He's come so far!

For Mike's birthday recently, I was putting together a book of images of our life together. He's done a couple for me with each child seperately but I really felt we needed one of us. Us being him and I and both the kids. As you could imagine what I had to go through to gather the collection was heart wrenching and heart warming all together. And of course quite time consuming. But what really struck me, relating to Ian, is just how far he's come. When I began blogging about him I refused to put pics up. I didn't want anyone to have that image in their mind of our little angel. To be honest, I didn't even want it in my mind. When I would leave his side at the NICU each day, I would clear it from my mind until the next day when he would hopefully look better. But I thought it would be interesting to share here and now. Because sometimes I get caught up in the craziness of our life and forget just what how far he's come.

this is the only way we could touch him at first

playing at the park with big sister

always happy surrounded by books