Isaiah 7.17 : Updates, etc.

We got the word earlier today from Dr Fearon's office that we are pretty much a go for surgery so we are going to make the trip out to Dallas. Isaiah is not a 100% yet, but he's trending upwards and hopefully should be fine by monday when we get the official go ahead after all the preop stuff. If I had to guess I'd say we're 97% certain the surgery will go as planned. Rachel and I are already pretty worn down even before we started packing. Rachel was sick last week into the early week, and I'm getting a stress cold, and with Isaiah being sick we've been doing nebulizer treatments 7 times a day (xopenex every 4 hrs, and a double dose of pulmicort in the evening between xopenex doses) which doesn't allow much time for sleep. We're also sticklers for trying to get as much of the billing stuff figured out ahead of time with all of the doctors so we don't have a surprise in 3 months when the EOB comes from insurance saying they're not covering s

So this is what Rachel and Isaiah were up to last weekend. They went over to Beaufort, SC to celebrate Isaiah's Great Grandma June's 80th B-day (she's the one on the left if you couldn't guess!) Thanks for the picture Ramona!

So Rachel and Isaiah ran into someone in the parking lot outside of the Carter's store by Perimeter Mall a couple months back who was inspired by Isaiah and his journey and happens to be a hair stylist, so she offered to give Rachel a free haircut, foils and all. Well yesterday Rachel finally took her up on the offer and has a nice new short hairdo as you can see from the picture above. It's the shortest I've seen Rachel's hair since we started dating over 6 years ago, though I think it may have been this short when we first met freshman year of college. Its super cute and she absolutely loves it so we thought we'd plug the stylist who gave her the cut as a form of thanks. Her name is Deborah Bibb and she works out of the BlowOut Salon in the Vinings Jubilee Shopping Center on Paces Ferry Rd for those of you in the ATL area. She did such an awesome job we thought we'd try to send some some business her way! Thank you Deborah!

Isaiah's next surgery is less than 2 weeks away now and this is our last weekend before making the trip to Dallas for his Cranial Vault. We unfortunately aren't going to go trick or treating this year since we'll be in the car on Saturday so we can make it to Dallas in time for his pre op appointments on Monday November 2nd. His surgery will be on Tuesday the 3rd. We had a great idea for his costume, one that would totally date him, and probably most people would be like huh? We thought it would have been cool to dress him up like Chef Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes on Food Network , aka the guy that makes the crazy cool cakes and owner of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, MD. I've kind of thought they've got some similar facial features and totally the same demeanor. I was planning to paint on a little goatee and darken his eyebrows and put him in a little white chef coat or hockey jersey and a backwards baseball cap which Duff wears on the show a bunch. I

Sorry about the long lapse between posts. My new job has been good and keeping me very busy. I also threw out my back a couple weeks back and haven't been up and about much, but its doing much better now. Anyways, on to the important things that have happened in the last 3+ weeks. Isaiah's been making some pretty big strides lately. The last Monday in September he finally started started acting like he wanted to crawl. Mainly it was the bringing the knees up under him, and then collapsing as he tried to move forward. Not even a full day later Rachel calls me at work all stressed out because Isaiah is driving her crazy getting into everything and crawling all over the house. It took him little less than a day to master crawling, which while great, scared the crap out of us because we had been lazy and had yet to babyproof everything and get gates. As soon as I was home from work we ran out to Babies'R'Us and bought a couple gates and cabinet locks and all of the