OUR 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! :)

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****IF YOU WANT TO WATCH THE MONTAGE VIDEO HERE, YOU CAN STOP THE VIDEO ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BLOG (MARTINA MCBRIDE) SO YOU CAN HEAR THE SONG ON THE MONTAGE!! ENJOY!**********

Hello friends and family!



We hope everyone is having a GREAT START to the NEW YEAR!! It has been a great start for us so far….full of surpises and just family time!!!



Well, I know it has been a while since I last updated you, unless you keep up with us on our blog…..you can say, no news is good news!! J matthew is doing really GREAT with everything right now….after having seizures EVERYDAY for over 2 weeks, we started him on one of his meds, FOUR times a day and that seemed to do the trick….just the last couple of days he has had very mild ones during nap?! GOD WILLING it will go away! Anyway, he is doing REALLY WELL, and he has been really HEALTHY too! THANK YOU GOD! The only thing we have noticed is that within 30 mins of us leaving the house, he gets REALLY JUNKY, CONGESTED, COUGHING ETC where at home, he was CLEAR AS A BELL!!! I finally called the pulmonologist and she said because of the mulch fire and him being use to our home (which I told her was FAR from dust free!!), he just needed a treatment before we leave!!! Fun! He HATES treatments! We also had a sleep study done a couple of weeks ago and I am awaiting some news about that….we were wondering if he had sleep apnea or having seizures during the night….when I find out, I will post it on my blog…Anyway, he has been doing really great and just GROWING!!! He is 30 lbs and is about 35” long! He is soooo big! He just amazes us everyday! He is also starting to TALK more now! When asked to repeat a word he will!! The other day, I gave him something he wanted and I said, “matthew, what do you say?” and he said, “thank you!” well, there you go!!! Little by little! He is also getting a bit steadier and stronger in his trunk area. He also is getting a personality! He is still the sweet happy boy but sometimes with a BIT of attitude!!! Stinker! And he can problem solve VERY WELL!! Just on Tuesday, I had a cap screwed on to a baby bottle and he learned to UNSCREW IT!! Wow!! He also has some new equipment! He got a RIFTON GAIT TRAINER, which he is still not sure of but he FINALLY started moving FORWARD in it!! He doesn’t get the turning yet so he gets stuck in places….think of it as a BIG walker for bigger kids!! With tons of bells and whistles! And then he also got his LADYBUG KORNER CHAIR…basically a little chair that helps with his balance and gives him a place to sit with a desk…VERY NICE!!! He LOVES that!



Alex is doing GREAT too!! He is such a wonderful SMART kiddo! I am just in awe of him! And what a great big brother he is too!! He has really started to Play with matthew and include him when he starts to do things too! He doesn’t want to go ANYWHERE with out his little brother! Soooo cute! And wow, his learning is just BEYOND anything! He has really started to want to read and he is already writing all his numbers and letter and his phonics is just wonderful! We are working on him getting to recognize and sound out words to read! Very nice! The other day, I could hear him saying something and when I got a jist of what he was doing, he was COUNTING BACKWARDS!!! I have not taught him that!! And he has gone as far as 30 and gone down to 1!! He also uses these BIG words!!!! He is just such a SPONGE!!! He also still loves his school!!! I can’t wait to get him to his sports (we are signing him up for t-ball). He is just our BIG BOY!!!



James is doing really great! This weekend, he is doing his SRP for pre-deployment…basically, he is going to do all his paperwork, will and such JUST IN CASE he goes over seas….we just pray he does not have to go….they are FIRST taking those that have NEVER been activated (james was activated in 2001) then they go from there…..if he goes, GOD WILLING HE DOES NOT, but if he does, we will just do what other families have done and just pray for him and all the other soldiers….and now he is getting a VERY BAD FEELING that he will be going after all….they just got told YESTERDAY some rumors going around so he is pretty sure he is going to be picked up, as is ALL his fellow soldiers…..please just say a prayer for all our soldiers….



As for me, I am going just fine…just hanging in there with my boys!!! We are enjoying our family time together and just being us….



Soooo, today is our 10 YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!!! Yep, that was the reason this email was sent today!! James and I have been married for 10 WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL AND HAPPY YEARS!! And I can HONESTLY say that!! We have just been soooooo BLESSED in our lives together and we are soooo happy!! We have 2 beautiful AMAZING kiddos and we both are just so in love with each other…soooo, I made a montage of our 10+ years of our lives together…..i hope you enjoy and watch for the surprise ending!!! just click ABOVE on the pic of our montage:


anyway, GOD BLESS ya’ll and thanks again for always keeping my family & ESPECIALLY our little miracle man MATTHEW in thoughts and prayers!!! They have DEFINETLY worked!!! He is just GROWING and getting BIGGER and STRONGER, THANK YOU GOD!!



ok, i hope you like the surprise at the end of the montage!! ENJOY!!



ok, take care and GOD BLESS!!! thanks for reading!



tons of love,

JAMES, MARIA, ALEX & MATTHEW

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