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I am doing it. I am starting the blog that has been in my head for a few weeks now. This blog is the story of my daughter, Sydney and how we, as a family cope with her heart problems. Sydney has a heart defect that will most likely require open-heart surgery. This will be about her progress, her struggles, mine and Jordan's struggles as we try to help her, what her days are like, and most importantly-the miracles, big or small, that occur in our daily life.I believe that my daughter was born with this heart defect for a reason. We are supposed to learn from this experience so I am using this blog as a way to write my thoughts, fears, worries, and joys that come as we help our daughter heal. There are days when I feel like I have so many different emotions that I am going to explode and fortunately a blog will keep me from doing that! Lucky for you. You are welcome to read this blog even if I've never met you! Feel free to make comments, tell your own story, laugh, judge me on my mothering, or to just cry. Whichever suits you best for whatever reason is fine with me! Enjoy the read...

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Dear Sydney,
After much deliberation...I am not going to make your blog private. For various reasons I want to leave it open for any reader. So, there you have it. Any reader is still welcome to read!



Your first halloween was a hit! Though you didn't do any trick-or-treating we still had fun. You were a witch! And a cute witch at that! As you can see from your 6 month picture at the right you couldn't possibly be any cuter. You are beginning to learn all sorts of new tricks these days.
Standing on your own (as long as there is a wall behind you to hold you up.)
Sitting up all by yourself.

Eating oatmeal, sweet potatoes, applesauce, pear sauce.
I have learned that you HATE pureed bananas. You must be my daughter because I don't like them either. :)

You hate to be on your tummy.
I think you have only rolled about 3 times in your life. So basically, you aren't in too big of a hurry to become mobile which is fine with me!

You now weigh 15 lbs! Yes, there was a time when I thought we'd never see the day (or at least I thought it was going to be a very LONG ways away.) I also made you a shirt. I have been wanting to do it for a while and now that I have all this spare time I thought, why not? Here you are modeling your new little t-shirt:




Yep. No one can mess with your heart. Especially boys. :) Because if they do, I think there would be a lot of people who would be willing to do some serious damage. Ha ha. I had a lady tell me at the store the other day that I needed to teach you how to use a bat so you could keep all the boys away when you get older. I don't think it's a bad idea.



I love you, little girl.
Love, Mom

7 comments:

Dan said...
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Allison said...

Natalie--- SHe is getting so big and she is sooo adorable. Love the shirt that you made her.

Jed and Kera said...

Natalie! She looks SO full of life! She has so much color to her face! She just looks so healthy!! What a beautiful little thing! I love her! I won't be showing Dalton any pictures of her anytime soon because I don't want the bat coming after my baby! :O)

Melody said...

15 lbs! That is so exciting! She is getting so big! Her costume is just adorable.

Cori said...

she is just so cute!! and she is getting so big!

Jen Gillespie said...

Love the shirt! I can't believe how much more she is eating and doing! She really is catching up fast. And add me to the list of anyone that will Seriously injure anyone who even looks at her wrong. I'm so glad you got to go visit Mandi for a while. How did Sydney do on the plane/the trip?

Levi and Marissa said...

Adorable Shirt!

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