Family Catch Up

This past Monday, September 8th, Cole had some of the family come meet him for the first time.

For those of you checking in and wondering who belongs to who and how are we all related. George and Barbara are Matt's Aunt and Uncle from his mom's side and Lynn is another Aunt, also from Matt's side.

We had some good laughs with PawPaw's jokes and Gigi just being Gigi and we love that she laughs right along with us!

We won't bore you with more riveting conversation about Cole suffering from severe eczema and finding an alternative to the steroids, which made up a good bit of conversation for the day.

We all were wishing we could have just an ounce of Barbara's energy playing with Ava. Ava was so excited to have found this new family member that she stripped down to her bare skin to show Barbara just how deep her love ran.

At one point while I was able to catch up with Lynn, who you would just have to meet and talk to, to know what a sweet heart she has and a very special family member to us she is. Ava loved Lynn's vest with the birdhouse and bird on it. She immediately assumed it was something made just for her to play with and was in Lynn's lap asking questions and pointing to the interactive vest.

George and Cole had a very sweet bonding time. Cole snuggled and George rubbed that sweet little bald head and kissed it. Cole snuggled right in and went to sleep. It was a special moment to see.

Poor PawPaw was so desperate for some tv time he asked if I could hit play on the Praise Baby DVD that had been in from earlier that day and had sat on the same screen waiting for someone to hit play. He was very patient to have sat through all of our doctor and health talk and just family catching up talk, so I was more than happy to push play for him. I'm sure he added that to his Greatest of All Times Movie List along with his favorite, "Roadhouse," with Patrick Swayze. He likes a little Steven Seeeeagal movie too:)


We sure loved seeing all of you and had a good time! Thank you for making the trip down! We hope to come that way and maybe we can get everyone together up there. Ava and Cole are in for a treat to find out they have more family and more cousins!

Take care everyone!
Laura