Sunday, December 26, 2010

Christmas Day !

I can't believe this is our third Christmas with our beautiful daughter . Christmas 2008 was such a blur due to her early arrival. We got home from Portland on Dec 23th . One of my great friends and my mom had manage to put up our tree, I did managed to put on some decorations



Christmas 2008









Christmas 2009, was great too, but she was not into opening presents, but did love her gifts she had received .



Christmas 2009





For Chrsitmas 2010 Alexandrea loved every minite , the tree, the ornaments, the lights . We felt so blessed this Christmas Season. She loved opening all her presents too an thought everything was for her.


On her new horse!























Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas Season and a Happy New Year !!





Sunday, December 12, 2010

Christmas Season!!

2 years ago, My awesome big sister got this stocking for Alexandrea, She was so tiny that she fit in this stocking.


In her Christmas Dress!!

Miss blue eyes!



Having fun in a diaper box, Daddy was giving her train rides!




One of the santa's we have seen this year , She actually will sit and not cry





Hugging Santa






My sweet Baby girl is getting excited





To meet her newest sister!

30 weeks 1 day 3lbs 11 oz guestimate

My last u/s we got this image, We think she is beautiful, and we do not have a name for her yet .
As I near the gestation , I had Alexandrea I am starting to get a little more nervous but this lil girl, if they guessed right is already bigger than Alexandrea was at birth (3 lbs even 32 weeks 6 days).





Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Happy 2nd Birthday!!






Happy Birthday my sweet girl, You are now 2 and the joy of mommy and daddy's life.



Monday, November 1, 2010

Prematurity Awareness

November is Prematurity awareness month.

1 in 8 babies are born Premature. Lets fight to stop this. Please learn what you can do to help

http://www.marchofdimes.com/

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Alexandrea did a trial run in a swimming class a few weeks ago, she loved it, We hope to do it again soon but wil be in a class next time.




Monday, September 20, 2010

22 Months

Our lil miss Alexandrea is now 22 months old, Where has the time gone ?

She is a little mini tonado aound our house and is so quick now that she is walking every where. She is also most running but is not quite there but she is so proud of herself and we are too. She is so much fun right now and we just can't wait for her to be a big sister.


Above, one of our very sweet dear friends is a breast cancer survivior, we participated in the "sleep for the cure" one of our things we got was this pink wig, she loves it.


Enjoying some mexican !!













Baby K

We recently had our u/s and found out we are having a baby girl. We are so excited that Alexandrea will have a little sister. So far our little one looks good and I will havea few more u/s to monitor her heart and her size . They will also very closely monitor my blood pressure.



Monday, August 23, 2010

Update




Wow, again time has just flown and I have been so bad about blogging, We have been pretty busy here though


If you have not figured it out, Alexandrea is going to be a big sister. I am now 15 weeks, hopefully here in a few weeks we will get to know what we are having. We are truly excited about this new little one even though it wa a complete suprise to us! We are also nervous and scared since Alexandrea ended up coming 7 weeks early but we also have our faith that we can carry full term and have a healthy little one. We do not care what we have , we just want a healthy baby. So far the pregnancy has gone fairly smoothly other than daily all day sickness. Our newest little one is due in Feb 2011.


On friday Aug 6, 2010, Alexandrea had surgery to close the asd (atrail septal deftct) The hole ended up larger than they though it was. In her echos before surgery, they guessed it was around 7-8 mm, once they got in there, they discovered it to be at 11 mm and place a 12 mm stent (titanium mesh plug). They decided to go ahead and close it using tee cath procedure as she just is not growing like they hope she would. It seems even on or off a feeding tube at high calories she just does not gain. So with the surgery being done we are hoping for better weight gain. She is now weighing in at around 16lbs 4 oz.


Her feet are def growing though, she has gone from a size 2 to a size 4 in a matter of about 2 months. She is walking everywhere and there is not stoping her now, After her surgery, she has had so much more energy, it is truly amazing, so we have already had some good come out of her surgery.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Hello Everyone

Alexandrea has a announcement to make




Well did you guess what her annoucment is?


Saturday, July 17, 2010

Wildlife Safari

Wow!!! I can't believe it is the middle of July already. We have been so busy lately . Alexandrea's big brother flew in from Oklahoma to spend part of his summer here with us. We are all having a good time. Alexandrea is loving her big brother and is hilarious at times with him. On his first day here she kept saying hi and bye, it was pretty cute.

A you can see above, she is pretty proud of herself, She is finally walking and taking up to about 10 steps independently at 20 months. We are so excited to see this change in her. She is still pretty tiny though and is not quite 16 lbs.

We recently (well in June) did go to Portland for a few days, We met with the genetic dr, the gi and were also seen by the eye Dr. All of her appts went as well as could be expected, We really did not learn anything knew but came away that what we are doing for her to gain wait is what we need to do, so we just have to keep it up.
When we were in Portland, her Auntie Karen showed her how to play with the measuring cups and put them on her head, well she discovered my drawer and as soon as she saw the measuring cups, they went immediately on the floor and then to her head. it was pretty cute.







She also has recently had her first Popsicle. She thought it was pretty good.




Today, we went on an adventure to Wildlife Safari. It is a awesome drive though animal park. They have over 550 animals there, from Lions, tigers and bears, yaks, buffalo, rhinos and many many more. You drive though this park, some animals are behind fences but other animals can walk up to your car. Its kinda like Jurassic Park but different too. You just can't get out of you car.






In this park, the speed limit is no more than 10 mph and you are allowed to remove kiddos from their seats to see too. Alexandrea loved to see all the animals.



I have so much more exciting new to report but it will have to wait for now.
keep watching.







Saturday, June 12, 2010

19 Months and Park Fun

Lil Miss Ali has turn 19 months, we have nothing really new to repot, She truly is so much fun .

Here are a few new pics













































Tuesday, May 11, 2010

18 months


Our princess is now 18 months, She is doing very well. She is so much fun, and gave me the best mother's day present. She snuggled in bed with Mommy on both Saturday and Sunday.
We still are having feeding issues but is slowly starting to eat a few more things here and there at times. her weight gain has kinda been at a stand still or so it seems and weighs in at 15 lbs.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Oregon Coast

We went to the Oregon Coast this weekend. The weather when we got to the coast on Friday it was fairly nice, but it was very windy, so we did not go down to the water, Friday late night it poured down rain Saturday day was cold, wet and clear in the afternoon but again very windy. Sunday finally cleared enough to venture down to the beach .


loves to be up high

she already loves to watch the water


first time walking in the sand




but it did not last, we tried and again and she just folded up her legs


A water fall we stopped at on our way home

too cool
new words this week
beach, be bu (belly button)