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.

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.

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.

Hello Everyone

Alexandrea has a announcement to make

Well did you guess what her annoucment is?

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.

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

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.

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)

March for Babies

Today was the annual March for babies 2010. We had a great time , and the weather was perfect for the most part, a little chilly if the sun was hiding but overall it was awesome.

17 months

This post is a few is a few days late but lil miss Alexandrea is now 17 months old.


On Sunday April 4th we ended up at her dr's office , where she was diagnosed with rsv.



She did have the rsv shots too, but does not prevent it. It is rare that they get it , but when they receive the shots it can help lessen the the symptoms.






She felt pretty lousy and did not want to eat and did loose some weight, arrg . This is the hardest part, we work so hard to get her to eat and gainwhat little she does for her to loose it so quickly. When she did eat, she had a hard time becuase she was coughing so bad that it came right back up. Our battle with the feeding tube was horrible too, as again she would just cough and gag and throw it up. It was not fun. After a few days she was on the mend and feeling much better .





This morning , I was feeling in her mouth and 3 molars have cut through with 1 more coming.


We keep hoping that once she gets her teeth , that this will help with eating.


She has been doing a little better over the past few days and has finally let me spoon feed her again (hsd refused a spoon since december), but only a few bites, so this is encouraging. She is also starting to eat a few other things to besides just puffs such as yogurt, cottage cheese and shreeded cheese. Her new favorite this are vegie chip straws.


Most of the time though her favorite thing to do is feed the dog.





Her weight gain seems to be at at stand still but now that she is better , and has cut most of her molars , now just maybe she will gain weight.





She still is not walking independently, she loves to walk around though holding onto something like her doll stroller, or the coffee table. I do not think it will be too much longer though. Over this last week she has been much more brave too and has discovered that she can stand in her crib and let go. She is also standing for a few seconds.

Easter

Yesterday, Alexandrea was in her first contest. It is called the baby blossum/bud . There were over 200 babies who completed and about 8 catagories. We entered Alexandrea im the bluest eyes. Alexandrea did not win, but there were so many beautiful babies. Our lil miss was in a cute little sailer dress.



It was taking so long, and we has a funeral to go to, so we ended up leaving early.





She always has cough due to her reflux, but saturday she had more of a cough but by sat night, you could tell she was not feeling well.



On Easter morn we stayed home from church due to our little lady. We, did get her in her dress but you could tel she just did not feel well.

She did love the eggs in her basket. She did not care tht over half of them were empty, She really just enjoyed rolling and banging them.

Checking everything out

Today while taking a nap I went into check on her, I just though it was so cute and how it looked like she was praying


I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter .

May god bless everyone.

Becky, Lars and Alexandrea