1/27/07: Day 197 (Sat.) Dancing With Grandma

A video of Evan dancing with his Grandma.

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Chronological age: 28 weeks and 1 day
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 1 week and 4 days
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1/26/07: (Fri.) 6 Month Picture Day!

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Chronological age: 28 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 1 week and 3 days
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1/22/07: Day 192 (Mon.) Wow Did It Snow!

We woke up this morning to a major snowfall! They ended up closing post, so we couldn't get to work.





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Chronological age: 27 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 0 weeks and 6 days
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1/21/07: Day 191 (Sun). Snowing!

The snow is starting to fall tonight! The vid is a little dark.


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Chronological age: 27 weeks and 2 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 0 weeks and 5 days
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1/17/07: Day 187 (Wed.) I Love Bouncing!

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Chronological age: 26 weeks and 5 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 0 weeks and 1 days
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1/16/07: Day 186 (Tues.) 6 Month Check-up!

Today was Evan's 6-month well-baby exam (and shots, yuck). Dr. Ettinger was happy to see how big and chubby Evan is getting. We filled him in on the info we got from the pulmonologist yesterday, and he suggested we take him completely off the O2. When they were taking his vital signs, they did a pulse oximeter reading on him, and he was registering 97%, which is excellent.

Evan didn't like being poked and prodded, but did well during the shots. He only got 2 injections this time. Funny to find out that Dr. Ettinger is also a U of Florida graduate. He saw T's Gator lanyard and commented on the Florida win last week. The Gator Nation is everywhere!

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Chronological age: 26 weeks and 4 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 months, 0 weeks and 0 days
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1/15/07: Day 185 (Mon.) Another Trip to the Pulmonologist

We made our third trip to the pulmonologist in Tucson. We had our fingers crossed that we would get the green light to take Evan off the O2. When we got there, I overheard the nurse saying Dr. Brown wasn't there that day (he was the second specialist we saw, the first was Dr. Morgan). This time, we saw Dr. Daines, the third different doctor. They didn't even have a nurse there to take his pulse oximeter reading, so it was a quick visit.

Dr. Daines played cautious and told us to take him off the O2 during the day, but put him back on at night. We have to come back in another month (aargh). The receptionist had me call a different number to get an appointment since they were already booked up for the clinic a month from now.
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Chronological age: 26 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 3 weeks and 6 days
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1/12/07: Day 182 (Fri.) Half-way To A Year Old!

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Chronological age: 26 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 3 weeks and 6 days
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1/8/07: Day 178 (Mon.) Gators Win!!

Getting ready for the game:


Celebrating the Gator win with a nap on Dad:


Sleeping with Mom after the game:



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Chronological age: 25 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
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1/2/07: Day 172 (Tues.)

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Chronological age: 24 weeks and 4 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 2 weeks and 3 days
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1/1/07: Day 171 (Mon.) Ringing In the New Year

Happy 2007! So weird to be writing that year since it makes me feel so old! Amazing how the time has flown:

- Almost 6 months since Evan was born (after almost 3 years of trying)
- Starting our 7th year of living in Arizona
- Almost 10 years ago we were living in Germany
- Almost 12 years ago we both enlisted in the Army
- Almost 15 years (ahem, 14 for T) since we've been out of college
- Almost 19 years since we've been out of high school

Here's to kicking 2006 out the door and bring on 2007. I didn't really make any resolutions, but I am hopeful that these things will happen:

- Evan will come off the oxygen and be illness-free
- Evan's weight and length will catch up to his chronological age
- T and I will both get down to our basic training weights ;-)
- The Gators beat Ohio State for the National Championship
- The Steelers will be competitive again

We'll see how all that works out!


