Thank You Blood Donors!

Our 3rd Annual CDH Awareness Day Blood Drive was a success! We had 29 donors and were able to collect 33 units of blood. That's enough to potentially help 99 people! We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who came out to our blood drive to donate today, and we also want to thank Rees Masilionis Turley Architecture for allowing us to use their space for the drive again this year. We wouldn't be able to do this without you all. Thank you to everyone out there who wore turquoise today in honor of Sofie. We really appreciate it!

It was great to see some familiar faces from Children's Mercy come out to donate blood in honor of CDH Awareness.  It's always fun to show Sofie off to those who cared for her as a baby, now that she's a healthy, silly toddler.  To all the nurses and docs and everyone else who cares for sick babies - what you do makes a huge difference, and we are thankful for you!!


Here are a few pics from the drive...




Kenny making his donation 

Yours truly

Camilla

Andrew

Kate

Erin

Linda

...and of course, HooHoo

Sofie had such a good time playing with Kinley and running around all day. It's just amazing to see the girls running around playing together, just a couple of years after everything they went through in the NICU.

Uh oh, who will walk away with the coveted ball?...

I think the fist pump says it all. haha!

Over it.

The girls were conspiring to go outside...

CDH Awareness Day 2010

Today is CDH Awareness Day! Don't forget to wear your turquoise today in honor of Sofie and all other CDH babies. Thank you to everyone who signed up to donate blood today. We'll see you there!!!

2nd Birthday Pics

Sofie had lots of fun on her birthday. Actually we celebrated most of the week, and we had a blast. Daddy took a day off from work on her birthday, and we did lots of fun things.

She wore her special birthday shirt made my Cindy (get one of your own HERE).

Then she opened gifts. Her gifts all had a music theme. She got some musical instruments, a microphone, DVD and CD to sing and dance along with. She really likes the shaker eggs, and playing duets with Daddy.

After gifts we headed down to the River Market for our first stop, Babycakes, a local cupcakery. Babycakes has become a yearly birthday tradition for Sofie.

I love this shot of Kenny and Sofie walking to Babycakes!

This is such a cute little bakery.

With lots of fun things to look at inside.

Sofie was a lot more interested in looking around this year, a little too interested in the ceramic plates. And she didn't want to give up the "500 Cupcakes" book.

Then came time to choose which cupcake to get. Too hard. We got three different kinds to share.

That one, Daddy!

After we picked out our cupcakes, we moved on to the main birthday event.

Swimming!!!

Sofie gets really excited about swimming.

I am pumped!!!!

Okay, first let's lose the shoes people. This is serious swim time.

Let the splashing begin!

Sofie loves splashing in the fountains.

Shoes back on.

I love the pool!!

Look Mommy!!

I want to stay all day!

Watch me Daddy!!

Can't get enough.

What a fun day!

Eventually the pool fun did have to come to an end.

Much to Sofie's dismay.

Don't worry. The pigtails recovered just fine. Oh, and Sofie did too.

We had Sofie's birthday party on the Saturday after her birthday. Sofie is absolutely nuts for Dora and Boots. So we had a Dora birthday party.

Sofie dressed like Dora, and her beloved monkey, Hoohoo, dressed like Boots.

Oooh! More birthday fun!!

We had Mexican food and a Dora and Boots ice cream cake.

Nanas and Papas, Aunts and Uncles, and Great-Grandpa Bill and Eva joined us to celebrate.

Sofie and her Nanas and Papas

Sofie loved kicking and throwing the balloons, and even getting bonked in the head with balloons too.

Silly Sofie!

Sofie blew out her candle (with just a little bit of help).

And then...ate some birthday cake for the first time!!! Yay!!