Follow the Leader

The baby calf that we took care of in the house for a few hours never did bond with its mama. That means it gets bottle fed twice a day.

It is not a shy little calf-ey either. It will follow you all around. Whether you are in the pen or the yard. And if you don't watch out, it'll come try to get some milk from you! Yikes! They have strong little heads that will butt you between your legs! Haha! Poor Titus got it good a couple times!

Lillie thought it was pretty fun having it follow her all around.

Then we walked around the back side of the barn and found Daddy. He was showing off his new heifers to Simon. Simon thought they were just right!

There they are. Don't they look nice?!

Daddy sure does like his Simon boy!

We all enjoyed the nice weather we had while it lasted! It sure makes us wishful for spring time and summer!!

Little Man Approves

Approves of the nice weather that is!!

We made it outside with the camera today! (Thanks for letting me borrow your camera dad!) Simon finally got to spend some good quality time outdoors! It is usually too cold or too windy or both. But not today!! It was almost too warm in the direct sun =)

He posed pretty well for his mamma. But it was hard to hold the camera and get him to smile and make sure he wasn't gonna fall over at the same time. So the picture above is when Sissy came out to cheer him on! You can see his smile of recognition and his eyes looking at her.

He was happy to see her!

Then his smile just got bigger and bigger!!

We moved over to the red barn and he got to explore the dirt and grass a bit!

It was pretty cute seeing him wiggly his toes and chubby little fingers in the dirt. He didn't mind one bit!

(And thanks to Sheila for the super cute outfit! Who knew when he was born that he'd be able to wear a 12 month outfit at 6 months!!)

Simon 6 month update

Yesterday we saw our primary doctor and Simon had his 6 month regular check up. He weighed 19 lbs, 8 ozs. His height was 28.5 inches! That put him in the 73% and 96% for the percentiles. A big fella!

He was a pretty happy guy for the rest of the evening-even after his shots, but today he has been more crabby.

Today he had a sonogram to check on the mass on his adrenal gland. We were going in with high hopes that it was gone and they could not even find it. All the times we have been in since he was born, it has continued to get smaller, and this would have been 3.5 months since we have seen it.

Unfortunately, it had not gotten any smaller. But it didn't really seem like it had gotten any bigger either. So that was definitely good news. And everything else appeared well from the quick over view. It was just disappointing to hear that it was still there. Of course God still has a plan for our little guy and we are still hoping for the complete resolution of this tumor!

The sonogram technician did her thing, then took the images to the pediatric radiologist to look at. After awhile, they both came back and he wanted to look at it in real time. Since the mass is pretty small it was hard to get a real good look at it. He told me that in the first images he thought that it showed it was a little smaller but he wasn't sure that she had gotten all of it into the measurement. So when they measured again, he thought that it looked like it had not changed. Or if it showed a little bigger it was not significant and possibly because of the way it was measured or what not. It was about 1.5cm by 1.1cm.  He said he would have to take out the images from the last time and compare them.

I'm not sure if the pediatric oncologist will call or our regular doctor will call. But hopefully sometime in the next couple days, they will call and let us know a little more and when they would like to have Simon back in for another sonogram.

I asked the radiologist if he had ever seen one of these tumors where it gets smaller and then bigger. He said that of just the few that he has even personally dealt with, they have all gotten smaller and then gone away. None of them have gotten smaller and then bigger. But he said he has not personally seen very many because it is rare to even see these this early on.

Thank you all for your kind words and for praying for us!