Update on the Turkey

Christian weighed in yesterday at 13 pounds 11 ounces and measured 25 and 1/2 inches. WOW! Our little guy sure is growing. He is on the low end of the scale as far as his weight is concerned. The nurse said it is probably due to him eating more baby food and because he is VERY active. Christian is doing extremely well developmentally. Right now he wants to grab everything, including his artificial nose. Lately he has no problem at all grabbing it and yanking it right off. Of course he then tries to put it in his mouth, causing Jason and I to have a panic attack! The thing that puts my heart at ease is that Christian has really yanked hard on his trach, to the point where he was making his eyes water and he was coughing, and while Jason and I are attempting to pry his tiny hands off his artificial nose, Christian is smiling and laughing! He thinks it is hilarious!!! Like he is making a joke or something. I think he likes seeing mom and dad sweat. :) Thank goodness he has never pulled his trach out. I always tell myself (and Jason) that worse case scenario is he pulls it out and we just put it right back in. I mean we change the trach out every 2 weeks. If it is out we just put it back. Simple. Right??

He has had it in for 6 months now. He is making more sounds which is very encouraging. When we saw Dr. Milczeck on June 5th he said to make an appointment for sometime right after Labor Day. I have been trying to get that appointment scheduled since the beginning of June and was only able to finally get a date last week. He was scheduled for September 12th to have his bronchoscopy. Then I received a call the very next day from Dr. Milczeck's office saying that they needed to change the date because he couldn't do surgery that day. The next available date was October 10th. So that is when we take Christian back to Portland for Dr. Milczeck to take a look at his airway. It was extremely frustrating trying to get the appointment scheduled only to have the end result be an appointment nearly 2 months after the date Dr. Milczeck said he wanted to see Christian. At the same time he will have had the trach in nearly 8 months and that means extra time to heal and grow before they take a look at his airway. Jason and I are not expecting that Christian will be ready to have the trach removed, only hoping and praying that Dr. Milczeck sees improvement in his airway.

So that is the up to date news on the little Turkey!

Jason and I LOVE this picture!!! We think it is the funniest thing. Christian is obsessed with feet. He is always trying to grab peoples feet and this picture shows him touching his daddy's foot (which was clean by the way, well as clean as a foot can be I guess!) and he was so tickled! It was like he felt like he had accomplished something. All those failed attempts of trying to get his dad's foot before and now finally he has dad's foot in hand! We think it is the cutest pic ever!