Birthday Fun and 1 Year Checkups!!!!!

Ava is 5!!!

Emma is 1!!!

 I cannot believe that it has already been a year since this beautiful rare gem joined our family and 5 since I became a mom. We could not be more blessed to be their parents and Ava loves being Emma's big sister. Thank you Ava and Emma for choosing us to be your parents. You inspire us everyday to EMBRACE LIFE and be the best people that we can be. You have taught us so much and brought so much love and faith into our lives.

Boy does these girls know how to party!!! Ava's Birthday is March 3rd and Emma's Birthday is March 20th, she brings spring which makes so much sense because as Ava sings to her everyday she is our SUNSHINE. At her party we were so lucky to have my amazing cousin and her husband, Jeff Eastman, with Jeff Eastman Photography set up a photo booth that took pictures every 30 seconds. We had all sorts of props, needless to say we are so excited to get the pictures back. We also had a visit from the one and only Mascot Miracles Foundation!!!! The mascots,  Princess Jasmine, and Aladdin were a HIT! I cannot thank this amazing group enough please please if you can donate to this foundation do because they help families like ours everyday. They even brought each of the girls a Build-a-Bear!

Girls with their Build-a-Bears and princess crowns - see more pics with mascots/princess-prince in the video below

Here is a link to donate to the Mascot Miracles Foundation https://www.gofundme.com/mascotmiracles Thanks in advance!!!

Here is a little video of her party: so many more pics to come I will post them when I get them all :)



Here is a little video that I put together of Emma through out her first year of life, that was playing at her party. I love making videos of my girls every birthday to show them how much they have grown and how many accomplishments they have made. -note: it is about 25 min long so what til you have time to watch it :) you will have to click to be redirected to youtube to watch it...its safe to click I promise :)



I love when Neurology appointments go well. She was very happy with Emma's progress, or inchstones I should say and was thrilled about her seizure control. She did refer us to a doctor to help treat/look into her spasticity (high tone) we will schedule an appointment soon. She doesn't think it's horrible but worth getting it checked out to be proactive. We also had a Well Check with her pediatrician and he too was pleased with her overall growth, height and head growth. She is still on the small side but still thriving. Her head is growing but at a slow rate, she is in the <3% for her head.
*Weight: 17 pds 15 oz
*Heigh: 28 in
She got 3 immunizations today and we are praying that we can keep her fever down to prevent any seizures please pray with us for no seizures! She handled the shots like a CHAMP and loved her grape sucker mommy and daddy let her have after lol. The perks of being one years old moms lets you splurge every now and then, like frosting on your bday and suckers when you get shots haha. Emma also did a little showing off at her appointment sitting up unassisted for a few seconds with both hands flat....inchstones make my heart happy!

1 year well check and 5 year well check

Ava is use to mom taking millions of pics and Emma is like stop already LOL

Big sister also had her 5 year Well Check and she is rocking it. She passed vision with no problem and she is growing like a weed. As for her development, she keeps shocking me daily on what she knows how to do. We are very proud parents of both of our girls! Here is a proud parent moment that happened at Emma's Birthday Party.

Thanks for your continuous prayers, love and support. 

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