Family Updates - May 2012

I am going to try to update this blog monthly. Sometimes life gets so busy and time doesnt allow things to happen. Everything is going great! Carson is doing wonderful! We couldnt be happier with his progress. He is really starting to become a happy little boy again. Now that he is able to communicate a little bit he isn't so frustrated. He is just such a joy and blessing. I cant imagine my life without him :)

Madison just turned 18 months this week. I cant believe how fast she is growing up. She is starting to talk a ton! Half the time we dont understand what she is saying but she is trying to say words. She can say ball, belly, boo, eye, bye bye & fish

Her voice is the sweetest sound I have ever heard, besides her brothers of course!

Billy and I are doing great and just stay so busy between work and the kids. We dont have a lot of time to stop and breathe somedays but its worth it because we wouldnt trade these two for anything in the world! I feel very blessed to have Billy and my kids :)

Isaac James

April 30th, 2007 at 10:01am I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy who we named Isaac James Wachter. 5 years ago today we said hello and goodbye to our son on the same day. That day was the most devastating awful day of our lives. I didnt know how I was going to continue living my life without my baby boy. I think about him every single day and wish things could have been different. Reliving the days before his birth and the days after are so heart wrenching. Everything about that day was so painful. Billy and I leaned on each other and got through it but even five years later we cant talk about what happened without crying. Isaac will always be apart of us and he will always be Carson & Madison's big brother, looking down on them from heaven protecting them. I know that one day I will see Isaac again...

Family Photos

We found a great photographer in the Columbus area that has experience with children with autism and she did our family photos! Carson was a crazy man and did not want to sit still but she still managed to get some great shots :)

Happy New Year!

Its so hard to believe that its a new year! Maddy just turned 14 months old and Carson will be 3 1/2 next month! Time goes too fast for sure. Anytime I look at pictures of Carson when he was younger it makes me so sad because he is growing up so fast. I want time to slow down a bit. I want my kids to stay little forever! I always thought that Billy and I would have 3 or 4 kids but we are definitley not having any more. Our family feels complete with Carson and Madison and we have our hands so full with these two that I cant even begin to imagine adding a third. Its pretty perfect the way it is now because we are able to tag team them and Billy takes one while I take the other. If we had a third then that poor child would be on his/her own lol! Well not really but I just dont think the kids should out number the adults. I'm sure I will start to have baby fever in a few years but I just have to remind myself how hard our babies were and how Carson's future is so uncertain. I dont think it would be fair to him to have another baby because it would take me away from him even more! Anyway, not sure why I started on this topic. Its a new year and hopefully it will be a good year!!!! I'm excited to see what 2012 has in store for our family :)

Christmas 2011

The kids had a great Christmas!!! I love our family traditions and I love waking up Christmas morning with the kids and seeing their little faces when they see what Santa left them! Life just doesnt get much better than that :)

Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve! I love the holidays and making memories with the kids. I cant wait to see the look on their little faces tomorrow morning when they come downstairs and see what Santa left them :)

Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo