Happy Birthday Andrew

Today my baby turned two. My birthday wish for you dear Andrew is to continue to be strong. We all love you very much and we will not stop helping you to be the best you can be. You are my inspiration. You have shown me how patient and understanding I can be. You are my miracle and I love you with all my heart.  

Urology

Andrew had his one year follow up appointment with the Urology clinic the other day. This was to follow up on the kidney reflux from birth. The kidney had healed it's self by his first birthday and at that time his ureters were still enlarged. So he had a ultra sound and every thing was with in normal range. We talked with the doctor and we are going to do yearly ultrasounds and visits. They think one more all clear next year and we will be done with Urology. So besides the fact we had to wait two hours for hte doctor I guess it was worth the wait to hear everything is good.

Happy New Year.

I hope every one had a Happy New Year!! We are excited for all the things to come here in our house. Andrew will be turning 2, Audrey will be 4 and Owen is approaching 7. Yikes! We are looking forward to Owen and Audrey starting T-Ball in March and Andrew to continue with all of his therapies. We have officially be in therapy for a year now. We had his one year review in December and we are continuing with all current services. He had a evaluation with his infant teacher and here are some of her results

Development area        Level in May                              Level in Dec


Personal Social   12 mo. age                12-15 age


Cognition 6-9 with some 12 12-15 age

Communication 6-9 9-12 with some 15


Fine Motor 6-9 with some 12 12-15


Gross Motor 9-12 with some 15 15-18 with some 18-21

We are seeing lots of improvements and look forward to seeing more.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas.

Thank you everyone 

for your support this

last year.

E.R. Visit

So Andrew and I had an eventful evening last night. we went with grandma to Wal-Mart to get my cards printed off and when we got home she left and two seconds later Andrew took off to look out the front window and turn the lights on. Well that didn't go according to his plan. He tripped and split his eyebrow open. So travis calls my mom back and she drives us to the E.R. He stayed behind to get the other kids ready for bed. Well one and a half hours and one internal and three external stitches later we are home. He did really good. Here are a couple pictures from my cell phone while we were there.

Here is the "damage"

Waiting for it to numb up.

And the stitches.

He goes Monday the 22nd to get them out.

Hearing Eval.

So Andrew had his hearing evaluated last week. The technician said he was with in normal range for hearing. A few days later I got the report and I had no idea how to read the graphs and all the numbers that were on the form. So I showed his speech therapist. She said that normal hearing is in the  -10 to 20, Andrew cam in right at 20 with at 4000 hertz he came in at 25. So depending on who you ask what web site you look at he is either just fine or has mild hearing loss to the higher pitched sounds.  So, yes he is with in normal range on hearing but one more step down he will be considered mild hearing loss.

Speech eval.

So yesterday we had his speech evaluation done. Here is the short version. After two hours of evaluating she came to the conclusion of yes he need speech therapy. I could have told her that. As for his delays in his understanding of speech he is at a 12-15 month level which is consistent with his other levels. His expressive communication was at a bigger level of delay. It was at a 9-12 level. I was a little surprised by that number but not much. Like I said I knew there was a problem. So we are now adding in another therapy once a week (I think). So the grand total is 4 therapies one time a week and one once a month thru January and then we drop the once a month one.  Again I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving.