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Look who is 10 months old today.... Princess Faith Marie!!

From Brandi- To my PCA Force patients, friends and family.... It was a difficult decision to make but this will be my last week at PCA Force. For those of you who I didn’t get to say goodbye to, I want you to know, it has been an honor and privilege serving you as your nurse. You’ve all become family to me and I love you, I will miss you all. Working with Dr. Albanese has been the greatest experience of my life, aside from being Faith’s mom 😉. She has been a great teacher, educator and friend. I also want you all to know that Baby Faith is ok it’s just that she needs my 100% devotion so that we may continue to watch her grow and she can continue to Defy the Odds and Prove that there is Power in Prayer! On the bright side, Pic of the Day shall recommence!

Umm....that’s a magical mystical unicorn beanie .....🦄...😁

Faith Marie can not go trick or treating, but that didn’t stop her Mom & a far away friend from buying her some outfits!!

Brandi took these last night when I was talking to her on the phone, it was on speaker. Faith was listening intently to Grandma & babbling right along with us. 😂

The very first onesie shirt I bought when I found out we were going to be grandparents to a peanut!! She is finally able to wear it!!

Just ❤️this outfit a friend of mommy’s got Faith, 🥰

On Oct 6th Faith Marie was baptized again. This time under much better circumstances, she was in the NICU the last time. Everything is much better now then then. God sure does love Faith, how could He not, He made her perfect!! 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

Faith Marie turned 9 months today!!

RIP Wiener Dog (Harley Ann) July 1 2007 - Sept 23 2019 We got you & you died on a rainy day. 😢

Yesterday was Faith Marie’s 8th month birthday. She is 13# & 24 1/2” long. She loves most baby foods, loves to “talk”, & knows who is talking to her. She has been learning so much stuff this past month. Her appt in Pitts went well, so well in fact, the Drs said that Faith would live past her 1st birthday. With all the prayers this little girl has in our area, state, and country, God hears them, and He has healed most of the problems she was born with! Thank you Jesus!!

Trust me, God has healed things inside Faith Marie already. He has given her life each month. We have seen Him work His miracles everyday!!

Today at CHP, we now know Faith has full Trisomy 18. We were hoping she had Mosaic in her condition. She is 12 1/2# now. They were happy with her weight gain & growth spurt.

They do some type of exercise with her eyes to strengthen the muscles. Tracking maybe? She was maybe 4 or 5 months old when we noticed she was starting to go cross eyed in that one eye. She went to the eye dr, she passed her vision test. She does have a light sensitivity when outside, I have that & wear shades on my glasses. Brandi found a pair of shades for her on Amazon, they have a strap that goes around her head. 😎 We just go day by day!!

I was playing with Faith while her mommy did an errand. We were playing with a wiener dog, they go “bark bark”, because that’s what real wiener dogs sound like. The dog would bark, then kiss her cheek, this is the reaction I got, 😂 😍

Here are a couple more photos I took since this was her 1st Fair.

That is from the Trisomy 18. Her ankles were crossed when she was in the NICU.

Had Faith entered in the Most Beautiful Baby in Elk Co at the fair last week. Brandi & I took Faith to her first Fair, plus you had to be there when they announced the winners. The pic with the wings is the one that was on her can you put money in it to cast your vote. ❤️

Yes she has, isn’t it wonderful!! She is starting to eat baby food now, she loves applesauce!! The rice flakes helped put weight on her also. Brandi said every time a hole closed in her heart, she would go through a growth spurt. The last time it happened was when she grew 2” in 1 month, but they didn’t know the hole closed!! Faith Marie has one more hole, it usually requires surgery to close it. She is hungry a lot, wants held more, sleepy, etc. These are all the same things she did a couple months back when she had that big growth spurt. We are all praying that the last hole closed up!! We won’t know till the end of this month. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