You bring your fight, we’ll bring ours.

We chose Presby Dallas to care for Audrey Jane a little over a year ago, it was a decision that we put a lot of time and miles into making (we toured Houston’s TCH, San Antonio’s Santa Rosa, and Children’s Med Center Dallas)–if you’re a long time reader, you remember the agony of that decision making process(see the Jan/Feb 06 archives).  It’s not an ECMO hospital (anymore) which was a HUGE risk in the eyes of many but we knew it was the place.  I knew they were going to fight for Audrey as much as we were and if the fight needed to end, then we trusted them for that too. 

Audrey brought her fight and then some!  Now she’s going to represent Presby in their latest ad campaign, You bring your fight, we’ll bring ours.  April 6th’s Dallas Morning News will run her ad and in June she should be on some billboards and buses.  A radio ad is in the works too.  We agreed to do this primarily to raise some awareness for CDH but too, come on, how cool is it to be on billboard?!  At our first meeting I started hinting how great it would be if Jen W (Sugar Photography) could do the shoot–OK, maybe hint isn’t the right word, they commented on the picture on our mantle and I immediately tell them the whole meeting story and show them the slide show!!!  Subtle is not my strength.  If your baby was going to be on a billboard wouldn’t you want the best?  (Then they dropped the bomb that they wanted me in pics too–I negotiated down to the print ad!) Even though this is totally not her thing, Jen graciously took it on.  Today was the day.

A model I am NOT and neither is my daughter.  Is she gorgeous? yes; cooperative and easy to shoot?  not so much.  Everyone was SO nice though; patient, kind, and accomodating.  Still, I don’t think we’ll be asked back!!  Here is the sneak peak from The Sweet Life.  I’m not going to share the whole ad yet but I’m real excited about it and even more excited about the direction they’re considering for the radio ad. 

So, I updated on one of my teasers from last time.  Look for the date story soon as well as this gem from Ethan, "so I learned a new fact today; Jason and I have stems (sperm) and mommies have eggs". NICE.