The faces of Stevie..

We got some very good news regarding Stevie late last week... She had a cardiologist follow up - if you remember when she was released from NICU she had a small hole in her heart between the two lower ventricles. At the time they thought it would potentially close by the time she was 1 year old. Regardless it wasn't a huge worry at the time and they asked us to come back once she turned 1. So that's what we did last Friday. They first listened to her heart, and they didn't hear the murmur (which is the same result as other Doctors the past few months), which was good. They did the thing with the prongs and the sticky things all over her chest (can't for the life of me think of what that is called) and then they finally did an ultrasound of the heart. The results from all the tests was that she still has a very small hole, however they still think it will close and even if it doesn't, it shouldn't cause her any issues later in life.  They said that when she is 3 or 4 and our ped still hears a murmur that we can come back in (or if we just want to come back in) to have her checked out again. But the good news is that it's not a big deal and they  barely found it, so it's very small...

Stevie was an absolute angel during the whole appointment (per usual). I think we were there for about 3 hours in total and she didn't make a single peep, besides giggling and babbling. We were chatting with the ultrasound tech and it was interesting because she was telling me that her and her husband had just done a round of IVF, but that it didn't take. She was so positive and knew that it would happen for them, and it reminded me of the fact that we didn't have to go through the challenges and ups and downs of having babies. Although we didn't necessarily have 4 kids planned in the cards, I know we are lucky that we have them :-) The funny part was that after further talking to her, I discovered that her husband was the girls eye doctor (who I absolutely love and who I think is famous :-)) I told her that I was sure he didn't remember us since he is a prominent preemie / baby eye Doctor (and because he is famous for our area), but while we were waiting for the results on Stevie, she called him and he remembered us (even where the girls were located in the NICU) and talked about our family. I thought that was pretty special as I know he sees thousands of babies a year...

In honor of Stevie's positive heart results I wanted to post a few pictures of our sweet angel. She is very close to crawling and I'm expecting it to happen any week now. She is becoming a lot more vocal and a bit more aggressive than she used to be. She is definitely going to show her sisters one day that it's not okay to box her out and to crawl all over her - and we are looking forward to that day :-)