Almost done…
with this stinking cranial band…Kellars head is looking much better, much much better…Yesterday we Kellars aunt KayKay and I took him to Dallas for a band adjustment and the tech was very impressed with the change, she said we may have another 3 weeks left in it and at our next appointment we may be doing the exit casting, not sure what that is but it contained the words “exit” so I’m pretty excited…While in Dallas I took Kellar to Tiny Tots to get his ears checked as early Thursday morning was not pretty at all here at the house…Kellar started stirring a little before midnight, I tried to give him his binky and put him back down, didn’t work..I put him in our bed ( big no-no I know ) and he fell back asleep for 30 minutes or so, then he woke up screaming, not whining but screaming, I knew something was bothering him, so I grabbed the orajel, swabbed the sharks mouth and still no relief…I moved him to the playroom, changed his diaper, fixed him a bottle, still nothing…I gave him some motrin, by now I am thinking his teeth are really giving him grief, his tummy hurts ( he had beans earlier ) or maybe he has a earache…He finally settled down and dozed off, we moved back to the bed and slept for an hour or so then we repeat all of the above just add MeMe and Papaw in the picture now…Dad walked the floor, steadily praying for whatever it was that was causes him discomfort to be gone, I sat on the couch sick at my stomach because I can’t stand to see him in pain and there is nothing I can do…Joey and I finally decided our only option was to take him to the ER and see if they can figure out what is going on..We put him in the car, head to town and he’s calm, no crying, fussing, kicking his legs around, nothing…We went ahead and pulled into the ER parking lot, sat there and watched him for a few minutes to see if once the car stopped rolling if he would be upset again, he never cried just sat there watching Baby Einstein so we headed back home, put him to bed and he slept all night…Come to find out he has a ear infection, sinus infection and his eyes are all gooey and nasty, we are on anti-biotics and childrens mucinex, motrin for pain and orajel for those 4 chompers he’s still working on…Kellar now weighs 22 lbs 10 oz and the NP said that Kellar looks AWESOME!!!!!!! We did a little bit of shopping, got some Starbucks which my son threw a fit till he had some in his sippy cup and headed home….
Happy Birthday Cameron…
It’s hard to imagine that 2 years ago I held you not only for the first time, but also the last…They say that as time goes on, the hurt goes away, but I can’t say that I agree…I miss you, I still miss you as much as I did the moment I realized you were gone…I wish that you could be here playing with Bear, wrestling and rolling around on the floor like brothers do and getting into who knows what..I know that Kellar knows he has a brother, and he knows that you were with him while he was in the NICU, you were there for him when I couldn’t be..Cameron I love you and I miss you…Happy Birthday Angel!!!!!!!!
My little star…
Today after Kellars therapy session, we were invited to set in on the meeting that the therapist have every 6 months to evaluate and discuss certain children that they are working with..I have been pushing to get Kellar into OT with Temple for a few weeks now so Brenda ( Kellars PT ) gave a review of Kellars last 6 months, and let me tell you I am SO PROUD of him!!!!! She said when he was evaluated, the PT that did the evaluation set a list of goals, there were 23 of them and as of today Kellar has met 21 of the 23..The other therapist were all clapping and telling him how good he had done, of course he threw his hand up in the air and starting grinning, they said ” Kellar you are the star of the meeting “..The two things we need to work on are catching himself when he falls backwards, he’s not putting his arms behind him and his “cruising” isn’t exactly 100% safe..The new goals for PT are standing without pulling up onto something first, she was going to add “walking” while holding onto 1 hand instead of 2 but he demonstrated that to her today before she even made out the list, so walking unassisted it is…He’ll do it, I know he will..At the last eval he wasn’t sitting unassisted at all, heck he wouldn’t even prop sit for her, even though he did it at home often, he had no reactions to catch himself when he was falling over what so ever, and there was no way what so ever that he would dare drop what was in his hand to catch himself when he started “doing better” at this, but today he dropped whatever it was in a flash and threw those arms out…I was so tickled I could have cart wheeled all through Temple, may have payed for it in the morning when I was unable to pull myself out of bed though…I am really looking forward to getting him into OT there…Kellar uses his hands, but his clapping isn’t exactly “clapping” and he’ll pull blocks apart but won’t put them together…We also are going to be evaluated for ST again, he hasn’t qualified any in the past, but we aren’t really “talking” yet, he’ll babble, say uh uh oh, dada, bub bub, of course there’s no mama in there, little stinker…Normally you don’t hear therapist and such even mention anything about God, but today when Brenda and I were talking about how far Kellar has came, she said he is a miracle and has had a true blessing from God and how right she is….
New pics…
Well not quite as soon as the last update…but still better than before. We only took 218 pics of Kellar this round, and I narrowed it down to 40 pics in two new galleries. Included are the pics from Kellar’s haircut the other day. We used clippers on him for the first time, and he did really great! They obviously tickled him a little, because he would start to giggle and scrunch his neck down.
Kellar goes to Shreveport…
So Chrys took Kellar, Aunt Brenda, Brooke and Nathan to Shreveport Friday. Brenda had an appointment to make, then they went to the Boardwalk to shop, ride the Merry Go Round, and play in the fountains…and guess what? They took a camera!
On the Baordwalk
Bear after doing some shopping
Little man likes those Dippin Dots!
