Caden is 11 months old today. We are fast approaching the big number one. Caden and the rest of the Osborne gang recently joined hundreds of folks at the Lowcountry Heart Walk. Team Caden raised $325 for the cause with Aunt Becke bringing in $100 in donations from my hometown of Clinton, SC. We thank all of you who donated in Caden’s name. It was a lot of fun. The Lowcountry Heart Walk raised over $375,000 with more than $90,000 of that coming from MUSC teams. I got to be there for the walk during a few days break from a three week long work trip to San Antonio.
Caden is doing pretty good these days. He has recently recovered from a cold. He seems like he may have picked up another bug over the weekend. Please keep him in your prayers as his nights are a little rough when he is so congested.
I have posted some pictures of Caden tasting some food. Don’t get too excited when you see these pictures because Caden is still not swallowing enough to eat by mouth. Caden is getting to experience a variety of tastes to help stimulate his desire to want things in his mouth. We have been told by the therapists to let him taste just about anything we want at this point to see what he likes. Caden still has to learn what most kids gain as a reflex in the first few hours of life. He has to learn the suck and swallow reflexes. Sherry has been spending about 10 minutes trying to get Caden to swallow less than 1/4 of a teaspoon of formula. She colors it blue with food color to make it easy to tell when Caden has actually swallowed it.
A big Happy Birthday goes out to Aunt Becke. It is a little late, but not forgotten. Aunt Becke is a ripe age of ;-), well I better not say since I am probably already in trouble for not calling her on her birthday.
If you know me at all then you know that I am much like my Papa was, I never met a stranger. A big thanks goes out to Nita, Curtis, their family and friends of San Antonio. I met Nita on a flight from Atlanta to San Antonio. I got to talking about my boys, imagine that. What made this such and interesting talk was that Nita has a really good friend whose child was diagnosed with 22q13. This is an even more rare chromosome deletion of 22q than Caden’s 22q11.2. Nita invited me over to her home for dinner with her family an friends while I was in San Antonio. The food was outstanding and the company was even better. Thanks Nita and Curtis! I still want to know how to make those shrimp.
I have added more than two dozen pictures this evening. Please click HERE to view the latest pictures.
God Bless! Thanks for reading about Caden and our family.