Goodbye January!

Obligatory Elijah picture:


If I just start off each entry with a picture of Elijah, then nothing I write really matters, does it?

Is it really the end of January? The month seems to have flown past. I'm ending the month with an annoying chest cold. It would be nice if it was very short-lived.

I'm going to be adding the updates from Elijah's birth and surgeries to this blog and backdating them. Hopefully I can figure all that out pretty easily. It will be nice to have them all in one place for anyone that may have missed them. Future updates will just be posted here. Can you believe he is 6 weeks old today?

Kirk had a birthday on Tuesday. We used the candles we had available, but unfortunately there was no "3", so...


Happy 84th birthday, Kirk! :cD

Another trip down to Durham

Elijah had another check-up today down at Duke. The neurosurgeon said he is doing very well. They removed about half the stitches from the incision on the back of his head. If things go well over the next couple weeks with that, the rest of the stitches can come out. My Dad is a physician, so Dr. Grant(the neurosurgeon) said in order to save us a trip we could have him remove the rest. Elijah's next check-up is scheduled for mid-April. He's scheduled to have a CT scan then as well. As long as the shunt continues to function properly, the plan for the rest of the year is another check-up and an MRI at 6 months, a check-up at one year and then yearly check-ups form then on out.

Elijah is growing well! Since his last check-up 5 days ago he grew almost an inch and gained 1.5 ounces. He is 22.25" long and weighs 10 pounds 2 ounces. It's hard to believe he will be 6 weeks old on Thursday!

Welcome!

Welcome to our family's blog! We hope this will help family and friends keep up with everything going on in our lives - as long as we can keep it updated. ;c) I have been trying to take lots of pictures this year. I'm trying to participate in Project 365(although it should be 366 for this year), so there should be lots of pictures at least. I'll also try to keep you up to date with Elijah and his progress. If there's any info to be had, I'll try to get it posted here.

The first thing we have learned so far is it's hard to come up with a blog name.