When you have a normal child, you can easily follow their progress through milestones. You know when they should start doing certain things. By this age, they should be doing this. By that age, they should start doing that. But when you have a special needs child, you quickly learn…
Back in October when James when James was still in the NICU, the ENT noted that James has some fluid in his ears and that fluid might be part of the reason why he hasn’t passed any hearing tests. Unfortunately, James was too young back then for ear tubes to…
*Updated March 17, 2010 with additional pic.* James has some muscle tone abnormalities and is unable to hold up his head. We were at Stacy’s parents' house for St. Patrick’s Day and tried to put James in a Bumbo. For those of you who are not familiar with a Bumbo,…
Okay so I had to post this. Last night I was holding James on the couch and dozed off. Stacy was getting ready to take a shower and snapped this picture of me sleeping while holding James: When she got out of the shower 20 minutes later, this…
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Stacy found the below video on YouTube and we wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all of the NICU nurses out there. The nurses that James had in the NICU were awesome. We can’t even begin to explain how thankful we are to them for the…
My biological mother was just 16 years old when she became pregnant with me and had a choice to make: terminate the pregnancy or put me up for adoption. She obviously chose option #2 and put me up for adoption. My adoptive parents never kept my adoption a secret. I…