Out & About

For Valentine's Day we had the pleasure of attending the annual CHD Awareness Day Party at The University of Iowa Children's Hospital. Olivia has such a great time with all of her little heart buddies at this event.  It's just a wonderful opportunity to meet other heart kiddos and other parents.  Usually we know most of the people there, but this time there were many new faces.  We also had a little smaller group due to some of our heart friends having procedures or being ill.  But, it was still a great time!
 



Look at that arm!


Watch out for that lion!


That is one tough candy necklace!








This was pretty neat. They had all the kiddos who were survivors make a hand print and write their name and age. They are planning on taking this banner around to all of the different heart walks.
 
Olivia, Thomas, myself, and Gram got to go out on our first shopping trip in quite awhile.  The kiddos got some clothes and Olivia got a new pair of rain boots.


Good thing we got some rain 'cuz this girl was ready to try out her new boots!


Thomas is still growing so fast. He will be 4 months old on Monday and he's up to a whopping 19 lbs! Last week he tried baby cereal for the first time and loved it! He ate every drop I made. I tell ya, when he gets a little older him and his daddy will being eating us out of house and home! Ha ha.




Recently there has been an ice jam just outside of town. We drove by and this is what we saw. Amazing, isn't it? Olivia thought it was pretty cool. She kept asking, “Have I been to the ice jam before?”



The other day Olivia wanted me to take her picture (which is rare). So, I got out my photo stuff and we had a quick shoot.









Well, that's all for now. Olivia's heart cath is 3/16, please keep her in your prayers. I will update with the results from the cath and any news about surgery.

Until next time...