Isaiah 7.17 : Updates, etc.

So here's the weekly wrap up. We had a relatively busy week this week. Wednesday was our trip up to Shriner's in Greenville, SC and after our visit we've pretty much eliminated that as an option for his hand surgeries. Nothing against Shriner's hospital, after all free care is free care, but their idea of what they could give Isaiah for functioning hands just didn't meet with our approval and we weren't comfortable going to a place without a pediatric ICU in case something serious happened. It was a bit of a bummer, but at least we went and we know now. Thursday Izzy had his weekly Physical Therapy (PT) visit. His therapist showed him how to knock over blocks and he seemed to have a good time doing it. Maybe it had something to do with the fact he was given licks off of a cherry dum dum sucker as reward, but he liked doing it. His face is hillarious when he has the sucker though. After he gets his lick in he closes his mouth all cute and pulls his lower ...

So Rachel took him in for his 6 month checkup yesterday and he ended up weighing in at 17lbs 10oz - exactly 50% in weight. I forget how tall she said he was but he was in the 95th percentile for that, but only 10th percentile for his head circumference. These are against typical babies which explains the height and head circumference differences. We're off thr Zantac cold turkey to see if he will have any acid reflux, but still on the flonase. We also started him on solid food purees yesterday. He had his first spoonfuls of pureed squash and seemed to enjoy it. Considering it was his first time being spoon fed anything, he did pretty good. He doesn't quite open his mouth all the way yet, but I think he'll get the hang of it pretty soon. He nearly ate the whole gerber package and we were hoping to maybe get him to eat half of it. Tomorrow we head up to Greenville, SC for our intake interview with the Shriner's hospital to see if he'll qualify for care. Its no...