Please pray for Baby Andrew

Please continue to pray for my friend Betsy, her husband Steve and their baby son Andrew. He was doing very well last week and they even began to wean him from the tubes and medication, but yesterday he had a serious set back and he is once again connected to the machines. You can keep up with them on their blog - link is on the right hand side under 'The Page's'. We believe in the power of prayer and I ask that each of you that read this remember this young family and lift them up to our Lord. It's amazing that our lives continue with such regular events when there is so much heartache so close - yet unimaginable...

Epiphany - Fiesta de los Reyes

Yesterday, the final day of Christmas, we celebrated Dia de los Reyes. Los Reyes (The Kings) left Sebastian 3 great presents! He got a submarine bath toy (he's really starting to like the whole bath thing!) and...

He got this cool Tonka Truck ride-on and push toy. It's pretty cool and he seems to like it although he looks very serious in this picture.

He also got a "big boy" car seat! He's outgrown his carrier-style car seat and he hates it too, so we found the best car seat around. The thing is a monster and takes up like half of our backseat, but those are the things you do for safety I guess! The good news is he should be able to use this seat until he's like 5 years old. Again, he looks very serious in this photo, but he really seems to like it so far. There was not nearly the amount of crying in the car seat as usual.

After church on Sunday, the Hispanic Ministry hosted a Fiesta de Reyes. We had a great time with some good parranda (Puerto Rican Chrismas Carols) music, great food and a visit with gifts from the three wise men - Fr. David, Luis and Nandy! Paul got asked to be a wise man, but he turned it down - he would have looked great in that long beard and turban...darn! Actually, he couldn't because we had to leave early to meet up with my former Lockheed Martin friend Amy that was visiting from New York. Anyhow, so the wise men gave gifts to all the kids and Sebastian got a cute stuffed Donald Duck. I think it's his first Disney item! Not bad for a Florida native! Us and part of Donald Duck in the lower left. =)

Sebastian's first parranda (kind of...). Video - turn up the volume.

Also, Sebastian is definitely on the move now. He isn't actually crawling, but he does this slither, scoot thing and can get to where he wants to go. Sometimes I let him go exploring on his own around the living room as I watch him from a distance. The other day he slithered over to his exersauser and I watched him very carefully crawl himself half way underneath the exersauser. to grab his toys. Then it was quite comical because he couldn't figure out how to go in reverse to get himself out. I missed the moment with the photo, but it's the best I could do since I was making sure he didn't hurt himself and also trying to get him out from under there. I took this one right before he got "stuck." Kids just get into the most interesting places! Getting into trouble...