On The Move!

On the move!

The past two weeks Samuel has started really going places! He rolled around everywhere. We were told last week at church that he had to move up from the infant room to creepers room in the nursery! They said that he was rolling all over the place and even rolled over to Zora (Sam's good friend) took her toy away and started laughing when she started crying. Now I wouldn't call him a bully or anything, but I guess they are right about moving him out of the infant class. He really is a sweet boy! Then all week he has been working hard at crawling. He would take a few steps with his hands and occasionally his knees would follow. Most of the time he just did a little belly flop!....Today however, he completely crawled! It was the cutest thing in the whole world. My heart swelled with pride and I was giggling with joy! Amazingly enough, I caught it on video!!! So look at all the pictures and there are lots of videos of the work we've been doing and then you can see that he conquers another major milestone! My life has officially changed forever! He has also gotten better at feeding himself. He loves puffs and yogart melts! mmmmm.

Heart Happy!

Yesterday our little family made another trip to the pediatric cardiologist(our 4th since he was born) to have a check on Sam's heart condition. The doctor said that everything continues to look great at this time. Yeah!!! Thank you Jesus. After the EKG and an echocardiogram he felt that the blockage in the aortic valve was mild with only minimal leakage from the surgery. He told us to continue treating him like a normal baby. He was pleased with how happy and healthy he is. We don't have to go back for 6 months, which is great news because it always seems to take about 2 hours for a visit and Sam doesn't like to hold still for the tests they do. Anyway, we are so thankful.
As we sat in the waiting room John and I both just felt so blessed to have Sam. Although he has his own problem, he has such a normal lifestyle right now. It was hard to look at all the kids and families sitting there waiting to see the heart doctors. Just walking the halls of children's hospital puts a new perspective on everything. We praised God for our wonderful son and pray that his condition never worsens or if God willing, it disappears! Thanks for all your continued support to our family!

Warm Winter

Warm Winter Days

We have been so fortunate to have some very warm days in the middle of winter this year. We've also had some very cold days, but we expect those in February. Anyway last Saturday was in the 60's and we took advantage and went to the park for a family outing. We haven't gone to the park much yet because Sam has been too little to really care about swings and ducks and stuff like that. But now he had so much fun! He got to swing for the first time and he loved it. I think John and I loved it just as much. It was so fun. It felt like the beginning of all the fun kid things we get to experience with Sam. Sam is a very excited baby and lets us know when something meets his approval. I think he is more like his dad in this area, cause they are both very excitable and expressive. I guess we will fing out.
Grandma Robin came to visit and brought Sam this cute little OU wind suit. John thought it was great and made me do an entire photo shoot of Sam in it. For the OSU fans out there, you'll be happy to know that Sam wore the outfit for about 2 hours before he expressed his feelings and overflowed his diaper. Like I said...he lets us know what he likes! (haha)