one small step
In the NICU, James had a therapist named Phil who once told me, “Walking is just controlled falling.” Somewhere in between holding on and lunging forward comes a step or two in the right direction.
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leaps and bounds
After a month or two of backing up, Valor passed the 10-month mark and sprang into action, developmentally speaking. First, he was able to sit up by himself (from a lying down position). I walked into his room after his nap one day and found him sitting up. Then a week went by before he [...]
arms and the man
When we first moved in, we were intrigued by the flags with the subdivision’s “coat of arms.” Abby: Well, the pineapple is a symbol of hospitality. John: Is that a leaf? or a clover? Abby: I think it’s an oak leaf? I guess that means “we have nature.” John: Golf ball means “golf”! But what [...]
Taberna
Thank you to everyone who stopped to call, email, facebook, or comment and tell us you were thinking of James and us yesterday. (By the way, I just added a “new” photo of James to the previous post that a friend from church took when he was about 7 months old.) Can it be only [...]
leaving James
Today is Valor’s seven-month birthday, but this post isn’t about him (he’s doing fine, full of Luh Luh Luhs and Buh Buh Buhs, eating everything he’s been offered as well as things he shouldn’t eat, like paper napkins). As we prepare to leave Orlando (in a week and a half), we’ve been discussing what to [...]
