October update

I realized that we have been home for nearly a month and I have not updated either of our Blog's. It always amazes me how time can get away on you.

Karter is doing about the same as last time. His development is moving forward but it is quite slow. We noticed such a rapid change in him after surgery but it has really slowed down over the past two months.

One thing that we have really noticed with Karter is that he has really stared to communicate well with us. He is starting to verbalize more and communicate with his expressions more each day. We love this! I have shared with many of you that Karter feels like he is a participating member of our family now. He was always a part if the family but was unable to contribute personality to it (that may not make sense, but I know what I mean :-))

He is putting his hands in his mouth and really watches them a lot more these days. He feels so much stronger when holding his head and sitting. He is still rolling from his tummy to his back, but is not rolling from back to tummy yet. He is also not using his hands to grab at anything. We are hoping that these things will come along quickly over the next month or so.

We rejoice in the fact that Karter's seizures are far less frequent than before. He went three weeks between his last two seizures. Last Saturday marked the one year anniversary of our visit to Children's Hospital, at which time he was diagnosed with Epilepsy. It is hard to believe where we have come from and where we are today. Things still feel very up in the air and we continue to rely on God's strength each day and grasp to Him for comfort and the knowledge that He has figured it all out already.

We ask that you join with us and pray specifically for the movement in his hands to pick up and for him to roll over. We know that these things will come at some point, but we feel like they are the pivotal point for Karter's development to move forward. We anticipate that it will be like a flood gate once he realizes the freedom there is when he can move around and do things on his own. We pray for motivation for him to reach these milestones.

Please pray for us as we watch him each day move so slowly forward. It can be so discouraging and overwhelming at times to see how far we have to go and how slow things are progressing. We do our best to be thankful in all things and look at how far we have come, but some days are harder than others. We love our little boy and just want the best for him. We pray for his complete restoration and we anticipate AMAZING things!

I have included some pictures from this month for you to see how he has grown and what he is doing. most of them are from the pumpkin patch last week.