No excuses

So I am not going to give a bunch of excuses as to why in the world I have not kept up my blog, instead...I will just try to keep it up. So hang on....watch out picture overload!

First time eating

Great Santa!

She loves her feet

Daddy with tree

Great gift



Family Feet



Spears family

6 months old happy girl

I was blessed to catch her on video crawling for the first time! Life as we knew it is no more!

Avery 3 months old

Avery has been doing so great. She is almost sleeping through the night all of the time (we are thankful for sure!) We have been seeing a lot of doctors lately trying to figure out how to get rid of the swelling in her feet. We meet with a physical therapy team this week. Last week we saw her cardiologist (which she got a 100%.) In December we will meet with a genetic doctor to see if there is anything that we have missed. Our doctor wants to be sure that nothing is wrong! I love her for that. I especially love that she continues to tell me that science and medicine has no answers for what happened to Avery. Although I am not sure if she is a believer, she continues to assure me that Avery's life is simply just a miracle that we will never be able to explain! I CAN EXPLAIN IT!!! JESUS!!!!!!! We still continue to tear up each time we share Avery's story. We are constantly asked about her each time we go to a new doctor. Or even just random people who inquire about her sweet swollen feet. So many are just in awe of her life already. It helps that she is so stinkin cute and happy all the time. I can't get enough of her. I would have to say, I would never want to go through all that we went through the past 3 years, but seeing Avery and seeing her smile, you can't help but marvel at the Love of Jesus! She makes each tear worth it! For sure...just as Dr. Cox preached at Carter's funeral...for every tear drop there will be joy. I can say for sure...I am almost caught up!

These pictures are from 3 months and from seeing Grandparents over her dedication weekend.

 Can't help laughing at herself.

 Daddy playing with me and my passy.

 Couldn't resist her.  TOO CUTE.

 Dinner after baby dedication.

 Daddy making us laugh

  3 months old already

 Baby dedication



 Baby dedication

 Family photo (she is looking at a water fountain outside!)

 Meeting her Granddaddy for the first time

3 months old

Growing too fast

My sweet girl is growing to fast.  Tonight she sat up for 2 seconds by herself on my bed.  SHE IS ONLY 11 weeks old!!  Crazy girl. She is so much fun to watch laugh and smile and grin. We continue to be amazed at all she is doing. This past week we were at the doctors several times trying to control her reflux. Her doctor said that because she is doing things that 6 month old babies due, her reflux will continue to be bad.  Is this the same girl that wasn't supposed to be here and if she was, she wasn't supposed to be developing on target?  Still amazing to me.  We are headed to a few specialist to try and reduce the edema in her little feet. But besides that, she is a picture of health.  This weekend she is being dedicated at church.  We are so excited to have family her to celebrate with us.  I will post pictures this week of her from Sunday. In the meantime...here are a few we have taken lately.

2 months old already

It feels like the journey for us to have children took so long, almost forever!  Pregnancy seemed to move at a turtles pace daily for me.  Now that we have Avery here in our arms, I can't seem to keep up with the days.  Everything is moving so quickly and some how I have blinked and she is already 2 months old. My heart is breaking at how fast she is growing up.  She has already started to sleep for 8 - 9 hour stretches at night allowing me to get a little more sleep. She has already begun to coo and smiles at us all of the time.  My heart is overflowing with love for this sweet girl. I just pray my mind is saving the sweet memories in my heart so I don't forget anything. I know I will forget some of the things that she will do, but I pray that my heart will never forget the feeling of what an incredible miracle and gift she is to Brent and I!  I love so much and I especially love being her mommy! 

Sweet moments

They look just alike!

 Loves her daddy

Standing on God's Word...literally.

Avery has started to smile a lot and is starting to recognize Brent and I. Here are a couple of other moments that we caught.

Special friends

We had a lot of special friends that sent Avery some really cute stuffed animal gifts.  Here are just a few of them.  I personally love the Clifford dog because it came with a clifford book that we love reading!

Newborn

So having a newborn doesn't allow much time for many others things, unless you do it while they sleep. But, while she sleeps, I am usually cooking, cleaning, working and then it's time for Avery to wake up again. So that is my lame excuse why it's taking so long for pictures. I have several more to download tomorrow (I hope. And will post them asap!)