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To much fun fishing

















Pouty Face!!

















Some strong MILK!!

Last few days

We have started Avery on some rice cereal and baby foods. She LOVES them!!!! She gets super excited in her high chair and starts talking when she sees her spoon and bowls. She is already grabbing the spoon and putting it in her mouth. She is just growing up way to fast...at 4 months old she's trying to crawl, talk and eat foods. Eek...time sure flies!!!

Crazy Days!!

So I'll give a little more background info on Avery...we found out about her syndrome and heart defect at my 6 month check-up when they told us if she was a boy or a girl. The Dr. broke the news in a not so nice way, saying that she has a 3 chambered heart and that i would carry her full term and she would most likely die within days/weeks of birth. We were devastated (to say the least), we had tried for 3 years to get pregnant and what we thought was our perfect little baby, was shattered into pieces. We ended up going to see a specialist and an awesome pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Michael Womack. He told us that "yes she has a 3 chambered heart and NO she will not die, she will survive." She has a syndrome called Heterotaxy...basically her vital organs (stomach and liver for sure) are opposite of where they should normally be. She has a malrotation in her intestines that she will hopefully have surgery on soon...we have a consult with the pediatric surgeon on July 6th, 2010.

I asked Bob to send me a picture of my big brother and my niece. I thought he'd send me a cute picture of him holding her lovingly....
Nope this is the one he sent me with the title "Pouty Face" . The first picture of him with his daughter is this one. Lovely.










She is ALL Mom, but those eyes are definitely Dad's.















I just love this picture

AJ with Grandma Cathie. AJ spent some time in NICU after she was born to make sure she didn't become systematic.

(Oh, side note which I should have posted earlier. I am not Megs, Rob, or AJ for that matter. This blog is by proxy until I can pass it off to Megs and Rob. I'm just the Aunt. Most blogs will be stories passed down from the mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, and the uncles.)






Grandma bought the dress, go figure. It's a TUTU! They're starting her early. She looks so tiny in this picture.












No story to go along with this one, she's just
too cute.

A little info on the little one

Avery was born with a missing Atria and a malrotated intestine. That didn't stop her from bossing her doctor around. When she was still in womb, her doctor was checking up on her and was pokin' her way to much, so she kicked him. Her way of letting him know he was in HER bubble.

Welcome New to the Norbryhn Family....(drum roll please)

Avery Joanne Norbryhn (aka AJ)
Born 2/15/2010
7 lbs 8 oz
19 in.