Ashley has broken another milestone.... The double roll...

We are so shocked that she started to grab her toes and roll side to side a few weeks ago. You can imagine our surprise when we saw her roll over for the first time last week. Now she just keeps going..... and going ....... and going.......

PREGNANT.......Yeah......

One Year ago today Mark & I got back from a nice vacation from North Carolina and a Cruise to Cozumel. We spent the first half of our vaca with Mark's parents golfing, playing tennis and beaching it. We also found out that Leslie was 6 weeks pregnant. After we left there we went to Clearwater to meet up with my Mom, Dad, Jenee, Nick and Jacob. We all took a 4 day cruise to Cozumel. I knew I was late and while in Mexico we went inside a drug store and had a pregnancy test in our hands but put it down (what a storey that would have been to find out in Mexico our little Ashley was on the way)... we continued on on voyage. When the ship docked on Sept 21st Mark, my Dad and I took a flight back to Ft Lauderdale together. We drove back to West Palm and I hit the grocery store o stock up on some food since we were gone for over a week. I picked up a test (don't ya know I ran into one of my employees while checking out with the test in my hand).

I got home and started to unload the groceries. I took a minute to take the test. I left it on the counter and continued with putting away the groceries and doing laundry. Ten minutes later I remembered the test and went into the bathroom. I saw two lines......What...... So I took a 2nd test and don't you know.....We were pregnant. I yelled up to Mark.... BABY... he replied yes, as if I was calling him... again I yelled BABY.... he said what...... I said...B....A...B....Y!!!!!! He said really and came down the stairs and looked at the test. We both were so excited....... What a little blessing.

Tiny Dancer........

Our Little Ballerina....

Aunt Jenee and Uncle Nick bought me this little tu tu outfit...... I can not wait to get on my tippy toes and do pirouettes.......

Our Little Cheerleader.....

Go............ Bucs.......

NFL Season is here. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a new cheerleader.
The Bucs won their first home game of the season yeah..........

I loved this shot..... It reminds me of a game I went to a few years back when Matt Bryant kicked a 62 year field goal with seconds on the clock... hummm I really can not remember who we beat that day......... :)!!!

Thank you Aunt Loretta & Uncle Randy for this outfit...

Daddy's Car wakes me up........

You can hear the race car when the video starts.... Ashley wakes up from the noise of it coming back into the garage...
I caught it on video to see her reaction to hearing the car....

Just Hanging Out......

I love the random shots of Ashley when she is doing nothing more than just doing her thing....... Here are a few random shots......


The sleeping picture was taken at 9:20 AM when I was leaving for work the other morning..... Did I mention that we are very blessed with her sleeping patterns.......

3 Months Old.....

Where has the time gone???? Ashley is 3 months old. She is sitting up and holding her head up. She has the cutest smile that could light up a room.... Although it is hard to capture,,,, She is doing Tummy Time really well...She loves to play with the rings and mirrors on her pay mat....

Did I mention she sleeps from 10:30PM -9 AM. This has to be the best baby in the world for sleeping an respecting her parents schedule....

We had a doctors appointment on August 23 with the neurologist and he said she was cleared from her Brachial Plexus Injury. Both of her hands and arms are working correctly. He will need to see her at 6 months to do one more test and look over her motor skills. She will be seeing an Occupational Therapist once a month to make sure she is reaching her milestones for her arms and hands. She still has the Tortocollis ( a shortened muscle in the neck which causes her head to shift left more than right) but is doing much better. She has one on one Physical Therapy every other week and then she has a group class that a few other children with tortocollis get together and the parents share there stores of success for their child. Ashley is doing better and we think we will be finished with the therapy at 6 or 9 months. Other than that we do not have any weight or length updates for this month.

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Happy Birthday Great Grandma .......

Although we celebrated my Great Grandma's 90th Birthday here in Florida we still wanted to get dressed up an celebrate the day with her on August 30th......... Ashley put on her party dress and mommy helped make a card.

Our Little Rollie Pollie

Ashley is starting to roll side to side........ Here is our little Rollie Pollie.......

Daddy Day Care

Well on August 9, 2010 Mommy had to go back to work..... Daddy is watching her while I am at work. We seem to have a good system so far. Mark is wonderful with her. She just loves her Daddy. He gets her up in the morning (she is a sleeper like him... she sleeps until 9:30AM) and he bathes her and gets her dressed for the day. He is great with diapers, play time and just chilling out. This is what I saw when I got home the other day.... I love that we do not have to leave her with a stranger or put her in a daycare...... I know it allows me to focus on work and I do not worry what's going on with my baby girl. She is in Great hands........

All Smiles

Ashley now smiles... It just lights up my world when I can capture it. She seems to get mesmerized when I put the camera or iPhone in front of her. It is hard to get her to keep smiling but here are a few of her smiling away....

Tummy Time....

Ashley was struggling with her tummy time. At the Physical Therapy sessions they were really concerned because of her arm and neck. She would just plant her face into the mat and cry. Well this week we had a major breakthrough. I think it clicked that if she looks up there are so many interesting things she can do. I bought this tummy time mat. It seems to have made an impact check out the video.......