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Chronological age: 24 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 2 weeks and 2 days
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12/31/06: Day 170 (Sun.) Ending the Season With a Victory!*

Evan watching the last Steeler game of the year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijxod4wnbg4

We were experimenting trying to see if we could make it look like Evan was on the tv screen:




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Chronological age: 24 weeks and 2 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 2 weeks and 1 day
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12/30/06: Day 169 (Sat.) Hiding from us

We gave Evan a break from his oxygen the past 2 days. His new trick is to cover his face with the burp cloth when we're feeding him his bottle. We'll try to catch it on video.
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Chronological age: 24 weeks and 1 day
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 2 weeks and 0 days
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12/29/06: Day 168 (Fri.) RSV Shot and Weight Update!

Evan had his 3rd Synagis shot today. You can read his latest weight/length below (he's becoming a chunker)!. He had gained 1 lb. 5 oz. since the last Synagis shot in November, so the nurse said she had to add a cc to his injection (a good thing). He was a trooper again during the injection. He cried for about a minute and then was fine.

He has his 6-month well-baby exam on January 17th (which also means his 6-month shots also). We asked the nurse to do a quick oxygen saturation check on him also. We turned off his oxygen and he was in the upper-90's, which is excellent. We can tell the pulmonologist in Tucson that he is finally at a normal level at our altitude.



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Weight update!
11 lbs. 4oz; 23 inches long
Chronological age: 24 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 1 weeks and 6 days
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12/28/06: Day 167 (Thurs.) Snow Again

Another snowy day! The snow level wasn't quite down to our level, but it made for a nice view of the mountains.
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Chronological age: 23 weeks and 6 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 1 weeks and 5 days
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12/25/06: Day 164 (Mon.) Christmas!*

Evan has a message for Bop (Jen's Dad):


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Chronological age: 23 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 1 weeks and 2 days
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12/24/06: Day 163 (Sun.) Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve at Tom & Ann's house along with other friends and co-workers. We didn't bring Evan along for fear of him getting sick around all those people. :-( My friend Stacy was there with her baby (I blogged about her back in September, she gave birth to Nathan when Evan was in the SV nursery). Nathan is a big boy! He's over 16 pounds and is about 3.5 months.

We had a "white elephant" gift exchange amongst the ladies. It didn't get too mean and nasty. :-)
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Chronological age: 23 weeks and 2 day
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 1 weeks and 1 day
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12/22/06: Day 161 (Fri.) X-mas Pics

Today we took Evan to Sears for his first Christmas pics. We're getting his six-month pictures done next month, but I figured we'd kick ourselves if we didn't get Christmas pics done. We didn't purchase a whole bunch of them (so I didn't buy the photo cd), the pics should be in after New Year's. Since T's mom is staying with us, we got a nice picture of her and Evan together.

While we were waiting to get his photos taken, there was a family in front of us with twin boys and an older brother. I found out that the twins were in UMC (not sure how old they were but they were walking and talking, maybe 2). The mom said Dr. Tsai took care of her boys also. Small world! I don't think her twins were as preemie as Evan since she said they caught up really quickly to their chronological age. Sort of funny that the parents noticed the tell-tale tape marks on Evan's face from the nasal cannula.

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Chronological age: 23 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 0 weeks and 6 days
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12/20/06: Day 159 (Wed.) Visit By Az EIP

Today we had a home visit by a representative from the Blake Foundation. The local office of the Blake Foundation is a part of the Arizona Early Intervention Program (Az EIP). The Arizona Early Intervention Program, also known as AzEIP (pronounced Ay-zip), is a statewide system of supports and services for families of children, birth to three, with disabilities or developmental delays.

Since Evan is a preemie, he qualifies for the program. Today was just a paperwork day with the case worker. Dulce (the case worker) is scheduling a physical therapist to come out and check on his development. That probably won't take place until after the holidays.

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Chronological age: 22 weeks and 5 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 0 weeks and 4 days
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12/19/06: Day 158 (Tues.) Snow Day!*

A rare snow day in Arizona!!

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Chronological age: 22 weeks and 4 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 3 months, 0 weeks and 3 days
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