Grant's doing Great

Well, obviously I've started school and feel swamped with everything (and feel I'm chasing my tail constantly) because I haven't given a Grant update since the first week of October. I'm so sorry to those of you who aren't around us to know how things are going. Here's a little run down . . .

We went to Olathe and actually picked up the obturator (for his mouth) October 16. It looks like a small retainer (as the picture below shows - the obturator is on the left and the larger thing on the right is the mold of the top of his mouth which they used to make it). What we didn't realize until we got there to pick it up is that it has to be taken out and rinsed after every feeding. This has taken a little getting used to, but really isn't that bad. It took him a while to get used to having it in, but now things are going great. He eats much quicker and is taking 4-5 ounces every feeding. We feel it has improved his eating a lot and are very glad for that. I don't have a weight update for this week yet (he gets weighed tomorrow) but last Monday he weighed 8 pounds. YEAH!


The biggest change with him has been his interaction with people. He is smiling a lot and starting to coo some. He lays on the floor and just swings his arms around and kicks his feet. It is a very fun stage! His brothers are still enjoying him a lot. Tonight, Andrew even was asking to hold him, so we gave him the opportunity.

Speaking of Andrew, the highlight for his life is that we are completely finished with his "bebe", or pacifier as most of us call it. If we'd tried to break him of it, we probably wouldn't have been successful, but it just kind of happened. No complaints on our end and not near as many from him as we thought there might be.

Ryan has officially finished football. His team ended the season 3-4 and then played in the Warrior Bowl in Newton this past weekend winning 1 and losing 1. One of the highlights for him was playing at Fischer Field on artificial turf at night with lights. Here is a picture of the Moundridge boys that played on the Halstead Hurricane team. They all had a great time!!!

Now on to Tyler, I don't know there is much to add about him. He just goes, goes, goes a hundred miles an hour. I'm finding I need to take more pictures of him I guess. Here is one of him with some of his friends at a Moundridge High School football game (with his brother Andrew getting in the picture - and obviously an older picture because he still has his "bebe" in his mouth).