It’s been really tough for me to keep up with my blogging these days, but Anders is 3 months old today! On one hand I can’t believe he’s already 3 months old, but on the other, it’s hard to remember life before him in our lives! We are so grateful his sweet little self!
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Did you know that 65 million people around the world have epilepsy?
Did you know that 1 in 26 people in the United States will develop epilepsy at some point in their lifetime?
Did you know that for 6 out of 10 people with epilepsy, the cause is unknown?
If you had asked me a year ago, I certainly wouldn’t have known. I wouldn’t have given much thought to this disorder. I wouldn’t have noticed that there seem to be bright flashing lights everywhere we go. I wouldn’t have thought twice about letting my child swim in the water, while I watched from the sidelines. And I wouldn’t have known how to help someone having a seizure.
But that all changed for us in 2021.
Read MoreOur sweet little Anders is 6 weeks old today, and has also been home for exactly a month! His original due date was this past weekend, and while we never intended to make it that far, Anders came even earlier than we expected. But I am so happy to report that he is really thriving and doing so well.
Read MoreI have written a lot of birthday posts over the past two months (fun fact, 5 out of our 6 kids’ due dates were within a month span! ). And today is our son Roman’s 4th heavenly birthday. Sometimes it feels extra tough to have his birthday fall right in the middle of the holidays and the majority of our family’s birthdays. It’s such a season of celebration in our house, and yet, we have the most profound grief right at the forefront of our minds.
Read MoreSomehow our little Alygator is 8 years old today! It’s hard to believe another year has come and gone already. Aly is growing to be such a beautiful young lady, both inside and out. We are so incredibly proud to be her parents!
Read MoreAnders is now 3 weeks old (as of yesterday, I’m getting closer to being on track with these posts haha). He has been home now for a week as well! Mostly, it feels like he’s been a part of our home and family much longer! He has quite seamlessly transitioned into our family, and we are so grateful for him!
Read MoreAnders is now 2 weeks old (and a few days). After 13 days in the NICU, Anders got to come home from the NICU on Sunday. We are so thrilled to have him home with us!
Last blog post, I wrote about Anders’ birth story, and today I’ll share a bit about his NICU stay.
For each child we’ve brought home, I have written a weekly blog post for their first year of life. So of course I intend to do the same for Anders…even if I am already late on his first post!
For this first blog post, I’ll share Anders’ birth story! My pregnancy with Anders was completely smooth and uneventful for the majority of the time. Then as I started hitting the 30’s weeks of this pregnancy my blood pressure slowly started creeping up.
Fynnlan is 6 years old today! It is hard to believe that our baby boy could possibly be this big already :)
Here are some things from the past year!
We are kicking off Arevalo Birthday Season with a big happy third birthday to Jackson! It is so hard to believe that he is already 3. So much has happened in the past year, and Jackson has grown leaps and bounds!
Read MoreOur Little Luca is one year old today! We welcomed Luca to our family in the peak of the pandemic in the epicenter of it all, New York. I still have vivid memories of walking past pop-up morgues on my way to my doctor appointments; t felt so scary and uncertain to be bringing him into this crazy world.
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A couple of years ago, I wrote this blog post, sharing some tips and tricks for traveling with little ones. Pandemic aside, we travel a lot. In the last 7 years, we’ve traveled to 20 states, and 5 countries with our four children (and a couple international trips without kids!). Ron & I both loved to travel before ever meeting each other, and we didn’t want to stop once we had children. Of course travel looks very different now than it did 10 years ago. I’ll be honest, it’s a lot of work, it’s stressful at times, and not always restful. (Am I selling you on traveling with kids yet?) But at the end of the day, it’s so worth it. The memories we’ve shared with our children, the cultures they’ve experienced, the sheer beauty of this world, are all indescribably worth it.
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