We are sorry it has been so long since our last post. This one will serve as quick update of what all has been going on. I hope to post pictures very soon from the past several weeks.
Christmas was quite nice at our house even though Stephanie was on call on Christmas Eve. Santa brought Donny a wagon full of toys and the rest of his family was quite generous to him as well. He is one spoiled rotten little kiddo! He has really enjoyed all of his new toys so far!
Donny is starting to think about walking. He is crusing like crazy around everything and particularly likes pulling up and walking around the coffee table while holding onto it. Once in a while he will get brave and try to take a step or two away but he still usually gets scared and just crawls because right now that just seems safer. We don't think it will be long though before he is walking and then likely running! He already crawls to quickly to anything he wants he is hard to keep up with!
We got to spend some time around New Years up with the Alm family in NJ. It was really nice to see everyone and spend some time up there. Unfortunately somewhere along the way our family caught gastroenteritis (some of you may know this as the stomach flu). We ended up coming home a day early. While we were all quite sick and missed several days of work, little Donny seems to have gotten it the worst. After 8 days of being sick and losing 2 lbs from so much diarrhea and vomiting little Donny (or as others have called him D4 or Don Cuatro) was hospitalized at Moses Cone hospital under the care of Stephanie's colleagues. He ended up spending 3 nights in the hospital before getting to come home. thankfully the gastroenteritis has ended but little D once again has a cold (gotta love daycare!). We are quite thankful to have some great family and friends that have helped us out through all of this time missing daycare and being sick. Many thanks to Grandma Susan, Uncle Jay and Aunt Karrie and Miss Kelli B - we couldn't have gotten through all of this without all of you and all of the prayers everyone else was saying!
Hopefully we will all get well soon and really get to enjoy Donny's first birthday (we can't believe he's already a year old!) on Jan 31st and the New Year! We do plan on throwing Donny a party but we haven't had a chance to really set a date yet with Donny being sick and with Steph and Don's work both being so very busy (we are just thankful to have jobs!) We'll be sure to let everyone know when we do set a date!
We hope everyone is doing well and we will post pics and videos soon... we promise!
Love, The Alm Family
