#7

i guess we can consider this your "golden" day,  your are now 7 and it has been 7 years since you got a new start at life.  i shudder to think what life would've been like without you here.  seven years ago you were wheeled away from your dad and i and for six hours we sat and waited to hear what your heart decided it wanted to do once it was fixed.  looking at you now, how could we have ever been worried?  a simple (ha!) open heart surgery at 4 months old couldn't keep you down.  not mr. incredible.  i love to see just how much you have grown each year and it never fails that the pictures from the year before i think, "how could you have been so little, look how old you are now!"  it all starts with the first picture from 7 years ago.  funny to think that the doctors were pleased with how you looked.  it sure scared us to pieces.  but, without that first picture we wouldn't have all the ones that followed.  we love you brooks, and your strong, sweet, kind, amazing heart! 

ground zero

and now seven years later...

happy heart day, kiddo.