Thanksgiving 2010

What a year to be thankful. We are blessed to have two amazing sons and literally a whole village to help us raise them. I don't think we would have survived this year without the support of our friends and family. They have really done so many things for us so that we could be there for Lalo and Caleb - meals, a place to stay in bmore, grocery shopping, errands, babysitting, dog sitting, gas cards, gift cards, laundry, cleaning, hotel stays, encouragement, and prayers. The list goes on and on. We are also extremely grateful for the doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists that gave Lalo a chance in this world.

Lalo is making good progress. He is up to 19 on his feeds and down to 2.5 on his deloudid. They have also discontinued both diuretics and is still doing fine respiratory-wise. He is now smiling at us lots and focusing his eyes more centered and to the right (his focus was pretty much 100% to the left for awhile). We spend lots of time snuggling him, talking with him, and working on several different therapies with him. It is awesome to see him happier and more awake but at the same time it makes it harder to leave him everyday. The dressings from his surgery were just recently removed and we noticed that the skin kind of puffs out near the abdominal incision and when he is upset it looks like a golf ball is trying to pop out. Turns out it is an incisional hernia. The surgeon said it will need to be repaired at some point, but not until he is probably closer to a year and a half or so. It is good to know that there isn't an urgency to repair it.

Caleb is doing wonderful too and seems to be learning 10 new words each day. The poor thing also has about 4 huge new teeth coming in at once. But despite the pain and the drooling he has been his happy and fun self.

Happy thanksgiving everyone!!

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