Neo-Natal Appointment

Well we survived another day of the Neo-Natal round robbin of doctors yesterday. In one sense I absolutely dread those appointments because they wear me and the boys out. It was a good 4 hr ordeal by the time we left home and got back. Our two main concerns for them was 1) Austin's eyes and 2) Colby's speech/ ears.

1) Austin's eye exam was good. He gets them checked every 6 months to make sure his brain bleed and hydrocephalus hasn't caused any vision problems. The doctor said his optic nerve looked fine, his eyes are straight and he doesn't see anything that should concern us.

2) As you may know Colby is not as advanced in speech as Austin. Granted Austin is just a chatterbox and if I didn't have him to compare Colby too, I probably wouldn't be worried. Colby does talk but not near as much as Austin and his words are not as clear either. When I mentioned this to the speech physician and also that he has had several ear infections she asked if I wanted to do a hearing test. I said yes, because it makes sense to me that if he has had several ear infections, everything he hears is like he is under water. He passed his hearing test in Sept with no problem but he did fail yesterday. They also did a test to check for inner ear fluid and the left ear showed fluid. So we sent the report to our pediatrician and I am waiting to hear back on what we do next.

Overall the physicians were extremely impressed with their development, motor skills, speech and growth. Austin weighed 24 pounds and Colby weighed 21 pounds. They are actually on the chart now, granted only in the 3% percentile on weight but height was higher.

Here's a funny from yesterday.....boys!

We were leaving one of the offices to go back into the playroom and Austin told the Dr. bye and See ya. Then he said something else. I knew what he said and hoped the Dr. didn't hear it. As luck would have it the Dr. said, what did you say? Austin very loudly and clearly said as he walked out the door, I toot!

Austin is starting to put words together like, "She'll be back, or Sean will be back, Where's Tolby (Colby), Let me out, I want it, Come on, I love you.

Colby is learning Itsy, Bitsy Spider. He is so darn cute when he does his hands. He likes these particular words spout, out, sun. He ALWAYS claps for himself at the end of every song.

They both are very much into The Backyardigans and the Wiggles. It's so funny when they start dancing and clowning around. For those of you with small kids you can relate to the cold spaghetti, hot potatoe and mashed bannanas dances.

Oh how life changes when you have kids.