Life With The Adamis Family: The Adamis Family Christmas Newsletter

Our Second Beautiful Daughter Was Born!

Mia Amore Adamis entered this world on February 4, 2009 at 1:02pm.

She weighed 5 lbs 12 oz and was 18 7/8'' long.

As many of you know, her birth has changed our lives drastically!! Mia was born only 2 ½ weeks early, but her challenges are many. She was born having seizures and also was not breathing. She is 100% ventilator dependent and hasn't been able to make too much progress on weaning off the machine, but she has progressed greatly in other areas, though! =) She's is able to “talk” above her trach and she loves batting at her toys hanging from her toy bar as she sits in her bean bag. She loves when Mommy kisses her all over! She loves looking at herself in the mirror and loves staring at her hands and grabbing her nose. =) She is such a joy to everyone around her – especially her family! She has stolen so many hearts. She's now a chunky 10 ½ month old who is getting stronger daily! Continue praying for a miracle in her body! Doctors still haven't been able to diagnose her, but we are trusting her Creator with her life as we care for this precious child He blessed us with!

This year has been full of challenges. Mia was born in Las Vegas and was there at the Sunrise Children's Hospital NICU until April 15^th when she was taken by air ambulance to Children's Hospital Oakland NICU for 6 weeks. On May 26^th, she was moved to Children's Recovery Center in Campbell, CA (just outside of San Jose) where she now resides. During that time, Robert was still working in Las Vegas until he got his new job working at Sacramento State University teaching Air Force ROTC in September.

Ever since Mia was taken to Oakland, Mercedes (3 ½ years old) and I have lived with my family in San Jose to be near our baby. Having Robert in Sacramento has been so nice! He comes down every weekend so we can spend time together and Mercedes and I will be going up to Sacramento one week out of the month to spend as much time with the three of us in our new home we purchased in October. We want to provide Mercedes with as much normalcy as possible, which can be difficult in our family situation.

We are so grateful God blessed us with Mercedes Faith as our first born daughter!! She is the most easy going child and just goes with the flow! During these last 10 ½ months of always being at the hospital and having somebody watch her at some point in the day, she has only had a melt down about 3 times where she didn't want us to leave. She is so sweet; goofy; caring; crazy; thoughtful; kind; fun; and the list goes on and on. She is so kind with our big 9 month old kitty Willow and always loves playing with him and giving him hugs and kisses! Just when I don't think my love for her can get any deeper... somehow, it grows!! I can't get enough of my beautiful girls! =)

Robert and I are doing very well considering these stressful times. God has definitely shown Himself faithful and we are always willing to receive His blessings He has for us! A lot of times you hear that when health problems arise with children, there's a lot of arguing that goes on with the parents. Even though we dealt with so much sadness and uncertainty of our daughter's condition, God always gave us such peace and our decisions were always unified. God has brought us closer and now our relationship has strengthened greatly! Don't get me wrong – we're still only human and at times it's extremely hard to not know what the near future holds for Mia, but we just need to remind ourselves to rely on God and to fully trust Him in every area of our lives.