Update

We still have a good number of photos to share from our little holiday vacation - spending lots of time lounging around the house sort of lends itself to snapshots! But I thought I'd use today to update everyone on how we've been doing.

Chris has been doing really well. Christmas day was his last really bad day. Since then, he's started to take a daily Pepcid which has REALLY helped to control the majority of his stomach/digestive issues, which have always been his biggest complaint. The difference in him was noticeable between Christmas and New Years - he was looking better, he was feeling better and he was acting like his regular old self again - that week was heaven for me (and for him, too, I'm sure!) He got his 2nd monthly injection on Friday, January 2, and aside from a few "not so great" days following the injection, he's been doing really well again. This month has been going SO much better than last month - and we hope that continues to be the case. He's been out of bed more, he's been doing more, and the pain pills, with the rare exception, are finally starting to stay INSIDE of the bottle! Yippee!! Chris has also figured out that his eating habits have a lot to do with how he feels. He can't let his stomach get empty, and he can't eat too much at one time. Smaller, more frequent, meals seems to be the ticket to him feeling better. Needless to say, we're extremely happy that things seem to be going well and we're hoping that the problems he was having last month was just his body's way of adjusting to the new doseage of medication. Still, please continue to keep him in your thoughts and prayers - they certainly don't hurt and do appear to be working!! His next Dr. appointment isn't until February 2nd, when he'll get his 3rd injection.

Our little guy is growing in leaps and bounds!! I swear that he's bigger everyday! His vocabulary has REALLY started to take off lately and he's even putting together lots of 3 and 4 word "sentences" - it's SO friggin adorable! He's at such a great age now - he's completely in love with his dogs, he has no problem telling you that he doesn't want to wear the shirt that you picked out for him and that he'd rather wear "this" one instead, he gets his shoes out of his closet, HE reminds US that he needs to wear a hat when he goes outside, he knows he'd rather be spending his days with Mommy and Daddy then going to visit his friends at daycare, he's decided to call his Grandpa "Papa" and to hear it come out of his mouth is the cutest thing ever (sorry, Grandma's!!!), he's such a good helper when it comes to feeding the dogs (or cutting their nails, or taking Zoe out on the leash, or giving them baths), he runs to get the phone when it rings - but no way will he answer it . . . he's just the best!!! He's the absolute joy of our life and we couldn't possibly be any more in love with him!!!

Even the dogs are doing well! Zoe's new (fishline) ACL is well on the way to being back to normal - despite the scare she gave us on Christmas Eve, and Kylee . . . well, Kylee is fine as long as someone is around to devote their undivided attention to her!!

This year has been good to us so far! Hopefully this trend continues! 2008 has a lot to make up for!!!