad's side) passed away yesterday.  I have so many feelings that I am prosesssing in regards to this event in my life- but one thing I have gleaned from it all is that life is so very short to be petty over little things!!!

I will certainly expand more later- but it will be an emotional week and I hope that she is in peace and finally at rest!

Thanks you all for the loving facebook thoughts and sentiments.  And if this was not enough this week, we are trying the cry it out thing to get my angel to go to sleep.  Tonight will be night #2- I will certainly update more in that later as well.

Much love to all.....

46 weeks and finally on the path to wellness!

Well to say we got the sickies at our house would be the understatement of the year!!!!  As I said in the last blog post Chloe got pink eye in one eye, 2 ear infections, and the hanf, foot an dmouth Coxsecki virus again.  Well after she began to heal, she gave it to her momma in a serious way.  Chloe still was not completely herself when we took these pictures on Sunday as you can see she had just been crying, and was not offering too many smiles  :(

 Also the reason this weekly post did not get up on time is because I have been home from work so sick with this stuff she gave me.  I have never really experienced anything like this to be honest.  My eyes turned blood red and swelled almost totally shut.  It was sooooo painful my Mom took me to the ER on Sunday and they said it was one of the worst they had seen.  Interestingly though, the doc did not say I had pink eye, which I thought I got from Chloe, he said I had a very virulent strain of the Adenovirus.

 They gave me some steroid drops mixed with an antibiotic for my eye, but its Tuesday night and my eyes are still very red and crusty.  It really scared me, you take your vision for granted until you feel like it may be threatened or its totally out of your hands!!

 And on top of the eye situation, my whole body ached, had a migraine and both me and Sweetness had severe throat pain.

 Daddy has been super amazing as he always is, he dotes on me and Chloe hand and foot, he lets me rest and totally watches Chloe.  I mean I have the best hubby in the world, this is just one  of the reasons!!!

 Chloe's new thing is to blow kisses, as you see in the pic above.  It is actually so incredibly sweet!!  She even does it to strangers and its amazing how grouchy strangers just melt when a baby is blowing them an innocent kiss!!!

 Chloe is also pulling into a standing position now!!!  She did it for the first time in her crib when we awoke yesterday morning.  When we went in her nursery to get her, there she was standing and smiling- so pleased with herself!!!  Yeah baby girl!!!  You are getting sooooo big!!!

 The pics above and below are Daddy actually giving her the toys he was dancing around behind me with trying to get her to smile for this photo set.  She wasn't in the mood, but I had to get the pics, so then he rewarded her by giving her the animals to play with and she smiles then of course!!

Because this week's pictures were not so happy, I thought I would go ahead and include some pictures from a small reshoot we did of her 9 month professional pictures.  The professional photographer April-Marie asked if she could do a few more shots about a week after we did all the others I posted a link to on here.   Chloe only gave us a short time the first time because it was soooo hot outside and she got overheated!!  So we met last week in the same place and Chloe turned on her charm!!  These are some really cute pics!!

 The picture above is probably my very favorite of the lot.  She just looks angelic, and her perfectly smooth porcelain skin.

 Here she is showing us her teeth as she reads her book!

 I also love this pic, she looks like she is looking up to Heaven!!!

 After the blue outfit, we did one more outfit, in front of a little flower garden.  She was not too happy at first but she eventually warmed up and smiled so cute!!!

All of these are so precious to me!!! 

I just can not believe her 1st birthday is in less than 6 weeks!!!  My mom and I are already planning it- the theme is bright rainbow colors and candy!!  Her outfit is soooo amazing and it fits in perfectly with our theme!!

It will be on Saturday October 13, 2012 at 2pm.  If any of my friends are local and would like to come please let me know.  I want her to have some kiddos there to run and play with!!  We are having it at a park that has a HUGE park with tons of climbing and swings etc.  Just let me know!!

The weekend before on Oct. 6th we are getting her 1st birthday pictures done!  I have thought about these pictures so many times and looked for so many cute ideas, and I hope they turn out and that she is in a good mood that morning!!  You will certainly see them soon!!

Thank you for all the prayers and comments on lifting Chloe and I up for healing as we have had a tough 2 weeks with all this sickness- but we are getting through it!!!  We love you guys!!!  Until next time........



45 weeks old and Sick AGAIN!!!!

So we are another week closer to that first birthday!!!  I must get it together and start planning that really soon here. But I have been so busy with a very sick girl that I haven't had time to do anything really (I'm even a day late on the weekly photos).  It started out on Friday afternoon, Ms. Cassie from Nursery school called and said she was refusing all bottles all day and she had a fever of 100.2 F, so I went and picked her up at 3pm and we came home.  By the time I got her home, changed her clothes and took her temp again it was already 103.1 F!!!!  I was very worried.

