What The?????

We were trying to keep our close relationship with the Pitt family under wraps, but it is finally out there for all to see just how close we are. Here is a picture of Cole and Brad.


Just kidding, it's their son Knox who could be Cole.

I'm 1 Year Old!!!

We just had a small family birthday for Cole for his 1st birthday. When it came time to have his cupcake, he was more interested in snuffing out the candle with his chubby little hand and that is exactly what he did. Before any of us knew his plans he reached out like lightning and snuffed it out! He was curious about the frosting and wasn't hesitant to stick his mits it. He wasn't too interested in the eating it part. Daddy thought he should definitely partake in the cupcake eating and gave him a piece the size of Cole's head. I watched from the other side with the video camera as it all unfolded in slow motion. I saw the gag reflex take action and Cole throw up his dinner. It wouldn't have been right without Cole gagging and losing his dinner. A little puking doesn't slow this family down, we picked right up and kept moving on with the birthday.




On a serious not though, we stand in awe that we were blessed to celebrate Cole's 1 Year Birthday. 2008 was a long emotional year and we couldn't have done it without all your prayers and support and love. We love all of you and thank you from our hearts for everything!

Love,
Laura and Matt

Cardiologist Appt. January 7th

We had made an appt. a month before we left for Cole's next visit with Dr. Bensky. We didn't realize until we were going that it was Cole's 1 Year Birthday that day. It was odd to think back that, that same day a year before Dr.'s, family, and friends didn't know how Cole's story would begin.
A year later Cole is still amazing all of us with his reports and progress!
After Dr. Bensky checked him and looked him over his words were "Cole couldn't be doing any better at this stage." and " I wish we could say the same for all our cardiac babies." We won't see Dr. Bensky for 6 months and at that time he will do an echo to see how everything is functioning. He said Cole will probably end up having his 3rd surgery before most, just like his 2nd surgery in July, because of his size and growth for his age. It will still be in the range of 2-3 years old.

Christmas In Boise

We were invited to come for Christmas to see John and Sharon Gilbert. We accepted and knew the only way we could do it was using all of our frequent flyer points and then some help. So we used them up and to use them there were rules about dates and if tickets were more than a certain amount than we couldn't fly into or out of certain cities.
A long story short, because our flight left Charlotte an hour and a half late we spent 12 horrible hours in the Pheonix, AZ airport with Ava and Cole. When we finally left we flew 2 more hours to Boise. Once we settled in and got over our nightmare experience with the airport we were able to start getting some time in with family.
This won't be super long because Cole is on the move crawling and pulling himself up and finding items in our house that are invisible to the adult eye, but harmful to babies that cause choking and putting them in his mouth. So we'll share some pictures.



Again I won't go into the story about having to come back from Boise by myself with Ava and Cole. It was as bad as you can imagine, but home was that much sweeter.