My Baby is 7!

Alesia with Dr.Fielding. What a great Dr. We sure miss him

Her first birthday. She just smiled the whole day

This girl potty trained at 18 months.
Always decorated with makeup and jewelry. Not much has changed

I can't believe my little girl is 7 today. It really does just seem like yesterday when I had her. She weighed 6lbs. 3oz. and had curly black hair. She was also very sick when she was born. She spent a week in the hospital due to a small heart defect and severe jaundice. I used to call her my "triple light" baby. They had her on 3 bilirubin lights at once. I was only able to hold her when it was feeding time. I remember how hard it was trying to go from my house to spend time with my other children and back to feed and be with her. Luckily the hospital was so great and let me have a room to stay in while she was still there.

A lot has changed since then. She no longer has curly black hair. Its more of a dark brown straight hair. She has a healthy heart and tons of spirit. She is quite the Diva of the house. We have had to learn some new parenting tricks with her too. She thinks she's 7 going on 17.

I sure love her so much! She is a great friend and never wants to hurt antybody's feelings. Our family is so blessed to have her. We love you Alesia Hope!

SIDENOTE: Before I knew I was pregnant with Alesia. Carlos And I had a special experience. I have never put it in writing but others have told me I should so here it is. Carlos and I were laying in bed and I heard someone say "Mommy" I jumped up and looked around thinking it was one of the kids. It wasn't. Carlos jumped up at the same time and said someone just came in our room. No one was there. The next day Carlos insisted that I take a pregnancy test. I explained to him that I didn't need to because I was taking birth control. He wouldn't leave me alone about it. I made a Dr's apt and explained my experience to my Dr. He kind of laughed. He had me take a test and a very faint line showed up. He assured me it was not dark enough to mean anything. But, just in case he sent me for blood work (keep in mind I was so early, I hadn't even missed my period- Sorry if thats to personal) He called me the next day and told me that "God must be sending us a miracle." He was right! I knew when she was born so sick that she would pull through because she had told us she was coming to our family before we even knew it. It proved to us that sometimes Heavenly Father knows what need even when we don't.