Coburn Kids

So little Caden has this thumb on his left hand that’s a bit off.  I noticed it when he was a baby.  To describe it, I would say it looks like one side of it got smashed and flattened a bit.  It’s got a hump on the top and while it’s not that noticeable it may be as he gets older.  Our doctors and Caden’s plastic surgeon know about it, it’s fully functional.  All the joints move correctly, he can flex it and it’s just another lil’ odd thing about him.  I’ve noticed over the last couple of months some odd behavior he does with that hand.  When he was younger, before he would pick up an object with that hand, he would rub the object with the side of his thumb… almost like he was trying to feel it.

Yesterday, I noticed that he picks things up strangely with that hand as well, he’s tucking his thumb under.  I have a video below to show what I’m talking about.  My first instinct is that he doesn’t have as much feeling in that thumb, especially in the pad of the thumb.  So he’s using the sides to feel it.  It would make sense, if there’s decreased feeling the proper pincer grap might be difficult as he couldn’t feel if he had a grasp on the food. He can’t, certainly, tell us if anything feels different then the other side but it caught my attention.

The other day, when Grandma Warner was over, I decided to get crafty with the kids and we made popcorn ball snowman.  Check out the masterpeices below:

Popcorn Snowmen!