Spring and Loving It!

While January may be the official New Year, for me Spring is when I feel ready for a fresh start. Spring awakens my senses and brings me new hope for the year. Maybe Holden senses this, as he's been so energetic and full of life lately. I guess it could simply be his age and improved health. And I'm sure the beautiful weather and all the outside playing helps:) His .favorite word of the week is outside...of course it sounds like "ouuide".

Holden had a great Easter. He did 2 1/2 Easter Egg Hunts (we were late for one, but still got to enjoy the festival after the egg hunt). Holden did great with finding the eggs and putting them in his basket. He was not concerned about the quantity of eggs. Rather, he seemed to take his time to pick the eggs that looked special to him. He was thrilled to find the candy inside the eggs. That may drive him to go for quantity next year! We spent Easter day with my family at the Kramer's house in North GA. I absolutely love watching Holden play with his cousins. He has such a different relationship with each of them. Special in it's own way. He had a blast drawing with chalk all over Aunt Jo-Jo's drive way!


I don't have any new photos to post as my latest camera is broken, but Reece took some pictures on his work camera. I'll upload those next week when he brings his camera home from work. Holden is growing in both height and weight. Weight is slow and steady, but he's growing and that is what's important. He is finally drinking well (juice and water only) from a sippy cup on his own. Probably sounds pretty simple to most people, but he has slowly been overcoming his feeding aversion that he likely had because of the reflux. And he's eating just about anything, just not quite enough of it. His therapist thinks he is eating normal for your typical toddler (maybe one or two good meals a day), but in Holden's case, his body is burning extra calories because he's having to work harder to breathe. So we are continuing to give him milk via the feeding pump at night. If I can convince Holden to drink milk from his sippy cup, we may soon be able to wean off the feeding pump. I can't wait:)

Holden had a routine appointment with his cardiologist late last month and we were thrilled to see the results of the echo showed that his remaining three pulmonary veins appear to be open/flowing and healthy. He's doing so well, that we don't go back for another six months. So different from the days when we had monthly appointments.

There is not a day that goes by that I don't count my blessings. I just look at Holden and know that with faith, anything is possible. Happy Spring!