The Duff Family: crawling

Can you believe that it has been a year since Charlie was born? We can't! I love that his birthday is St. Patrick's day. We have definitely been bless with some Irish luck, haven't we? We had a small family party for Charlie. He didn't eat any cake, but got into the icing a bit. One of his (too) many gifts was his very own cushy chair. We can just picture Charlie curled up in his chair reading a book...

We have reached so many milestones in the last couple of weeks; it is amazing! We saw Charlie's pulmonologist last week and he told us that we could start treating Charlie like a normal baby! We are taking it very slow...we have eaten outside at restaurants a few times. It felt so strange and fun to include Charlie into our outside-the-house life. The Doctor also called the home health service to come pick up all of Charlie's monitors and oxygen tanks. We were keeping them on hand in case he got sick. We don't need them any more!! If Charlie gets sick his lungs should be able to handle it. It is really amazing how far we have come. I don't think we really believe it yet...I know that I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. I wonder if that feeling will ever go away?

We have been working on Charlie's crawling for a really long time now and we were starting to think that he may just skip it. We worked really hard on getting his tummy off the floor and yesterday he crawled on his own! Today he crawled even more and showed off for his physical therapist. He is also scooting along furniture and he showed her that too! She said "he really is a miracle baby..." yup. We are so blessed.

Now that Charlie is a year old I have been thinking of making this our family blog and blogging about what we all are doing. I mostly mother Charlie, but Chuckie always has a lot going on!

Thank you all so much for faithfully reading and supporting us through the last year. It really has meant so much to us!