We're gonna play a little game of catch-up. Braydon's sister, Rhea, came out to visit right after the new year and stayed with us for a few days. She was awesome company and we loved having her here. Right before Rhea came was when we got about a foot of snow, so her and Braydon tried to build a snowman, but the snow wasn't sticky enough. Instead, they decided to turn a snow drift into a dragon. I included a picture they took of it along with some others from Rhea's visit.
That is poor Rhea bundled up in several layers of clothes modeling the wonderful dragon that her and Braydon made.
A cute picture of Rhea, Braydon and Landon (being a wiggle worm).
Landon using Rhea as his personal jungle gym. :)
Aunt Gail, I put this picture up for you to see how big your nephew is...this is the inside part of the jacket you got him for Christmas...can you believe it fits?!? The outside part ended up being a little big, but it will be his jacket for next year. Thank you so much!
Landon has been doing really well. We've been going to therapies and have been working on saying sounds with the pasy-muir on. With some slight variations, Landon is doing really well and has started saying m and h sounds. We've been trying to show him how to close his lip to make noises, but we think it's a little tough for him, so Ashley has been trying to show him how to use the back of his hand to close his lips (like he does for eating). It hasn't worked yet, but we aren't giving up...we think he'll eventually get it.
Eating has been going well also. We ended up talking to a dietician at the clinic and she told us that we can cut back to 26 oz. of Pediasure a day compared to the 28 oz. Slowly but surely we're hoping to get him off of Pediasure all together and just use his G-button for hydration purposes, not nutritional needs. Landon's been doing really well with eating and we've made steps to helping him with using a spoon and fork. He'll do it for a couple of bites, but then gives up and we have to help him finish his meal. Is that normal for a 2 year old?? We had to turn in another food diary about a week ago for the dietician to study and calculate the calories he's getting. She'll let us know from that and his weight gain how much Pediasure we can take away or if we need to keep it the same. I wouldn't imagine her telling us to keep it the same since Landon's been progressively gaining weight. When we got him weighed last week he was 31 lbs. 1 oz. A couple of weeks before that he was 30 lbs. 6 oz. So in two weeks he gained 11 oz.!!
I'm very proud of how far he has come, but I know there is a long ways to go. We're getting there though. Life can only get better. We decided that Landon needed to take his first steps to becoming a "big boy", so we got him a booster seat so he can sit at the table with us. He absolutely LOVES it!! We would've done it sooner, but were afraid that since his incident in May, he might fall out of it. The high chair had more support for him, but he's been doing so well sitting like a big kid with me and daddy!!
I've also added a picture of the newest member of the Walsh household....this is "whale". It's a stuffed whale that we found at Kohl's, and Landon hasn't let it out of his sight since then. It's his new best friend.
I'm sorry I was such a slacker on January and I promise to be better this next month. :) Tomorrow is Braydon's birthday, so I guess I'll be nice to him and let him play some video games. :)
1 comment:
So glad to see a new post! :) And I LOVE all the new pictures - even the ones that don't include Landon!!! :)
He is doing so great & I can't wait to see you all again.
Love you guys!
Kathy/Mom/Nona :)
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