Cooper is 5 months old this week.  He is now 9lbs 1.5 oz.  The weight gain is slow but he is getting chubby.  He will be going to Spectrum this week Tuesday for his surgery. Please keep him in your prayers that all will go well.  We are really hoping this surgery will bring good things for Cooper.  No more feeding tube in his nose and no more painful reflux.

Cooper has been to the Dr's office several times this month for respitory virus's.  The antibiotics have helped but having him get sick has been a scarey reminder that it wouldn't take much to land him in the hospital.

We have seen Dr. Droste, a great pediatric opthemologist, for Coopers eyes.  His right eye has normal vision and his left eye doesn't seem to have much vision.  This is great news.  When Cooper was born we faced the prospect of a child with no hearing or vision.  Now we find out he has normal vision in one eye and moderate hearing loss.  God is good.  We will be going to Detroit on July 1st to have Dr. Capone who is an amazing opthamologist look at Coopers bad eye.  They will be doing an ultrasound on his eye and if they can do anything to help his eye they will operate that same day.  They don't usually do this all on one day but they are making an exception for us.

Cooper is doing really well.  His personality is starting to come out.  He wants to sit up (as well as he can) and loves to rough house.  He smiles often when played with and Darrel can really get him laughing.  What a great sound!  We were just saying today that he has already come farther than we thought he might.  We are praying for a great future for Cooper!  I know he has already touched lives and made a difference in ways we could have never imagined.