Well, it has been a long, rough year, but the holiday season has been quite wonderful. We were very excited to welcome Mr. Simon Christopher Howes into the world a little early on December 21! He is absolutely wonderful and we could not be more excited for proud momma and daddy, Stacie and Zach.
Our Christmas festivities went off without a hitch and were very enjoyable! On the 23rd, we traveled to Warwick to spend the day with the Aabs and the Carabines and had a very nice day. Christmas Eve we were at The Emery's with everyone, which is always wonderful. This year, on Christmas day, we had all of the Parto's over to our house and had a very relaxing, fun day. The day did have a few sad moments. Of course, we were reminded that Grandmom was not with us this year, but I think that she was definitely here in spirit and watching over us as we enjoyed each other's company, just as she would want it.
Sean had an appointment at NIH on the 22 and more good news came our way. The tumor is stable, with possibly minor shrinking, that we will not notice until a later time. Sean has now begun to ween off of the steroids (woo hoo!) little by little. Our next appointment is toward the end of January and we are looking forward to more good news.
For those of you who haven't seen Conlon's blog, the link is:
http://conlon-tracyann.blogspot.com/
Check it out, he has been updating as often as possible from the Middle East.
We hope that everyone has had a wonderful Christmas Season and that everyone will have a fantastic, blessed New Year!
Our Christmas festivities went off without a hitch and were very enjoyable! On the 23rd, we traveled to Warwick to spend the day with the Aabs and the Carabines and had a very nice day. Christmas Eve we were at The Emery's with everyone, which is always wonderful. This year, on Christmas day, we had all of the Parto's over to our house and had a very relaxing, fun day. The day did have a few sad moments. Of course, we were reminded that Grandmom was not with us this year, but I think that she was definitely here in spirit and watching over us as we enjoyed each other's company, just as she would want it.
Sean had an appointment at NIH on the 22 and more good news came our way. The tumor is stable, with possibly minor shrinking, that we will not notice until a later time. Sean has now begun to ween off of the steroids (woo hoo!) little by little. Our next appointment is toward the end of January and we are looking forward to more good news.
For those of you who haven't seen Conlon's blog, the link is:
http://conlon-tracyann.blogspot.com/
Check it out, he has been updating as often as possible from the Middle East.
We hope that everyone has had a wonderful Christmas Season and that everyone will have a fantastic, blessed New Year!
