Week Eleven

On an early morning in February with the snow falling a young mother struggles to give birth to a baby that she knows her actions may cause the baby to suffer while grew inside her for the last eight months.

This baby when born four weeks early had to have help breathing, and struggled with withdrawals that caused him to be on a feeding tube and oxygen for the next three weeks and four more weeks of being wend from the drugs that entered his system as he grow.

This baby has grow into a very active two year old who wants to know how everything works and watches his older brother and sister closely so he can try what they do when no one is looking. He has temper tantrums that can make your hair stand up until you are ready to give him anything that might make him stop. He is clingy when he feels the need and independent when you wish he would be a little bit clingy. He wants you to think that he has no idea what the word no means, even when you can see his head turn slightly in your direction when you say the word. After all he is two.

Ashton was born with a large strike against him on that day in February because his mother was and still is a drug user who lost him due to her inability to clean her life up in order to have her baby. He has become an important part of our family to the point of being the center of each of us.