 But I remembered what they said in May when she had the Cosecki virus, that babies get high fevers and not to be alarmed if she is not limp or lethargic, so we rode it out all day Saturday, pushing fluids, And administering ibuprofen and Tylenol around the clock, but the fever was persistent and she seemed to be getting worse.

 So Saturday night/Sunday morning we called the pediatrician on call and they got us an appt to see our doctor on Sunday morning.  I love it that they have this after care office hours for acutely ill children on the weekends, because kids don't just get sick Monday thru Friday 9-5pm!!!!

 So we took her to the doctor, and they said she had an ear infection and some type of virus that was making her have such a high fever and starting to make her left eye yucky.  I snapped these pics on Sunday after noon when we came back from the doctor, when she was in a half way good mood, but it went down hill after these pics were taken.

 Her fever was back at 103.5 and we were frantic.  So Sunday night we headed to the Children's Hospital ER and let them check her out.  By this time her left eye was completely bloodshot in the white portion called the sclera, and she was crying uncontrollably and was burning up with fever.  They told us she had conjunctivitis (pink eye) and it would probably go to the other eye.  Great.  Just great!!!

 They also said she had the Noravirus and that was what was making her have all these high fevers.  They said it lasts 3-5 days, and we were on Day 3 so it should be coming down from here.   So we headed home in the rain, and all I kept thinking was how bad I wanted to get some sleep.  Two nights of no sleep is not a good combination!!  Ironically she couldn't go to daycare- the one place where she picked up all this crud, I now had to take another vacation day and stay home with my baby.

So yesterday I stayed home with her and she was so incredibly fussy, nothing made her happy, she was still burning up with fever, her eye was terrible, and I was exhausted.  Yikes it was not the best of days.  And to make it worse, Chloe seemed so hyped up like she could not go to sleep.  She finally crashed at 9:30pm last night after rocking with Daddy.  She did sleep all night last night and Grandma is on diaper duty today!!!

Chloe loves her Grandma!!!  I called and they are eating breakfast and Mom said her fever is gone.  She feels cool to the touch this morning- and I am so very thankful!!!  She was still sleeping when I left for work so I didn't have a chance to see her today.

You can look at these pictures I posted in this post and see the beginnings of her left eye but it looks even worse today mom said than yesterday!!  Lovely!! 

But all I can say is my girl is seriously building up her immune system!!!  That's for sure!!

Thank you to everyone that has been praying for my girl's quick healing and sending sweet messages. Nothing hurts worse than knowing you cannot fix it or back it better for your baby!!!  But hopefully we are on the mend for our 46 week pictures!!!  Take care and God Bless!!

10 months old !!!

How is it truly possible that my girl is already 10 whole months old???  I can hardly believe it has been that long- but boy does she change and blossom into her own self more and more each month!!!

She is so fun at this stage!!  She is doing so well at her new Day School- and she is such a hit with her teachers.  They love their Chloe girl!!!  The other day I picked her up and one of her teachers said she was so cute that afternoon, she was rolling the ball back and forth with one of her friends Jonathon!!!  I wish she had caught it on film, but just the thought of it makes me smile!!  Her first little boy friend!!

She is doing sooooo well with crawling now.  She crawls everywhere and she is just beginning to pull up on things to try to stand.  She has not stood up yet, just one her little knees but it wont be long for sure!

My sweet girl has decided she likes to be rocked at night to go to sleep now.  Her whole life, we have just laid her down in her crib with her little blanket and she soothes herself to sleep on her own- such a good baby.  But lately she has wanted Mommy to rock her to sleep and I sure don't mind snuggling with my angel, but it's interesting that she is changing in this way.

Grandma bought her a Little Tikes swing that we are hang on a wooden brace that Daddy built in our backyard and she LOVES that swing!!!  She loves to swing in it and it is so nice not to have to travel to the park every evening after a long day at work.  We all go outside and swing her for about 30 mins and then she is exhausted, and wants to be rocked to sleep and that's it, until 6:30 am in the morning!!!  She still sleeps 12 hours a night!!

She still is the happiest first thing in the morning when we wake up, as evidenced by these pictures.  These were taken this morning right after getting her up and getting her dressed in her little piggy dress for her 10 month pictures.  She was so full of smiles!!!

We truly are so blessed to be the parents of this amazing child.  She is far more than I could have ever dreamed of all those years that I yearned for a child.  I guess I didn't want to let myself go too far in my dreams of my baby and what they would be like, so each day is such a fun and new adventure with her.

I want to thank all of our blog readers who are praying for and have sent me sweet facebook comments on the fact that they are praying for my grandmother. We went to visit her Saturday and she looks so much worse than the last time I saw her. She has lost all her hair from the radiation/chemo and she is so very tired and weak. But Chloe made her smile and of course was the star of the show. In speaking to my uncle he said she has made peace with the situation and is comfortable and not in any pain. I don't know how long she has but it isn't that long- I'm glad I have been able to see her and tell her that I love her and somehow make peace with the situation myself.

Until next time...... be safe and hug your loved ones!!