Monday, December 22, 2008

All I want for Christmas.....

is my two front teeth. Nate's top two teeth broke through yesterday. He now has a set of four so he can really bite!! ouch. He has been a blast recently. This is such a fun age and he is really discovering the world around him. He loves to do high fives with Scott, as you can see. We have been doing physical therapy twice a week and this has really helped him strengthen his trunk muscles. This will help him get closer to sitting and crawling. He definitely has the drive to do it. As soon as he is able to start moving we are in trouble.

We had a great visit to the auditory verbal center in Macon on Friday. They are helping us with Nate's hearing to develop it to the best of our ability. We are really excited because Nate responded to low frequency sounds. This is the first time we have been 100% sure that he was hearing something. I thought I was going to cry, but I knew I had to pull myself together since they would think I was a giant softy. Normal language is in the medium to high frequencies so this doesn't mean that Nate can hear everything. What it does mean is that he is responding to low frequencies and we will use that to continue to teach him to respond to those sounds. That way if he is hearing the medium to high sounds he will let us know by responding. The therapist said he may not be hearing the medium to high sounds or he might be hearing them and just ignoring them. Most men will understand that concept.









He also had a great appointment with his liver doctor. He was so pleased with the way he looked we didn't have to do any lab work and we are cleared for four months!!!! Nate has a great laugh and got tickled while we were seeing Dr. Romero. Doc couldn't stop laughing with him and I think that was Nate trying to smooth him over so he didn't have to do labs.




I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and enjoy all of the things you are thankful for.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Could be an interesting week

Nate is having a very rough day. Poor guy has a stomach bug that he has been enduring for about a week, his reflux is terrible, he is congested, and he is cutting another tooth. Oh yeah and Scott is out of town for work. He is asleep on my lap right now so I am able to type just a few words before he awakes. He has both of his bottom teeth in and the top ones are right around the corner. He and I have been decorating this weekend and finally got our christmas cards ordered. If we don't already have your address, email me at juliaeg02@aol.com. Also, the old carepage would send out reminders to everyone when I updated Nate's webpage. This website doesn't do that as I am sure you have figured out so I will send out an email when I update it. So...if you want an email let me know your email address. Happy shopping. Here he is eating his sweet potatoes on Turkey day.