Well, Spring was here...for a little while, anyway...

I must be a "fair-weather" blogger...well, but in the opposite sense, I guess; I only blog when the weather isn't nice enough to be outdoors. Once the weather got nice, blogging was the furthest thing from my mind. Now that it's freezing outside again, I hit the computer. Guess the posts will be few and far between till next fall.

I'm just touching base to give an update on the boys...

Danny is army-crawling everywhere. He's taken one trip down the stairs to the landing (luckily our house is a split-foyer--meaning just half a flight of stairs) when Sam opened the gate while Danny was right there. Couldn't even find a scratch or a bruise on him, thank God. His second tooth finally cut through. He's become rather fond of torturing Charlie (the cat), but thankfully Tommy broke Charlie in when he was Danny's age (9 months). Charlie is quite tolerant of babies; much less so of 2- and 4-years-olds (not to mention 30-year-olds).

Tommy started speech therapy a few weeks ago. He does exceptionally well at the sessions and looks forward to time away with just the two of us (what middle child wouldn't?). The therapist is still getting to know him and figuring out what his problem is, but this past week she said she does see an apraxia element to his problems. It may take her a while to see if there are other problems as well; time will tell. But we're glad to be learning this now rather than later. We may have a long road ahead of us with this, so please pray for the wisdom, patience and endurance we'll need to work with Tommy. Also pray that Tommy works well with us and the therapist. He's our little hard worker of the family, so we're confident that he will do great and that God will equip us to do what's best for him.

Sammy is still being the good big brother he's always been. He's been helping me with Tommy's speech, he reads books to Tommy, and when not busy playing and helping me he's doing whatever he can to amuse his baby brother. He's still into superheroes and told me the other day that Jesus is a superhero. I asked him what superhero he knows that rose from the dead and can take him to heaven....he answered, "Yeah--Jesus is cooler than superheroes, isn't he!" AMEN!

Have a blessed Easter weekend!