a long time coming

well it has been almost 11 months since we became the proud parents of the most precious boys God ever could of given us..today we went and got a haircut at the salon that my cousin owns.both boys sat still for her and it was really sweet to hear people say how cute they were. Aleks has really gotten good at speaking english and doing so well with everything. He has gotten so lovable and lets others love him back...major progress for him...Markus has a few delays to overcome but he is opening up so much . he is having surgery in feb. and hopefully he will stop having so many trips to the childrens hospital.

a little new news

ok it has been a while since i blogged. but i been so busy with remodeling my mom's room , getting ready for steve's hip replacement . hopefully things will slow down after the next few weeks. aleks is doing really good , markus is doing well, he has several appointments next month. we go for his cleft palate and then the feeding clinic. aleks has grown about 3 inches since we came home in feb. and poor littel markus hasnt grown but maybe an inch..we are so thankful that we have our two sons home with us.

ok ,, we have decided that if alcohol can effect a an unborn child then markus has gotten every aspect of it... FAS, ACC, and now a cleft in his soft palate.....we love him and nothign they tell us about him changes that. on friday we get his glasses, they want us to keep them on him as much as possible...we still have to go to the orthopedic doctor about his wrist ,, it might of been broken in the past and didnt heal right.. the genetic doctor took blood to test , we will know more on that in about 3 more weeks...

some news...

ok this week we learned markus does hear us he just choses not to listen typical male thing i guess. they arent diagnosising him autistic they are going to track him for a year or so and then re test if he doesnt progress..both the boys have great teeth, which surprised the dentist .the boys are now drinking protien enhancement to try to build up the muscles.we found out markus' wrist was more then likely broken at some stage of his life and now we got to get it taken care of so it stops hurting him.they are both doing great.

he did it

Today Markus overcame a big challenge he drank out of a straw. with no help he drank a juice box. it was great to see he finally did it. now to get him chewing. his therapist is doing a great job with him.

a day of melt downs and break throughs......

today was the first day in 2 months that aleks had a melt down. he woke up this morning and right off the bat he started crying over everything. by the end of the day he had had a melt down while we was visiting family...the after that he was great again. playing and laughing and back to his old self. then after that Markus just started to cry .not just whine but real tears . this was the first time since we been home he has cried. although sad at the time i was overjoyed he let me cuddle him and rock him to console him. plus here i sa few more new pics. from our visit with the british side of the family.

today makes it 6months.........

since our boys became officially our sons. who would of thought time would fly so fast after the way it dragged along while we was waiting on a courtdate..