future rock stars...

I guess we know who will be singing lead vocals.

sick again...

My camera is broken so the only photos I get are with my computer or phone. PRetty pathetic!
Notice the sad face and cheeto in hand. It is the only thing she will eat.

I wonder how many times Lillie has had a respiratory infection. I'm thinking 10-12 times. That's about one every other month. Poor kid. At least she doesn't fight the nebulizer anymore.

MARCH FOR BABIES...

Message from the Team Captain
I know many of you have heard Lillie's story and we love to tell it. Who doesn't love a story with a happy ending?

Lillie Marie wasn't premature, but she was tiny. She was born January 20th 2008 at 36 1/2 weeks gestational age and weighed only 2 pounds 15 ounces.

While I was pregnant with Lillie I knew something wasn't right. I could tell she was small and towards the end of my pregnancy she seemed lifeless. The last month of my pregnancy I had just the occasional flutter of movement. I wasn't gaining weight and had extremely high blood pressure. My doctor put my on bed rest, medication and told me not to worry because my baby was healthy. I felt like my doctor was not giving me and my baby the care we needed and I knew something was wrong.

On January 19th 2008, my maternal instinct took over. WIth encouragement from my family, I went to the hospital to check on the baby. After monitoring the baby for just a short time, they decided they needed to do an emergency c-section. My worst fears were coming true, the doctor was wrong and my baby was not fine. I could hear her heart spot on the monitor. She was frail and week and on top of it all she had the umbilical cord around her neck. In just a few hours my baby was here. I didn't get to hold her or kiss her, she was immediately rushed to the NICU where she spent the next month of her life. Despite her little size, she was strong!

Within the first few days of her hospital stay I was introduced to March of Dimes. They offered support and encouraging words when it was needed most. They have done so much to ensure that all babies have a healthy start. They were (and still are) there for us and now it is our time to help out so they can be there for all babies that need them.

If you can't walk with us, please help by donating to our team. You can do so right on this page.

Thanks,

The Henry Family

The mission of March of Dimes is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

just F.Y.I.

I am working on a new blog layout. I don't have time to finish it tonight, so it might look a little weird for the next few days.

snow day...

As most of you know, we have had a lot of wintery weather lately. Well, we had a spell of winter weather then it went back to being in the 60's and then we had more winter weather. Weird. But, that's Oklahoma. What started out as an ice storm has turned into a beautiful blanket of snow. We decided to take Lillie out to play in it after her nap. This would be her first time to play in snow. The last snow storm was so cold and windy we couldn't go out in it. We thought it was "warm" enough to take her out. We bundled up and headed out. It was fine until we turned the corner and the north wind hit our face. We decided to run up the hill, sled a few times, take a few pics, and head home.
Here are the pics we managed to get.

Lillie's birthday PART 4...

Sunday was Lillie's last celebration. She went to church with Daddy and wore her new dress and coat she got for Christmas. She received tons of compliments. After church we went to Nanny's house for birthday beans. Yep, my girl likes her beans. Her papa calls her Lillie Bean or just "Bean" for short.
Now that her birthday is over she keeps asking for cake and CHOO-CHOO. I asked her wanted she wanted for dinner the other night and she replied "eat in CHOO-CHOO".
Hopefully, things will be back to normal soon.

Lillie's birthday PART 3....

For Lillie's actual birthday we went out for dinner. To keep with the theme we headed to spaghetti warehouse to eat in the CHOO-CHOO. The food was ok, the service was worse, but the train was perfect. Not a lot of pictures. Dinner was such a disaster we only got a few pics goofing off after dinner.

Not part of birthday celebration, but...

cute pic of Lillie at the park during her birthday week.

2 years old, that's old enough to drive.
If you are wondering...

Draven is passionate.

Chris and I were a step up from "clamy". Nice.

Lillie didn't play Love Meter.

We also played Palm reader (game that tells you what you'll be when you grow up).

Draven-musician.

Sarah-adventurer.

Chris and Lillie-Lawyer. Weird.