Colby's First Year - Finally!!!

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A Sad Day

Today is a very sad day for me. My good friend Art has passed away. I'm not sure if it was yesterday or Saturday as I was notified second hand from a mutual friend. Art was a great guy who I met while working at a local Farm Market. I met Art when I was 16 and we proceeded to work together over the next 10 yrs. He was about 20 yrs older than me and we had this uncle/nephew type relationship. Throughout this time we became good friends, who would laugh, argue, fight etc., it was more of a brotherly relastionship really. Art lived in Redford and when Jessica and I met we moved to Redford, Art and I lived only a couple blocks away from each other. Because of this I was able to visit Art quite often. Anyone who knows Art understands he went through some tough times in his life. I'm proud to say I was there for Art whenever I could be to help in anyway. We had connections on many levels, but most of all our love of UofM, the Tigers and working produce definitely kept us connected. As I got married and had kids Art and I didn't see each other that much and the phone calls became much less frequent. If you attended our wedding ceremony Art did one of the readings at the church. I last spoke to art, gosh, a number of months ago. Art left me a message over the holidays and I had planned on calling him back, just hadn't got to it yet. I thought of him often but took for granted the fact that I had all this time. I'm sitting here unable to believe that he's gone. I'm embarrassed to say that my good friend was never even able to meet Cooper and Colby in person. This devastates me as I would have loved my kids to know such a great guy. I always thought oh, I gotta take the kids over to see Art, but just always had a reason not to get over there. Its a huge cliche but you just don't know what you have until its gone. I'm mad at Art for leaving us. Really mad. I know he's in a better place now. Rest in peace buddy, I will miss you, Go Blue, I'll always look up and point to you when I sing "Hail to the Victors".

Picassocooper

We got some artwork to show off from our little Pablo Picassocooper. He's been doing some really cool stuff at daycare and here at home and our basement door has become our own Institute of Arts! Coop did all the work here including his life-size Christmas Cookie Gingerbreadman, of course at 2 and 1/2 he still gets some help but he's been doing really well at getting the hang of making his own art projects and having fun at it too.

PS: Colby has his own little project, its the brown house in the upper left with his handprints on the top of the roof!

Cooper's Winter Olympic Gymnastic Preview

Colby's Cruising Part Deux

Colby's Cruising

Well its been so long since I filled you all in on how Colby is doing. He is doing awesome. We're thrilled at his progress. In mid Dec Colby finally finished up being cycled off Phenobarbital, the pink nightmare as we like to call it. Imagine giving your 6 month old a vial of strawberry syrup, twice a day, NOT FUN! Try keeping that off your clothes, his clothes, the furniture, etc while your little guy fights you as he takes down each drop. Ugh, we were so glad to see that stuff go, not to mention what it did to the Big Cheese. About a week after he was fully off the Pheno, Colby was a totally different baby. He was smiling more, interacting more and started to eat! He just would not eat solid foods while on the Pheno. But now he chows down, just like he was before the accident. He's been progressing in many other things too. He now crawls like a champ, just cruising allover as fast as Usain Bolt. One second he's in the living room, next second he's across the kitchen. Colby started clapping the other day too. Colby continues to love his daycare and has some good friends there that he crawls and hangs with all day. The little guy also continues his weekly visits with the early-on crew who continue to evaluate and work with Colby on his overall development. Team Colby is going strong!

Blog to ya later!

Scott