Reflection.....

This has been another long year, but God has pulled us through. Drew is now happy and "healthy" and we are living our normal life. Thank you all for your support, love and prayers. We are blessed to have you in our lives.

January- second surgery

February

March- Happy 3rd birthday Rylie Roo

April



May

June-at disney


July-the pic below this one was right before the surgery.
Thank you lord for protecting our baby girl.


August- Happy 1st birthday

September

October-Germanfest

November

December- Merry Christmas

Shots

i took Drew in to get her 6 month baby shots. She was trooper as usual. The really great news is she weighs 19 pounds 6 ounces!!!!
So the cardiologists scale was very wrong like I thought.
Now onto Rylie, I have noticed her asking me "what" a lot. So I had the nurse check her ears with the machine. She has blockage in both ears. :( We have an appointment on Monday to go back and see the doctor. I hope it is something minor that can be fixed very easily. She had a bad earache back in Novemeber so I am guessing it has been like that since then. Bad me for not realizing this sooner.

To end on a happier note, Drew is now WALKING everywhere! Just in the past 2 weeks she seems so much happier. She is babbling more and laughing out loud. It is just those little things you take for granted in a normal child. Though she can say "mama" quite well and very often. I will be happier when she learns a new word. LOL

One more

Just because it is too cute!

More Christmas pictures

Happy New Year!

Waking up Sister to go open presents
Christmas Morning

Drew update

We took her yesterday for her checkup at the cardiologist yesterday. It has been 4 months since we last saw her. She said Drew was doing great and the echo (ultrasound) of her heart looked good. There was still a tiny hole last time that the surgery did not fix and it is now completely closed up! She said everything else looked good and we go back in 3 months.
Her one concern was Drew's weight. Though I am not completely convinced they have the best scale. It is always way off from the pediatricians. Theys aid her weight was 17 pounds 13 ounces.
We have an appointment today to get an RSV hot so they will check her weight there. It is possible she lost a little bit b/c she has been sick with a cold and not wanting to eat much but 2 pounds? Hopefully it was just a mistake.

Hope everyone is having a great and non stressful holiday. Merry Christmas!

Back from Vacation

We went to Disney again. Rylie and Drew had so much fun! They were completely exhausted by the end of each day. The weather was awesome. I don't think we will ever go again in the summer.

Mommy's little helper

CHEESE!

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Happy Thankgiving

Trip to New Orleans

Sick :(

It has been a rough week here.
I had a cold and tried my hardest to not get the girls sick but I mean com on I am their mother and I am with them 24/7. So of course they both caught my cold. Rylie worse than Drew.
The colds are gone but now Rylie has an earache again but I just put some herbal stuff in her ear and it is now gone. THANKFULLY. She was screaming her head off while covering her ear. :(

DRew was taken off of her formula completely so the milk wouldn't cause more mucus and now she wont drink more than 10 ounces. I guess it is finally time to ween her milk down anyway.

She weighs about 18 1/2 pounds and besides the cold she is doing great. She now climbs on EVERYTHING! This girl has no fear what so ever.

Hopefully I will put some new pics up soon.

Pictures!

I was wrong

Steve noticed tonight that Drew was cutting some back teeth. She has two at the bottom in each side that broke through and 2 at the top on each side that are about to breakthrough. That would also explain her short naps and crankiness the last couple of days.
Now she has some chompers and wont have to swallow her food whole. LOL
But she will look funny with 4 teeth on top and only 2 little ones at the bottom. hee hee......
Now that I know what is wrong I feel much better although I am sure she feels awful. :(

Appointment Update

Drew had an appt. with her pediatrician last week. She now weighs 18 POUNDS 2 Ounces!!!!!!
She is such a spectacular and beautiful little girl. She is almost walking but just on her terms, definately not when I probe her to do it. LOL
She got her RSV shot 1 1/2 weeks ago and the got her 4 months old immunizations a week ago. She has develpoed a weird cough so hopefully it goes away soon. I am trying several things but nothing seems to be working so I am thinking it may be allergies b/c she has no runny nose or any other symptoms so maybe it is a sinus drip?????
Just pray it disappears.

Pumpkin Patch

I was not able to get on the pc to post pics fpr the past week.

More!

Pictures

We went to Germanfest in Rayne today and thought I would share some of the pictures.

Drew is doing great!

She is all over the place, I can bearly keep up.
We almost have a walker! Where have the past 14 months gone. :(
She now says mama, dada, bow bow for bounce bounce, hi, and bye. She did try to say Rylie today and she got excited when she managed Ry Ry.
She is just growing so fast but we are loving every single second.