Friday, January 30, 2009

Hearing problems all around....

Zachary has a bunch of pressure built up behind his ear drum which is causing a hearing loss, his hearing through the bone is great so they are sure once they fix the pressure problem he'll have perfect (or at least nearly perfect) hearing. This likely means he'll need tubes at some point.

Kaleb has a wax build up problem. Even with using medication and cleaning his ears regularly his ears produce so much wax it is causing quite a hearing loss, worse than Zachary's. He and Zachary have both been sick for about a week, but once they are over the cough we'll take Kaleb in to have his ears irrigated and cleaned out, hopefully that will solve his hearing problem but we don't know how fast the wax will build up again and if we'll need to take other steps to prevent it. I'm not sure if tubes helps wax problems but have been told it may.

Kaleb has also finally started to talk! Only took the kid 22 months to decide he needed to speak words and not gibberish! Of course the wax/hearing problem is causing him to cut off the end of words so instead of "ball" he'll only say "ba" and also he cannot distinguish some beginning sounds so "doggie" becomes "goggie" but at least he is talking and I'd say is up to at least 15 words that we can understand now, he doesn't string words together yet but he does his own version of sign language to help us understand things.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Great Grandma Died

This isn't the first death in the family for Zachary but it is for Kaleb. When Jerry told Zachary that grandma died he asked "Who killed her?" Totally not what we were expecting from a 3 year old. We're taking the boys to the viewing today and tomorrow Kaleb will stay home with Aunt Rachel and we'll let Zachary decide if he wants to play with Kara or go say good bye to grandma; I have a feeling he'll decide to play with Kara :)

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Everyone is sick...

Zachary was diagnosed with RSV and yet another ear infection on Monday. Now Kaleb is sick with RSV and Zachary is wheezing and I'm sick. It's just been a lovely week. I'm nearly out of sick time at work but hopefully everyone is done being sick and contagious so everyone can go back to school/work.

Kaleb is supposed to be evaluated by SoonerStart tomorrow, we'll see how he's feeling but hopefully we don't have to postpone it, since I have to be home anyway might at well get it done. His lack of words is frustrating everyone including him; he'll be 22 months on Feb 5th and even Jerry and I can only understand 5 "words" he says.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Watching the boys grow!

Just thought I'd make a central place to post updates and pictures of the boys so everyone can see them grow!
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