does your kid do this?

Tyler LOVES to hang or stick whatever he thinks is mildly interesting on his walls. He tapes up pictures he draws or cuts out of magazines. He got a pokeman sticker book for Xmas guess where every sticker went. The weirdest thing is that my husband cheers him on and tells him how proud he is on a daily basis so I guess we are happy about this. It is cute in a maniacal way.

Tate post-op

Tate had his first surgery today to remove the Giant Nevus (otherwise called a really big mole) that he was born with. For my own record and for those of you who might wonder, I'm going to explain what he will be going through for the next year. His nevus is on his head and besides some black hair that grows out of it, its completely unnoticeable. When he was born, it was a little scary because it is related to a incurable nerve disorder with an 80 percent death rate. But we ruled that out at two months with an MRI and I thought of it as a cute little mark that made him special. However there is a chance that it can cause melanoma, so although cute its deadly and like clay says "removing it is a pain, but if he got cancer that would be a bigger pain" (so wise) so after alot of thought and prayer we have decided to remove it. Which brings us to today. He had a skin expander (that was specially made to fit around his mole) put under the skin on his head that is adjacent to the mole. The skin expander is like a balloon, In his case its shaped like a horseshoe.For the next few months we will fill it up weekly with saline til it stretches as much as it can. Then they will cut off some of the mole and pull over the extra skin they have stretched to cover that area. Then we do the whole process again till the whole mole is removed. I'm hopin we only have to do it twice. So that's the story of the mole. Anyway the surgery went really good and Tate is doing great. He keeps trying to take his headdress off and says owie alot but we made him laugh once today so i think he'll be okay.

This little gal is named miranda joy and she is the daughter of a lady ive been coresponding with. Her mole is now completly removed with the use of tissue expanders and she looks fantastic. This is a picture of when her expander in her forhead is completley full and ready to be removed(she also has one in her cheek). I just wanted to give an idea of what will be going on with tate. His expander will higher up on his head and twice as long.