Brogan being goofy with Daddy!

Life Update...

Still truckin' along with my school work. I am almost done with week 4!! Yea! Almost a whole month of school out of the way. I am really trying to take it one day at a time. I know sometimes I get discouraged when it's time to start my homework, but I really do find it all very interesting when I start getting into the assignment. I am really enjoying school. 

Patrick is back in his classes as well doing great! He will be getting his Associates Degree about 6 months sooner than me! So we will be job searching together I suppose.

Brogan is great!! He is doing so well on eating is solids! He loves carrots, sweet potatoes and squash. He is a little unsure about the green beans and sweet peas. He hates the rice cereal, but really needs to eat it, he makes the most disgusted faces! But they are soo darn cute! I think we are going to need to try adding a little applesauce to his cereal to get him to eat it. We will see.

Grandma Bobbita (my mom) and Godmommy Erin (my cousin) will be coming for a visit coincidentally on the same last weekend in July! We are all so excited for their arrival! This will be Erin's first time seeing Baby Brogan and my mom's 3rd. I know they are both very eager to see the little guy and I know he is excited too!

Everything great here in the Elliott household! Hope all is great with you!

Love, LoLo E.

PS. 

Oh ya I went back to my red hair just in time for the 4th of July. I was very festive! :) I missed it!

www.avamonroeelliott.com

So we decided not to continue our website, www.avamonroeelliott.com because of the rising costs and the decreased income :( however I have been blogging much more here because I can access it directly. So I will add some Ava photos here :) We went to go see our little girl today and it was very emotional. I still have my moments when I ask God why, why us? Why our little girl? And I usually try to tell myself that I think he knew he was going to need our Ava for something special and that's why he gave us Brogan so quickly afterwards. His daily laughs and smiles are what brings myself and I know Patrick as well, so much happiness that we have been lacking this past year. I sometimes still don't understand why children have to die, they are not supposed to. I was walking through the "Little Angels" lot, where Ava is buried, looking at all the precious babies and children that rest there and just got a punch in the gut, as I had felt before. It's just not fair and I still feel like I have my qualms with God. Sometimes all I know is that I miss my little baby Ava and wish she was still here. We are lucky to have our Brogan though, both of our children are such a blessing to us.

xoxo

Lauren

(PS info about Ava:

*I am sad to announce that our sweet baby Ava peacefully passed away in her daddy's arms Saturday April 5th 2008 at 1:52am. She was beautiful and we love her and miss her dearly.


*Just wanted to let everyone know that little Ava Monroe was born March 25th 2008 at 6:51pm by c section. She weighed 4 lbs 13 oz. She is very tiny and very cute and we love her so much.

Tragically, Ava was diagnosed with a heart defect and Trisomy-18, or Edwards Syndrome, which is a rare genetic disorder that is fatal, and its victims typically only live a few days. Very few people even know about this disease and there is no cure... there is no way to prevent it... and 1 in up to 8,000 babies suffer from this rare disease: http://www. trisomy18. org.

Patrick and I are praying now for time with Ava. The hospital decided that her quality of life was most important now, so they have taken her off her monitors and sent us home. We have a hospice nurse that will be coming to out to check her every day.

We ask for prayers of time.)

Notice the Resemblance?

Great Pepsi Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Md5lPyuvsk&feature=player_embedded

Goofy video of Brogan!

This is Brogan in his new jumper again, he loves it!! xoxo

I love my baby boy! He's so cute!!

Love, Lauren