19 days

We walk in the March for Babies in just 19 days.
Why?

Because our daughter is a miracle. With out the life saving advancements made by the March of Dimes Elizabeth would not be here today.

We walk so that other parents won't have to meet their child for the first time separated by the plastic walls of an isolete.

We walk so that all babies will get their full nine months.

We walk to show that miracles are possible.

We walk to remember those babies who didn't make it home.

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Can you help us?
Please click HERE to join us in the walk or to donate to our team.

April Fools!!

I was just working on a new post the other day. In it I was writing about how healthy we have been. Elizabeth had a great winter, no ER visit, blah, blah, blah.

April Fool!!!

With the warm weather and healthy winter I have let me guard down. It started out with a runny nose Tuesday. She has not been sleeping well the past week (a molar coming in as well as a cold will do that I suppose) as a result I have not been sleeping well. Last night she was coughing all night- we are now doing breathing treatments every four hours; I can hear her hacking as I type and she isn't due for another for another two hours. Right now we aren't at the point of going to the doctor. By now I know what they are going to say, I will wait until she gets worse. Maybe she will fly through this cold too. I just keep waiting for the "big one" to come.

On top of her cold Elizabeth has had thrush for over a month caused by her asthma medicine. We are rinsing and washing out her mouth, replacing toothbrushes all the time, trying different kinds of medication to battle this. The good news is that it doesn't seem to bother her.

We have had some fun lately. Elizabeth had her first visit with the Easter Bunny (she wasn't a fan up close) perhaps we know where this cold came from or maybe we picked it up from the butterfly tent we visited. The girls loved it and the butterflys weren't shy about landing on us!

What else are we doing this spring? The March for Babies - of course!

This will be our third year and we have raised over $10,000 to date!!! We would love to have another huge group of family and friends walking with us again this year; the past two years we have had been about 100 walkers strong. Clink on the March for Babies tab on in the upper right or HERE to sign up and join us. You can walk with us in Ann Arbor or join our team and walk where you are. If you can't walk we would really appreciate a donation to sponsor our walk - in any amount. Can you donate just $1 for every pound you or your baby weighed at birth? Together we can save babies and help find solutions for babies who are born too soon like Elizabeth.

Darn Faries

Well they are at it again.

Our fairy friends have been causing some trouble around here- well at least according to Elizabeth. As you might remember we discovered that we have fairy visitors last summer. It has been very exciting to see if they have left things around the house and sometimes a little sad to discover that toys that weren't put away are sometimes taken back to pixi-land. Well the unthinkable has happen. Those naughty fairies have STOLEN Elizabeth's bottles! She is horrified that they could have done such a thing and she really doesn't care that there are baby fairies who might need them.

DONT THEY KNOW THAT SHE NEEDS THEM!!??!!!

How could they do that to such a sweet little girl?


Here's hoping that she continues to gain weight and makes up for the calories that she took in with the bottle in other ways. We are trying to make due with a sippy cup before bed, but it just isn't the same.

On the Potty Train!

That's right we are going full speed ahead! And we are indeed celebrating the exciting news that Elizabeth is potty trained! We have gone almost two weeks with NO accidents (still wetting diapers at night)!! Elizabeth decided to do it over night, on a Wednesday she wanted to wear her new Dora panties but would just stand and pee in them; the next day I told her if she got Dora wet she couldn't wear them anymore- that seems to strike a chord and she has been doing great since. We even have broken the public toilet barrier. Hurray for Elizabeth and hurray for no more diapers!!!

(Editor's note*we do not encourage eating on the potty, she had her sister to thank for that- GROSS!*)

Happy Birthday Ava!

Happy Fifth Birthday To Our Little Girl.

Family Pictures/ Thanks Kiera!

This post has been a while coming; if you haven't noticed I just haven't had time to sit a blog lately. Over Labor Day weekend (told you it has been a while) we traveled to Indianapolis and were able to visit with friends, who we hadn't seen in FOREVER and family. It was a wonderful weekend and so good to see so many people after spending two years on virtual house arrest.

While there Matt's cousin, Kiera graciously offered to take some family photos. We are so lucky to have this incredibly talented photographer in our family! If you live in the Indy area and want some amazing pictures taken she's your gal, not to mention that she is super fun and our kids are the same age so they have a great time playing together too!

Here are a few of the fab pictures that she took and here is the link to Kiera Photo!

These last two are very special. We took this picture of Elizabeth when she was about three weeks old and literally fighting for her life. This was the worst and sickest week that she had. I had very little hope that she would survive. On her arm she is wearing Matt's wedding ring. I asked Kiera to take a few pictures of Elizabeth holding the ring as a two year old and they are just perfect!

Happy New Year!

We hope everyone one had a great New Year! Here are a few pictures from our Christmas this year.

Ava was Mary in her preschool Christmas program. She was so sweet and very excited to be Mary.

Aunt Christina applying new lip gloss

Christmas morning happiness

One of Ava's favorite gifts the "Disney's Enchanted Musical Vanity"