In Your Eyes

First off let me apologize for the last couple of posts having such horrible grammar issues. I have been really tired and stressed out lately so I've let it slip. Thank you English people for not raking me over the coals.

We left David yesterday pretty bummed out, it was the first time leaving him since a week ago and beyond that he wasn't really eating as well as we would have hoped. It became a reminder of the mountain that David still has to climb before he gets to go home to Mt. Olivet and Bowling Green. This morning we accidentally slept in. Our intentions were good to get up to the hospital early, our bodies however decided to have a different plan. By the time we got up to the hospital and got back to see David he was wide awake and looking around, which once again is my favorite thing to see. He is a little cross eyed in this pic but I just took it at the wrong time. What I love is there seems to be a change in the look of his eyes. He is still intense, yet there is more intrigue, it is almost like he is starting to analyze that which is around him. Thankfully we have gotten this stare and look quite a bit which makes us very happy. The first feeding went much like the ones before had went. He went super hard and then got tired and fell asleep. So we decided that the next time we would watch a nurse and see what if anything she could show us. She was able to feed him a whole bottle!!! The next time we fed him we had figured out that we more or less had to out stubborn him and that is exactly what Nicole did. She fed him more than what the Doctor's had prescribed which we feel is just an added bonus. It really turned into a great day for a lot of different reasons but the biggest was the ability to feed him and hold him afterward. Just having the ability to love on him and bond with him in that way made us happy and to end the year on a good note made it even better.

We know that the new year has a lot of challenges in front of us and mountains for the 3 of us to climb together. Yet we know that we don't do it alone, not only us as a family but those who surround us and lift us up in prayer and love. We wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

-D