Finally

....she's drinking Milk in a cup! FINALLY! Makes my life so much easier! So Proud of her!

So everything has been going great! We are just busy planing Nadia's First Birthday & Baptism!

My sisters are flying in from Germany which i am more then excited about.. Tagried is going to be the Godmother and Hana, Tommy's brother is going to be the Godfather!

Nadia's Grandmother is throwing her a Birthday Party the day before the Baptism with a hugh grill out... Super Super exciting!!

It turns out Nadia is a big dancer.... give her any kind of Beat and she will dance to it!

.. you just have to see for your self! :)

Here come the feisty shark

She is just too funny!!

Movie Night with Big Brother

Colby & Nadia

Not my Idea... !

Justin is a mess....he came out of his room the other day.. stood if front of Tommy and said " Like a good Neighbor.. Daddy has Hair" He raised his eyebrows and said " It didn't work" Hahaha ( State Farm Commercial) :)

Loves Tv like Justin...

Rocking the Ballerina Outfit :)

Hehehe

My little bundle of Joy

We Defiantly have no trust issues loool

She is standing up and balances her self for at least 10 sec too.. she also walks why holing on to things... Yes Big Girl I know

She is Crawling

I have to say i am really surprised on how many people are fallowing our blog... i had a Lady stopping me the other day at the Mall asking me if i was Nadia's Mother ...i was really confused..wondering who this lady was and why she new me...and Nadia!! ???

She started to tell me that i didn't know her but that she was following Nadia's Story... she told me how much we inspired her and that she was praying all along for my little girl and how happy she was she is doing so well!

It wasn't the first time someone had stopped me to tell me they followed our blog but usually it's someone that i kind of knew or met before..

So i was really stunned but more touched that people i don't know cared enough about my little Girl to pray for her.... i really want to thank everyone who keeps my little Nadia in their Prayers... Prayers are so powerful.. we had prayers coming from all around the globe during her Surgery's .... i believe that this is the reason why Nadia did so well and still is !!

I also have good news to report about Nadia's last Cardiology appointment.... we didn't had a Echo done only a Chest X.Ray and vitals.... everything looked great.. we came home with 5 different medications from the hospital and are down to 3... i am crossing fingers that it becomes less then that!! Best news of all they do not want to see us until end of May!!

Nadia is developing FAST!! She is wearing size 12m and is a unstoppable crawler ...YES YES YES SHE IS ALREADY CRAWLING!!!!!!!

I don't think she is one bit behind on her motor skills... for everyone who sketches their heads wondering why i always make a big deal over any of her milestone she reaches ....i would love to explain my self again because sometimes i just write things down expecting everyone to understand what i am talking about and why i am writing it.

I was told a lot of things ...

Things like..Ur Child will have most likely have Blueish looking skin ...which she doesn't...but i think that's more because she inherited my awesome complexion :)

Purple Lips.... which she only has when she is cold or cries hysterically !

They did scare me allot... i thought i am going to be giving birth to a Avatar Baby.. no kidding!

That she will be behind on most of her motor skills.. they say it comes from being in the NICU,PICU well laying in a hospital bed in general for so long.. which makes a lot of sense.....

They told me she might not roll around, sit up, stand up, crawl, walk until very very late in life... which would not have killed me if she had not done them right on time.. but just because they told me she wouldn't but yet she did... it makes it so special to me and the reason why i make such a big deal over it.. Hope you understand my over excitement now... and now you can get excited with me :)

Nadia's "Bling Bling" as Justin calls it :)

After talking it over with Dr. Kavanaugh we went to Clair's and got her ears pierced!!

I kept pushing it off telling everyone i will do it tomorrow or the day after that.... Tommy finally said let's do it and we had some support from Hana, Jano and of course Justin... i am not sure why i was so nervous about piecing her ears..... i think i was just terrified that this will go all wrong.. her ears get infected ..she will get a fever and so on...i know.. i know...but this is how u start thinking if you have a Child that could end up in a hospital over a common Cold ..

Nadia cried for a min and forgot about everything after the Lady handed her a sucker to play with !! She looks Beautiful with her "Bling Bling"!! :)

My Facial expression says it all! :)

She was MAD!

Good Job Big Girl!!!

Thumbs up :)

Loving her Bling Bling :))

Thankful

I woke up one morning finding Nadia standing in her Crib just smiling away at me..... this is huge because that shows me how strong she is and that means her Heart must be Happy!

She is sitting up without any support and can Balance her self pretty well too... that literally happened over night!

My Lord she has the best personality and it's days like these that i am so thankful God send me this special Angel!!

