Dr. Updates

Before I update about the Dr. visits I have to share a few pictures. Kory and I had a great idea to make our sister-in-law Sydni's birthday card using Kanyon and Ollie. Well, as you can see, it didn't turn out like we had planned.

"OLLIE SIT!!!!!!" "Kanyon, don't eat the sign!!!"
Notice Kanyon's blue mouth. Yes, he ate his sign so his mouth turned blue.
Checking out his blue lips
Saturday was a great day for us! Paul and Katie drove down to visit for the afternoon. It was so fun!!! Kanyon loved them so much! As you can see in the picture, Paul and Kory had to put Kanyon in his J's. Thanks Paul and Katie for coming!!!!!!!!!

Kanyon really and truly responds to his dad's voice unlike any other noise or voice. I loved this picture...and as you can see, Kanyon had a killer zit on his chin. It was so bad, but it is almost gone.
What could daddy possibly be doing????? Feeling his TOOTH!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, he has a tooth. One of his bottom ones is starting to pop through. He's showed no signs of it bothering him so we had no idea it was coming. I really can't believe it..he seems too little to have a tooth.
Mom did the spoon test. You could hear it clicking. The one right next to it might be coming in too.
OK..now for the Dr. stuff. Me and Mom headed to Dallas early Monday morning. Kanyon had his appointment with the eye Dr. there at Children's. He said that his retinas look good and that his perscription looks good so his 'eye balls" look good still. We are really glad about that. We did find out that Kanyon's cross-eyed days are numbered. He will have surgery to correct that March 18th. The Dr. says it may not completely solve the problem as far as Kanyon's tracking and looking at things. That could be processing in his brain that is slow. But, the surgery needs to be done and it could only help him see better, so we're hoping for the best there. Yes, another surgery makes my tummy hurt, but I know this needs to be done. I kind of expected that. It will be a day surgery, so that is good. After our appointment Mon. morning, we headed to the hotel to chill until our next appointment Tuesday afteroon. We had a fun time hanging out in the hotel...kind of like a vacation since we were somewhere new. These Dallas trips will be more fun when Mom and I can take him shopping with us! But we really enjoyed relaxing just the 3 of us. Tuesday afternoon we went for a feeding evaluation. We're trying to solve the mystery with his eating. He HATES it and throws a fit and won't open his mouth and therefore it takes us at least an hour to feed him. They did a thing where I fed him this wierd stuff and they could watch it like a video X-ray. The good news is there is nothing going wrong as far as how he's swallowing. No aspiration or anything like that. They did seem to think he was more efficient when the liquid was thicker. SOOO they gave us some stuff to thicken the milk and hopefully that will make him more comfortable and if he's more comfortable, then maybe he won't fight it as bad. I wish there would've been some magic answer to solve the problem, but I gave up on that a long time ago. Hopefully this will help. We'll see.

Cutie in the hotel

Of course they dilated his eyes, so he got some sweet shades to wear in the sun. I posted way too many pictures of this, but I just couldn't help it. The first two look like the return of gangsta Kanyon!

This one looked like Avery to me
This was not Kanyon's first time to wear shades. Remember this? Less than a week old...less than 2 pounds. But very very cool.

We have this month's RSV shot today (hopefully this is not our last, we're hoping our insurance will do one more in March) and then we should be through with Dr. stuff for a couple of more weeks! Kanyon is such a trooper through all of this traveling, Dr. offices, all the junk they do and then just being dragged around all over. He takes it all in stride and never misses a beat. Thank you Kanyon!!