Just a picture

Memphis wearing his big boy shoes

Just thought I would share this pic. It makes me smile!

Just a quick update on the fam

Just wanted to share a little time with the readers about the rest of the family. So much time is spent with Memphis that we tend to overlook ourselves sometime. The days string together, and the time disappears.

All of the kids are doing great! To start with the oldest, Rowan is doing wonderfully. She spends most of her day helping mom with Memphis, playing with friends, and playing computer. She plays on the computer mostly. Minecraft is her current addiction, but on the positive side, it is familiarizing her with computers. I have given the ultimatum to her that if she wants to spend a lot of time on the computer, she needs to starts learning how to work with it. She has developed a good understanding of some basic concepts, and I have started getting her into basic programming concepts. She is off to camp next week. I'm sure she is looking forward to that.

Braden has just been Braden. Playing all day, wanting to play all night. He spends most of his day helping mom, and playing with friends outside. He and Rowan spent six weeks of summer on our local swim team, which in those six weeks he has developed a confidence in the water. Something that we demand from our children. He has been good and growing like a weed!

Michelle has been super busy! With all the kids home during the summer, and with our nephew there too during the day, she has a hectic day. Fortunately they aren't all babies, so the big kids can help some too. The evening is her break, until its time to put little Memphis to bed, which he has grown so accustom to that he does not want daddy to do it. He loves to have me to sit in there with them, but it is Mommy's job to put him to bed. She always wanted a momma's boy, now shes got one.

I am busy with a new job. I just started working at Curse.com, as a junior system administrator. Great workplace and great people! Other than putting in my time at work, I do the same as the kids. Help with Memphis and the house, and play computer! Not much more that that.

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Doing so well!

Little Memphis is doing so well! He is almost two years old now, and is almost a normal little two year old guy. Running, playing, and spending most of the day in a glee filled little wonderland. He seems to be wanting to explore more, break the rules more. Everything a two year old should want!

Over the last few weeks, Memphis has begun saying little things here and there. He now says didi for daddy, hothot for hot, mama for mommy, and even a few others. The little guy still signs, and signs in accordance with some of the words he is saying. He can't say please, but he will sign please and say didi for "please, daddy". So many achievements for this little guy.

He is still the happiest little guy around, and loves his family. Braden of course is his favorite unless he is hurt. Then he goes for mommy. Just yesterday, Braden was dancing in the living room, and here comes Memphis. Stomping around right behind him!


Memphis' birthday is August nineteenth, and we are planning a party for him. Everyone is welcome that can make it. I will post more about this as I know, but the tentative date is August eighteenth.

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Summer is here!

Memphis playing with his floaties

Memphis has been doing very well and enjoying summer. He is starting to vocalize himself somewhat, but everything still has the same basic B or D sound to it. Everyday he is getting so much better at signing though. He now signs book, and he strings signs together. We are so proud of our little man. His favorite thing about summer so far has been water. He loves the pool! I'm pretty sure he just thinks it's a big bath, but nonetheless he loves it. The whole family went downtown over last weekend to play in a small water area. You know the type, it sprays water up from the concrete in about a dozen places. While Braden and Rowan sat around, Memphis was running, laughing and just absolutely loving it!

Just lounging in the sun!

Memphis absolutely loves the outside, and we intend on letting him play out in it as much as we can!

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Some fun

Just a short video of Braden and Memphis playing for those of you that are not on my facebook.

Small, but good!

Hello all!

Memphis went in for a followup on Wednesday regarding his eye surgery. The doctor was quite impressed with his progress. He inquired about how much we had been patching. We were supposed to patch every day for about an hour, but alas life got in the way. Memphis absolutely hated it regardless. We have not been patching at all. The doctor was amazed at that point. Memphis' eyes track great and he sees now problems reoccurring for now. A long day for mommy and Braden, but it was good news.

Signing with him is doing great! He currently has about 20 signs that he does, and he understands many more. He is making lots of noise now, but none seem to be trying to communicate other than just getting our attention. Regardless he is making such big boy progress!

We are currently working on birthday plans for his second birthday! He is such a big guy now. I will let everyone know what the plans are when we get them finalized.

Until next time.

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Everyday life, and everything is good

Hey guys! Sorry for the long wait. Memphis is doing great! He is now using sign language as his primary form of communication. He shows no sign of really "wanting" to talk. He has aroudn ten to fifteen signs that he uses. Dog, cat, water, eat, and a few more. None of them are perfect, but we know what he means.

One of our biggest hurdles as of so far is him becoming more mobile. A couple of weeks ago we spent a whole day in the hospital because he had pulled out s g-tube button while we weren't looking. We had to go to the local hospital first, just to get something pushed through the hole. After they convinced us that they could get the button itself back in, we waited and watched them push and prod on the little man for a couple of hours. All the time we are having to hold him down. Finally they got a foley catheter pushed through and sent us on to Birmingham. Of course now it was almost seven in the evening. Two hours later and about 120 miles, we were seen in the ER of Children's hospital. When the surgeon finally came in, he was done in two minutes. Man talk about a cranky little guy the next few days. Lesson learned: Just tell the local guys to stick something through, so we can begin driving to Birmingham.

His eye surgery has seemed to corrected everything. The over correction even seems to be going away. Two little beautiful eyes looking straight at you now. His hearing was tested a few days ago d everything still seems fine with that also. If we can just get him to eat now.

On the subject of eating, all the specialists say that he is on the right track. He will taste almost anything once, and come back over and over for salty things. He just wants the taste though, not the substance. He immediatlely tries to remove anything solid that gets in his mouth.

Well, school is almost out, the days are long, and the kids always want to be outside. Memphis included. He loves the outside. His most upsetting parts of the day is when Mommy or Daddy have to leave and he cant go with them. Still the happiest baby though.

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