Almost One!

Sorry I'm such a bad blogger, but come on we are a little bit busy!

Well I cannot believe it our boys are almost one! This has been a crazy, emotional, rewarding, hard, amazing, wonderful, trying, adjusting year! We have all learned a lot and are settling in to being a family of five! We went through a lot this year but we have stuck together and although things have been hard at times our love for each other is stronger than ever. We feel that our family is wonderful, the boys are far exceeding everyone expectations including ours and we are looking forward to the next chapter in our lives!

Finally Spring

Lane family is so excited. It is spring! We have been waiting for spring to take the boys out more often. Public places have been off limits during the winter months and cold and flu season.So much to see and experience. CAN'T WAIT

First pictures 9 months (actual age) 5 months (adjusted)

AHHH HA

"What's that Momma?" as she points to Drew's scar. "That is Bubba's scar from his shunt" She looked at him concerned for a minute and touched it. "COOL Bubba" as she ran off. I wasn't sure what to say to her when she first asked me because she is only 2. When in fact, she made me have a AH HA moment. Kids are so cool, they ask questions out of concern/curiosity. They find differences COOL and their judgments are quick to be positive not negative. I thought we had a lot to teach her/them really she has taught us a lot.

Holidays as a family of 5!

Holidays

We are starting to get the hang of having all three. After Amber recovered from gallbladder surgery it wasn't too long that Christmas was here. We probably had more fun this holiday than our kids, Thanksgiving we stayed home and cooked the whole meal by ourselves. It was fun. Carleigh helped and enjoyed having us both home together.
We made toffee for friends and went around and delivered it to get out of the house all together. Getting out at night and looking at lights was a big hit with Carleigh, and the boys really like the car.
Christmas was so exciting. We had great friends to celebrate the holidays and the boys being home. We both argeed that this was the best Chistmas in a long time.

OH DOCTOR APOINTMENTS

We thought is was hard to advocate for the boys when the were in the hospital it is even harder going to all the different doctors. When Brody came home he had 5 appointments set up for us when we discharged from UCD. When Drew was discharged he had 7-8 that we had to set up ourselves. This is when having a HMO became a problem. REFERRALS SUCK. We also had to switch Pediatricians during this time. Traveling to hospitals was so hard but this became a whole new type of hard. No sleep didn't help. Amber had her gallblader removed in December just to add to 2009 year of the hospital.
Each doctors appointment they keep getting better and better. They are so impressed with both boys progress.