11 Months Old

Can you all believe, Natalie is 11 months old today? Gosh, we have been through so much over the past year. Natalie is our miracle baby!

I have been planning her first birthday...she is going to be 1 next month! Where has the time gone...oh that is right, Children's mostly, but what a blessing Children's is to us and an will always be.

A year ago today, I woke to what I thought was my day trip to Dallas for a check up and to tour Children's. Needless to say, we did not make it to Children's that day. I went to my first check up and then went straight to Baylor and got admitted for my 10 day stay on bedrest. Can you believe that has been a year ago that started my 9 month stay in Dallas?

I can't thank you all enough for all the prayers back then and still now. We would not be where we are today without all of you prayer warriors out there. Natalie is the luckiest girl to have so many people pray and watch over her.

I would like to ask you all for a favor. We have recently been in contact with another young couple going through a similar situation at Children's with their son, Cohen. He is a little over a week old and has already had 6 surgeries...bless his little heart. Cohen is hanging in there, but needs lots of prayer. I have attached their blog below if you want more information about Cohen.

http://www.inthiswonderfullife.com/

I will post more pictures this weekend. Natalie is getting so big. She is also finally starting to try and get in the crawling position, thought we are not moving yet, but it is a start. She is also pulling herself up onto her knees from her tummy. She wants to move so bad. I set her on the floor and she tries so hard to get to her basket of toys if it is not close enough. Her knew favorite thing is Cheerios...every kids favorite at one time.

Summer Fun

Swimming with Gigi, Natalie and Carter

Carter's Bug Bit on His Ear

We are finally getting settled in our rent house. We still have a few things left to unpack or put in storage, but for the most part it is all coming together. Carter loves his new home, because it has stairs. I love that something so small means the world to him.

Carter had Vacation Bible School this past week, where he goes to Mother's Day Out. He loved it! His little group was the Barn Owls, so he walked around all week saying their little chant, "Hoot Owls, Hoots Owls, Whoo, Whoo, Whoo." He is so funny!

Tuesday morning, he woke up and his ear was sticking out from his head. I took a closer look and he must have gotten bit by something. He is ear was bad, but after a little Benadryl, it started looking better. I have attached a picture of the back of his ear and yes, that is actually what it looked like.

Natalie has been doing great! She has finally started saying, "Da...Da...Da." She is so happy!

One Wild Week

Sorry, I have not posted in a while, our life is crazy right now. We have lived with my mom for a few weeks, went to Dallas for a check up and followed it up with moving!

Natalie has her first check up in Dallas since we were able to come in February. Everyone was so shocked about how big she has gotten. She weighed 16lbs 4ozs and her O2 level was around 86. Natalie had a chest xray and an EKG, both came back great. She has out grown her lasik, so we are down to three medication a day. She does not mind taking them at all, but I just like that we are one more down. More than likely she will be on two the rest of her life, but that is not a big deal at all.

Natalie did awesome in the car for the most part. She and I drove to Wichita Falls and picked Larry up, where he had been working. She only cried once we were in Wichita Falls about a block from where Larry was. She then slept the rest of the way. She was a trooper being in the car all that time and we made it a fast trip, down there one day and back the next.

We have been moving for the past week. Larry, myself and some friends got about 75% of our stuff and we had movers get the big items, like the entertainment center and safe. We should be finally out of our old house the weekend and officially into our new home. We have been staying here for a week, but we still have boxes everywhere.

I will get better about posting, now that we have internet again.

Happy Girl

Craziness

Our life has been pretty crazy here lately, I guess that is why I have not been the best blogger lately. We put our house on the market and got a contract on it within three days. We have been packing and going through all the inspection process that goes along with selling a home.

God has provided for us. We have some dear friends who are renting their duplex and called us the day we got a contract and told us about it. We just feel God has provide us with this great opportunity so we do not rush into anything and have time to really look for a new house.

Needless to say, our house is a huge mess with tons of boxes everywhere. Carter seems okay about moving, but he keeps asking if he can take his trains and cars with him. We have assured him, everything is coming with us.

Natalie is doing good. She was sick last week. We went to the doctor and she has a slight ear infection and was a little raspy. Dr. Scott put her on a breathing treatment to be safe. Natalie is doing really good this week, except she is cutting a few more teeth so she is a slobber monster.

Carter is still a wild three year old. I tried swim lessons this past few weeks, but after several failed attempts to go under water and a huge fit yesterday, we are holding off for later in the summer. I think once he sees his cousins swimming he will catch on a little better.

10 Months Old

Natalie turned 10 months old yesterday! I can't believe in 2 months she will be 1, time has flown by.

Rolling Over

We had our neighbors over last weekend and their little girl, Parker is about 4 months younger than Natalie, was rolling all over the floor. Natalie was just watching and studying, I guess. Then, the next day Natalie started rolling all over the floor herself. I will put her in her crib one way and when I go to get her, she is laying to total opposite direction.

I have also learned that it is easier at times to put both kids in the bath at the same time versus trying to keep Carter from helping me too much by getting the floor all wet and then having to bath him next. Natalie loves bath time!