Caden turned 27 months old this week and has been doing pretty good. He is now on his 8th or 9th round of antibiotics since September for excessive congestion and an ear infection. Other than that, he has been dazzling the therapists as usual. Caden is walking more than he crawls these days. Friday before last Caden went to his speech therapist at MUSC. She observed Caden’s new skill of mimicking multi-syllable words. He is getting the tempo and number of syllables correct even though his annunciation sounds nothing like the words he is repeating. The big deal here is that he is trying to mimic our words. This has his speech therapist considering whether the time might be coming when she will recommend the Z-plasty that I wrote about a year ago. I wrote about the Z-plasty on February 14th of last year. Valentine’s Day 2006 easily ranks in the top five worse days of my life now that I look back at it.

We will see where this Z-plasty thing leads us with cardiology at MUSC. The Craniofacial surgeon will likely go to the pediatric cardiology team for a green light to sedate Caden. The cardiology department has not seen Caden since they turned off the pacemaker back in October.

Now for the big brother news. Sherry went to her new OB this past week. She is 12 weeks along in the pregnancy now and all is going great for her and the baby. She has been getting tired a little sooner in the evenings and having a hard time finding warm maternity clothes, but other than that she has been fine. Her first two pregnancies were mainly during the warm months of the year and all her clothes are short sleeve. Since winter finally decided to show up in SC, she is looking for long sleeves. We got to hear the baby’s heart beat and we got the all famous peanut pictures from the ultrasound machine. We have an official due date of August 25th, I think. Those dates don’t mean a whole bunch anyway since we will be looking at a planned c-section on or about August 15th. They don’t want Sherry to experience any contractions since the doctor created a weak “T” incision during Riley’s delivery. Caden has pointed to Sherry’s belly when talking about the baby this week, so he is obviously tuned into the fact that he will not be the baby of the family for much longer.

My new job is going great. I will begin my third week on the new job tomorrow. We made it through our three day period without insurance this weekend without incident and without having to pay the cobra premiums.

Special Prayer Request
I have posted a note on my main blog. Aunt Robin has asked me to post this prayer request for a close family friend of hers whose child was born extremely premature about a month ago. This family needs all the prayer and help they can get right now.

Thanks for keeping an eye on Caden’s Page. May God bless you and yours.