Time to update

Things are busy here as usual.

Mr. Isaac is 19 months old and turning into quite the little toddler. I think the terrible 2's could be on their way. Isaac has quite the temper and decides to share that with us every day when I get home from work. Trying to feed 2 little ones after a long day at daycare is quite challenging and frustrating as you can imagine. I've figured out that his behavior is much worse on days he goes to daycare and I think he's just overly tired. Isaac is beginning to talk a little more every day. His constant vocabulary consists of: Mama, Dada, Truck, More, Ball, No, Grandma, Grandpa, Cracker, Bye-bye, outside. We're getting him a little extra help with talking. He was evaluated by a speech therapist and she does not think we need to worry at this point. She said it's obvious he is able to say the words, she really thinks he's just too busy to work on communication right now. We had his vision and hearing checked. His left eye is showing an inaccurate reading so that will have to be retested in couple weeks. The hearing test we had done only shows if there is fluid in his ears and there is. Not sure if that means he'll be a candidate for tubes or not. He's only had 1 or 2 infections. He will have an appointment with an audiologist on July 1st. Isaac LOVES being outside. He would be outside all day if we let him. His real passion is pushing anything and everything all around the yard. I'm happy to say our yard is fenced in now so I don't have to worry about them if I have to run inside quickly.

Caleb is almost 11 months old. I'm starting to think about his birthday party which will probably be quite similar to Isaac's, small gathering at our house with food and presents. Caleb is talking up a storm already. He says Mama, Dada, tractor, Isaac, ball, puppy. He just started crawling full time a few weeks ago. He's almost pulling himself up but not quite. He too loves to be outside but has to stay on a blanket as he doesn't like the grass. I was exactly like that when I was little.

I've taken some pictures of the boys outside. Caleb's turned out great and I've been told I don't even need to take him for his 1 year shots, but we'll see. Isaac is a bit harder as his are done on the go!

Well here are some pictures for your enjoyment.

2nd Post Op appointment with ENT

Caleb had another check up with the ENT since 2 weeks after surgery he still had infection. We the antibiotics and drops must have worked. He is officially infection free for the first time in about 3 months. BUT (yeah there's bad news too) his right tube is blocked. Fortunately the ENT thinks that the drops will open it back up again. He gave us a bottle of drops instead of sending us to the pharmacy again (thank you Dr. DeSautel). So far he seems to be doing great. I am hoping the drops will open up that tube again and that he does not get infection. So now we don't have to go back again until the middle of November unless he is having pain or drainage again.

He finally did it

Well sort of...Caleb is finally crawling at just about 10.5 months. Ever since he got his tubes put in he's been trying to pull up and crawl and he finally started crawling today. His one leg is still straight out most of the time but he does get where he wants to go. Sometimes he still gets mad because he doesn't have crawling mastered yet but he'll get there. Here's my laid back little man.

Caleb's post surgery update

Caleb had a check up on May 1st which was exactly 2 weeks from getting his tubes. I knew going in we would probably be told he had an infection because the night before he woke up crying and screaming and I noticed some drainage. He also refused to eat the last few days prior to that. Sure enough his left ear is still infection. The good news is that his right ear was always the worst and that had completely cleared up. The left ear is infection but it's not a new infection. The ENT said his ears were so bad when they did surgery that they probably couldn't get all the fluid out. He tried getting more of the fluid sucked out and gave him some drops. He put Caleb on omnicef twice a day for 10 days and ear drops twice a day for 7 days. We go back on May 14th for a check up. He said some kids just have a tough time getting the infection to go away but once we knock it out, he shouldn't have as much problems as he has had.

Yesterday Caleb had absolutely no drainage and he has been such a happy boy. He even slept from 7:30 pm to 7:10 am which he has not done since before surgery. I think we're getting somewhere now!!!!