Bitter Sweet Day

It's been an exciting week as usual. We took Bella to a specialist for her eyes this week and he confirmed that she has partially blocked tear ducts. There's nothing we can do about it other than to wait for her to grow out of it...which takes about a year. He said only 5% of healthy babies are born with it and Bella just happens to be one of those babies. We just have to put some drops everyday to control her infections and pray that God to heal her eyes.

It's also been a magical time for us to see her first social smile and she's starting to track us with her eyes. It's so amazing to see her turn her head to see what we're doing.

Here's one of the first pictures where we captured her smile on camera. Her eyes are a bit puffy here but we hope that it'll clear up with her new eye drops.

Today we said goodbye to Polani. We were heart broken and we cried our eyes out. The house feels pretty empty without the dogs. We will miss them for a very long time. This is the last picture we took of Polani....We hope that Isabella will bring us double the joy & laughter to make up for our sadness for our dogs.