Happy Easter

 Hanging on the porch with daddy

Daddy is too funny

making sure the easter bunny doesn't bite

 Easter Egg hunt with Cousins! 

Mr. Boy and daddy concentrating hard.

 First time Mr. Boy actually ventured out in the grass!

Kissing the Easter bunny 

(you'll just have to believe me because I just missed it with the camera) :)

reading about Jesus' love

Spring Shenanigans

Playing at the Kirby Science Discovery Center at the Washington Pavillion

Mr. Boy was not too impressed with the kids that splashed

Texting while driving. And I thought I had raised him well...

I know his feet are closer to the camera and thus appear larger, but seriously, they are really that huge! haha. Due to the space for the orthopedics and space for growth so we don't need new orthopedics too often, his shoes are quite bulky, but they do the trick.  

trying out his first stick.

yum yum?

not impressed with the bark

Walking with his cart all by himself

He could do this all day long

If you were a fly on the wall in our house at any given moment in the day, I'll bet this is what Mr. Boy would be doing... ever-so gently playing with his cars (only one at the time and only with one finger) while leaning up against the coffee table. He literally goes around the table with his cars all day long. Only trouble is having to follow him around and around, untangling the pump from the table legs! :) He's got a pretty calm and gentle way about him.

New Orthopedics

Mr. Boy's got some new orthopedics and spiffy new shoes to wear over them. The muscles around his ankles are weak, so he is quite a wibbly, wobbly kiddo. We had AFO's (ankle foot orthopedics) that went from the knee to his toes, giving him stability, but not allowing him to bend his ankle so they were really just for standing but since he is crawling all over the place and pulling himself up to things, he needed a different solution. Now he has SMO's (Supra-Malleolar Orthosis) which only go from the ankle to the toes, allowing ankle movement, but giving him ankle support. Its like wearing really high boots. We can tell a big difference in his stability while standing, and a huge rise in confidence. He may be walking around here before we know it! Lately he has been spending most of his days doing laps around the coffee table, pushing his hot wheels cars around and around. He can walk along, as long as he's holding onto something and this weekend he walked with his walker toy for the first time without our help! 

He wears the SMO's inside these new shoes

Playing with Daddy

The Boys' New "Tools"

I know everyone says that once a kiddo starts crawling, life gets crazy and mommy and daddy get worn out! But for me, life seemed much harder trying to keep Mr. Boy entertained while sitting in one spot. He would get bored wayyy too fast and I spent all my days just trying to keep Mr. Boy happy. Now that Mr. Boy is mobile, he entertains himself and I get so much more done! The only thing keeping Mr. Boy from total freedom is his food pump backpack that drags behind him and most of the time stops him in his tracks, so I have to follow him around, moving the pump as he moves. We tried putting it on him since it's in a backpack, but he didn't get very far before sitting up and falling backwards due to the weight. So, last weekend David built a trolly for the pump! It is working very well!

Mr. Boy's girlfriend Miss L, sent him an adorable stool! They have never met, but they were born with the same condition, so they get each other. :) She got a tiny bit of help from her fabulous mom, Leslie, who painted it. He loves sitting on this baby-sized chair!

David got to use his own new "tool" too! We found that one of Mr. Boy's absolute favorite things to do is to watch his daddy snow blow! He was glued to the window for the entire process.