The Kentucky Thalman's

The way your eyebrows express so much.  I'm pretty sure your right one has a mind of it's own. When I'm coming down the stairs in the morning (if daddy has gotten up with you) and you see me, you get a HUGE grin and crawl over to the stairs to see me while screaming for joy! Your giggle.  I love knowing the little things that make you laugh.  Peak a Boo.  You get so scared and you jump so high in the air and just laugh away. How you can put a smile on ANYONES face.  You have a killer grin and the biggest cheeks that seem like they are going to pop! When I go in to check on you before I go to bed you are in a completely different position! Sometimes  stuck in the corner, sometimes with limbs sticking out the crib bars. When I'm holding you and patting your back, you lay your head down on my shoulder and start patting my back. When we lay you down to go to sleep (at night or a nap) you reach back for the blanket an...

Updated Pictures of my handsome 4 year old! The most noticeable part is the scars is above his ears on either side. This spreading of the scar doesn't always happen but he seemed to have a lot of swelling after surgery in this area which stretched out the scars. The scares are most noticeable after a hair cut (which is during this). You can kind of see in this picture his squiggle scar that goes across his head from ear to ear. It's not super noticeable. I often get asked about Jackson's scar on his head.  Although his hair has grown A LOT since his surgery, it is still pretty obvious I think.  People are so funny about it though.  We usually get double takes or triple takes and only some people are bold enough to ask. WHICH IS FINE!  I don't know why people are so scared to ask.  Maybe because they think they will offend me? I don't know.  But some do ask and I reply he had Metopic Craniosynostosis. Metopic cranio whata wha?...

"Beautiful Aorta Arch" is something we hear all the time now.  Every ultrasound/echo Jackson gets they say that.  Hopefully, it's not like the dentist when they say "you have beautiful teeth" when in fact you know you don't... almost 8 months old.. Happy Valentine's Day! Unfortunately, the arch was not the only thing that was repaired.  They also closed 2 holes in his heart.  Jackson being such a strong and growing boy, healed "too much" causing excess scaring in his right pulmonary artery.  We first learned of this after his 6 week post operation ultrasound.  Dr. McCanta (Jackson's cardiologist after surgery in Colorado) said he couldn't be more pleased about his arch repair and it that Dr. Jagger's did a beautiful job.  He was however, concerned about narrowing in his pulmonary artery.  Narrowing that they didn't really know he was born with or not.  At the time, he seemed pretty concerned about it, especially because ...

I have been meaning to start a blog for a LONG time. A blog about The Thalman's life and more specifically our little man Jackson and all the trials he has been through. I know a lot of people are curious about Jackson and why he has all these little conditions and what exactly they all are. Don't be afraid to ask. We are pretty open to talking about any of it. June 13, 2012 changed our life. We were blessed with a little baby boy named Jackson. After having a great and relatively easy pregnancy, I was so excited to have a healthy baby boy I could finally hold. We had no family history of anything and nothing had shown up on the ultrasounds that would make us think any different. In fact we had no idea anything was wrong with our little man until the morning after he was born. I was having a hard time feeding Jackson the next morning and asked the nurse for help. The silly boy kept falling asleep while I would try to feed him. The nurse came over and got him latch...