Above, left: This is me holding Nick at Chrildren's the day we took him off the vent. Doesn't his mouth look great? The surgeon did such a wonderful job...
Above, right: Here's the girls on their first visit with "Santa"! Check out the look on Summer's face! You'd never guess she was the one who willingly climbed up there!

Nick, within an hour or so after birth, and with his daddy.

Nicholas, the day before his cleft lip repair, and in his adoring sisters' laps.

Nick, a couple of weeks after his cleft lip repair surgery,
and a couple of days after having his trach put in.
His face was so swollen from the fluids he was retaining...
poor buddy boy.