Jul 26, 2011

Alora is 20 weeks old, life, and baby Marley

Holy cow! Who would have thunk? Alora has been teething for about a month full blown and still no sign of it pushing through. She has learned to roll over and is slowly working on crawling. She is doing amazing. She absolutely loves fireworks, its like watching her open a present, the amazement of all the flashes is so much fun! Life has been rough lately. Darin still hasn't found a job and we are suffering with that. It is so hard to rely on my parents to help me buy diapers and formula. It is killing me emotionally to ask when I know they are struggling financially too.

Saturday was a very empowering day for me. I helped my best friend Kat give birth to my "nephew" Marley. She is such a strong woman! Her baby shortly after birth was whisked to the NICU, due to meconium in his lungs. Later we found out that the meconium caused his lung to make a hole in its self. My heart broke in that moment for her. She has been super strong and she shows me how to be strong for our kids. I just wish that he wasnt as sick as he was when he was born. It was so hard to watch her deal with all the scary things happening to her son. But she of course took it all in stride and laughed and tried to make Marley comfy and let him know that we all love him and that he will get better.

I better go take care of my small one... Much love, Claresa and Alora