Life is too short

Today I was checking in on one of the blogs that I follow and their most recent blog completely stopped me in my tracks. It directed me to the blog of one of their acquaintances who have just gone through the most unimaginable tragedy. They just lost their 11 month old daughter to cancer. She passed away just 2 1/2 weeks after her diagnosis. Their story really puts things into perspective and definitely made me hug Drake a little tighter tonight.
Please keep this family in your prayers.
http://themcclenahans.blogspot.com/

The Drakester

Here are some updated pictures of Drake. His new favorite thing is to sit up by himself, so we let him sit up on our bed in the morning and play. I can't believe that he's almost 7 months old!

More 6 month old pictures

As promised, here are a few more pictures of 6 month old Drakey! As you can see, he's sitting up on his own (it only lasts for about a minute before he topples over sideways :))

6 months old!

Drake turned 6 months old on Sunday and we went to the doctor for his check up and 6 month shots yesterday. He's definitely a big boy weighing 21 lbs and 6 oz and measuring 28 1/2 inches long. He's above the 95th percentile in height and right at the 95th percentile in weight. We recently started him on vegetables-started with squash and have now moved to carrots (which he loves). Here are a few pics of his first "meal". I'll update later with more 6 month pictures!

Finally!

So I finally got around to loading the pictures from Christmas! My parents came early and we celebrated with them before we headed up to Oklahoma to be with David's family. Here are some pictures of Drake with his Paw Paw and Gi Gi, his Pops and Gramz,his Mimo and Dado, his Uncle Cole, his Aunt Sissy (Kristen), and of course with us. Drake also turned 5 months on Christmas day, he's such a big boy! Thank you to everyone for making Drake's first Christmas such a special one.

I apologize!

I am so sorry for the delay in posting about Drake's first Christmas, but he's been very sick. I took him to the doctor last Thursday because he was coughing, wheezing and had a fever. They diagnosed him with a respiratory virus. His fever finally broke on Sunday, but we are still continuing the breathing treatments. I think that he's getting better, his cough seems much looser, but we're being very cautious. I promise that I will post about Christmas very soon!
Here's a picture of Drake doing his treatment...poor baby :(

Christmas Card

Hello everyone! I have a ton of pictures to upload from Drake's first Christmas, but until I get around to it, I wanted to post what our Christmas card from this year looked like. Hope all is well and I will post again soon!