Bowling

Last Sunday, we went bowling with our church family.  Well, in truth, we hung out while other people bowled.  

Marleen, N, and I chilled that afternoon while Dave took a nap.  Can you tell that the VBK family loves Marleen??  

N is pretty popular and gets passed around quite a bit.  

Sweet Nicolyn, N's girlfriend, was there.  

One of our teens, Jeff.  

Rash

Last Sunday, N woke up with this crazy looking rash.  He had a rash like this in the past, but that one was mainly around his chin area and not all over his face like this time.  

We think it's due to the massive amounts of drool that he's been having.  Lots of aquaphor and changing bibs a lot has helped.  

Hang Out Time

Last Saturday, we had some people over to hang out at the VBK house.  Just wanted to share some of the pictures of our fun time.

Jump

This is what Nate likes to do in the mornings. (Sorry about it fogging up about halfway through the video. I'd just gotten out of the shower and I guess my hand was hot, making the lens fog over.)

February Eye Appointment

N went to the eye doctor today for a follow up appointment.  We were told that this could possibly be the appointment where the surgery decision would be made and then we could go ahead and get that scheduled.

I wasn't able to go due to missing time from school a few weeks ago because of the stomach bug and today just happened to be the 100th day of school, meaning lots of special activities and parents in my class.  So, Dave and N left early this morning to go see Dr. P.

Dr. P dilated N's eyes and was pretty happy with how N is using them.  Instead of switching between the two eyes like he was, he's now using both eyes better and he could see lots of improvements.  This is great news and means that the patching and glasses are working.

Dr. P doesn't want us to move forward with surgery plans just yet.  He said that some children who struggle with their eyes moving horizontally also struggle with their eyes moving vertically.  He wants to wait and see if N will struggle with this as well so that we can avoid during surgery twice.  Basically, he wants to do the correct surgery the first time.

He's also curious about the way that N tilts his head when he's looking at something, especially when it's far away.  He wants to watch that and make sure that it's not going to be an issue as well.

So, what does this mean?  Surgery is still extremely likely, but for now, we are to continue the patching (one day left, one day right, for two hours each day) and the glasses.  His next appointment will be April 7th.

This is great news, but not the news we were hoping for ( I know that sounds horrible).  Now, we don't want N to have surgery if it's not needed, but our health insurance payments have skyrocketed and we were hoping to switch our plan after his eye surgery, something we were hoping would happen soon.  So, it puts a little kink in our plan, but we'll figure something out.

So, overall, a good appointment!  :)

Current Weight

I weighed the Tater last night.  22 lbs. 5.5 oz.  He's quite the chunky monkey and I'm totally okay with that!  :)     

Bye Bye

Look who finally decided to wave Bye Bye.  :)