For those of you that knew Jessica as a baby does this face look familar?
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Dylan with Santa
We decided to take Dylan to see Santa this past weekend at one of the local malls. The line was so long, we waited in line for like an hour and a half and we were two people away and Dylan started saying "Santa, Santa..." Next thing we know it was our turn and as soon as we put Dylan on Santa's lap he started crying. We got him to stop long enough to take one picture, it is the one on the bottom. All of the others are the ones we took with our camera.
For those of you that knew Jessica as a baby does this face look familar?
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For those of you that knew Jessica as a baby does this face look familar? Professional Photo 
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Halloween Pictures
Here are a few picture from Halloween, and the Race for The Cure. Enjoy!
Dylan learning to wash the car with Daddy.
Dylan and Brian at the Race.
Dylan, the dancing Pirate!
Riding in style on our way to go Trick or Treating.
I will kill you with cuteness!
Mommy and Dylan carving pumpkins.
Dylan very excited after seeing some ducks at the pumpkin patch.
Dyaln and Daddy on the hay ride at the pumpkin patch, and yes Brian is awake.
Dylan learning to wash the car with Daddy.
Dylan and Brian at the Race.
Dylan, the dancing Pirate!
Riding in style on our way to go Trick or Treating. 
I will kill you with cuteness!
Mommy and Dylan carving pumpkins. 
Dylan very excited after seeing some ducks at the pumpkin patch.
Dyaln and Daddy on the hay ride at the pumpkin patch, and yes Brian is awake.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Great Video
Here is a great little video showing Dylan's progression as a dancer. The first part of the video was taken several months ago and the second half was done a couple weeks ago, you can definitely tell he has been practicing. The is also proof that when two extremely uncoordinated and virtually helpless dancers have offspring that the child is a potential dancing genius. Enjoy!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Updated Photos
I know it has been a log time since our last update, but we have been very busy with pretty much everything. Jessica has been studying extremely hard for her PE exam which is in a week and a half, so good luck to her. I have been just plugging along working, which has stayed pretty consistent for the past couple of months. The there's our special child. We have been through a lot with Dylan over the past couple of months. I don’t remember what the last update had, so here's what we've done.
Dylan had his adenoids removed and they checked his throat to see if there was any inflammation that could be causing his swallowing issues. We are still having to thicken his liquids. They did not find anything, which was good and bad because we still did not have any answers. We have known that he was allergic to milk and eggs of course, which is very difficult to feed a picky child that is allergic to those, let me tell you. We went and saw the Gastroenterologist and he said that he would like to see us to an MRI on Dylan to see if there maybe any brain issues that could be causing the swallowing issues, and Jessica did some great research and found this thing called EE, don’t ask me to give you the medical terminology, basically it's a clumping of white blood cells in the throat that when an allergic reaction occurs can cause that gagging and vomiting issues that Dylan has had. During this time we decided to make the switch from his goat’s milk to soy. We had had him on goat’s milk because we thought he was fine with it, but he was still having some eczema and congestion issues. Well it took a good week or so to convince him that the soy milk is good and for him to actually drink it. Since then we have been extremely impressed with his progress. He has not vomited once and his eczema is gone, so we think it was the goat’s milk, which makes us really mad as parents because we were actually the cause of the little guy’s problems. We are still going to go ahead with a new swallowing study and the MRI and testing for the EE, just to rule some of that out.
As far as his other progress he is doing well. We had thought that he was possibly undersized and we were concerned that with all the vomiting that he was not getting enough calories and nutrition. We saw a dietician and she calculated that he is getting plenty of calories and gave us some suggestions since he is on a lower fat soy instead of milk, and she also said his height to weight ration is 75% which we never thought of it that way, so that is good. You would be amazed though, that once we switched him to the soy and he hasn’t vomited how quickly he has put on some weight. There for a good month or two stretch he just stayed the same weight, since he had probably put on a half pound or so. He has had the flu or something that past week or so, so he didn’t want to eat much which is understandable, so we regressed a little but thank God the vomiting has gone away for now.
Here is a little slide show of some pictures from the past couple months, we made a trip to Michigan for a family reunion and then visited our friends in Chicago, so there are some nice pictures there. Enjoy.
Dylan had his adenoids removed and they checked his throat to see if there was any inflammation that could be causing his swallowing issues. We are still having to thicken his liquids. They did not find anything, which was good and bad because we still did not have any answers. We have known that he was allergic to milk and eggs of course, which is very difficult to feed a picky child that is allergic to those, let me tell you. We went and saw the Gastroenterologist and he said that he would like to see us to an MRI on Dylan to see if there maybe any brain issues that could be causing the swallowing issues, and Jessica did some great research and found this thing called EE, don’t ask me to give you the medical terminology, basically it's a clumping of white blood cells in the throat that when an allergic reaction occurs can cause that gagging and vomiting issues that Dylan has had. During this time we decided to make the switch from his goat’s milk to soy. We had had him on goat’s milk because we thought he was fine with it, but he was still having some eczema and congestion issues. Well it took a good week or so to convince him that the soy milk is good and for him to actually drink it. Since then we have been extremely impressed with his progress. He has not vomited once and his eczema is gone, so we think it was the goat’s milk, which makes us really mad as parents because we were actually the cause of the little guy’s problems. We are still going to go ahead with a new swallowing study and the MRI and testing for the EE, just to rule some of that out.
As far as his other progress he is doing well. We had thought that he was possibly undersized and we were concerned that with all the vomiting that he was not getting enough calories and nutrition. We saw a dietician and she calculated that he is getting plenty of calories and gave us some suggestions since he is on a lower fat soy instead of milk, and she also said his height to weight ration is 75% which we never thought of it that way, so that is good. You would be amazed though, that once we switched him to the soy and he hasn’t vomited how quickly he has put on some weight. There for a good month or two stretch he just stayed the same weight, since he had probably put on a half pound or so. He has had the flu or something that past week or so, so he didn’t want to eat much which is understandable, so we regressed a little but thank God the vomiting has gone away for now.
