Sorry for the time gap, there really is no excuse. Feedback helps. Thomas doing great; it is hard to believe he is closing on 1 year of life...doesn't seem that far off that we were still in Alaska and scurrying quietly around our very crowded one bedroom apartment trying to keep from waking our newborn bundle of joy... That being said here are a few throwback images of that time....

One of the earliest shots, he is a cooing bruised up mess. Thomas did not cry at all and was cooing and gurgling alot, very curious...It was very surreal and beyond description really; I was emotional, crying off and on, wiped out from the lack of sleep, and just looking in wonder both at what we had created and where life would go from here....The facial bruising is from his rough trip through the birth canal.

Was he ever this tiny?!..yes, but he didn't sleep nearly as much as these pix suggest..several shots the camera flash generated the closed eyes. It was 4 weeks before he napped more than an hour or so, once we let him sleep on his belly.

Where did my bottle go?!..it was here a second ago!

My has he changed, and the next few posts I will bring you up to date on things as we reach the one year mark, to include Mother's Day stuff and ongoing shenanigans now that he has wheels and owns the house( from the knees down)