Sir Lurch-A-Lot

Karis continues to improve, but doesn't have very much dorsi flexion in his ankle so when he walks around, he definitely has a bit of a lurchy gait.  Amy finds it amusing to dub him as Sir Lurch-A-Lot, so here's hoping that he doesn't feel bad about that!  The pain is like a medium headache as defined by Karis - kind of deep achy. 

We had had a run of some GOOD NEWS!  Yippee - we'll take it!  The first set of good news was that we took Kaleb to the eye doctor, and he has improved dramatically.  He went from 20/160 at the first visit (with no correction) and 20/125 (with correction) to.....drumroll please.....20/20 (with correction)!!!  The doctor indicated that his brain has turned back on his right eye, which is wonderful.  The 'bad side' of his brain turning his eye back on is the fact that he now has double vision at distance.  This is to be expected apparently - when his brain turned off the eye, there was no double vision, and now that it is turned back on, he has to learn how to get his eyes to line up properly again (kind of like a baby does).  She said that this is to be expected on the journey.  The other part of this journey that takes a while is the fact that his depth perception has improved (good) but not as dramatically as we would have hoped.  He had 1% depth perception and now has 15% - she said that this too is slower to improve and thus is expected.  Whatever the case, we definitely put this into a "good news" category!

The second part of the good news is that we took Zachary to the new allergy and asthma doctor.  We were very pleased with our experience with him - he was willing to sit and discuss the symptoms and options with Karis, and was supportive of trying more natural methods of controlling the allergies.   After reviewing all of the spirometer tests, he indicated that he did not believe that Zachary had asthma based on the fact that some of his pre-tests were so good.  Yeah!  On the note of allergies, they have concluded that he's allergic to grasses, dust mites, and some molds.  That is pretty expected as Karis and I both have those allergies.  We have had some really good allergy control actually by taking a daily dose of High Potency Vitamin C liquid.  Our friend Vasti shared that she gives her son this, along with liquefied Parsley.  We decided to try the Vitamin C first, alone, to see if that would work as we weren't sure that Zachary would take the liquid parsley.  Thus far, Zachary hasn't had much of a stuffy nose and hasn't been struggling with the dry cough that is so typical of this time of year.

Addison is starting to sit up by herself - not super stable right now, but she's getting better every day.  She has gotten pretty proficient at rolling over both ways as well.

What an overachiever - holding her bottle all by herself already!  You go girl!



Trying out the highchair for the first time - complete with entertainment!



In other exciting news, it appears that Addison is about to get a new best friend to play with - a little Johnson girl!  Uncle Kent and Aunt Kelli were excited to report that the ultrasound this week reviewed a little Miss in there!  We're very excited!   Between Devin and Little Miss Johnson, Addison won't lack for friends to play with during these early years! 

Snuggling in with Auntie Kelli

Phrase of the week:  Kaleb was sitting at the dinner table this week, intently looking at his water glass. While staring at the water, he says "Pee is yellow.  Water is not yellow.  How does water that is not yellow become yellow pee?"  Excellent question my son - one best answered when you're in front of a biology teacher in highschool!  But Grandma and Mommy attempted as best we could in four-year-old verbiage to describe how the water transforms from clear to yellow as it grabs all the garbage in your body on its way out....you just never know what they'll ask next! :)

A bit blurry, but couldn't resist including a picture of Blake, Evan, Zachary and Kaleb playing "Twister!"  They were loving it!