3/30/2020 - 42 weeks old!

I did it.  I don't know why I did it.  I looked at the sweet tired baby in my arms whose eyes were drifting shut every so often and I said outloud "I think she's going to go down easy tonight."
3 hours ago 👀 🤦‍♀️😆🥰
Oh well, we don't have anywhere to be tomorrow! Happy 42 weeks baby girl, we can stay up all night to celebrate!🥳

3/28/2020 5-year 1st dateiversary

*Eharmony commercial:
5-years ago today, I met Kevin in person on our first date🥰 We met at a Starbucks, I had an iced grande chai... he brought homemade chocolate chip cookies.  You better believe I married him! We gave chocolate chip cookies as the favor at our wedding, and my heart couldn't be more full at the view over my cookie today!  Love this man and our little family!

3/24/2020 -this baby is trying really hard to brighten your day!

3/22 smiles big smiles!

I love her!!! I wouldn't normally share my stripes and plaid pajama choices... but you've got to see these smiles and sweet moments!😍😍😍

3/20 - Just another day at home with a cute baby! Thankful for that!

Our awesome neighbors got this onesie for Annelise!  🦄
We have been getting our supplies from Amazon and Target deliveries, but also have heard from multiple neighbors who reached out to check on us🥰
We live next to cool people 🏡❤

3/18 Trisomy 18 Awareness Day

It's Trisomy 18 awareness day! We are wearing our blue and loving this day that the Lord has made.  I feel too overwhelmed with all that I've learned this year to concisely put it in a post.  Where would I even start?!
With all the extra effort that it has taken to keep this girl with us, it has been more than worth it.  My prayer is that with each awareness day that passes, the years will lead us to a future where people don't have to travel halfway across the United States to find a hospital that will agree that an extra chromosome isn't a reason to withhold lifesaving measures from a baby.  Developmental challenges are not a reason to withhold lifesaving care.  I love our journey and the people we know because of it, especially this little person at the center of it all❤  Our gracious gift from God.

Happy St. Patrick's Day from Annelise!

We will wear blue on 3/18!

Ready to celebrate just one of the things that makes this girl special.  This medical journey that scares us silly at times, but has led to a story written and a faith unfolded that never would have come to be without a third copy of the 18th chromosome.
Wearing blue Wednesday for our girl and her T18 friends.  You are welcome to fill our buckets by doing the same.  But also know that your wardrobe is just a visual of the support that Kevin, Annelise, and I feel on a daily basis!  Thank you friends for also coming on this journey with us!

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3/13 - Trisomy 13 Awareness Day

We are wearing our yellow for Trisomy 13 awareness day.  We weren't aware of what Trisomy 13 (or 18) was about even after a prenatal meeting with a genetic counselor that we had in the early days of pregnancy!  The counselor spent a lot of time on Trisomy 21, Down Syndrome, then said in one breath that there are other trisomies that include more medical issues like 13 and 18 but those are very rare... and moved on.  Little did we know that the blood test we took that day would lead us to know and love our friends who were born with an extra chromosome.   Luckily, as the saying goes, love doesn't count chromosomes😍