December

Liam has been doing such a great job with his head control recently.
We finally adjusted his high chair to sit him up a little more.
He scares me at times but he does a great job sitting there.

He is able to control his head much better and for longer periods of time.
Two weeks ago he could only sit for less than a minute before he was tired.
Today he can last for several minutes and we don't really have to support his upper back.
He can also last longer sitting against us.
In fact, today at church he sat against our chests for half of the hours.

 

On December 18 Liam had an appointment with Urology.

When he had his MRI they spotted Liam had both Kidney's inflamed.

They wanted to keep an eye on it so he had a second ultrasound since then.

One of his kidney's is still inflamed but the other one seems normal now.

Dr. wanted to make one last ultrasound in a year just to make sure.

He would rather be safe than sorry.

As you can see he did not enjoy it but we are glad he is doing great in every way.

 

I also finally decided that Liam needed a haircut.

His first haircut was back in March.

I haven't cut it since then.

His first cut I buzzed him because it was after his first surgeries.

I should have cut it once again in July after his surgery in June but it was a small they buzzed that I didn't bother.

But since he has become better with sitting I decided to take advantage.

I have cut hair for over 7 years and worked at a kid's salon for 3 years.

There I learned so much including cutting a crying child's hair within 10 minutes.

So it wasn't too bad cutting his hair.

He looks like such a big boy now.

 



Look at me now...

Even though there has been so much going on in our home
we still make time for Mr. Liam.
But we finally took time to capture this on video.
He is getting better with controlling his head for longer while sitting.
In the past as soon as we sat him up he was not happy.
This time he can sit longer and most of the time he doesn't fuss.
I still have to hold him up and help with his chest and back but his head is all him.
This is a video we took after I worked him for a little while.
He has Early Intervention come to our home and we take him to Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy to a Pediatric Rehabilitation but I must say that he is holding his head better because my mom was here during Thanksgiving Break.
She is a massage therapist and she worked his neck and gave him therapy.
So we are very thankful that she came and very happy that they will be receiving us into their home in some weeks!!!
Take a look.

Update

Ok Ok

I am sorry I have not given an update on Liam.

Trust me I have been super busy.

I won't give you all the details about my schedule but here is a little about what has been going with Mr. Liam

 

 

So I think the last time I posted I told you Liam was rolling.

At this point it is ONLY when he wants.

It's usually when Eliana is around swinging things, throwing things, yelling.

The usual.

 

 

 Liam had his one year Dr appointment.

I'd tell you his percentages but I can't remember.

His head is obviously 100.

His weight was somewhere in the 60's

And height in the higher 90's.

 

 

 He was not happy with his shots.

But who is?

 

 

 They had a nice little section that was suppose to entertain Eliana and did a terrible job at it.

 

 

 Liam's been better at holding his bottles.

Plastic is much nicer to him now, apparently.

 

 

 Liam also just started new Physical Therapy.

He did a great job for his first day.

 

 

 

 My mom also gave him therapies

which has helped with his neck and holding his head up a little better.

 

 

 As you can see in the pictures below

he is doing much better with sitting.

Here he is throwing his new Christmas gift Snoopy all over the place.

 

 

 Here he is smiling because he is chewing on that blanket like it's no one's business.

 

 

 He is holding rattles much better and for longer periods of time.

Which is awesome.

 

 

 He has also been talking a lot.

He likes to copy sounds we make.

While my entire family sat at the table Liam turned towards Casey

he then repeated Eliana saying "Hi Dad!"

We were shocked.

As you can imagine.

We were told because of his sight impairment he would not be able to look at us and repeat words like other children, but he would be able to repeat just from sound.

We were quite impressed and knew Eliana would be a big help.

He also tries to wave.

 If I ask him to say hi to daddy he will immediately try to find him by his voice and will try to wave.

He also said "Awesome." And "Chacha"

 

Below is his Vision Therapist.

She was here today.

He is already doing better holding his head up during tummy time.

 

Below is his Occupational Therapist.

She was here today as well.

Here I called Liam and he slowly turned to me.

His head bobbed a little at first but he got it around.

She was NOT holding his head or helping him with it.

It didn't last super long but it is something.

 

 Here she is trying to get him to look at himself.

He did alright.

 

 

Liam's progress is slow but we are taking it a day at a time.

We are in no rush for him to do everything.

He has been through a lot.

He is a fighter and he keeps fighting.

His work is double that of a baby his age.

But he is doing it and with a smile on his face.

We would not trade him for any other child.

He is our motivation.

He gives his everything every day, every minute, every smile.

He had to have gotten it from his parents right?

So we too, must give our all.

He is our strength.

Great job little man!