Have a Great Weekend

Haha

She Loves Music

Sitting up all by her self ...

Standing up by her self!!!

Can you see her Tiny Teeth ???? I love them!!!

Ein Herz und eine Seele

My little Doll

Tommy rather took the Picture that being in it

My Handsome Boy

Justin leaving food for the reindeer's

I love my Babies !

Happy New Year/ Nadia said her first word

I can't believe it is already a new year!! All though we have been threw allot last year it was still a good year for us and i am looking forward to a even better year this year!!

Our Christmas was wonderful and we actually went to a new year's eve party in Louisiana that fallowed a Baptism that was also Great.. we had low key new years eve party's in the past... so i was really excited about a Big Party!

I was a little nervous about taking Nadia out of town and her being around people but i managed to stay calm and ask people as nice as possible to wash or sanitize their hands before holding her ... most of our Family know about her condition so i didn't even had to ask allot!

Nadia spilled out her first word just a few days ago.... can u guess what it was???

It wasn't Mama that's for sure... LOL it was Dada ... the cutest Dada i have ever heard in my life !!! Tommy was rubbing it in my face all day long... I remember Justin's first word was Teta which stands for Grandma in Arabic...so none of them did say mama and Tommy just thinks it's the funniest thing ever!!

Nadia is really smart... i have thought her a couple of things... how to twist her hand from side to side while i sing a popular Baby Song in Arabic and when she does something she is not suppose to do like pulling my hair which she loooovvvvveeeeeeeeessss doing i tell her "dide dide" which stands for That's a No No while pointing my fingers at her then she does point her finger back at me and screams out loud.. as if she is telling me " I can do what ever i want to" ...DIVA!!! LOL

Her sitting up had improved allot but i can't leave her yet knowing she will be fine!

I am in a Happy Place right now i have to say that i missed feeling that way... Praying it will stay this way! :)

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Nadia's first two Teeth

First of all i can Officially say that Nadia is Off the Feeding Tube..since my last Post were i decided to stop feeding her threw the tube she had done really well and gained 10 ounces !

She looks so pretty without the tube sticking out of her nose.. i know she can't tell me in words how she feels but i can tell she is much happier without it !!

A Couple of weeks ago i discovered that Nadia developed her first bottom tooth.... i got sooo excited because for some reason i thought she will get them really late! Shortly after... her second tooth came out!

She is learning to sit up as well without any support... she is doing great but didn't fully figure out how to sit up longer then 10 seconds without falling over... i posted some pictures of her sitting up and i tried to take some pictures of her tiny teeth but they are just way to little!!

Besides that... everything is going great she sleeps threw the night which is great for me and is just a happy strong Baby!

Justin still loves Preschool and is soon starting a Hip Hop class...he is quite a dancer :) Can't wait to see how he will do!

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She defiantly has an opinion

... and a attitude

Ready for the Winter

Posing

enjoying the Christmas Tree

Sitting up for the first time

She thinks her talking Dog is hilarious

I can't help but Laugh with her when she laughs!

How about you? Can you keep a straight Face??

My little Model

Reaf's open Heart Surgery

Reaf's Surgery went really well!! I sat with Ashley and Scott for a couple of hours to get there mind of things!

I sat with them until they got a update from the OR Team.. they said that they are closing up Reaf.. in that moment i just thought ok i am not even worried he will be out in a week... sure enough he was out 5 days later!! What a Fighter!!!

Isn't he a Cutie ???

I never mentioned in any of my Posts what happened and how it was sitting as a parent of a patient in that waiting room... waiting anxiously for a update!!

Have u ever been worked up over a test u are about to take????

Then you know how nauseated, lightheaded and anxious you can get.. how fast you Heart suddenly beats.. imagine feeling that way and then multiplied times 100.... yes that bad!!!

Well while i was feeling that way i remember the Update call when they had told us that everything is going well and that they should be done in a couple of hours.. i was preparing my self sitting in the waiting room for 6-8 hours because that is what they have told us... that it could take that long!

Hour and a half after that update Dr.Bichell came out and when i saw him coming to talk to us..i could swear that my Heart stopped beating for a good minute! All i thought was..WHY is he not in the OR Fixing my Baby's Heart.. he can not be done! No way!!

But he was... and when it only took Reaf 2 hours i knew he will do just as good!!

His Mommy told me yesterday that poor Reaf developed a Hernia and that they will be back in Nashville January to fix it! But Hey Reaf mastered Open Heart surgery..pretty sure this will be a breeze!!

Still every prayer is appreciated