Hi everyone! Wow it's been a long time since my last post. Well everything is going great here at home. Beau has a new PT since we've moved out of our prior PT's area. The new PT is AWESOME!!! We just love her. She's very loving and patient and upbeat with Beau. She's all smiles and animation. He just loves her. She working with him on learning to walk, although he's pretty content to crawl and climb.

Right now he's been climbing up the walls, as well as on the furniture and toys and people, and cruising that way! He's also figuring out that he can makes steps out of his toys to climb up on higher things... scary. He's also mastered climbing up stairs, until he realizes how high his is, then he wants to be picked up. He's got 4 teeth! They all popped up within a month. Poor kid had the bottom two pop up together, then the top two about 3 weeks later. He's done fantastic with it though. We've only had one late crying night when the first one popped, and another night when the second bottom one popped. I gave him some Hyland's teething drops and he was out like a light. He's also babbling like you wouldn't believe. He cracks me up with his talking to himself. He's very chatty in his car seat and crib. And don't for a minute think it's normal voice level babbling. Oh no. My son is the one you hear yelling out syllables at the top of his lungs! Chronic Lung Disease my ass! We're working on volume control. It would be easier if certain family members didn't laugh at him!

Miss Becca, on the other hand, has a personality worthy of a Diva! She is such a drama queen. If she's not getting her way, she throws her head back and sobs. It's too funny. She also been fighting sleep. It sucks when she gets over tired. Poor little girl can't get out of her own way. Fortunately, she's got a great smile to balance her out! She's very alert and socially engaging. She loves when people get close to her, look her in the eye, and talk to her. She smiles and coos and makes all kinds of faces. Her head and neck control is incredible. But, after all I went through with Beau and people calling him small (in one form or another), I get constant comments on how small Becca is. She's over 22 inches long and almost 11 lbs!!! How is she small again???? So I just smile and secretly want to smack people. Hint: it's rude to say people's kids are too small or big. It implies that there's something wrong with the kids or the parents. Thankfully there's nothing wrong with my family. We're all healthy and happy.... finally!

It's funny to look back on the past year. It feels like a whole other lifetime ago. The NICU and immigration battles and all we've been through almost feels like a dream I've woken up from. Like it's so far away and I'm not even sure it happened.... Crazy isn't it. Enjoy the pics and let me know what you all think. Take care.