Port Wine stain Birthmark

Being a Mom is so difficult sometimes. You love your Children more than they will ever know and you have to take care of them every second of the day. They drain you mentally ,physically and emotionally.

My Daughter was born with a Large birthmark on her face. This type of Birthmark is called a Port wine Stain. From what I am learning about this type of Birthmark is that it developed in the 1st trimester of my pregnancy and there is nothing I did to cause it. It can come with complications such as Glaucoma or Serge Weber Syndrome. Glaucoma can lead to blindness and Serge Weber Syndrome causes seizures. So far with our Daughter it is just a Port Wine Stain Birthmark. I pray quite often that it will continue to be "just a birthmark"

We have already been to a pediatric optometrist,a neurologist and a pediatric dermatologist. We have been told to get a MRI scan done to rule out the serge Weber syndrome. They will have to put my baby under anaesthetic to do this. We are being referred to another pediatric eye Dr. because the Neurologist we saw recommended a Better one.

The Pediatric dermatologist has informed us that we can go ahead and do Laser Surgery to reduce the redness of her Birthmark. It will never fully disappear,but it will diminish drastically with a series of these procedures.

What am I feeling?

Overwhelmed ,Sadness, Confusion over everything..........Angry and Hurt that my precious Baby has to go through all of this, Concerned in my head about weather or not we are making the best possible decision for her and the rest of her life.

I will continue to Pray for answers and peace in my heart.... as I know that God gave ME this Gorgeous Little Girl whom I Love so very much.

Wordless Wednesday

Mommy son Date Night!!

I have 3 Children and my oldest son is 6 years old. There is a 4 year difference between him and his Brother and Baby Girl is almost 4 months. I find that I am very busy with the little ones all day long and sometimes feel that I do not have time during the day to spend as much quality time with him as I would like. This is why we do "Date Night". I left the babies home with Daddy and took my Son Bumper Bowling with my Girlfriend and her Son. We had a Blast ate Pizza and spent some great quality one -on -one time together. We have done many things together on our "Dates". Movies, Ice cream&the park, Paint your own pottery are just some of our dates. I hope my oldest son realizes how Important he is to me and how Much these Date Nights are as much for Me as it is For Him!

Blizzard of 2011

On Tuesday night Chicago and the Suburbs Surrounding got hit with a Huge Blizzard. Some People are saying 18 inches of Snow. On Tuesday Night my Husband left work at 2:30 pm and what normally takes him a 1hr to get home took him 4.5 hrs. I was happy to have him home and safe. Nobody went to work on Wednesday and Monkey Boy is on his 2ND snow Day home from School. I got a much needed nap in on Wednesday,but my Husband is back at work today so no more naps for me. The Boys had a Blast playing in the Fresh Snow on Wednesday Morning. Little Worm is almost 2 and this was his 1st time in Lots of snow. He was super upset when it was time to come in. Poor Little Guy!!

Trying to Escape !

Trying to get out of the House in Winter with 3 small Children is alot harder than one might think. Sometimes I just get Stir Crazy and want to window shop especially in January. I took this picture when I was trying to get to Babies R Us to use some Great Coupons that I had.

Anyway the Sun the Stars and the Moon were in alignment and I somehow had Both my 23 Month old and the 3 month old sleeping at the same time..... and I was able to get a shower in so I thought it would be a good opportunity to get out.

After I got myself ready I started to pack. I just prepared everything on the table so after all the Little's woke up we could eat and go.

What I packed :

1 bottle of expressed Breast Milk

1Sippy cup of Juice

1Big Boy cup of Juice

1 Bottled water for me

1 Burp Cloth

4 Diapers (2 diapers for each)

countleess # of wipes

1 complete outfit change for Baby Girl

1 shirt change for Baby Boy

2 snacks( Mini Marshmallows work wonders)

1 wallet,keys

1 Bunting

2 winter Coats

3 hats

2 sets of gloves

After I got everything ready I looked at my Kitchen tabe and decided to take a picture.....Because Someday I will miss all of this and I want to remember all of the chaos involved in order to get out of the house with 3 young kids:)

It's Been Busy!

I feel Kinda bad that I have been to busy to Blog. Kinda being the most Important word. You see I have been living life :) Enjoying my new Baby Girl, and all that comes with adjusting to a family of 5. Princess was born on Oct 13. I had my 3rd C- Section. We came home to Halloween,Thanksgiving ,Christmas and New Years. It has been so busy !

In the 3 short Months she has been part of our Family I have had Bronchitis and the entire Family except Princess got a Stomach bug. Princess Ro Ro had her 1st Ear Infection.

We have had countless Dr apt's for our family. Well check visits as well as Specialist apt's for Princess Ro Ro's Port Wine Stain Birthmark.

I have missed Blogging, but as some of you might understand once you have been gone for so long it's kinda hard to get back in the swing of things. Well I'm back and ready to keep making bloggy friends on this Wonderful Journey of Motherhood.

Wordless Wednesday