This is the amazing journey of our two miracles. John Craig was born on November 30, 2005 at 24 weeks and 5 days gestation. He weighed 1 pound 8 ounces and was 12 inches long. John is a true miracle and an inspiration to all that meet him! Hope Amanda, our perfect little girl, is currently recovering from two brain surgeries to remove a 6cm mass from the center of her brain. Hope represents everything good in this world and she too is an inspiration to all.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29.11

Monday, April 09, 2007

Happy Easter!

We had a wonderful Easter weekend! John seemed to be the center of attention (can you blame him) at every stop we made:) We left the house at 7:45am...........the first stop was church with my family. John did great........as always! We then headed to Grams & Grandpa's (my parents) for a delicious brunch. After brunch and the egg hunt, John took a nap and then it was off to stop number 2........Grammy and Papa's (Jamie's Moms!) John participated in another egg hunt and enjoyed playing with his new toys from his Easter basket! We visited there for awhile and then packed up yet again and took off to Nana & Grandpa's (Jamie's Dads) for our last visit. At the end of the day all 3 of us were exhausted.............but it was well worth it!



WOW.....I must have been a very good boy (hmmmm, do you even have to be a good boy or does the Easter bunny come automatically?)

Daddy swears John told the Easter bunny he wanted a football:)

Daddy, I see an egg!!!

Yeah........I got it!
Thanks Mom for holding my bucket!

Hmmmmmm, where are the rest of those eggs ?

This is GREAT!

Mommy, I LOVE Easter!


John doing his fake cough........too funny!

Other John news....



Eyes: We went to the Opthalmologist this morning for our follow up appointment and it looks like John's one eye is slightly crossing in again. So.................another surgery is in the near future. We anticipated another one (or two) so we were not caught off guard by this. We aren't going to do anything as of right now. We'll go back in October (6 months) and see what the plan is.



Eating: This Wednesday I am taking John to a swallow rehab (all morning) at Phoenix Children's Hospital. The group that will be seeing/working with John consists of.......a Speech Therapist, Nutritionist, GI, and Pulmonology. I'll let you know how that goes!



Public Outings: In just this past week John as ventured out to.........Cheesecake Factory, Coldstone, Babystyle, Carters, Old Navy, and Learning is Fun! It is so much fun taking him out..........and, we'll be doing a lot more of it because RSV SEASON IS OFFICIALLY OVER!!!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad that John had a fun Easter..I always love all the pics you post, he's such a handsome lil fella..

Sarah Furlough said...

John, you really were spoiled by the Easter Bunny, weren't you? Who can blame him, you are so precious! Have fun with all your goodies. I know we'll be seeing you in the NFL one day!

abby said...

John looks like he's having a ton of fun in these shots, and no doubt will have even more fun getting out and about. Sometimes I think our kids end up a bit behind because they need to be so protected, which also limits the number of stimuli to which they get exposed.

Anyway, it was funny to see the 'fake cough' shot---Hallie also has a fake cough. She uses it as an attention getting device. It's cute, but in an annoying kind of way. We think she started doing it when she got the croup a couple of months ago, and now it's just part of who she is. What's hilarious is that her buddy Ethan has started mimicking her cough. Since he's only one and a half and doesn't really speak, we can't ask him whether he's teasing or her or just thought her cough sounded cool.

Kim said...

John, can you please teach Jackson & Ava about how to properly behave in church? They need a lesson badly! And when you get good at throwing that football that the Easter bunny gave you, we'll recruit you to teach them that, too!