Update.

A lot has happened since your surgery not only does your head look amazing, but I noticed your development is improving to a very great degree. I felt that before the surgery your development wasn’t getting anywhere. Now you are pulling yourself around in the walker, you are more aware and active. You seem to learn a different thing each day. You’re just a happy little baby despite the hell you’ve been through in the past nine months of your life. You make me a proud proud MAMA! We recently visit your ophthalmologist and the surgery really helps relief the pressure off your eyes and they are straightening out, but you do need glasses to help them a little more. You are nearsighted so now you need tiny glasses. (You look like Grandpa =D TWINS!!) (OH! I wonder how many glasses we are going to have to go through pumpkin!) By the way MAMA’s going to be TWENTY tomorrow o___O Time does fly by when you get older!! So this means I’m not a teen mom anymore?!

Looking back a year of being a teen mommy I’ve grown and matured so much I can’t believe it. Honestly I feel a lot older than I really am. Things are kind of ruff …Daddy and I are going through a lot right now and I want you to know that being a teen parent is very hard, and we have a lot of stress on us. Not only were you born with a birth defect, but you have other things going on that needs medical attention. That’s a lot of doctor visits, and a lot of $$$$ that daddy and I don’t have. We are trying our best to be the best parents we can, and a good example for you (just like grandma and grandpa are to us) between going to school, work, keeping food in the table, and desperately trying to keep our apartment we love each other and always will that’s all that matters. So we might mess up a few times before we actually get everything right so be patient with us, but we will get it. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. –Oprah

Pictures..

Aliyah's Helmet..

Food Shopping with mommy =) ..

Happy Easter

I tried uploading this so many times off my phone but it wouldn't let me.. so better late than never right?? =)

9 month update

Ok, so my baby girl is now nine months old!!! Can you guys believe it!! Somehow the past two months have slipped through the cracks. Sorry about that. Height & Weight: Still size 4 disposable diapers Weight - 18 lbs. (70th percentile) Length – 25 in (75st percentile) Since my last post Aliyah you have healed so well, your head looks amazing you

can barely see the stitches! Now you have a helmet that has to be on 23 hours a day; and you absolutely hate it! That helmet can only be on 4 to 5 hours at a time because you will very well lose your mind you won’t sleep, eat, or move you will just cry and cry. (You are so miserable with it on, and you have to wear it for three months!) Aliyah’s milestones: *Two bottom teeth have come out. (Sharp little things) * Yelling more. * moving yourself in the walker * smacking and punching people in the face * She isn’t crawling.. yet * You can’t pull yourself up..yet * Smacks your lips together trying to give kisses.

Hates: A dirty diaper, washing your hair, your helmet, and cold milk. We are constantly at the doctor’s office...=/ it’s getting very annoying. If it’s not for your head, it’s your ophthalmologist; pulmonologist, cardiologist, or pediatrician …smh and now the doctors are saying you are developmentally behind a couple months because of the surgery. -___- ughhh….. soo now they want you to go through therapy to catch up. Great … but at the end of the day you are a very strong and happy baby.