Tearing down the living room wall
After trim is up
Our pumpkins
Daddys pumpkin
Ciara fell asleep while watching us carve
Aaliyah enjoying dinner
Daddy looking so happy
My parents bought me a pink terrible towel and Aaliyah was wearing it as a dress!
Ciara in her jumparoo that we borrowed from Uncle Greg and Aunt Kristy. Notice I had to put phone books under her so she could jump!
Aaliyah showing her how it works
Aaliyah helping me bath Ciara 
Three generations: Corey, Ciara, Pat, Aaliyah, and Pat's father Papa Long.
Ciara is doing well again today and is staying right around 12 pounds. We have another appointment on the 3rd and I'll see if she has gained anymore. It is not unusual for a preemie to plateau for a little bit. She is doing great in her therapy and continues to progress well. The therapist gives us different things to work on each week (rolling, sitting, grabbing things dangling in front of her while on back) and we work on them daily. She is still getting massage therapy once a week. We have only had 2 sessions because the therapist got ill. It seems everyone is or has come down with something and the girls have been sick twice already this season. Yesterday Ciara had a nasty case of diarrhea. We went through at least 6 outfit changes. Everytime I turned around she had it up her back or down her legs!
The Spirit (Punxsutawney paper) came to our house two weeks ago to interview Corey and I. They are doing a front page story on her and telling the town how much of a miracle we where blessed with. Pat was here visiting from Florida when Mike was here and he included her in the picture of the family. I watch the paper daily waiting for the story to print. When I talked to Mike last he was under the impression that the story would be printed within the week, but I have yet to see it. We are thrilled and honored that they were willing to share our story.
Aaliyah has been too sick to go to daycare these past weeks. She got over her cold and then got another one so I haven't sent her. She continues to work on potty training but is very stubborn! She will have a day when she goes potty everytime and then the next day she absolutely refuses. I have tried bribing her with quarters and I even told her that if she went potty all the time and didn't use diapers that I would buy her a present. So far she is still not interested. She continues to be Ciara's little mommy and loves to help me with her.
This past week Corey knocked out part of the wall that is in between the living room and the dining room. We have a wood burner in the fireplace at the back of the house and none of that heat was getting to the living room. The hole has really helped and sometimes it is too hot!! We will eventually find a happy medium. Corey did a really nice job.
On October 14 Corey and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary. It was very low key. Corey had to work so we only saw each other for a few minutes before bed. He was sweet enough to buy me roses and I got him a Nickelback CD. Like I said low key.
On Thursday we carved pumpkins and Aaliyah had a good time. She was kind of disappointed I wouldn't let her carve much, but she was ok after I let her draw on the pumpkins. I made Corey do it with us and he enjoyed it! We bought a carving kit and they came out really nice. I just found out today that Punxsy is trick or treating on Wednesday. Aaliyah has Good News Club on Wednesdays so I think she will probably have to miss it. It is so silly that it is on Wednesday and not Saturday!!! I'm not sure when Big Run is having theirs but it is usually the same night. Aaliyah decided months ago that she wants to be Cinderella. My original plan was to make Ciara one of the mice, but every mouse costume I found was either white or gray and the mice on Cinderella are brown. So I decided to make Ciara the magic pumpkin. I had no problem finding a pumpkin costume!
The Spirit (Punxsutawney paper) came to our house two weeks ago to interview Corey and I. They are doing a front page story on her and telling the town how much of a miracle we where blessed with. Pat was here visiting from Florida when Mike was here and he included her in the picture of the family. I watch the paper daily waiting for the story to print. When I talked to Mike last he was under the impression that the story would be printed within the week, but I have yet to see it. We are thrilled and honored that they were willing to share our story.
Aaliyah has been too sick to go to daycare these past weeks. She got over her cold and then got another one so I haven't sent her. She continues to work on potty training but is very stubborn! She will have a day when she goes potty everytime and then the next day she absolutely refuses. I have tried bribing her with quarters and I even told her that if she went potty all the time and didn't use diapers that I would buy her a present. So far she is still not interested. She continues to be Ciara's little mommy and loves to help me with her.
This past week Corey knocked out part of the wall that is in between the living room and the dining room. We have a wood burner in the fireplace at the back of the house and none of that heat was getting to the living room. The hole has really helped and sometimes it is too hot!! We will eventually find a happy medium. Corey did a really nice job.
On October 14 Corey and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary. It was very low key. Corey had to work so we only saw each other for a few minutes before bed. He was sweet enough to buy me roses and I got him a Nickelback CD. Like I said low key.
On Thursday we carved pumpkins and Aaliyah had a good time. She was kind of disappointed I wouldn't let her carve much, but she was ok after I let her draw on the pumpkins. I made Corey do it with us and he enjoyed it! We bought a carving kit and they came out really nice. I just found out today that Punxsy is trick or treating on Wednesday. Aaliyah has Good News Club on Wednesdays so I think she will probably have to miss it. It is so silly that it is on Wednesday and not Saturday!!! I'm not sure when Big Run is having theirs but it is usually the same night. Aaliyah decided months ago that she wants to be Cinderella. My original plan was to make Ciara one of the mice, but every mouse costume I found was either white or gray and the mice on Cinderella are brown. So I decided to make Ciara the magic pumpkin. I had no problem finding a pumpkin costume!
Please continue to pray for Ciara and hopefully she will start gaining some more weight!! God is good! Please also pray that next Sunday we will all be well enough to go to church. We have missed two weeks in a row now.
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