Friday, March 2 - kaia's comments

Hi everyone! I'm wearing frogs today!!

See? I even have frogs on my feet!!

Love my mommy time.....
...and my daddy time!!!
Connor - using some keys to 'start up the garbage truck!!'

It's been a big testing week for little Lauren - kind of like midterms! First she had blood tests to see how everything is going. A few weeks ago Lauren was diagnosed 'hypothyroid' so she's now on synthroid. Her blood tests came back normal this week, so the synthroid seems to be doing the trick and there aren't any other red flags. She also had another eye test, checking for ROP (improper blood vessel growth in the eyes.) Sure enough, Lauren does have some ROP, but nothing severe enough to warrant any intervention. The eye doctor will continue to monitor her weekly to make sure there isn't anything worth worrying about. Interestingly enough, many preemies on high levels of oxygen used to go blind (in the 50's) due to extreme ROP leading to detached retinas. We recently found out that Stevie Wonder was one such case. He was a preemie who is blind due to excessive use of oxygen early in his life. Hospitals now regulate a preemie's oxygen much more, but some amount of damage in eye blood vessel growth can still occur.

Yesterday Lauren recieved her immunizations. No one likes shots and it's especially no fun for little ones. When I went in this morning to nurse her, she definitely seemed a little under the weather - not as alert and active as she usually is in the mornings. The nurse gave her some baby tylenol, so hopefully she'll feel better soon. Lastly, she will have a hearing test in the next day or so. Hopefully there won't be any problems there either!

At home everyone continues to be healthy and finally adapting to life in our new house. Connor is sleeping and eating well....if we could just get him to like his baths again!! Maybe we'll upload an image of our most recent attempt, if Grant is ok with it.