Happy New Year

Well happy 5th day of the New Year to be exact. Things are going here. He's been really crabby the last couple weeks, probably from being paraded around so much and with all of the going to visit family and family to coming visit us we think he's been a bit overstimulated. We completely love that he got to spend so much time with family and I'm sure he'll be better in a few days now that things have died down some.

Not much news in the way of hand surgery stuff. We're still sitting at the same place we were before but Rachel and her Dad have started to see what help some of his contacts can help us out with so there's a reasonable amount of hope. Rachel and I are both a little worried about waiting until April for his surgeries which is the soonest the Shriner's up in Phila. could get us in. For lack of a better term his pinky pads (the areas of skin where his pinky fingers would be) are very sensitive and we think it may be preventing him from crawling since whenever we put pressure there or try to have him try to push up he almost always gets hysterical. We don't know if its his one gigantic fingernail digging into the fleshy areas or if he's just got a concentration of nerves there that are very sensitive, but its one of our (many) worries.

One other thing to note we haven't talked about much is the fact he loves to stand up. He's working on his balance, but his legs are so strong he can essentially support himself and we have our arms around his torso just to steady him. Who knows maybe he'll go straight to walking, but it might be kind of hard if he can't push himself up when he falls. We'll see. Everything else is going well though!

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Taryn said…
Hey - I saw your link on the listserve and wanted to stop by and say hello. I love your blog! When Aiden was born (he's got Aperts too) I started a blog to keep our family and friends up to date as well. Aiden is now almost a year and he's doing really well. Stop by our blog to check it out. And please please please feel free to email me ANYTIME you have questions or need/want advice. taryn_skees23@hotmail.com. Your little guy is so very cute - he'll amaze you more and more every day!

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