First tooth pokes through!

Once more unto the breach my friends, once more!

We have a lower-front tooth poking through and so Alexander now starts on the dental journey. Hopefully his will go much smoother than Nicholas' has!

Alexander sits up unaided for up to ten minutes!

Another sign that the physical and occupational therapy is really doing some good for Alexander can be seen in how well he sits up unaided. It wasn't so long ago that you'd sit him up and have to catch him almost immediately as he'd come right back down again.

He still has a definite weakness on the left side and hopefully the therapy will help him use what he can on that side. But it's a long-term project to be sure and we are seeing improvement...it's just hard to accept that it's not as instantaneous as we would like.

Bye-bye Topamax!

It's official...the last of the seizure medications is gone! We had been weaning him from this one for the last few weeks and he has been much more alert and engaged in the last couple of weeks. Six months ago, he was on a witch's brew of four medications for seizures and this is a significant milestone for us.

Of course, he's followed in his big brother's path of reflux (though he's not the spitter that Alexander was, thank goodness) and so he gets prilosec as Nicholas did.