Jason. Jason is two, three in July. He knows ninety-five percent of the alphabet and his numbers one through ten. Pretty good right?
His favorite movie right now is Pirates of the Caribbean. I can't get him to watch Finding Nemo or Shrek 2 for the life of me but Pirates yes. He says,"Pirates say Arr!" Isn't that cute.
He also likes to pretend he is a frog. He gets on his hands and knees and jumps around going ribbit ribbit. It's cute. I think it is anyways.
Tyler. Tyler is our busy one. We took him to the pediatrician one day and I was talking to her about his head. It's a little misformed. She referred me to a neurologist.
At the neurologist he was diagnosed with Tortecollis. Tortecollis is something that babies can get. It's a condition with the neck muscle that runs from the back of the ear to the collar bone. In lamins terms, he doesn't have enough strength in that muscle to hold his head centered so it tips to the left. This condition made his forehead, on one side, to portrude more than the other and a portion of the back of his head to become flat.
Due to the flatness of the head from the Tortecollis, he was also diagnosed with a type of flat head syndrome. It's got some weird name that I can't pronounce, remember, or even spell. So due to that he is getting something called a Cranio Cap. This will help round his head out and make it so it's not so flat in the back.
We are in the doctor's office with Tyler once every week for physical therapy for the Tortecollis and once a week for refitting of the helmet. We can usually get both appointments on the same day but we're there all day.
Along with the physical therapist, we have a bunch of physical therapy exercises to do with him at home twice a day for ten minutes. We have to get him to loosen up the left side of his neck and to strengthen the right so his head is held centered. The physical therapy is supposed to help reshape his head too.
Other than all of that Tyler is a very happy baby. He is now crawling really fast and walking along everything. Lately he has been standing for about a minute by himself! Go bubbas.
David and I are going strong. We are planning on getting married in June 2007. I'm excited about that.
We haven't fought in forever and that's really good for us. When we fight we fight all the time and it gets really old.
Our lease is up in Febuary and I believe we are going to buy David's dad's house. It's a good starter house but it needs a lot of work. This move will require me to uproot my life again and move away from my friends and family. But I can deal with that because Dave said he will take us up to cities every other weekend to visit.
Other than that, nothing much new. I promise to update more when I can. Probably after the move. But keep checking in. I'll update as much as possible.
Much love and Best wishes,
Sarah