Andrew is 1

Andrew turned yesterday. We celebrated with pizza and cake with our local family. He had a really fun time and really loved the cake. Andrew is walking a lot now but still likes to crawl, it is so much faster! He has 3 teeth, and 1 more trying to pop through. He has several words-mama, dada, byebye, nightnight, uhoh and maybe a few more I can't remember. He loves climbing onto everything and has figured out how to get on and off the couch.

Pictures from his birthday:



Smash cake

Tooth #3 for Andrew

Andrew popped his 3rd tooth a few days ago, around the 7th of August. Quite different from Aidan who didn't pop his first one until 13 mths.

Aidan's 2 yr checkup

We had Aidan's 2 yr checkup today, almost 1 mth after his 2nd birthday. He weighs 28 lbs, is 35 1/4" long. He also has a double ear infection, he just had an ear infection 3 weeks ago. We have an consult with an ENT on September 8th to discuss tubes. Talked about development and he is spot on for most things--he walks, runs, climbs, jumps, can go up and down stairs, shows me what he wants-most of the time. He is on a 10-11mth level for speech-which is right about where we expect him since he has only had one ear turned on for 11 mths. He has a few words-mom, uh oh, tries Up, tries hand(an), tried TaDa(ah), occasionally he will clap when we say YAY, and will wave when we say BYEBYE--those are without visual cues. Still a ways to go, but we will get there, right now I'm trying to teach him names of objects--working on dog, ball, kitty, and several others. English is like a foreign language to him-he hears what we say he just can't make sense of it yet. Our speech therapist is supposed to be contacting Louisiana Tech to see if they can give him more therapy there. We should know something next week sometime if our ST remembers to call. If she forgets then I will call them later next week. I'm confident that will take him though as around here the chance to work and learn from a Cochlear implant kid doesn't come very often. So I'm sure we can persuade them to do therapy with him.