I love you horse!!

Peyton kissing the rocking horse! She is such a funny little girl!

Here are some pics of our new knobs and pulls we put on our cabinets. It's so nice to have something to use to open the cabinets finally! We are in the process of finding some new curtains to replace those horrid vertical blinds on our sliding door and then painting the kitchen red. I can't wait until it's done. It will look so much better!

Mackenzie got her hair cut on Saturday. She did such a great job holding still. She got to watch Dora while getting her hair cut and got to sit in the princess jeep too! She was so excited about that! I think they cut off about 2-3 inches. She needed that much cut off. Her hair looks so much better!

For those of you who wanted an update on baby Abrahm, he is doing very well. He had open heart surgery the day after he was born. They left his chest open to make sure the swelling went down before they closed it. So they were going to close his chest a day or 2 after surgery. His mom got released from the hospital on Wednesday and was able to go and see him for the first time since delivery. She was obviously very excited to go be with him. He is still on a ventilator but they were expecting to take him off of it within the week since he was not requiring much assistance from it. Yay! He will stay in the hospital for a month before he is able to go home. The doctors say he will have no lasting effects from this. The only thing he will require is that he will see a cardiologist for the rest of his life and will need echocardiograms probably every year for the rest of his life. So, all around great news. Please continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers. The next month until he is able to go home will be a long one for them.

Mama & Dada

Peyton can say Mama and Dada. But, when you ask her to say Mama she will say Dada! She's such a mommy's girl. Since when did Dada become the thing to say!!! She's my little girl!

Rough Day

So today was a particularly sad day for me. One of my friends who is also one of my co-workers was being induced today to have her second baby at the hospital we work at. She delivered her baby boy this morning after only 4 1/2 hours of labor. Amazing! While we were all anxiously waiting on the news of the baby's arrival, we got an order for a chest xray on a baby in the nursery who just happened to be her brand new baby boy, Abrahm. Unfortunately that's how we got the news that the baby was born. So, I went up to the NICU to do the chest xray and was almost in tears when I saw how blue he looked feeling so sad for my friend. My heart was breaking for her as I listened to the doctors talk about what was wrong with the baby. He has what is called great vessel transposition. So the major vessels off the heart (aorta and pulmonary artery) are opposite of each other- meaning the aorta is where the pulmonary artery should be and vice versa. To make a long story short, Abrahm was transferred to Peyton Manning Children's Hospital where he under went a cardiac cath to put a hole in his heart to help the blood circulate better and will under go open heart surgery in the next day or 2 to correct the defect. While Abrahm is in good hands, it's all so shocking because they didn't know anything was wrong prior to delivery. It was sad for me to see my friends baby for the first time in the NICU with everyone working on him to figure out what was wrong. I guess when we think we have it bad or life has dealt us a blow, God always has a way to remind us that things aren't as bad as they could be. Please pray for baby Abrahm and his family!

Welcome to our blog

Welcome to the Black Family blog!! We have created this blog for everyone to stay in touch with the goings on in our family and to watch the kids grow. I know there are family and friends who don't get to see the kids often so this is a great way to keep up with what they are up to!