Thursday Clinics

Its been a quiet week....Eli left this past Sunday. Mom called me about halfway to Midland and said that Eli started crying for us. I talked to him on the phone and told him that his Grandma would bring him back this next weekend. So, he'll be staying hopefully until we get to go back to Midland. He was initially going to start going to school (St Ann's), but after much contemplation, we decided to wait another year. It'll be better next year when we are all settled back at home. Eli is cursed for being born in September, so he'll have to start school later than he really should. So anyways, that's what went on with Eli this week.

Isaac on the other hand...is still doing well here at home with us. I've been having to stay a little far away from him for the past couple of days (stomach bug!..ugh). He had his weekly clinic today, and other than the poking for bloodwork, everything went well. Who likes to see their kids getting poked? All his levels are so far where they want them, so no new changes to medications except for continual weaning of his narcotics. He's almost off of them completely!

We're so ready to come home. Nope, no talk of when that will be, but we are hoping to get things ready for him earlier than later. Mom is bringing up the carpet and setting laminate wood (faux) flooring in Isaac's/Eli's room and possibly the living area. Our hope was to get the whole house done sometime in the near future but we'll start out with the carpeted areas. We're also thinking about getting our total AC replaced or adding some components to it to get the air cleaner and filtered in our house. I'm not a professional in that area so we have to read up on it a little more and try to get some estimates. But the reason why I'm putting this info up on here is to get some opinions. I'd like to know if anyone has heard of the Perfect 16 System? I still have a lot to read up on it, but I figured I might get some comments or opinions on what you've heard about it. Our hopes were also to get our bedroom (add on from previous owners) ducted and added to the rest of the house, so we'll get quotes for that and see about getting it specially filtered. So, if any of you know of a system that does that or about this system, please let me know your experiences. Thanks all!

Today marks an exceptional day for us. Isaac started playing with his car seat toy. He doesn't know how to press the buttons to make the music go off, but he finally started batting at it. We've been trying to get him to do that since we brought him home. We've also been working on his feeding. He's still not used to having anything in his mouth, so he gags quite a bit. I have to catch him when he's hungry. We started doing tastes of bananas. He seems to like it okay, but he gets a little tired of trying to swallow I think.