Merry Christmas!!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful blessed Christmas with their little ones! :)

Important day that changed my life

It was exactly one year ago today that we found out about Joey's condition. It was an incredibly scary day that I'll never forget. But wow, what a difference a year makes! I've been blessed with an amazing, sweet, happy, miraculous little boy!!! He's so amazing! I'm sure we have more challenges to face down the road, but we will face them head on because I know we can handle it!! God is with us all the time! Without Him, I never would have been able to get through the past year. Thanks so much to all my friends and family for praying for us and helping us through such a rough time!

Just in case...

Just in case any of my family is reading this and are curious about the "Praying for Matthew" picture, he's a cute little boy who's blog (well his mom's lol) I follow. He has hydrocephalus as well and he spent 38 days in the hospital :( He FINALLY got to come home! If you would like to read their story, just click the pic.

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It's been a while :)

I haven't posted in forever!! I've had a lot going on - most of all my hard drive crashed and I had to get a new one :( But everything has been going pretty well with the kiddos. Joey is just chugging right along! He is progressing SO well and amazing us every day. It seems like since his shunt revision he has just made MAJOR leaps in his development. He is holding his head up amazingly well, almost sitting up on his own, and talking like crazy! He's such a happy guy. I feel so blessed to have him!

Emmy is FINALLY working on getting potty trained. She resisted and resisted and finally one day something just clicked and she started going on the potty. She still has accidents of course and wears a pull-up for naps and bedtime and when we go out somewhere but wears panties when we are at home. I'm SO happy! She is such a stubborn girl just like her mommy :)

We are also getting prepared for the holidays. I can't wait for Christmas this year - it's going to be so much fun for Emmy!! I can't wait to take her to the mall to see Santa and get her picture made. I also can't wait to see Joey with the lights on the tree. He absolutely LOVES anything that has lights on it so I know he is going to love the tree.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! :)

All is well :)

Just wanted to update quickly to let you all know everything is awesome! Joey is doing so well - its like nothing ever happened. We also had Emmys birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese. She had a BLAST. She wasn't scared of the mouse at all. In fact, she loved him! She followed him around and kept asking for hugs. LOL!

I have tons of stuff to do in the next few days to get ready for our trip. We are heading down to SC to visit my parents! We will trick or treat down there, so I will post tons of pics when I get back! :) Emmy is going to be Minnie Mouse and Joey is going to be a skunk since I always call him little stinker ;)

Have a Happy Halloween everyone!

Happy Birthday!!!

To my sweet little girl Emmy!!!!!! She turns the big 3 today :)

Time goes by way too fast - seems like just yesterday I was holding her all swaddled up. Awww!

Happy Baby :)

Yep, he's back to his old self. What a relief!