The Apology

I can't believe it's taken me over a month to post a new blog. Well....actually, I can believe it. Ady became very, very mobile this month. Which means, very little time to post (as if I had it before). I left for Hilton Head for a girls getaway on July 8th, and a couple days before that she figured out how to move...and fast! For the past 3 months she's been able to crawl to an object close. I thought she would have had the fast crawl figured out a long time ago, but I'm so glad she didn't. She did it on her own time. And boy, she's fast! :) I love it!


She is walking everywhere if you hold her hands, but she's not ready to do it on her own yet. And, I'm taking the advice of good counsel and not rushing her. She will learn when she wants. I know far too many people who rushed their children to walking. Ady is a smart cookie and she is very cautious when she's holding onto things. She'll only let go to get to another thing if she thinks her balance is right. I know that this will help when she is ready to walk for good. I know they'll be stumbles and falls, but I think her taking her time is going to keep them at a minimum. At least, I can hope that :)


Ady is talking more than ever before. She said "doggy" a few weeks ago. Her first "official" word. She says doggy, dog, or "gaga" when she refers to them. She loves, loves, loves the dogs. This past week we were on vacation with my family. I call my grandmother (whom Ady is named after), Tatay. Ady said her name and it just melted Tatay's heart. We went to get a drink one afternoon and a gray headed woman was in front of us in line. Ady reached over to her and said "Tatay!" It was so sweet. The woman said, "I'm not your Tatay, honey". It was just precious!

At 11 months Ady is eating everything and I am now taking her to 1 Prevacid dose (Prayers PLEASE that this will work!). Her dr wants her off it completely. I'm now taking her to 15 mg a day instead of 30mg. I'm really hoping it's gone for good. In a few days, we'll see. Ady eats everything she can get her hands on. She's such a good eater and I'm so proud :)


Ady has a very funny personality. I don't think I've ever seen a baby with such life to them. (I'm not biased at all, I know). She makes these hilarious faces with her mouth and she knows that she's funny. She started giving you things and then asking for them back. She's a true indian giver. If you ask her to give you her paci, she will. If you ask her for milk, she'll spit her paci out and wait to drink it. She drank from a regular cup this past week and loved it. I'm contemplating just doing that from now on. She loves to drink water. Good girl :) She also loves to squeal, and I mean loud. She's not upset, she just loves to hear herself talk. This past week she had an audience of 9. I'm not sure how she'll survive now without a platform :) Ady learned how to "pat a cake" this week. She claps, then rolls her hands together (looks like she's washing her hands!), then throws her arms up. It is beyond precious. I can't ever seem to capture it, but when I do, I'll share!

We did a photo shoot for 11 months at the beach, and well....it's not very easy to get her to stop and look :) The best one was her with no bow on :)


We had such a wonderful vacation this past week in Panama City. It's the first time the whole family was together in a long, long time. We got some family pictures made on the beach. They turned out so great!


Tatay sure does lover her namesake, Adyline Margaret :)



I couldn't be more grateful for this picture! :)


I also was able to see Dr. Bain who moved her practice to Panama City Beach. The short story is that she was an emmensely vital person to Ady getting here. I had already had one surgery 9 months prior and was still in excruciating pain every single day. She worked me in within 4 days and performed my surgery and was very honest about what she found. She even said she kept me "open" longer than normal to search, she knew I was in so much pain; and she knew I wanted a baby and had been trying and nothing was working. She gave me pictures of all she found. I carried them around like 8x10 glossies! But, they were vital to the next step: Dr. Karon. The pictures showed very detailed images of all that she removed and how it was all over my body. Those pictures went with me when I, 6 weeks later, went to an infertility specialist, Dr. Karon. From the pictures alone, she tested me for PCOS. And then started me on medicine because she didn't need the test results to affirm it. And....I had to stay on the medicine through my entire pregnancy. I found out a few days later it was positive, and then about a week later I was pregnant. You see, I had to be on that medicine anyways with Ady. God just fast forwarded a little bit and had me start it early. Dr. Bain's pictures were so vital. I firmly believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that had Dr. Bain not done my surgery (My first surgeon moved 3 months after she did my surgery), I would not be pregnant today. She did what no doctor before had done for me, she listened. I can't tell you how long she just sat and listened to me cry. She held my hand and just let me cry. And she did everything in her power to get to the bottom of it. I love Dr. Karon, and she took wonderful care of me and Ady, but Dr. Bain will always hold a very special place in my heart. She gave me a gift I might not have today had she not worked so hard. I had to pull a lot of strings to get to see her, but it was such a sweet moment once I saw her. I started to talk, and then the tears just flowed. I was overcome with emotion. The last time I saw her, I was crying, I didn't understand why there was still no baby. And to be able to show her my beautiful 11 month old daughter. Gosh, there isn't anything sweeter! She wants us to visit once a year on our vacation and gave me an address to mail a Christmas card to. Afterall, she is a part of our family!



As Ady approaches her first year of life, it is filled with a lot of emotions. I am daily more aware of how blessed we were to have conceived her. Joseph and I truly know what it's like to suffer, to mourn, to think a baby will never happen. I experienced so much pain. But, today there is so much joy. Whenever I look in my beautiful blue eyed baby girl's face, I praise God for His faithfulness. I was at the bottom of the pit, at the end of my rope, but I still was gripping onto His word. He never let us go. He never, ever let go. He had it all planned out. I am so thankful He made us wait. Because we struggled, we can praise Him even more for this gift we have to hold today!