July 28th, 2005

Cass is doing great this summer. He has grown leaps and bounds, becoming our little butterball. It's amazing when you look back to his pictures last year and compare them to his 21 lb body now and see the difference. He has recently started sitting and can go from sitting to laying down then back to sitting up. The problem is his hips rotate too much causing him to do the splits when he lays down then back to sitting. We're working on it. He's happy and hasn't had any set backs. He is really enjoying the outdoors.
His birthday was great. We were worried he wouldn't touch his cake but as you can see he proved us wrong. We ended up with cake all over the kitchen, himself and the chair. It was great. We went to MaryBridge to visit the nurses and doctors and brought a cake for them to celebrate his birthday with him. They were so surprised to see how big he is and how well he is doing, especially when no one thought we'd be here a year later. What a great day to celebrate!
Since his heart surgery he's been real busy. Quite the explorer he is, wanting to get into everything. He does a lot of things just to get other's reactions to him then he laughs. He isn't blue anymore either, though he still requires oxygen every so often. He's really making improvements and we feel so thankful. Thank you all for your support!

He did a pretty good job at destroying this cake 

Cass' first birthday, enjoying his birthday cake. Who says he has a problem with food, maybe everything just needs to be made out of chocolate.