Merry Christmas!

May your days be merry and bright, today and everyday! Happy Birthday Jesus!

 Xoxo Scott, Sarah, & Abby

8 months old

8 months of pure Faith and Perseverance!

Thankful

Home Sweet Home

We are thrilled to announce that Abby has been discharged from the hospital and she is in the comfort of our own home for the remainder of her recovery! We are beyond thankful for everyone's prayers and support. God has placed amazing people in our lives and we are blessed to have you all, near and far!

Weekend Update

Weekend update:
Friday night was another sleepless night. We tried to decrease Abby's oxygen again without success. She did enjoy having a sponge bath though:)
Saturday Abby was challenged three different times to discontinue oxygen. Each time she went a little longer before having to go back on it. She was excited to eat green beans for dinner, praise God her appetite is returning! The apnea monitor was taken off last night so we are thankful for 3 less wires to work around. Abby made friends with the respiratory therapist yesterday and she actually let her hold her. Those two look forward to their play date together every three hours. She is also working today so Abby is very pleased. She was the first staff member that she has warmed up too. In the evening, Abby was so energetic and wouldn't go to sleep until almost midnight. She was a party animal and the night shift nurses had a lot or fun with all off her talking and giggles. Saturday night was semi-successful. She still needed oxygen, but the frequency of alarms decreased showing improvement! We got a few winks of shut-eye.
Sunday-day 5:
Abby has been super happy and energetic today. She was successfully taken off oxygen at 11 am and if she stays stable for 24 hours we will be able to go home! Praise Jesus! Her IV was removed this afternoon and she has thoroughly enjoyed her freedom- Hooray! We are positively prayerful that Lord willing tomorrow night we should all be in our own beds. Tonight she is super talkative and enjoying sweet potatoes and rice cereal

The end of this chapter is in sight and we are thankful, more than words can express, for all the prayers and encouragement we have received from everyone. We are overwhelmed with love, and appreciative to have such a great Christ-centered support system in our life. Please continue the prayers that Abby with have a full and complete healing and that she will not catch this virus or another form of respiratory virus again.

Love and blessings-
Sarah, Scott, & Abby Grace

Prayers Needed

Abby was admitted to St Joseph's children's hospital Wednesday morning due to having severe RSV, continuous vomiting, high fever (103.8 for 5 days) and an ear infection. RSV is a very serious and contagious respiratory virus that is very common in infants who are around other children (ie daycare) during the peak season in Florida (September - April).
RSV link-
http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/respiratory-syncytial-virus/understanding-rsv.html

Thank you for the prayers for Abby. She will be in the hospital at least a few more days. It all depends on her ability to hold down fluids and fluid output as well as respiratory function. She successfully nursed tonight (yaaaaay!) and we hope it is a permanent uphill improvement.

It's been so upsetting for our little baby; IV, X-rays, oxygen, respiratory therapy, failed catheter attempts, and wanting to just be held by mommy and daddy. But we have faith and God is in control!

She finally smiled and played with her toys around 5 pm. Praise The Lord! We are thankful for God's provision and the strength he is providing us during this journey. Please continue to pray for a complete and speedy healing for Abby:)

Love and prayers-
Sarah, Scott, and Abby Grace

Falling for you all over again

So very thankful

I am so very thankful for God's grace. I'm always evolving, mistake driven, nowhere near perfect, and yet His love is unconditional no matter what. I'm thankful for a merciful and forgiving God. And we pray that our daughter with have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ that will provide a solid foundation for her life ahead!

Abby's first teeth!

This is our first photo of Abby's two bottom first teeth!!!

Vote for Abigail to be the next Gerber Baby!

 Our beloved Abigail is in the running to become the next Gerber Baby! If you would like to show your support, please vote for her DAILY until December 1, 2013. You must be on Facebook to vote, so please access it at home and use the directions below. Thank you!

Click on this link to vote for Abigail through your Facebook account! 

https://www.facebook.com/Gerber?sk=app_586462271392312&app_data=56376

7 months of being her biggest fan!

Abby says.....

Abby has been babbling the typical MaMaMa and Hi for awhile now, but she finally spoke her first intentional words this morning (at 30 weeks old) and continued all day. Scott is thrilled of course with her saying Dada! We hope you enjoy this short video of her first Dada's!

Happy 1st Halloween Abby!

Happy Friday!

Baby Love

Abby may not say much that we understand these days, but she sure shows us all the time how much she loves us. This moment melts my heart. She has learned how to give sloppy kisses lately and can't you tell how much she just adores and loves her Daddy! God has truly given us an immeasurable gift that we could of never comprehended until she came into our world; and we are forever grateful for our little blessing. 

 Scott taught Abby to stick out her tounge.. she successfully did this... all. day. long. 

 Abby's first teeth broke through this day, her two front bottom teeth! -10/12/13, 27 weeks old

 

Autumn is in the air!

 

Tonight we enjoyed the perfect fall chill in the air with a long family stroll. Florida has been VERY HOT up until tonight and we have been desperately missing the northern fall weather. We broke-in our new stroller with tonight's little adventure. Abby enjoyed all the extra cuddles too! 

 

First Food Moments by Abby

 

 Here are a few highlights from Abby's first time eating solid foods at the beginning of this month! She is doing amazing and loves exploring! She is a natural and is loving the different cereals so far. We will be moving onto veggies next; and we are going to try to make some homemade baby food!

 

This love

This love is indescribable, infectious, 

God's gift, miraculous, effortless, and infinite.

Voting Begins November 4th!

 The 2013 Gerber Photo Search Voting Begins November 4th! We will provide the link in November for you to vote, so you can help Abby win!!

Entry ID:
56376

How to Vote:
On Facebook, Like Gerber's Page. Then vote once per day for Abby, starting November 4th!

Happy Fall from Mommy's Little Pumpkin

 She is the cutest little pumpkin in the patch! 

More pictures to come this week from our trip to Sweetfields Farms!

Abby's First Solid Food!

Abby had rice cereal for the first time today and she did amazing! We have video and more photos that we will try to post soon!

Sitting in the Big Girl Chair

 This weekend Abby sat in a high chair at a restaurant.. and she loved it. We visited our amazing friend Olivia and made a date of outlet shopping and Abby was a trooper. She took each nap right on schedule in her stroller and loved playing with daddy. She also drank from a water bottle for the first time too! This little lady loves to go new places and try new things. And best of all, she gets to start solid foods this week!! Yippee!

WE hope your weekend was as fun-filled as ours, now we are all ready for a nap:)

  

First water bottle :) What a trooper! 
She also drank from an open-mouth cup as well.