Daddy's Boy

I managed to get a few shots of Aubrey watching and laughing at his dad. He loves to just sit and look at Jody. Of course, Jody is also great at getting him to laugh. It's really too cute. I love to watch them both.

Merry Christmas!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas this year. Ours was very busy. We had lots of family to spend time with this year.

On Christmas eve we celebrated my birthday and early Christmas with Grandma Debbie, Grandpa Jim and Aunt Kerri. Aubrey made out with lots of great stuff!!

Aubrey surrounded by his gifts!

Jody helping Aubrey open his presents

Aubrey checking out Grandpa Jim!

Jody and I at dinner.

Grandma, Grandpa and Aubrey

Aubrey and Jody

Me and Aubrey (We could not get him to look at the camera!)

On Christmas we spent the day with Grandma Jacki and Grandpa Dean. Aubrey saw all his aunts and uncles and met his Great Grandparents for the 2nd time. It was a nice day with a great meal and lots of fun.

Aubrey with his Uncle Roger and Grandma Jacki.

On Monday we go for Aubrey's tenotomy procedure at Texas Children's. So, please keep him in your thoughts. He will have the procedure and be in a cast for three weeks while the tendon heels and to place his feet in a completely corrected position. He will probably be fussy for a few days afterwards....hopefully he'll feel better for Christmas. But his daddy has reminded me that luckily he's not weightbearing on those feet, so there won't be any added pressure as the tendon heels. Thank goodness Jody is good at calming me down about things. :-) We are excited that this will be his final set of casts. On January 13th he'll be fitted for a brace and wear that until he starts to scoot. After that, we only wear the brace at night till age three.

Here is a website that describes more about clubfeet and the method of correction we are using.

http://www.ponseti.info/v1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=28

I will update on Monday after he's home from TCH and hopefully sleeping soundly!

Super Sweet Smile!

I was finally able to get a picture of Aubrey's adorable smile. What a cutie!!!

Aubrey's Aunt Kerri

Aubrey met his Aunt Kerri over Thanksgiving! He loves her and looks forward to seeing her again over the Christmas holidays!

Making some good progress.....

On Tuesday of this week, Aubrey had his 3rd set of casts put on. Autumn at the clinic said he's making good progress and hopes for only six weeks of the initial casting. They always give a range of 6-8 weeks. After she sees enough progress we make an appointment for the minor surgery to make an incision at the achilles tendon....YIKES! He'll only need a local ansethia and Autumn reassures us that the surgery is harder on parents than on these little babies.....try telling that to a new mom, who manages to tear up when he gets the casts on.....but we'll make it through. :-) The next set of pictures are of his progress.....

PIC 1 - No Casts....

PIC 2 - After first set of casts

PIC 3 - After second set of casts
We are excited because we are definitely seeing a good change in his tiny little feet. Other than our weekly trips to TCH, we are doing good. Aubrey has been fussier during and after his feedings lately so we are trying new formula starting today....and hoping it helps with his colic and reflux. He's changed alot in just the past four weeks and has definite times of quiet, alert play time now. He enjoys his new play mat, looking at the colors and is tolerating some tummy time. He can sometimes hold up his head and turn it to both sides while on his tummy. We also continue to see more smiles....especially when I play patty cake with him. He seems to always show me one smile with that game.