Thomas's 9th Birthday

 September 11th is a special day to America,

 but on September 11th, 2004 at 5:36 a.m.,

 it became even more special to me. It was

 the day  I became a Mommy.  My first born

 child, a baby boy named Thomas made his

 appearance. He weighed 8 lbs 12 oz

 and was 23 inches long.

He was our pride and joy!

1st birthday

3 years old

5 years old and acting like a "Cross"

6 years

and today, he's so happy to be 9

Thomas wanted to meet his daddy for lunch so we drove {around an hour} just to eat lunch with him. Then I took the kids to sweet frog which Thomas loved. I bought him a few odd things at the Dollar Tree {a laser light, a whoopie cushion, and some silly spray}. He got most of his school work done yesterday so he could have today to play with Jeremiah, which he is doing now.

I can honestly say that Daniel and I have been blessed to call this little boy our own. He loves the Lord, and his a very giving, honest, and friendly person with a silly side to go with it. My prayer is that he has many many more birthday's just like this one.

Thomas's burn {not for the weak stomached}

 This is the "short" version.........

On June 22nd, 2012 we had a birthday party for Nathaniel and were burning pizza boxes. Once the actual fire had burnt out, my nephew and my son, Thomas both ran through the ashes {we were here, but not right there with them}. My nephew was fine {and had jeans on}, but Thomas {had shorts on}, got burnt. We called the fire dept. and they came out and cleaned his leg.  We took care of his leg the best we could until we got him down to the burn center at Chapel Hill. We went down there every 2 week until it was healed enough to wait 3 months. During those 3 months, he wore a compression sock along with sunscreen {for the first year} and Eucerin.

 On Monday, Thomas had his recheck back at the burn center. It takes almost 3 hours to get to the hospital, but it's well worth the drive. The doctors and nurses there are awesome, and were always good to us. They have released Thomas from their care and said that everything looked great!! 

The Lord was with him the whole time, it was a very scary experience, but we look back now and can see that Thomas has a testimony that lots of others dont have. It could have been much, much worse. 

Here are some pictures from the night he burnt it until today. 

***Warning***   Please do not look if you have a weak stomach.

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 This was the first photo, taken after the accident, and after the fireman came and cleaned it for us.

  

Thomas unwrapping the bandages. We had to clean it once a day with soap and water and redress it.                           

  

This was today about 1.5 week after the accident. The pictures look a lot better than if you looked at it in real life. Its a really deep burn {thus the white tissue}. That is NOT infection, just a deep burn.

 

 I was trying to get a good picture of the deepness, not sure that you can really tell in this one

 

All bandaged up and ready to play!!

 
taken 7-24-12
Its healing up =) The white tissue is going away and the hole is closing up.He was given a new cream the last time we were there, and it started looking a lot better.

 

 Thomas's burn is 100% healed!! We went back to the burn center yesterday and they said no more compression sock {unless he wants to wear it}, now its just sunscreen and Eucerin daily!! Thank you Lord for watching over my baby!!