Coburn Kids

No updates for a while, sorry ’bout that. Daniel’s mom was here for 10 days and it was so great to have her out here.  Gena and Adessa are still talking about it! Caden loved all the attention as well.

On the job front, we have a lot of interviews right now. Spanning the entire country.  Georgia, Florida, Arizona, Illinois and Utah.  So who knows where we will end up! This is really good news though considering that we know a lot of friends and aquaintances who have lost their jobs recently.  Scary.

Caden can now have solid food again!  He’s gagging on the bigger pieces but is doing okay. We are still giving him about 16-24 ounces of formula/whole milk a day through his feeding tube still but it’s just routine for him now. I did forget to post about one of his biggest accomplishments yet, he’s crawling.  Everywhere.  He’s just so exicted that he can chase the dog and his sisters.

Other good news is that after 6 surgeries in 1 year, we should be done for a while. We know that he’ll need some nose work, gums, orthodontics, tweak of his lips, and at some point we get the “break his jaw and move it forward” surgery… but those are a few years off. We still have some upcoming Dr. appointments (same ol’ same ol’). Dec. 9th is another opthamologist appointment. Also mid-December we have his other hearing test, for which we are sincerely hoping he will not have to get a hearing aid and that he’ll do okay there. Because the poor lil’ guy deserves a break! 

All right, a few updates first.  Caden still has another 1-2 weeks until he can eat solid food, per his plastic surgeon. He weighs in at 22 pounds and is 30″ long now. I had Gena’s parent teacher conference and she’s doing great.  She’s a talker in class though, big surprise with her Dad and I.  I always got in trouble for talking at school.

We went to pick up Caden’s glasses today and the guy helping us was so impressed with Caden.  We put the glasses on his face and he didn’t even touch them.  Just started looking around.  Usually kids try to rip them off and the guy said this was his first kid today that didn’t just scream when they put them on!  He was so impressed he started showing Caden off to all the other people working there.  It was funny and sweet.  Below you can see the pics of Caden in his new glasses!

The cutie smiling.

 He looks so much older!

Halloween was so fun!  And for some reasons the pictures I took on my camera have mysteriously disappeared.  Bummer. But I do have individual pics of all the kids so I’ll post those below.  We went trick-or-treating around the neighborhood with our little cousin Ethan.  It was kind of funny because we had 8 adults walking around 4 kids. It was fun to see their excitement over everything.

We also had Caden’s eye appointment today. The good news is that he doesn’t have Strabismus and doesn’t look like any evidence of lazy eye.  The funny news is that he does have to get glasses! He’s very near-sighted, it wasn’t that surprising.  So Daniel and I had to go eyeglass shopping for him today and I do have to say, his cuteness factor has increased significantly! Babies look so cute in glasses.  He’ll get the glasses at the end of this week so I’ll be sure to post pics.  His blood vessels in his eye are straightening out a bit too much, they like to see them a little lax, but the blood vessels in his left eye are a bit too tight.  It’s just something to keep an eye on, as the blood vessels tightening like this are a risk factor for retinal detachment and can really affect his vision.  We have a follow-up appointment in 3months again, so sometime around Feburary just to see how his vision is doing!