Nostalgia is Fun

Can you tell which one is which? (Hint: one is Alex and one is Troy, around the same age..)

So Troy isn't Left Out....

Here's a comparison of Troy one year ago:

September 2010:

September 2011:

Alex Has Come So FAR!

A couple weeks ago Alex went to give his dad a high-five, and OPENED HIS LEFTY FINGERS FIRST!!!! This is seriously amazing stuff! The therapists all wanted to see this happen within the first 6 months of his stroke, so to see it happen a full year afterward is just unbelievable! When we told the OT the other day she really pointed out how big a deal that this is - it usually doesn't happen.

I find myself comparing to this time last year so often lately and tearing up. I am just so proud of my little man, and so thankful to God for leaving him here with us. We had a dance party at the end of a movie the other day and I took a quick video of him dancing, swinging his arms. I don't want to post it because he's in his pj's but will show you in private one day if you come over, I promise!

September 13, 2010, at the Glenrose Hospital. He is puffy from the medications and his left eye won't look straight:

June 2011, Posing for Mom and the camera...refusing to look at me

(I think there was a squirrel that was more interesting)

And here he is just a few weeks ago, making a face and just finished playing with neighbourhood kids.