A picture update

Ahem, well. So it's been four months now. And for those of you that know that it's been four months, not really much I can say, but please forgive me and I am sorry.

We will post again soon with more details about how he's doing and what is going on, but in the meantime, may I atone for my sin of negligence with a lot of pictures?

Here are a few from around Christmas ...




We've had some snow in South Carolina ...

"No, really mom, I've having fun!"

But more importantly, on February 27th, Samuel had his 1st Birthday. We weren't always sure if we'd make it, but the Lord sustained us through a very trying year and we are extremely grateful for it.

Sweet boy with his sweet mama

Samuel slept through most of his party

He was able to be awake for the presents

He is able to see some, and he loves light toys.
So ... we had a light toy birthday party ...

While he didn't have any cake (still G-tube feeding only), we did try to put a little ice cream cake on his tongue. He wasn't a big fan, though he was a little curious. Sure tasted different than his fingers or his favorite stuffed animal!

Ever the proud big sister

We are in the process of ordering prints from pictures we've taken over the years in an attempt to actually have some photo albums (not sure if anyone knows what those are anymore, but we like them). Just ordered almost 600 prints, just from 2008. So here are just a few representative pics of the last few months.

just hanging out on the floor

being loved

He's not crawling, but definitely able to skootch away from where you put him down!

Not exactly sure what she was going for here. Maybe an impression.

He isn't sitting up by himself yet as his muscle tone is still pretty poor. He is however, making progress, though, as this picture shows, he tires out. "Can I be done yet?"

Thought I'd sign off for now with a smile from our sweet boy ...