Tim update & pictures

First the update! Tim's headache has finally let up! He even played X-Box yesterday - you know it's bad if he's not up to playing X-Box!!

So - now on to Tim's pictures of memories!!

Tim came to us at 8 pounds 2 ounces. He was taken two weeks early by c-section. Here's Chris getting his first look at baby brother. After the initial shock - he was an extremely protective big brother!!




Everyone has to have a naked baby picture of themselves as a baby!!



Tim was a major thumb sucker!


I adore this picture - the snow is still falling - I had set Tim on the deck to get a picture - he was soo adorable!!

Tim really enjoyed his first birthday cake!!

Tim was slow to learn to crawl - when he first began to roll (around 7 months) - he rolled every where he wanted to get. Then around 11 months he learned how to do the army belly crawl. It took a lot of effort for him to pull himself forward!!

Speech therapy - trying to desensitize his mouth and face (he had a HUGE gag reflex!)

Around 3: Tim got a walker - it didn't take him any time at all to begin whizzing around in that thing like he'd had it for years! He didn't really walk - he ran!!!

Before he was 3 1/2 he was walking!!

Tim could fall asleep anywhere!!!

Here's a pair of his orthotics.

You know what Big Brother's are good for? Getting little brothers to do things they typically wouldn't do!!! Chris thought it was hysterical to have a mud fight with his brother. I suppose it is because a neighbor boy had been the instigator in a similar incident years early! I really wasn't upset - because Tim really never wanted to do anything different - so for him to have participated in a mud fight was really a milestone!! And he was so cute covered in mud!!

When Tim was around 13-14, he went through a huge growth spurt & had a hard time walking upright. His knees were bent to at least 45 degrees & both feet were turned in quite a bit. He was complaining of pain all the time & we were pretty much told locally that he would need surgery. We found Dr. Sarwark at Children's Memorial & began an intensive weekly serial casting process - the results were amazing!!! This was post casting - Tim had a "gait analysis" done. They hooked up all these reflectors to his body & the computer took that information & gave a stick figure type of analysis of how his gait was functioning!! It's the same technology that was later used in the movie "Polar Express"!!

I'll post some pictures of the brother's growing up together on a later blog!