last march, actually just a few days after my last post my husband doug got laid off from his job at Corning Inc.  unfortunately he is still having trouble finding anything though just with in the last week or so a few things have come up that look like they may have some promise.  we are crossing our fingers (and our toes) that one of them come through.

in july we found out that i was pregnant again, we were very nervous at first what with doug being unemployed and all, but quickly got excited and were anxious to welcome another member into our family.  we were devastated when at 6 1/2 weeks i miscarried.  i of course knew what a miscarriage was and knew it was something that could happen but i never really thought it could happen to us.  like everyone else who has had to deal with this loss, we healed, it just took awhile.  it made us realize though that we were ready to be parents again and that as soon as we could we could try again.  and we did.

we got pregnant again in november and are currently a little over 13 weeks along.  we are very excited and anxious for her or him to get here.  actually, my due date is the day before olivia’s 2nd birthday!!!  that should be interesting!

speaking (or rather writing) about olivia, she is doing great!  i don’t think she was even crawling yet the last time i posted. now she is not just walking, but running and jumping and climbing and dancing.  always dancing!  i’m not sure if you’ll remember this or not, but her developmental doctors had originally said that they weren’t sure if her legs would work correctly or if she’d be able to walk on her own.  such a HUGE victory it was to see her walk for the first time!  we actually have an appointment with her orthopedic specialist later this month.  it should be her last and we are very excited about that!

her bladder is still not working on it’s own.  we are still intermittently cathing her 5 to 6 times a day.  that will probably continue on for the rest of her life, though we are still playing that God heals her and she is able to go on her own.  her bowels are still a bit of an issue as well.  but with medicine and restrictions on her diet we are slowly getting a handle on that situation as well.  we will be seeing her gastrointestinal specialist at the end of the month also.  hopefully they will be pleased w/ her progress and also have some answers for us.

i’m hoping to post every few days.  we’ll see how that goes.  i’ll definitely be posting some pictures from the past year and probably some back posts.  hope everyone is having a great new year thus far!

our beautiful girls

olivia & i went up to hornby to go for a walk w/ meghann & the girls.  we walked a long way, about 2 miles all together.  then we hung out for awhile and let the girls play.  we decided that we were going to go for a few walks a week from then on.

such a rockstar

mykaela loves to make olivia laugh, they are so cute together!