Abi's Heart Friend, Kelsey

 My friend's friends who have a precious baby girl, Kelsey, are going through a very difficult time right now. I had the privilege to speak with them couple times over the phone before Kelsey's first surgery and I encourage you to read their story and ask you to pray for them.

If you feel God is giving you the opportunity to help them in any possible way, please do.

It's our privilege when God chooses us to make a difference in others lives.


Here's Kelsey's blog: http://kelseycorlitofoundation.blogspot.com/

15 Month Pediatric Checkup

Today I took Abi to her 15 month appointment with pediatrician.

Abi's weight continuous to be in the 75% at 24lb and 9oz and she grew 2.5 inches since her last appointment 3 months ago. This put her at 94% measuring 32.5 inches. Her ears, eyes, nose and everything else are fine and overall development is just where it's supposed to be.

She got 2 shots today and she did great. Fussed for maybe 1 minute and after that was as happy as could be.

Next visit at the pediatrician office in 3 months around the same time her next cardiologist appointment.

Thank you for checking on her and praying for her!

Greetings,
Art


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15 months of Joy

It's been 15 months since Abi came to our lives. She is so wonderful and happy.


We are visiting her pediatrician tomorrow for Abi's 15-month check-up. Actually, Art and his parents are going to take her. I hope she'll do great and be a brave little girl while getting her vaccinations.

As much as I am not worried about the weight-gain and general condition, I am curious of how the appointment will go. I have never missed any of her appointments!

J.

CHD Awareness-Heart Walk

This past Saturday there was a CHD Awareness Heart Walk in Charlotte , NC downtown. Unfortunately I worked my 24h shift this Saturday and I was not able to join but Asia, Abi and my parents did get to join and it was a great experience and really good initiative.

I do hope we will get more involved next year! And maybe some of you will join us too ;-)

Art


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14 Months

Today Abi's 14 months old. It's crazy how fast this went by. She's walking, even running, understands everything she is supposed to understand in 2 languages and, yes unfortunately she knows how to tell us 'NO' in 2 languages too; in one would be enough and still heard too often :-)

She's a wonderful 14 month old, absolutely gorgeous and lovable child and, today especially, I just can't believe how blessed we are to have her. I hate that under pressure of day-to-day life we tend to forget how blessed we are and what a miracle she is. I've been thinking about it all day and am celebrating this little miracle with an incredible joy in my heart!

And this is her- she put my hat on on the way from gym. She's really proud of herself when she manages to put a hat on her head like this ;-)
















Art

Just some thoughts

I'm watching Abi carefully; every day, for as long as possible. Sometimes I find myself looking at her totally forgetting about the world around me. I can't believe how fast she's growing, changing, learning new things and many of them on her own, just figuring them out.

It is absolutely fascinating to watch her explore. We, adults, take way too many things for granted; stop paying any attention to them; forgetting their existence even though they are with us every day.

Asia and I have learned so much about not rushing things, not rushing life, enjoying and cherishing every stage Abi's at because one day it will pass.

And not long ago Asia said something that changed my time with Abi again. Looking at things through her eyes, joining her on this journey in her world.

And the last couple days Abi stepped on a new path- teething. Yes, she got 1 tooth cut out and there are I believe 2 more trying. She's dealing with it great, including the fevers and runny nose that bothered her so much that she kept waking up a lot overnight. This gives us some extra time to spend with her cuddling with us.

Today I took her to a park and she had so much fun. She loved the slide and two swings. Yes, two since she wanted to be on the other one every 45 seconds ;-)













After we got home instead of going for a nap she decided to read some books with me first. She kept on going to her bookshelf and bringing books, sitting on my lap and when we were dine reading she was going to pick another one.





45 minutes of reading and laughing before the nap.




It was a great day!

~Art

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Speed of light...

We celebrated Abi's first birthday with the family (the grandparents) on Sunday. Abi had a blast digging into the cake with a ... SPOON. Yes, she's a true European lady. I'm sure she'll be using fork and knife before we know it. Naturally, we need to wait for the teeth to come out... but wait.. today we saw one cutting through! Our baby girl is moving forward with a speed of light!

12 months and 2 weeks after she was born, she took her first steps and working on her fist tooth!

So proud of you Abi! Kocham Cie nad zycie!!