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Life is good...

I just wanted to post and say how happy and blessed I feel. Cade has made so much progress in these past four months and is so full of life now. He is so happy and brings so much joy. Carter has been such a good Big brother and I know he will help Cade exceed all his expectations. Cade is so aware of him, and his eyes are always fixated on him. I can already see how much he looks up to Carter. The love is truly so innocent and unconditional! I have been told and now see for myself that Carter is really Cade's best therapy. Cade had his 4 month check up last week and everything went pretty good. My big boy is now 10lbs 11oz. I can't believe it! I never thought I would see the day. His ped. said his muscle tone is better than the PWS patients she has seen. ??? Guess that is a good thing! She said everything looks great with him. She did notice that his posterior fontanel(soft spot in back of the head) is still open. It usually closes by 2 months of age. She wasn't really concerned, but just thought it should be mentioned to his Neurologist. I know that there bone age is immature so it is probably due to that. GH should help with the bone growth and help it close. Anyways, Most of you know how much thought and time I usually put into Halloween costumes and now I can have even more fun with two kids. Carter has decided he wants to be a pirate, so he is being Captain Hook and Cade will be Peter Pan. :) It will be so cute! Of course Cade is too little to fit into a store bought costume, so I will be making his. Hopefully it comes out cute. I have a feeling I won't have much say too much longer in Carter's costumes. When he sees them in the store he wants to be typical boy things...Spider man...Power Ranger...Transformer...etc...He is getting too big too fast for me! Carter is so independent now and wants to do everything by himself. He can dress himself, bathe, wash his hair, brush his teeth...(even though I still help him to make sure things are done right) The fact that he is capable and does a pretty good job at it is just bittersweet for me. I love those two boys so much! We are leaving next week to go to Oklahoma to visit my family. We are excited about that, but not looking forward to that drive. Blah! It will be me, Jake, the kids, and my Grandma. It will be good to just get away for a little while and have no appointments and therapies to run back and fourth to. :)    

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