Howlin' @ the Moon

These last few weeks have been my favorite yet. Evening continues with tremendous health and beautiful spirit. I love it. After the big Valentine's Day storm that netted us over 2 feet of snow we've had the good fortune to get out and hike a bit and she absolutely loves it. In an outing after work last week she was shouting her sweet little song at the moon - just gets sad when its time to come in. Here's a few gems for the last little bit...


Sweet Evening in her patented relaxed pose


Ruthie and Evening at Downtown Ithaca's Chili Cookoff on The Commons - Evening did not directly partake in the taste testing


Oscar night brought the Little Miss Sweet Potato Eating Contest - Pictured above is the Hands Down Winner

Sporting the New Haven Farmer's Market Getup - from our Yale connection - Sister/Aunt/Godmother Stephanie Margo

Cogenital Heart Defect Awareness Week

Evening is rolling over, eating rice ceral and been at her absolute best these last few weeks. Some of my favorite Evening moment have happened just last week - such a sweet character. I'm convinced that much of the reason why she is doing so well, is because of the fact that her heart problem was caught early and we had the incredible good fortune to have an early surgical opening. Because a heart murmur was detected, and our primary care physician encouraged us to go to a pediatric cardiologist at 2 weeks - Evening's Tetrology of Fallot was diagnosed, then surgically treated at a little over a month. She has developed from that point impressively well.

Please encourage new mothers and fathers to have their medical team pay particularly close attention to their baby's heart and should any murmur be detected - absolutely visit a pediatric cardiologist. This is a problem that affects 40,000 babies nationwide a year. Additionally, if you know of any families wrestling with these issues - please provide them the blog site and should they like - have them contact us directly - sddoyle@gmail.com.

February 7-14 is Cogenital Heart Defect Awareness Week - with the day of awareness very justly being - Valentines Day. For more information visit here.

Golisano Childrens Hospital - Dr. Alfieris

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle recently reported on the great success that Evening's heart surgeon and the team at Strong have been doing with little ones like Evie - love seeing more about my man crush Dr. Alfiers - I owe that guy and his team a lot. Read the article here.