Hello, everyone!!! St. Vincent's called today to schedule Joseph's video EEG to indeed find out if the activity we are seeing is seizure related or not. This is a 24 hour hospital stay at Peyton Manning's Children's Hospital; Joseph will be hooked up to an EEG machine as well as have a video camera on him at all times. He will not be allowed to leave his room at all since we are video taping this time around.
We are to be at St. V's at 12:30 on September 3, 2009. I will be taking lots of videos and books to keep him occupied with. Thank goodness he LOVES his books.
Otherwise, he is doing fantastic. He is walking unassisted probably 75-80% of the time now and is soooo cute when he does it. He has also mastered the step UP from the dining room into the kitchen. He practices all the time. His verbal ability is still growing at a fantastic rate and now we are working on Mommy, Daddy, baby (with focus on the ending long e sounds). He says Ma-Ma and Da-Da and Buh for baby but we need to keep pressing on and work on annunciation. He can say more now and not just muh while signing it.
Jackson is the funniest little man-child I have ever seen. He is such an imitator and loves to do whatever the big kids are doing. BUT he has developed a cutesy thing now that we really need to break him of. This past Saturday while I was at the Nickelback concert and he spent the day with Daddy he started doing this. What is this, you ask? Well, see, if Jackie gets corrected for something or spoken firmly too, he will sing "Doot-doot-doo" back at you! Daddy thinks this is hilarious of course so now he is doing it all the time when he is corrected!! But it is pretty stinkin' cute!
Jared has started 1st grade at NES and is doing well. His teacher is Patti Elliott and I really like her. Jared is reading at the 3rd/4th grade level already is probably the most advanced in reading in his whole class. Tonight he starts Karate again, he is excited and Sensei Donnie is glad to have him back.
I think that pretty much covers what is going on in our household, just one more thing. Please keep our soldiers in prayer. There is an election coming up in Afghanistan and it is sure to get rougher on our men and women in uniform. Pray for their protection, please.
Until next time!!
All my kids are special and I LOVE Joseph's Designer Genes!!!!!
Down syndrome Awareness~~~BuddyWalk 2009~~~
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