October 9, 2007

It's been awhile since I have updated you all on the progress.

Let's see.

David is cutting teeth. He has been having some fussiness with it all, and I will miss that little toothless grin that is so precious, but things must move on. Hopefully this won't last too long.

He has also started to eat some solid foods. He is rapidly approaching 16 pounds, so he is needing a little extra. He seems to do well with the cereal, but other tastes will have to be developed....he doesn't like banannas.

We are less than a week away from his next treatment. It will be on Monday, October 15 - sometime in the afternoon. As far as we know, there will be no exam before this treatment, so we will have to wait another whole month before we find out how the tumor is doing. There is some obvious lack of sight in that eye since David will cross it a lot and turns his head quite far to see things on the right side of his body. But he seems to be seeing well out of the other eye. He recognizes Rob and I, and I think he even recognizes Hannah and Isaac. I don't know what the implications of this will be for the future, but he at least has one fully functional eye for now.

Hannah and Isaac are busy growing up. Hannah is enjoying school, and Isaac is learning to function without his big sister calling the shots. Overall, it is positive.

We spent this past weekend up in Virginia celebrating my grandparent's 63 anniversary. It was a lovely time, and relaxing too. It had been so long since we had seen that part of the family, and it was great for the kids to have contact with all their grands, aunts, uncles, cousins, and etc. We also got to see the duplex where Rob lived for a year or so when he was younger, so the kids enjoyed that.

I think that is all for now. Speaking of fussy babies, I have one currently, so I should probably attend to him.

-Kim