3/15/07: Day 244 (Thurs.) Max's 10th Birthday

Today our first baby, Max (Droll vom Regis Pacis), was born in a kennel in Limburger, Germany. He celebrated his birthday by eating a bratwurst along with his dinner. He was truly grateful.

Evan entertained us with his new vocal skills. He was rather quiet during this vid.


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Chronological age: 34 weeks and 6 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 3 weeks and 6 days
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3/14/07: Day 243 (Wed.) 8 Months Old!

Evan is 8 months old today! Amazing how time is flying!
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Chronological age: 34 weeks and 5 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 3 weeks and 5 days
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3/12/07: Day 241 (Mon.) Countdown to Daycare

One week until Evan goes to daycare. We hope he'll make a lot of new friends!

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Chronological age: 34 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 3 weeks and 3 days
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3/11/07: Day 240 (Sun.) Gators Win!

Yeah! The Gators won the SEC championship. I made the mistake of forgetting to put Evan's Gator onesie on (he was wearing his UofAz one instead).
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Chronological age: 34 weeks and 2 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
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3/8/07: Day 237 (Thurs.) Day Care

We got the call today that Evan got a spot at Imagine Early Learning Center. We were starting to worry since childcare options in Sierra Vista are pretty sparse. We went down at lunchtime to pay the registration fee to reserve his spot. He'll be in the infant room, but on the side with the 6 month to 12 month olds. There are eight other babies on his side with 4 teachers, so he'll be getting plenty of attention.

He won't start until 19th when his spot opens up.
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Chronological age: 33 weeks and 6 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 2 weeks and 6 days
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3/7/07: Day 236 (Wed.) Test Completed

We ran Evan's pulse oximeter test last night. We couldn't get a steady good reading on it trying both his foot and his hand. We ended up leaving it on his foot and wrapped it on there tight to try to get the highest reading possible. We had to leave it on for at least 4 hours. I ended up taking it off around 4am, so there was at least 6 hours of testing. The best reading we could get was around 94%.

I returned the pulse oximeter to Apria and the nurse said the doctor would be in touch if they needed us to do another test to get a better reading. She told me the doctors like to see readings in the higher 90's, so we'll wait and see.

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Chronological age: 33 weeks and 5 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 2 weeks and 5 days
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3/6/07: Day 235 (Tues.) Testing tonight

Tonight we have to put the pulse-oximeter on Evan for at least 4 hours to get a good saturation reading. Hopefully the last step so we can turn in all the oxygen equipment back to Apria!

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Chronological age: 33 weeks and 4 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 2 weeks and 4 days
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3/5/07: Day 234 (Mon.) My new toy

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Chronological age: 33 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 2 weeks and 3 days
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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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