My Mom has survived three Cranial Surgeries (first to remove tumor and two more surgeries after due to complications) and my Niece Mariah is a flourishing, beautiful one year old after being born premature.
My sister was flown to Boston last year and had to stay
in the cardiac ICU while docs contemplated on whether they would have
to take the baby or not. Weeks later my sister was stable enough to be
brought to a hospital more local to family and was put on
bedrest to keep baby in for as long as possible. She gave birth to my
niece weighing only 4lbs. As you can also see my sister has made full recovery too!
Today is Mariah’s birthday! =) She had a big, pink and purple princess cake, but this one in the pic was for her to eat all by herself.
Oldest cousin and youngest cousin sharing some snuggles.
The two preemies in the family. You would never know by how big Caleb is today that he was born premature a whole month more than Mariah and he only weighed 3lbs. Not to mention he survived orphange life as a preemie! God is good! I am confident Mariah is going to continue blossoming too! Just look at that beautiful smile of joy!! Caleb actually requested this particular photo to be on our blog because “the baby was so happy!”
Hi Baby. Phoebe was much more quiet and serious with her little cousin. Phoebe has this gentle, nurturing nature about her.
Chloe tried to get her baby cousin to laugh with a duck puppet.
What do you do with all those new birthday toys? PLAY with cousins!! =)
I had to share this one pic because it was so funny when Mariah got face to face with her new dolly her Mommy gave her. It was like… Whoa! This baby doll is as big as me. Not sure about that!
It looks like she is starting to cry here, but she truly wasn’t! Instead she started to “talk” as if to say, Hey, I’m still Queen around here! Got it?!
A year later…. We continue to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for the lives of my Mom, my Sister and my Niece!
(sorry for some of the pics being a little washed out. I’m too tired after the days events to fix ‘em. Maybe later… )
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