2/27/07: Day 228 (Tues.) Visiting the Tucson Doc again

Evan had a follow-up appointment in Tucson with the Pediatric Pulmunologists. We met with Dr. Daynes (the same doctor he saw the last time). Evan got a clean bill of health from her (he lungs sounded perfect to her). One last hurdle to jump over to finally be done with all the home oxygen equipment. Dr. Daynes wants Apria (the home oxygen company) to do an overnight pulse-oximeter test on him to make sure his nighttime oxygen saturation is good. We're waiting for the call from Apria to get it set up. Dr. Daynes said Evan doesn't have to come back for about 6 months. We anticipate having to do a few follow-on appointments as he gets older to make sure he doesn't have any asthma/allergy issues.

**Vital Check**
Weight: 13 lbs. 5 oz.
Length: 24.25 inches

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Chronological age: 32 weeks and 4 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 1 weeks and 4 days
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2/24/07: Day 225 (Sat.) Visting Dolores

My good friend Dolores snapped this picture of Evan when we were visiting at her house. His hair isn't as red in real life as it looks in the picture. It must have been the flash.

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Chronological age: 32 weeks and 1 day
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 1 weeks and 1 day
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2/23/07: Day 224 (Fri.) Making Funny Faces

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Chronological age: 32 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 1 weeks and 0 days
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2/19/07: Day 220 (Mon.) Helping With the House Cleaning

Here is a video of how Sadie helps clean up around the house:


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Chronological age: 31 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 0 weeks and 3 days
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2/18/07: Day 219 (Sun.) Jumping!

Dad went a bit crazy with the videos today. Here are a plethora of videos featuring Evan in his Jumperoo.













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Chronological age: 31 weeks and 2 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 0 weeks and 2 days
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2/16/07: Day 217 (Fri.) 5 Months Adjusted Age

A new vid of Evan...it's a bit long since we were trying to get him to "talk". I posted a video on the January 27th posting of Evan dancing with his Grandma.





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Chronological age: 31 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 0 weeks and 0 days
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2/14/07: Day 215 (Wed.) 7 Months Old!

Time is flying by...7 months old!!
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Chronological age: 30 weeks and 5 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 4 weeks and 1 day
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2/13/07: Day 214 (Tues.) Seeing the Eye Doc

Evan had his follow-up appointment in Tucson with Dr. Miller. He's the pediatric ophthalmologist who checked performed his eye exam when he was in the NICU. The medical assistant first used drops to dilate his eyes. We didn't see Dr. Miller until about 30-40 minutes later (I guess the rain made everyone late).

His exam took about 10 minutes and Evan did great. Dr. Miller used a little magnifying lens and checked the back of his eye. He was able to determine that Evan is far-sighted right now, but not to worry. Since he doesn't have any cross-eye or lazy-eye problems, he expects Evan to end up being near-sighted just like his parents! He still is officially diagnosed with ROP, but is expected to grow out of it.
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Chronological age: 30 weeks and 4 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 4 weeks and 0 days
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2/7/07: Day 208 (Wed.) Diaper Change!

I forgot to mention in the other update that Evan in now in size 2 diapers. It's a little thing, but shows he's growing bigger!
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Chronological age: 29 weeks and 5 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 3 weeks and 1 days
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2/5/07: Day 206 (Mon.) A Little Update

Apologies on not posting so often...things have been hectic. So many people have been asking how the little guy is doing that I need to give a little update! He's doing great!! Knock on wood...no illnesses at all so far this winter. His latest achievement is sticking his tongue out (as evidenced in his 6-month old pictures). He is still waking at least once during the night to eat. We've pushed him to taking 5 ounces at least every four hours or so to try to get more weight put on him. He was a little less than 12.5 pounds at his doctor's appointment last week. His pediatrician didn't seem too concerned about his weight.

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Chronological age: 29 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 2 weeks and 6 days
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2/4/07: Day 205 (Sun.) Congrats to the Colts!

O.k...so the Steelers couldn't be in the Super Bowl...I can still be happy for a fellow AFC winning team. At least some of the commercials were entertaining. Evan slept through the second half of the game (as did most of the world).
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Chronological age: 29 weeks and 2 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 2 weeks and 5 days
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2/2/07: Day 203 (Fri.)

This weekend I am traveling to Los Angeles for a sorority leadership conference.
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Chronological age: 29 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 2 weeks and 3 days
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