Update

Sorry haven't updated lately! I am always busy!!! Alexander is doing wonderful though....he is always crawling every where now. We will get to the walking sooner or later. The therapist says we are going to either get the talking first or the walking, but not both at the same time. They say the brain doesn't work like that. I think we are going to get the talking though. As is he never shuts up.....he is non-stop babble!

Alexander now has 4 therapists a week. (occupational, developmental, physical and speech) He is developing so well for all he has been through! On Tuesday we go to Children's and we see for different doctors that day! We see the eye doctor, orthapedic, urologist and Genetics doctor. It will be a long day but we are getting it all done at the same time! AJ needs tubes in his ears so we are getting those soon too! No date set yet. We are going to see what the urologist says first then set a date. We are getting both surgeries done at the same time. AJ was never circumcised and we might get that done with his tubes. The ENT said that was fine to do them both together.

Christmas 2008

Alexander had a wonderful Christmas and got lots of pressies as you can tell. Here are a few pictures with his presents before and after. Also a pic playing with his ELMO Live. He absoulutely loves it. I highly recommend this toy! :)

DSAGSL Bowling Party!!!!

Attached are a few pics from the bowling party that we got invited to. The Down Syndrome Association of Greater St Louis has a holiday party every year and it was at Tropicana Bowl in Clayton. A few of my family members went along with us. We had fun and AJ enjoyed sitting on Santa and Mrs. Claus's lap!!!!

Happy Birthday Alexander!

Well our little man just turned one on Monday! Yeah for AJ! He has been through so many things this year its hard to believe its only been a year!

We had a party at the house on Sunday and all his family and some friends were there. I think he really enjoyed himself.

1 year photo!!!

Alexander will be one year old on November 24th!!! Yeah! I really can't believe he is nearly a year old....he has been through so much! Well here is his one year photo and I really don't like it. It was the best one though.

This past week we also got his big boy haircut! I will post some pics after his party and you can see how cute it looks! He really looks so grown up now!

Halloween Pics

Well we finally got our Halloween pics back! Wasn't he sooooo cute! Also here is a pic at a hayride in October!

Also this past week we went to the heart doctor and the ENT at Children's Hospital. Alexander doesn't have to go back to the heart doctor for 6 months now! We were very ecstatic about that. He also is off of his dieuretic and only on his heart medicine. Yeah!

So at the ENT we did a hearing test with the audiologist. Then we saw the Dr. Molter. He is a very happy kid friendly man. He said Alexander has fluid in his right ear and that he will need tubes. He has never had a ear infection so I was a little confused. Apparently babies/kids with Down Syndrome have smaller ear canals and normally have alot of ear infections. He said he is very aggresive with down babies because it will affect his speech. So in 6 weeks we go back to the doctor and probably have tubes after the first of the year.

Dirtbiking

A few pics from the dirtbike race that John was in on Sunday. All proceeds were donated to the Toys for Tots. John hadn't raced in like 5 years so he was really sore. He is slowly getting back into it though. BTW Alexander didn't mind the noise though and we got really dusty out there.