…Baby Susannah Joy came into the world and made our family complete. It’s been the best year of my life (despite the sleep deprivation). Being a family of five, a mom of three girls, the wife of the most incredible guy in the world, being parents with him and watching him be a dad to a wee one, watching my girls be big sisters to her… My heart is overflowing….
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An Update and an Answer to Prayer for Baby Susie.
It’s been six weeks since Susie had two seizures back to back. After a trip in the ambulance to the ER after the first seizure where she had a CAT scan and a series of labs run, we followed up with her pediatrician and even more labs to test for metabolic or genetic disorders. Praise the Lord, all of her labs came back perfectly normal. PERFECTLY, in the middle of…
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{Baby Love} Eleven Months.
Our sweet Susannah Joy was ELEVEN MONTHS old yesterday. Our sweet blue-eyed baby. Or are they brown? Green? Hazel? I think they change every day… She’s becoming a little PERSON. With a PERSONALITY. This is one cute new thing she does… when she’s sleepy, she gathers up the front of her clothes into her fist and pulls it up to her nose like a ‘blanky’ while she sucks her thumb….
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Baby Susie’s Oatmeal Banana Bites.
A quick update on Baby Susie: for those of you missed this post, she had two very scary seizures last week, but praise the Lord, NO seizures since last Thursday. We’re still waiting for her lab results to come back to rule out a metabolic or genetic disorder. THANK YOU for the continued prayers! Susie is REALLY into food these days. For a fourteen-pounder who is smaller than 95% of…
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{Baby Susie Joy} Nine Months.
Baby Susie Joy is growing by leaps and bounds! Well, sort of…. At her nine month check-up, she weighed in at a whopping 13 pounds, 8 ounces. That’s below the second percentile, FYI. She’s in the fifteenth percentile for weight, and fiftieth for head size. So she’s built like a lollipop, in other words. I have to admit I was worried… my other two children have always been…
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Susie and Her Nursery.
So we’ve been working on this house for over three months now, and the one room that is ALMOST done is Susie Joy’s nursery. That’s because she sleeps more than the rest of us, and one day I’ll tell you all about my baby-sleeping technique, but that’s the subject of another blog post. Her walls, ceiling, closet, and chandelier have all been painted, sort of a lime-avocado color (a lot…
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I’m Not Trying to Brag but My Kids are Super Models.
So, I’m sure by now you’ve seen my kids’ TV commercial. It’s kind of a big deal. It may come as a shock, seeing as how she was such a natural, but this was Susie’s first modeling gig {she’s the babe in the blue smocked dress}, though her older sisters {the two cuties by the lake} are modeling pros… Katie modeled Miss Me jeans for the Cavender’s Boot City website,…
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A Day in the Life of Susie.
This happy baby can entertain herself all day, with just a set of hands and feet and her mouth. I love her.
Susie Entertains Herself.
{Baby Love} Five Months.
Susannah Joy is FIVE MONTHS OLD ALREADY! So, so happy. I really hate how FAST the first year whizzes by. Really, really hate it. I want to savor every single minute of her and stretch it out and soak up every last detail of her tiny toes, her chunky thighs and chubby cheeks, her raspberry-blowing and gurgles and coos and giggles. In the blink of an eye,…
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Ever Had One of Those Days When Baby Poop is the Best Part?
It’s been one of those days when I’ve been taxing my adrenal glands again. Kind of stressed out… I won’t go into details; nobody’s dying or anything, but there’s just something I want, and I want it NOW, but getting it is taking some work, dangit. Some work, and praying, and just… WORK. And I’ve been WORKING ON THIS BIDNESS ALL DAY. And getting more and more discouraged as the…
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