Ian Update

Well, let's see. Ian has been a busy little guy this summer. Sorry the pictures aren't where they are supposed to be. I need a lesson on how to get them where I want them. Can some of my blogger friends tell me how to get the pictures to appear under the paragraphs I want?

He has a new word now, Pool. We put him in a 2 week Water Babies class with daddy and he loved it except for the night that I tried to watch him and get some pics. I did manage to get 2. Whenever mommy is around that is the only person he wants. He is soooooooooooo spoiled. He doesn't like to get his face wet but we will work with him on it. It's just hard to undo 2.5 years of telling him not to get his face wet because of the trach in a year.

He also helped host a baby shower for his new little sister over Father's day. He wasn't too sure about that but he definitely loved opening all the presents. Christmas is going to be a blast this year. He got to spend all day Father's day in the pool and even learned how to shoot a water pistol. Granted he was shooting me but he was having fun. Unfortunately, he did come home with a lovely black eye. I swear, I'm the world's worst mom. The boy trips into a low windowsill where we were staying and this happened with 2 people walking right behind him. The funniest thing that weekend was that he got to see a little 3 month old baby girl. I didn't hold her because I didn't want The Look yet. Daddy held her, grandma sneak attack, and Ian saw him and he got The Look. Then they sat her in his lap and it lasted for a good 5 seconds before he put his hands in front of him and 'pushed' her away. We were loving it and unfortunately we didn't have the camera.

We just got back from a trip home to Albany, GA to see grandma and grandpa and help put plans into place for another baby shower. Somehow mom tricked me into designing my own invites for the party that she's hosting. Got to love Moms. Ian had a blast there as usual and as usual was filthy. The day started at 445 for him and he was up for about 16 hours straight. Can we say tired 3 year old.

So on Sunday he got to go to a 4 year old Bday party at Burger King for our friend's son. The other reason we went home. I've known that dad for about 30 years, yep most of my life. Just scary. Ian just did laps around the playpark but he had a blast and only 2 falls but none of them were on the equipment. Why is that they happen in slow motion and you see it happening but you can't get there fast enough even when it happens less than a foot away from you. I swear if I could figure out how to wrap him in bubble wrap I would.

So now for Monday, we had to go to Bham for his ortho appt for a 6 month followup on his back and get xrays to see if the curve had made any improvement. He was a big boy and only one meltdown and that was when daddy had to take him to be xrayed since I wasn't going to go into the room with them being so pregnant. He went in screaming momma and came out all smiles and with an Elmo sticker. We love the modern technology of them putting us in the exam room and then pulling the xrays up on the computer. We were looking at today's as soon as the nurse left and we could see how much straighter he was. Of course the first words out of the ortho's mouth was Are we sure he has achondroplasia? Yes we are we have the genetic testing results. Yes his head doesn't show the typical forehead bossing and apparently he has grown a little. We don't see it but grandma on Saturday made the same comment. So we actually thought about it we were out and about after the appt and we noticed that we weren't having to hunch over to hold his hand anymore. Ok back on target. The ortho measured his curve and it was a 10 degree improvement. So at this point since it was showing improvement we aren't going to brace but continue to monitor and we go back in another 8 months.

So that's it for now on what Ian has been up to so far over the last couple of weeks. Upcoming events are eye surgery and then the second baby shower he is hosting and starting preschool and oh yeah getting a sister.