shorts weather

Alex wore shorts last Sunday becuase it was so nice and warm. How cute does he look?

Maybe we'll have nice weather again soon.

Ha Ha Ha

March for Babies

Wow - what a wonderful time we had at the March for Babies in Seattle on Sunday. Here is a cute picture of Alex trying on my sunglasses. It was a beautiful sunny day to be on a walk to support a good cause. I ended up getting much more emotional than I ever thought. I was emotional because I knew all these people KNEW what I knew. There were so many families there, with newborns, toddlers, children of all ages. Families who were touched in some way - for so many reasons. The most difficult to see where the teams all wearing t-shirts for a baby that had died. I was so proud to be there supporting them - supporting all of us.

All babies deserve a healthy start.

March of Dimes is a good organization and funded the grant for the studies to develop/test the surfactant therapy that Alex received while in the NICU. He had respiratory distress and was struggling to breath. The surfactant therapy helped so much! He could breath easier and not spend all of his energy breathing - but, instead resting from a traumatic birth and learning to feed.

We are very grateful to all the people who donated to the March of Dimes - March for Babies walk.

Thank you!

May - this time last year

Ahhhh - Thrush!

How could I forget?

We got it after I had a wonderful battle with Mastitis and ended up battling thrush for many - many weeks. Poor little Alex had to deal with having a purple mouth due to the Gentian Violet. Which after about a week of everything being purple, we had to step up the treatment on both of us by taking Diflucan for 3 weeks to get rid of it.

Don't miss that part at all!

It's hard to believe he was ever this little. I remember that he would "sleep suck" during his napping and I just thought it was the cutest thing ever.

It's hard to believe it's been a year already.



One of my all time favorite pictures is below. Look at those cheeks. He wasn't born with that much cheek. He grew them! And we could see them grow. We love those cheeks!

People often thing Alex is "ahead" of his age group - while that is true, it's really just his personality. Look at that "I want to GO!" personality in his eyes. He always wanted to be upright, crawling ("going") when he could crawl, or walking when he could take steps - moving moving moving. He was quite the kicker in the womb, too.

It's nothing I've done - I swear!

It's all him.

Plus, remember - I have no idea what I am doing anyway. I'm a first-timer at this.