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It is so hard to believe that Derek is already 1 year old. This has been by far the most emotional year of our lives. He has changed our lives so much and we couldn’t be a happier family!

Derek has come so far in the last year, from my little 5 lb 10 […]

Wow, potty training is really difficult!! We owe it to Denise for sticking with it all week long. Sophia likes to go ALOT!!

We’ve been doing a lot of celebrating around here this last week. Denise’s great idea about the Big Girl Fairy taking all the diapers has worked wonderfully! Sophia did […]

The three-day weekend of Labor Day has finally come to an end, and Kevin and I feel…Hmm, what’s the word I’m looking for…LABORED!! Really, we had a fabulous weekend, it was just super busy and tiring!

Saturday morning we woke up early and took the kids to the zoo. We all had a great […]

We can’t take our eyes off him for a second. Every time we turn around he’s doing something more amazing. He’s been doing really well standing on his own for short periods of time. Then, tonight he was walking along the toy box and turned and lunged towards me, about 18 inches […]

As I mentioned before, I took Derek to the doctor last Thursday and he had an ear infection. I vaguely remember having a short conversation about Amoxicillin last time and since it worked he was going to prescribe it again. Later that evening Kevin picked up the Rx from our local pharmacy. […]

It has been a very interesting week! I’ll try to piece it together…

Derek had a small fever Tuesday morning, which lasted a couple days, his highest fever was 102.7 (not too bad), but he was seriously cranky. On Thursday I finally took him into to the dr office. He in fact had […]

Little Mr. Derek has had this insatiable appetite these past few weeks. He is usually eating more than 40 ounces a day, and has gained nearly a pound and a half this past few (we very unscientifically weigh him on our scale).

We decided it was time to give him a little more substance.

We’re not sure […]

Isn’t she sweet, to be so concerned about her little brother?

It’s been a great couple of days for our family. Derek had his 4 month check-up yesterday and despite getting his immunizations and his synagis shot, everything went very well. He weighs 15 lbs 3.5 oz and is 25 inches tall. He has caught up with the full term babies at the […]

Today we celebrate another major milestone in our family, because Derek has reached his four month birthday. Its true that four months doesn’t mean that much in the grand scheme of things, but for us, this past four months have been a roller coaster we’ll never forget.

So, happy four month birthday to our handsome little […]