Here is a little slide show of some pictures from the past couple months, we made a trip to Michigan for a family reunion and then visited our friends in Chicago, so there are some nice pictures there. Enjoy.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
New Photos
Sorry it has been so long since we have posted anything new up here. As you are aware a 14 month old can have his tolls on your energy. We have all been really good, I will try and give an update on Dylan, but I may have Jessica add because she understands more than I do.
For a couple of months now we have been going back and forth between pulmonologists, gastroenterologists, ent's, and speech therapy with Dylan, with a trip to the allergist in about a month. We have still been trying to figure out why Dylan would throw up when he ate, either choking or just throwing up. We have always kind of suspected a milk allergy. Shortly after he turned one we started giving him soy toddler formula to see if that helped with his constant congestion, coughing and vomiting, and it did. We then started introducing milk back in slowly, we would always get to about half and half milk and formula and he would get worse again. So we then switched to lactose free milk and formula and he could get to about three quarters milk and the issues would come back. We are currently doing half goats milk and half soy formula and should hopefully bump it up here in a couple of days. This is the reason for going to the allergist in a few weeks.
As far as the other stuff. We took Dylan to the speech therapist on recommendation from the pulmonologist (who we love, he actually will sit with you and talk options), to have a swallowing test done. It turns out that Dylan is aspirating when he drinks liquids, basically the liquid was traveling down his throat and his brain is telling his swallowing reflex to late and he would get fluid in is airway and choke. So once we found that we now have to thicken all of his liquids, water, juice, milk, etc. to nectar consistency. This allows the fluid more time to travel down the throat and his brain to catch up. We have been doing this for over a month now and we make trips every to weeks to the speech therapist so she can watch him eat food and make sure that he is progressing properly. Right now his is having issues with not chewing his food, he seems to take the easy way out and if he can swallow it without chewing he is, and that cause issues with his aspiration as well. The therapist said he is doing better and he not necessarily behind for his age, but she wants us to stay on top of it.
More of Dylan playing in the pool.
Dylan's nice shinner on the forehead after falling at daycare, I guess he wasn't used to his new shoes yet.
He got the hang of hitting the ball pretty quick.
Bigger bat, but it was a little too big.
Naked baby in the pool.
First time playing in the ocean, he actually really liked it.
Playing in the sand at Galveston.
Dyaln doing his dance before school, without pants on as you can see. I'm not sure where they are at.
Dyaln with a mohawk giving mommy a kiss.
For a couple of months now we have been going back and forth between pulmonologists, gastroenterologists, ent's, and speech therapy with Dylan, with a trip to the allergist in about a month. We have still been trying to figure out why Dylan would throw up when he ate, either choking or just throwing up. We have always kind of suspected a milk allergy. Shortly after he turned one we started giving him soy toddler formula to see if that helped with his constant congestion, coughing and vomiting, and it did. We then started introducing milk back in slowly, we would always get to about half and half milk and formula and he would get worse again. So we then switched to lactose free milk and formula and he could get to about three quarters milk and the issues would come back. We are currently doing half goats milk and half soy formula and should hopefully bump it up here in a couple of days. This is the reason for going to the allergist in a few weeks.
As far as the other stuff. We took Dylan to the speech therapist on recommendation from the pulmonologist (who we love, he actually will sit with you and talk options), to have a swallowing test done. It turns out that Dylan is aspirating when he drinks liquids, basically the liquid was traveling down his throat and his brain is telling his swallowing reflex to late and he would get fluid in is airway and choke. So once we found that we now have to thicken all of his liquids, water, juice, milk, etc. to nectar consistency. This allows the fluid more time to travel down the throat and his brain to catch up. We have been doing this for over a month now and we make trips every to weeks to the speech therapist so she can watch him eat food and make sure that he is progressing properly. Right now his is having issues with not chewing his food, he seems to take the easy way out and if he can swallow it without chewing he is, and that cause issues with his aspiration as well. The therapist said he is doing better and he not necessarily behind for his age, but she wants us to stay on top of it.
Dylan playing in his froggy pool this weekend.
More of Dylan playing in the pool.
Dylan's nice shinner on the forehead after falling at daycare, I guess he wasn't used to his new shoes yet.
He got the hang of hitting the ball pretty quick.
Bigger bat, but it was a little too big.
Naked baby in the pool.
First time playing in the ocean, he actually really liked it.
Playing in the sand at Galveston.
Dyaln doing his dance before school, without pants on as you can see. I'm not sure where they are at.
Dyaln with a mohawk giving mommy a kiss.Sunday, May 17, 2009
Superman
Here are some photos of Dylan in his killer Superman PJs my parents got him for his birthday.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
More pics
Look Mom no Hands....
Dylan at his first swimming lessons. He absolutely loves the water.
Dylan's new hobby...BOOGER Picking...GROSS!!!!
Dylan at his first swimming lessons. He absolutely loves the water.
Dylan's new hobby...BOOGER Picking...GROSS!!!!
Misc.
A couple weeks ago Dylan had a little stomach flu and we had to take him to Dell Pediatrics to get some medicine. Here are some photos of him playing in the room.
Here are some photos of Dylan lounging with the dogs. They make such great pillows.
This Tonka truck is just amazing, he can sit in it or stand on it.
Here are some photos of Dylan lounging with the dogs. They make such great pillows.This Tonka truck is just amazing, he can sit in it or stand on it.Update Photos
Dylan has been going through a climbing face he wants to climb on EVERYTHING. Here are some pictures of him showing off his climbing skills.
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