new blog

after a month of fighting with the idiosyncrasies of wordpress I have decided that I have enough on my plate without this @#%! and am moving the blog over to blogger, where all the formatting and whatnot that I want is easily done
come find us at
http://leoandcompany.blogspot.com/

Leo is awake!

After being under sedation and on a ventilator for a full week, Leo is now breathing on his own and slowly coming down off all the drugs.
We had a flurry of visitors over the weekend, including Leo’s grand parents,   dad and dad’s grown kids.  He was still under sedation for most of the visits, [...]

 
I don’t know what I did, in this or any life, to earn such an amazing community of support. The Boy and I have been going back and forth between Seattle and Portland so much, I had begun to loose my sense of which end of the journey was home, and which end the [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

It is a blessing to be
It is a blessing to be here
It is a blessing to be here now
It is a blessing to be here now together

There is a beautiful African man working here at Seattle Children’s who tells me that “Leo” (he pronounces it “lay-o”) is also a name [...]

My Son, the Super Hero

I have long thought of my son, Leo, as “The Boy Who Lived”.
Literally from the time he was born (breach, with the cord around his neck, and no medical intervention) he has been dodging bullets and surviving close shaves. James Bond has nothing on my boy!

Just a few weeks after he was born, Leo [...]