Chillin' like a Villian

Bella is fantastico...She seems to be playing more, laughing more, and having more diapers.

This is the polar bear that Sam's school got her a couple of months ago. She likes the texture. She likes just to lay it because it is bigger that she is.

Love ya
Jen, Jw, and Fantastico Bella

Booger

I have just one question: Who Who Who Who Who Who Who Let The Dogs Out?

She is doing great!!

Jen, Jw, and Bella

Jen's B-Day

Today is Jen's Birthday. If you want to wish her a happy birthday, email her at jshoemaker73@yahoo.com or give her a buzz at 502-905-2078. She will love it.

Bella is doing fantastic!!! She is cute, adorable, and a big spoiled brat. That's what Sam usually calls her.

Stinker

We had a good Christmas. Bella really racked up in the gift category. She gave us a present yesterday by laughing and acting more like her old self. She is truely a stink pot.

Thanks everyone for coming up!! We love everyone of ya!

Jen, Jw, and Booger Bella

Merry Christmas

Bella hopes everyone's stockings are as full as her diaper!!!!!

BadfishBella

Doesn't she look oh so comfortable here!!!! She hates this suit. She turns her head in shame and anger when we put her in it. But you got to keep her warm, right. This picture is for Papaw, the founding member of the coat police.

Bella is doing great. We have nothing to complain about. We just love her with every ounce of our being. She is one of the funniest people that I have met. She woke up this morning and was kicking in bed. She was in such a great mood. It makes me cry just to sit and think of what I have. To think about what I used to take for granted each day. We still have unanswerable questions. We try not to question but just to accept.

Love ya,
Jen, Jw, and the pink nightmare Bella

the pink nightmare is a reference to the movie the Christmas Story.

cupid

Cupid by Jack Johnson


How many times must we go through this?
You've always been mine, woman i thought you knew this
How many times must we go through this?
You'll always be mine, Cupid only misses sometimes

But we could end up broken hearted
If we don't remember why this all started
And if they try to tell you love fades with time
Tell them there's no such thing as time
It's our time

Tooth Fairy

So if the tooth fairy comes and picks up your teeth when they fall, who puts the teeth into your mouth? I would really like to take to that character. Bella has something to say to them. She is getting one, maybe two, teeth right now. It makes her a little more sassy but we still love her.

This is a picture of the wagon that Nana and Papaw bought for her. Dacia did the artwork on it. We thank you for all of the hard work and time that you put into it. Give Carson and Callie a big ole kiss from me.

Bella is a little pooper and she loves every minute of it. She makes friends whereever she goes. She has that good energy that everyone loves.

Love ya
Jen, Jw, and Full of Spunk Rory Isabella Shoemaker

There She Goes

The baby is doing great. She is eating more, which means she is sleeping more. But we can live with that. Jen and Bella went Christmas shopping the other day. Of course, I didn't get anything. Don't worry about daddy. I know she doesn't look that great in the picture but she was tired. Jen and I both had a bad day the other day. Well, Jen had a bad day which led to me having a bad day. The bad days seem to be few and far between. This is always on our minds. Its something that you just can't shake off.

We want to thank our peeps at Yum Brands, SHPS, and Ingrid Design for everything. I like candy!!

Thanxs
Jen, Jw, and little satchel Bella

She's Beautiful

Bella is doing good with the chemo. She only received one kind yesterday. Its the weaker of the two. Its strange how she can make you laugh and cry all in one sitting. We look at her and see her beauty but we also feel heartache about the situation. We struggle with all of the same questions over and over and over. All of the Why's!!!! Why are baby? Why babies at all? Questions that have no answers are the worst. All you do is sit and try to answer them all in your head. So you talk yourself into the worst. Knowing that I did nothing to cause this, I still feel resposible somehow. I don't understand nor do I ever want to understand any of this. People ask how we are doing and reply "fine" because we don't think that anyone really wants to hear any of this. We don't want to burden anyone else with this. So most of the time I sit with Bella telling her how I feel. She is a good listener but sometimes she likes to talk over me. So in return, I just sit and listen. She is beautiful and a good listener.

Love ya,
Jen, Jw, and Sassy Bella Shoemaker

I'm a Superstar

Bella had an eye appointment today. We heard the same ole' thing. Everything looks good but there is pressure so she can't see. She goes for another round of chemo tomorrow. She is such a trooper.

Everything is still very hard for Jen and I. Its horrible to hear stories of people with health babies that do nothing but mistreat them. On the news last nite, A lady left her baby in the car while her and a friend went into a strip club. This was in Northern Indiana where the tempature is about 20 degrees.

Cya
Jen, Jw, and Bella

Rory Isabella Shoemaker;the world famous Baby Bella

Bella is feeling much better today. She finally slept through the nite. She is barely coughing anymore. She is back to being the little package of dynamite that she always is. Bouncing, Laughing, and Talking.

Thank you to the therapy dept. at T.J. Samson Hospital in Glasgow, Ky for all of the cards and gifts. Your picture will be posted soon.

Love ya
Jen, Jw, and Bonita Bella

when angels sing

This picture is rather old but I still like it.

Bella is doing fine. Nothing bad to report.

Sometimes when Bella is around I can hear angels sing!

Jen, Jw, and Bella

Don't you know I've always loved you and I always will.

Bella got both kinds of chemo today. She seems to be doing fine with it. She has slept alot today. She is probably making up for the past two days. They said that she had gained a little bit of weight. The diameter of the her head has gotten bigger. It is now 52cm. It used to be 50cm.

I have never been tested on so many different levels before. My faith, patience, and love are tested daily. I struggle with questions that have no answers.

Bella is beautiful, sassy, and smart. Every quality that you look for in a good women.

Love ya
Jen, Jw, and chicken lips Bella

Something

Bella is doing better today. She is holding down fluids again. She is a little stinker. To me, she looks like she is still loosing weight and her head is getting bigger. She has been a little cranky. I think she has what I had. Sore throat and cough.

Its strange when people don't talk to you because they don't know what to say. Just say Hello. Just shoot the breeze.

Jen, Jw, and rotton to the core Bella

Times like these

Times Like These

In times like these
In times like those
What will be will be
And so it goes
And it always goes on and on...
On and on it goes

And there has always been laughing, crying, birth, and dying
Boys and girls with hearts that take and give and break
And heal and grow and recreate and raise and nurture
But then hurt from time to time like these
And times like those
And what will be will be
And so it goes

And there will always be stop and go and fast and slow
Action,Reaction, sticks and stones and broken bones
Those for peace and those for war
And god bless these ones, not those ones
But these ones made times like these
And times like those
What will be will be
And so it goes
And it always goes on and on...
On and on it goes

But somehow I know it won't be the same
Somehow I know it will never be the same.

A good day to be alive

Bella had done well with the chemo this time. She only vomited about three times. She is still always in a good mood. There is no getting her down. She only got one form of chemo this week because her white blood cell count was low again. She now gets a shot on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to try and boost her white blood cell count. She has lost a little bit of weight. She is still a stinker

Sorry that I don't update this everyday anymore. Somedays, I don't feel like writing about this. Sometimes, I don't feel like living this either.

Cya
Jen, Jw, and Badfish Bella