Thanks.

Dear Friends and Family,

Thank you for all of your love and support of our family and especially of Evelyn over the past year.

Knowing how many people checked Evelyn's website as part of their life's routine always brought great comfort.

This site will remain as is. I redirect you to our family webpage where I will start posting new photos today and adding to the archive.

Thanks again for all of your support. Please continue to remember my little girl, Evelyn Adele.

Love,
Brian, Elizabeth, Timothy and Julian

Click here for the Bowes' main family site

http://boweses.blogspot.com/

Day 341

Evelyn Adele died peacefully at home in my arms this morning at 2:30am with Elizabeth by my side.

She will be greatly missed but ultimately were are joyous for her.

Thanks to absolutely everyone for your thoughts, concerns and prayers over these 11 months.

Love, Brian, Elizabeth, Timothy and Julian
bnbowesmd@pol.net

A letter from Timothy

2:30am
March 1oth

Dear Evelyn,
I hope you have a good time in heaven. I always wanted you to live as long as you could. I want you to be my guardian angel. I love you so much.
Timothy

Funeral arrangements

Visitation (closed casket) will be on Sunday from 2-4pm at Jacksonville Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, 111 Blanding Blvd (by Orange Park Mall).

Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30am Tuesday at St. Catherine Catholic Church, 1649 Kingsley Avenue, Orange Park.

Please join us.

In lieu of flowers, we are accepting donations to Community Hospice Foundation to support Community PedsCare.

2640 Country Club Blvd.
Orange Park, Fl 32073

Evelyn

Please continue to keep our little Evelyn in your prayers.

A slow decline

Evelyn is having more seizures now.
She can only take a small amounts of liquid without choking.

She is still as sweet as ever.
PedsCare continues to be wonderful to our family.

Thanks for checking in and for all your thoughts and prayers.

Wonderful garment made in Alaska!

  

11 months

It has been a while since I left a status report.

Evelyn is the same little girl, now skinnier.

Medical update: She has always had difficultly eating.
Last month I intended to post an update as her weight dipped to 12 lbs 9 oz.
She had previously been 14+ lbs. Today her weight is down to 11 lbs 12 oz.
We have discovered that she likes vanilla custard, so maybe we can fatten her up a bit with that!

We are all in good spirits. The boys are doing great. Elizabeth is very
well and very busy teaching and taking classes about childbirth.

Thanks for checking in.

334 days or
* 28,857,600 seconds
* 480,960 minutes
* 8,016 hours
* 47 weeks

Sweet Evelyn!

  

Evelyn Adele's Valentine's lollipop!

  

TEETH!!!

Grandma Dugan came today for two weeks to help out.
Elizabeth starts her annual Navy training, so she will be going to work for the next two weeks.

Evelyn broke her first tooth through today, just to show off for Grandma!

Evelyn with her Great Grandmother

Day #302

Or 9 months, 27 days
* 7,248 hours
* 43 weeks

Well here we are... 302 days. Who would have known. The reality struck Elizabeth and I when we looked at each other during the New Year. 2005 was the year of Evelyn and here she is still with us in 2006!

Things are largely unchanged. She is still an infant. Sleeps a lot. Makes little noise. Doesn't really cry. Doesn't roll over et cetera.

The last 2 months there does seem to be some awareness of her family. She fusses if we aren't with her which means she gets her way (of course) and is in bed with us lately. We can also get her to react to verbal stimulation and she will smile a bit.

She eats a good amount somedays and hunger strikes the next. Lately she has been having fevers but who knows if that is teething or an infection.

So it is still one day at a time. Most days just repeat themselves, but that is fine. We are in good spirits and thoroughly enjoy our little family.

Thanks to everyone near and far for their support, concerns, prayers, car pools, phone calls .....

Brian & Elizabeth

Our email address click here.

My Navy Cheerleader outfit

 

 

With Uncle Chris

 

Evelyn at her friend Lydia's first birthday party!