It has been a long time....

I was kindly reminded that it has been a long time since I have updated Karter's blog...oh and it has....over a month....shame on me!

Well Novemeber flew by, as did the entire fall. We had an MRI mid-November at Children's and we will be meeting with Dr. Conoly and Dr. Steinbach on January 2nd. At that time, we are assuming they will give us a time line and idea of the course of action for Karter over the next months. We anticpate that surgery will come up again in the conversation and prepare ourselves for that option.

Karter maintains a very slow pace of development. Where he is moving forward, it is very slow. This can be overwhelming for us at times, but we remain thankful that, at very least, we are moving forward.

Karter continues to be a very happy and content child. He smiles often and continues to be an active part of the Witt family. It is beautiful to see, even thought he cannot move around or play with Paige, that the relationship between brother and sister is growing. Karter adores Paige, he will smile and coo at her each time he sees her. I love to watch that.

Major milestones....right now, he seems to be gaining lots of core strength. His sitting is starting to improve as is his head control. Right now we are working on keeping the head in midline and not letting it flop to the left side. We did see some rolling a month or so back (twince in one day) but have nto seen it since. Obviously, we want to see things pick up at alarming rates in his development. It can be hard to continually see other children pass and surpass him. But we wait patiently and trust that God has it all under control.

We are looking forward to a great Christmas together. We are thankful for the improvments this year over last year and look forwrd to 2008 being another year of great things for Karter.

Merry Christmas!