growing up, and milestones

Today is the 1 year anniversary of the day Acorn got his going-home ventilator. It was one of the last steps in getting him home. At the time, we thought it was horribly noisy...and when we started weaning off the vent last fall, we thought the house was eerily quiet - what a difference a year makes.

This was us then....

And this is Acorn hamming it up for the camera last weekend:

You'd never know, other than the trach nose in this latest picture, that we'd ever had all those tubes and wires; that he couldn't even sit on his own without support in that top picture.

 This somewhat dark picture is his crib, a year ago in his room in the NICU:

This was his crib just last week:

And this is his bed this week:

Our little guy is certainly growing up quickly, you know?