Our New Nephew

Things have been extremely busy lately with missing out on my mornings to get work done. The kids are back to full health and since Kyson has been able to get out of the house, the destructive behavior has decreased tremendously. He's back to the typical two-year-old behavior. While life was being all crazy, a new spirit has joined our family.

Kris's brother and sister- in-law adopted their 4th son a few weeks ago. Drew Terrance was born on February 20 from an emergency C-section. The biological mom went to her doctor for a routine appointment, but her blood pressure was dangerously high and they took the baby that day. He was born 6 weeks early and was in the NICU until March 4. For most of that time, Rusty and Amy were not allowed to hold him, and they couldn't even touch him until he got off a ventilator. Drew is a tiny little baby. He was born at 4 lbs 8 oz and 17 1/2" long. After a week in the NICU his weight increased to 5 lbs 3oz and was pro- gressing well.

This last weekend we finally had the opportunity to go meet our little nephew for the first time. Boy he's cute and so itsy bitsy. to give you some perspective I had them place Drew next to Kodi who is an average 5 1/2 month old girl. She looks gigantic! He was so sweet, but didn't wake up the entire time we were there. We'll see those beautiful eyes soon enough.

Kyson really enjoyed being able to play rough with his cousins. Not may kids like to play as rough as Kyson, but his cousins are just like him. It was soooo wonderful to watch them all play. Kris was a good sport too. Kyson is getting better and better about warming up to them. We need to go over there more often. Hopefully with Kyson being in Blake's preschool class it will help a lot.