Moving Along

All the boys still love to hold their sister.





Well things are moving along here. Joshua has finished up soccer and school will be out a week from tomorrow. I think all the boys are excited for a break. We have lots planned for June to keep everyone busy, and then we will be vacationing to Idaho in July which everyone is looking forward to --except for the drive of course. The only not so fun part of our summer will be Zac's eye surgery. He is not looking forward to it--in fact he has designated June 5th as "dooms day". (It will be a one to two hour surgery on both eyes to tighten the muscles and correct his strabismus. His eyes will look bloody for about a week, but he should be up back to normal within a few days.)

Alexa is doing well. The prevacid seems to have helped--her stuffy nose is gone, she spits up a lot less, and is sleeping better. She only got up once last night which her momma is very happy about since her brothers were not so kind until much, much older. She got her hearing aids a couple of weeks ago and things are well with that, although she has only worn them an hour or two per day so far. She had her two month check on Monday and weighed in at 10 pounds 15 ounces--70th percentile. She has discovered her voice and loves to coo -- very fun. She has begun to establish a schedule and hopefully we don't interfere too much with all our various activities.

Over the hump -- hopefully

It has been a busy couple of weeks with all of the doctor, dentist, audiologist, opthamologist, ENT, OB, hospital, and early access appointments, but things should settle down from here on out. They were not all for Alexa--it was Zac who had to see the opthamologist and dentist, Alisha who had a check with her OB, and Josh who will be seeing the orthodontist (don't have that one scheduled yet). The rest were for Alexa.

We did get her fitted for hearing aids which should be arriving on May 9th. Samuel is excited as he is getting new ones as well, so they will both have the same model just different colors. The newest development is the acid reflux diagnosis for the sweet little girl. She has had a stuffy nose for several weeks now and some unexplained agitation, so the ENT did a scope down through her nose which wasn't pleasant, but probably better than an upper GI which was the other suggestion. It showed red and inflamed vocal chords and esophagus, so she is now taking Prevacid. We hope this will solve the problem. Otherwise, she is gaining well and growing fast.

Next week's calendar looks more promising other than Brian's trip to MN and Josh's two practices, one regular and two re-scheduled soccer games.