This is a picture of Jaeden and his first attempt at crawling.

Jaeden and Daddy (Joey) sitting in a 500hp Shelby Cobra at the new Auto Haus building in Yorktown , VA the day we left for out new home in Bangkok, Thailand.

If you have not already heard the sad news about our Lilly Sonoma it is that she only lived one and a half days because of a heart defect called complete AV block. Why this happened no one has been able to say for sure. We love her dearly and miss her very much everyday.

Thank you very much to all of our friends and family who have shown their support for our family by coming by and visiting, sending food, flowers, gifts, cards, phone calls and emails to us during this most diffcult time in our lives. Your support, frienship and love helps pull us through this knowning we are surrounded by friends and family and are not alone.

Jaeden is growing up so fast just like everyone says. He is like a little boy sometimes but still our baby too. He tries to say words now. He says them well enough we know what he is saying although they are not quite phonetically correct yet. Jaeden has flown a kite with his daddy holding onto the kite all by himself... well until he let go and daddy had to do the 50 yard dash to catch it. Jaeden goes to the playground quite often and has a good time with all the kids there and playground equipment like the swings and slide which he able to climb up the steps to the top all by himself. Where we live there are a lot of children and it is a safe nieghborhood. He enjoys running around with the kids every afternoon before dinner when they come out to play after school and daycare. Even though he is the youngest Jaeden is not the smallest. He is slightly bigger than the 23 month old boy next door who is not small for his age by any means. HE has outgrown all of his shoes and has moved up to a 7.5 to and 8 size and is now wearing size 3T clothing! He loves to eat pasta wheels, cheese dogs, "stars" waffles with maple syrup and butter, mixed tropical fruit and of course milk. When he is finished he says something that sounds like "I'm all done" and off comes the bib! Jaeden reads books with mommy everyday and night and with daddy too. He especially loves his mommy time after dinner before his bath and bed routine begins.