The computer is back!

Me, Kaylan, and my Mom at Kaylan's bachelorette party

Corey's dad, Charlie, came to visit the miracle.
Ciara all bundled up camping.
Aaliyah and her poppa looking at the spill way in Tionesta.

The spill way

Aaliyah swinging.

Ciara hanging out on the hammock

Aaliyah on the horsees.

Walking at the deer ranch The baby deer

Chubby, chubby in the bath. look at those legs!

Aaliyah felt she needed to sit in Ciara's bouncy seat!

Aaliyah and her kitty taking a nap

The computer is fixed and home! A lot of thanks go out to my brother Ryan for helping us out and fixing it. Thank you Ry Ry.

This is my second time typing this as Aaliyah thought she need to bang on the keyboard and delete my entire post! Needless to say I am not happy.

Ciara is doing very well and we continue to praise the LORD everyday for her well being. On Monday July 20 we went to the Dubois NICU and had her 12 hour sleep study test. It was so nice to see all of the staff and Dr. Hassen. They were pleasantly surprised how big and chubby she has become! She did not sleep very well in the NICU (neither did I) but never the less she passed her test. The apnea monitor company came last Thursday and got a reading from her machine. As long as everything looks ok we should be able to discontinue the monitor. I will be so relieved when I won't have to worry about that thing anymore. On her test date she weighed 9lb 3 oz.

A couple of weekends ago we went up to Tionesta to camp with my parents. On the way up there we stopped at Double Diamond Deer Ranch in Cook Forest. Aaliyah had so much fun. She loved how she could touch the deer and see them up close. It was so nice to see her so happy. Ciara went too but she just slept the whole time! After our visit with the deer we continued our journey to Tionesta campground. Aaliyah LOVES to go camping so she was anxiously awaiting our arrival. She and her daddy went fishing a couple of times and she really had a lot of fun. Whenever someone catches a fish she has to run over and look at it. And then when they release it she yells "Bye fishy." She also had a great time at the playground. Ciara seemed to enjoy the outdoors as well.

That Sunday we had plans to go over to Indiana for the Anthony reunion. Well Corey and Aaliyah were having such a good time fishing that we decided to camp as long as we could. Corey had to work that Monday so we left camp around 8 pm. It was so nice to get out in the fresh air. I too love to camp.

This past weekend was a girls weekend as it was my best friend Kaylan's bachelorette party. She decided to have it at the Waterfront in Pittsburgh. On Saturday we went shopping and got our makeup done at Ulta. Then we went to P.F. Changs for dinner. It was excellent Chinese food. If you ever get the chance to go there be sure to try the lettuce wraps. After dinner we went to the comedy club. It was a good show. After the show we checked into our hotel room and in the morning we did some more shopping. I went quite a while with no babies! It was so nice to have some mommy time. Corey had the weekend off so he kept the kids. He had every intention of keeping both of them but Aaliyah decided she wanted to spend the night with Aunt Libby and Gram Judy. Overall Corey did a pretty good job but he said he didn't hear the baby get up to eat for 7 hours. Believe me she has never slept 7 hours straight in her life! Oh well, she is fine. She survived. When I got home that evening I was cleaning up and I found an empty bottle of Hyland's colic tablets. We give these to the baby periodically for a belly ache. Well Aaliyah must have saw them on the counter and helped herself and Corey didn't realize she had. She ingested around 112 tablets. So I proceeded to call the poison control hot line. Luckily because they are homeopathic we did not have to worry. They did make her very sleepy which was kind of nice.

Corey has been working a lot lately especially at night. I don't think we have slept at the same time for a couple of days now. In fact he is sleeping right now. Aaliyah is still working on potty training but right now she doesn't really seem interested. I'm in no hurry. She'll do it when she is ready. She got a time out in the corner this morning because she kicked me in the face while I was changing her diaper. She kicked me so hard she made my nose bleed!!

Please continue to pray for Ciara. We thank you for your support and praise GOD for answering our prayers.

Chuby, chuby

Ciara is doing well weighing in at an amazing 8lb 14oz!!!! She went to the pediatrician today and got her four month shots. She is very gassy and sleeping a lot. Typical post shot symptoms. She has been vomitting after her meals so the doctor changed her formula today. Hopefully it will help her. She gets really fussy after her meals and as soon as she spits up she is fine. They put her on Alimentum and it is so expensive!! Thank GOD for WIC!!! I went and got 13 containers of it and it was 113.00! I'm glad I don't have to come up with the money for it.

She and Aaliyah have been doing very well. We usually spend most of our days outside so Aaliyah can play with the neighbor kids. Unless it is really windy. Ciara gets colic from the smallest wind. Ciara is still wearing newborn clothes and diapers but I only think she has about a week left in them. They are getting small!! How wonderful.

Ciara has been doing really well with her apnea monitor. She is going on Monday the 20th to have a 12 hour pneumogram sleep study done to determine if she still needs to have it with her at all times. It may be possible that she could be decreased to only having it at bedtime. I am excited to go because I haven't seen the NICU girls since Ciara got discharged. They became like family to me and I find myself missing them.

I apologize for not including any pictures. My computer got a bunch of viruses and it crashed. My brother is currently working on it so I am updating from my mom's computer. Hopefully the next post will be at home and I can include some recent pictures.

I want to thank you for all of your prayers and support. There is no way we could have gotten where we are today without our friends and family. Please continue to pray for her growth.