A Christmas gift!

Christmas was wonderful with both our boys, however Luke gave us a special gift on Christmas day by taking his first steps.  He lit up with the biggest smile, a great achievement.  He's walking all over the place now!  

Winter fun!

I thought I would share a few recent pictures with you.  

The boys are doing great!  Growing and growing like crazy!  Bryan now tells us little stories and started singing to us too, Jingle Bells is a favorite, just adorable!  He loves sledding, even with a recent face plant in the ice, he just got up and headed down the hill again.  He loves spending time painting, coloring and doing puzzles.  Of course his train set is still great fun for him.  His Aunt Julie gave him a little tent last spring and lately on the day's he takes a nap, he wants to nap in it.  

Luke is on the verge of walking any moment.  He's "cruising" around the house.  He's taken one step so far, but we know he'll be chasing Bryan any day now.  He waves and claps now and loves dancing.  He just wants to be doing what Bryan is doing.  His last doctors appt. he hadn't gained any weight, so we're adding "butter" to all his food and since we started that I can tell it's working.  We're plumping him up!  He's starting to branch out his diet with more foods too.  And the biggest thing is, he is off formula, still sensitive to milk, so he's on soy milk.  

Hope you are all having a warm, safe and fun holiday season!

Bryan and Luke's mom

Halloween was great fun for the boys! Bryan the elephant and Luke the bear! They both had great fun, but Luke was right on cue with some bear growls as the evening progressed, he just wanted to go to bed.
Bryan could of gone through the whole neighborhood. It was great fun for all of us!

Hernia surgery success!

Luke's hernia surgery went well yesterday. His excellent surgeon Dr. Bliss said he's never seen a hernia like this resulting from a port hole incision, leave it to Luke to be the first. He has about a 1 1/2" incision. All the stitches are on the inside, with surgical glue on top, which makes for less worries when he's crawling around. Luke needed a little help clearing out his lungs after the surgery, but after that he was just grumpy from the icky feeling from the anesthesia. After some good pain medicine he rested comfortably during recovery and pretty much slept the rest of the day and night (a nice recovery for mom and dad too).
Today he's been playing with big brother Bryan and back to enjoying himself.
Thanks to all who were concerned!
Mom

Busy Boys!

Here's a picture of the boys playing together. It's great to see them play together more and more. Luke is hanging on to the toy basket, he loves to pull himself up on anything now. Bryan has one of his favorite hats on, his fireman's hat.

This Thursday Oct. 9th, Luke will have his hernia surgery. It's to repair a hernia from an incision point on his tummy from his intestinal surgery he had when he was in the hospital. He'll go in the a.m. and the surgery will be less than an hour and he'll be home that afternoon. A little nervous considering it is surgery, but it will be good to get this last little thing fixed.

Mom

Welcome to our new blog!

Thank you for visiting our blog! Here you will find updates and pictures of our two handsome little men.

Feel free to leave comments or notes to us, we always love to hear from you and like to know who is checking in on us!!

The picture above is from a photo shoot taken by a friend of ours at his home right after the boys Birthday's. He did a great job!

Luke is crawling and pulling himself up on things now, he's a very busy boy, trying to keep up with his busy big brother Bryan.

Love,

Bryan and Luke