Just Another Day…

Tag: Andrew

  • Early Halloween Photo of the Boys

  • Weekend MI Trip

    We spent the last weekend in Michigan visiting the family. I didn’t take as many photos as usual, but here are a few of the boys and their cousin John (my sister Dawn’s son). 

     

  • Andrew MRI Follow Up Report

    Today we had our follow up meeting with the neurologist. She reviewed the MRI report, took some measurements of Andrew and did another evaluation. The overall feedback was that he’s totally normal. He does have some extra fluid around the brain (we already knew this) but that should become less over time. 

    His head measurement was just a touch higher then she wanted to see, so we scheduled one more appointment with her in December where she’ll do another measurement. Obviously, his head is supposed to get larger, but she wants to be sure it’s not growing at a faster rate then what is normal for his age. So one more follow up is just to be sure. 

    Developmentally, he is doing fine. He’s a little behind where Max is, but because of his larger head size and overall larger size it’s very normal for him to be a few weeks behind where Max is. Over time he will catch up and they will be more in sync. 

    We were also told that using walkers, at all at any age, is not considered a good thing. And in Andrews case, it may slow is progress because it throws off him learning how to balance himself. So as of next week we’re taking the walkers away in trade for more floor time that forces both of them to crawl, stand and eventually walk more. 

    I did do a google search, and there is a lot of information about this out there. Who knew! Here are a couple articles I fond interesting. 

    iVillage

    Keep Kids Healthy

    So overall, he’s doing just fine and we’ll continue to keep an eye on him to be sure. 

  • Growing so Fast

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    I know they’re not even a year old yet, but they are just growing up so fast. They’re so much more active now, and their personalities are becoming more and more defined. Max continues to be the more active and “crazy” one. He sometimes just stares at his hand and starts laughing at it. Andrew is more laid back, and gets really focused on a single thing. 

    The most fun thing is watching them play together. It’s not really demonstrated in this video, but there are times when they chase each other around and then when one of them corners the other they look at each other and laugh!

    They’re exhausting, but fun! And we love them both.

  • 9 Month Checkup, Video

    [qt:/blog/video/BlogPost_08-1006.mov /blog/video/BlogPost_08-1006.jpg /blog/video/BlogPost_08-1006.mov 600 337] Whenever we go for one of their visits I try to take the video camera. Sometimes we have to wait awhile once in the room for the doctor, so it’s a good time to record them.