The Unicorn Chef!

Morgan asked me several weeks ago for a Pink Unicorn costume...Imagine my sheer joy when I actually found it at the store!! So she HAD to try it on...a few hours later she announced she would be a unicorn chef this Halloween!

Happy Fall!

Morgan and I decorated! Those are Nana's mystery pumpkins that magically appeared in our garden 5 years later!!

Big Boy!!

Neurosugery Check Up!

All is well! Here is Jack a little fed up with the wait and me telling him to smile for the camera ;)

Prayers for Ellie Grace's Family

Tyler's little Ethiopian friend Ellie lost her daddy yesterday. Dear Tracy and family we are thinking of you....

http://www.silerhappenings.blogspot.com/

Uncle Ryan Gets Married!

We celebrated my baby brother's big day this past weekend! Here is a link to photos from that day.

Ryan and Shannon

Happy Day!

Rainbow!

Waiting for the storm to pass!

The kids and I are in the basement due to a tornado warning. Amazingly the lights are still on but the TV is out so I am depending on Jason for radar and storm updates. I hope it's over soon! It sounds like it's calming down a bit outside!

9 months old!

Here is our sweet, happy, and GROWING little man! He had been home just over two months!

He is doing well. He is still fighting with the infection on his arm from a BCG vaccine he received while in Ethiopia. We meet with a specialist next week to determine whether he will need surgery on his arm. He is nit bothered by the infection and has been healthy! Please keep Tyler in your thoughts. I will keep you posted.

7 year check up!

We've got 50 lbs and 52 inches of a boy here!! Jack's well child check up went great! He is soooo tall! He's in the 80-something % for height, and 26th for weight. This is a boy diagnosed as failure to thrive just a few years ago...way to grow Jack!

Future rock band!

Future master chef?

My shopping bud!

We have made some progress in the out in public area with Jack in the past year! His tantrums and screaming were out of control this time last year! He still has problems but I think it's safe to say we've taken some baby steps on the right direction!!

Long "lost" videos of baby Jack!

My mom, aka, Grandma Josie always had her video camera each time she visited our house! We did not own a video camera back in 2003. We were able to take small, grainy, soundless videos with our digital camera. Those small videos are the only videos we have of the NICU or when Jack was a baby. I never allowed anyone to bring video recorders in to the NICU. At the time I couldn't handle the stress and bright lights on top of watching the monitors to make sure Jack was still breathing! I don't regret it and am grateful for the tiny videos we do have.

My mom came across a box with some old tapes and a VCR and decided to take a trip down memory lane last week and I am SO GLAD she did! She called me over and I was amazed at all of the footage she had of baby Jack that I forgot even existed! Videos of him just home from the hospital, videos of my late grandma and Jack, and videos of our old house and set-up! They were hard to watch because the look on my face in the very early ones truly shows my state of mind. Complete panic! I remember wanting to be back in the NICU because it was safe and because there was a nurse to do his wires and feeding tube...because their was an entire team of doctors that could come to your side should your baby stop breathing. It did get easier. Day by day, week by week.

So without further intros here are those moments:

We had 6 feet for weeks and weeks. That is all the further I could carry baby Jack! Looking back now it seems surreal -- but we did it!

Bottle feeding:

I will highlight some more in another post -- here is the link to all of our videos!

http://www.youtube.com/user/angigistarr#g/u

Picking up new braces :)

YAY!

The lost stroller wasn't lost after all!!!! The box that went missing was just an accessory! NOT the stroller itself!!! The company is going to take a small amount of money off, and process our return today! HUGE relief!! Still filing claim with fedex for lost accessory box!

Video of Tyler Chomping on Some Puffed Rice...

Tyler has been eating very well these days! He has moved on to 3 jars of stage 2 foods a day and loves almost everything! He likes peas the best!! I tried some puffed rice cereal just to see where he was with his fine motor and he did quite well! His face is priceless...

Blogging Milestone!

This is post number 700. 700 posts in 7 years....

It's been really neat to look back at how far we've all come!

Our family has grown and we have met some great friends through blogging!

There are things I would have never remembered had it not been for blogging. Every single day of Jack's NICU stay, Ever single day of Morgan's NICU stay...and each day on my journey to bring Tyler home. There are the funny moments, and sad moments...

I started using a program to turn our blog entries into memory books. I have 4 of the 7 years completed so far. I hope one day our kids read these books and have special memories and photos long after this blog is gone!

Just a nifty little tidbit to share this morning!

June 2010 Photos :)

Our June 2010 Album is up!

JUNE 2010