Walker is 5 months old!

Sweet Walker is now 5 months old. He has changed so much in the last month!

• wears 6 months
• Size 2 diapers
• Smiles and talks
• Sits up pretty much on his own but still loses balance occaionally
• Wants to play all the time and be in the middle of everything
• Tried oatmeal, bananas, and apples
• Got his first tooth
• Wants to be big so badly
• Still eats 6 oz every 3 hours
• Sleeps 8-5:30 every night
• Loves to cuddle
• Loves to be outside
• Tries really hard to sit up if he's lying down
• Loves to play with his feet

Jackson's Soccer Season

Jackson has improved so much with soccer this season. He keeps up running and has kicked the ball a few times. He has also thrown it in a couple of times. He likes sitting on the sidelines with his friends.  He has really come out of his shell! I am so proud of him!

Brooks has enjoyed plenty of blue slushies and the chance to play Grady a few times. Walker has loved being held!

So Long September!

I have to admit I am glad September is over! It has been a long, hard month for so many reasons.  We've had some good times too though.  My mom had a mastectomy on September 15th. Tim took off and kept the boys. Kristi helped him, while TuTu stayed at the hospital with us. Dr. Bailey came and prayed with us which was wonderful. Dr. Austin was her anesthesiologist, and he was just as funny as when he did my epidural. Dr. Buice was wonderful, and the surgery lasted only a few hours. I stayed at the hospital that night, and the nurses were all really nice. Mom went home the next day.

The past two weeks have been hard waiting on all of the pathology results. The good news is that the margins and lymph nodes are clear. The bad news is that the tumor was very large, much larger than all of the images showed. The next step is chemo and radiation which Mom is not happy about.  It is what it is though.

To add to all of this, there was a school shooting at an elementary school in Anderson where one little boy was killed, and another child and a teacher were injured. I know some people who teach there. That is my worst nightmare as a parent and a teacher. It has been a very sad weekend and a month full of lots of prayers.