Big Boy

Oh my Goodness gracious! I can't believe how long it has been since I updated this blog! Life sure seems to just zip by these days. I have been documenting it some on instagram-you can follow me @kendramichellev

Our little {big} fella sure is doing great these days! We had had a sonogram back in November that showed that his tumor was continuing to get smaller. Praise the Lord! It was just over 1 cm. Which is down from 3 cm when he was born. They said they will follow it until they can no longer find it. Which certainly seems like that will happen soon!

We never heard back from the oncologist about when our next check-up is. But assuming it is the same time frame as it was between the last two sonograms, he should be due for another one here anytime. I am just kind of putting it off since the flu is so bad this year, I don't want to take a healthy baby into the hospital and come out with all sorts of germs. And he is just doing so so so well!! If there were any signs or anything out of the ordinary you can bet that I'd be getting him right in there!

He is just a laid back, sweet, fun little baby. He is rolling around, from his back to his tummy and his tummy to his back. He likes to be able to sit up-with help- and see what is going on in the world around him. We have tried rice cereal a few times but he can't seem to figure out how to swallow it. It just comes right back out of his mouth over and over again. Maybe he just doesn't like it??

I just thank Jesus over and over for blessing us with Simon. He is SO amazing. I just cannot fathom why he chose to give us such a wonderful blessing!! I told Matt that I just love this little baby stage that he is in and don't want him to get so big so fast but I dare not tell Simon not to grow up, because there was a very real chance that he might not have had the chance to grow up! And we are so thankful that God is giving him the chance!!

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for our family! I'll try to do better with posts!!

Typical

I noticed Titus lying on the blanket with Simon this evening and thought it was especially cute! He was just cooing and talking to Simon and Simon was just grinning and talking back to him. This is pretty typical evening at our house. Just hanging out, the kids playing and everyone just loving on Simon =)

Hike

We went to visit Tiffany on Friday while the kids were out of school! We ate lunch with her and then headed over to a fun little fishing lake that has a kind of hidden waterfall area. Of course with the lack of rain the waterfall was just a tiny little trickle. But the kids had a blast hiking around. Even Simon got to join the fun by hitching a ride on momma!

The middle bottom picture up above here has a little tiny frog sitting on the log. Titus really wanted to catch. But everytime he got close he kind of wasn't so sure he wanted to catch it =) So somehow it just kept hopping away =)

The kids would just barrel through the grass and trees. There were a couple close calls when they got a little closer to the edge than a momma would like. But thankfully no one fell off the side of the trail! And Zethan even sweet talked his way into getting a piggy back ride a few times from his aunt Tiffy! Even going up and down the giant hill. Well, really it was a "mountain" to the kids! 

And the trip was even educational with the kids discovering some seemingly alive mussels! (That is what Lillie is holding in the top left corner picture of the second set) They broke them open and got to see what they looked like! I didn't/don't know much about mussels so my ever-so-handy iphone came to the rescue and I just googled mussels right there at the lake and could tell the kids a few things about them!