Open for business! Foxy's Avon!!!

Guys, just wanted to let you all know that I started selling Avon! Yep! If you have not checked this stuff out in a while, I invite you to check out my online store!
Shipping is free for orders over 30 bucks. They have the cutest little kid stuff and awesome skin care and makeup. Love Love Love it!

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Can't wait to see you there!

Holy Moly!

Wow I did not think people even check this blog anymore! I just wanted to get all that stuff of my chest b/c I needed to "feel it" and typing it out helped that happen, if that makes sense, and then I saw the comments. You guys are so wonderful and caring! So Thanks.

What's the word...

So I wanted to tell you guys that once again we had some bad shit happen over here trying to build our family.
I found out I was pregnant in March and we were super excited. My first trimester screening came back 1/8 for Downs so I got an amino. When Doc did the scan before the amino he noticed bright spots on the heart. So went went to CHOP a couple days later for a fetal echo cardiogram. There we found out that our son had hypoplastic left heart syndrome. (The babe did not have downs by the way) In addition to that the right ventricle was leaking so the odds were not in his favor. So we made the decision/or the decision was the best for the baby and ended the pregnancy at 16 weeks. This was on June 11. You know I read all these blogs and hear people put their fate/faith in God and blah blah...I just do not get it anymore. But anyway that's a whole other post.

So at this point we are finished shaking our heads (how can this shit keep happening to us)and throwing up our arms(instead we held on tighter to Nina). I think after what happened last year, we can get through any fire walk.

We have opened our hearts and minds to domestic infant adoption. This is something we have talked about on and off through the years and we are going forward with this. We have hooked up with an agency and the paperwork is beginning to process!!

Classes

So I have been looking more and more into sending Nina to karate lessons are East West Karate in our town. They have a free trial class. She would be with the 3.5 to 5 age range kids called Tiny Tigers. She would be the youngest in the class in age and size and I am sure ability but from what I read thy section off into smaller groups which she would surely benefit from.

She has expressed a desire to attend dance class this fall. So I need to get the ball rolling on this too. Her BFF Ava wants to take class so it would be nice for her to already have a buddy.

This is her last month at Children of America. She has been at the same school since April 2009. She has done well there and we have nothing but great things to say. She will be going to a smaller Lutheran nursery school come mid Sept. I am hoping with a smaller class size and more experienced teacher she would do awesome! The only huge change is class is only 2.5 hours where now she is there 7 with lunch and a nap. so this will be an adjustment to us both.

Hanging Around

Summer is flying by so fast. Yesterday we went back to that little zoo in NJ that you can feed the animals. This year Nina got the treat to feed a giraffe. It was super cool!! This zoo has 9 giraffes where the Philly zoo only has 2. Aug is shaping up to be a busy month with 2 trips to the shore and Maine vaca.

Nina is doing good. She has many cuts and scrapes on her knees from her runs. She was D/C from PT so I am looking forward to seeing this final report. They said she can keep up with her peers so they d/ced her.

We are enrolling her in dance and maybe karate in the fall.

It's been 3 years since (6/21/07) Nina came home from her long long stay in the hospital.

It's just amazing looking at her now and how she has grown into this awesome, smart, fun kid!

I come across blogs where moms are going through the beginning of life in the NICU. It's just heartbreaking and sometimes I cannot believe I was once in their footsteps. But we get through it, we put one foot in front of the other and drive ourselves to the hospital and be with our baby.

We do it because that's our job.

It's true, we do not know how strong we are until we have to be.

Hello out there!

What to say? This morning we are going to Ped for a growth check. She is about 30 pounds and 35 inches.
Nina is almost 40 months old. She has grown 1/4 inch since March.
She is great is the weight dept but kinda behind in the height.
Not sure what Ped will say about it.Blood work? Not sure. Some of my fellow preemie moms have gone down the blood work route and found nothing...

It just makes me nuts when the Doc tell me that her height has nothing to do with being born 4 months early. That my 5/5 and Jason's 5/11 height determine her final outcome...I am finding that to be bullshit when your kid was 1/3 and 11 inches long at birth.