Braxton's Ears

Well went for Braxton's ear checkup and like I thought the ear infection was not clear and now was in both ears.  We were given another antibiotic and referred to the ENT.  Luckly we were able to get in on Thursday and though we didn't get definitely answers we are closer to knowing if he will need tubes or not.  When he looked at his ears on Thursday we had only been on the new antibiotic for 2 days and he thought it might be working.  We go back mid December and if his ears are not clear we will be doing tubes come the first of the year.

Matt and I were able to get away for the day/night on Saturday.  We spent the day at the Orlando Calling music festival, my cousins husband is a member of the Racontuers so we were able to go backstage and watch them perform.  It was really a cool experience.  We also saw Parachute and O.A.R perform.  Then we spent the night in Orlando, just the two of us.  I think it was the first time we had spent away from Braxton.

Braxton's 1st birthday party is on Sunday and I haven't bought anything for it.  So it looks like this week will be filled with cleaning and preparing for it. 

Doctor appointments

This week Liam had his UPOC (updated plan of care) for his speech theraphy at Wolfson's and also his follow up for his throwing up.  Between all three kids I have practically been living in the doctors office over the past month.

We had a great UPOC meeting with his therapist.  Like us she is seeing big improvements in his speech but his consonant deletion continues on multi-syllable words.  His problem with fluency continues to come and go depending on the day.  We have also become aware that his tongue itself has some weakness to it and has since birth.  It makes sense to us now looking back because he word store food in his cheeks and have his tongue sticking out all the time when he was little.  Matt and I would joke that his tongue was too big for his mouth. 

His follow up appointment at his doctors went okay.  He has now been on Zantac and Flonase for a month, his tonsils are still swollen and he had two episodes of vomitting last month.  She ordered some blood work and depending on the results from that will determine which route to take.  She is deciding whether to go to a allergist or a GI dr.  Previously he was only vomitting in the middle of the night, this month it was only first thing in the morning.  If it does happen during the night again she wants me to call her because she is concerned about that.  Good news is we went for the bloodwork and there wasn't any problems with drawing it, he just sat in my lap and the lady did it.  He didn't flinch or anything, afterwords I asked if it hurt and he said no.  He is braver than me for sure.

This week coming up Braxton goes for his follow up on his ear infection.  He is still congested so I am hoping it cleared up, like I said before this is our second antibiotic in 2.5 weeks.  Then Nathan has two fillings to get done, I am sure that won't go as good as Liam's blood draw.  Nathan is usually a scaredy cat.

Other than the doctors appointments we had a pretty normal week, swim practice almost every day and a swim meet yesterday.  It was the coldest day by far this year but the boys did great with it.  I was proud of them, just dried them off and bundled them in blankets until there next event.