First Work of Art

Sofia and Daniel are now attending 3 hours of preschool twice a week. They both love it and are exhausted at the end. Which is a good thing.

Here's the first work of art to go up from Sofia!

Sofia has moved...

into the living room! It's gotten a bit too noisy in the family room so we've moved our home hospital into the living room. Now Sofia has her own baby grand piano!

It's still taking some getting used to but we think she's sleeping better and that's what is important.

Birthday pictures!

Sorry for the delay... here they are!

(pics courtesy of granddaddy)

9/11

9 years ago Daddy was 6 blocks from Ground Zero and Mommy was in midtown. Neither of us were able to make it home that night. As tragic as that day was, 9/11 has a different significance for us now as 2 years ago our son Raymond passed away.

In honor of his memory we are planting another plant, the one from the previous year is thriving despite the drought we've had this year.

On a lighter note here is Daniel in a somewhat apropos outfit for today, we need to complete the look for Halloween. We also had one of Mommy's closest friends from college (whom she hasn't seen in more than 5 years) stop by with her family and the kids were able to play together.

Back to the Doc

Sofia's infection returned last night so we were back to the pediatrician this morning. New antibiotics will hopefully do the trick. We are hopeful that this may explain why her scope last week wasn't stellar.

We also met with a new GI doctor who updated her medications so we hope to get Sofia's reflux back under control as well. The doctor agreed, though, that based on Sofia's history her reflux is mild, and probably acts up when she is sick.

We're Two

It's amazing to see how big Sofia and Daniel are now after their arrival at 24 weeks:



Here they are at 1 year:



It was a beautiful day on Saturday for their birthday party. Party pictures will be coming soon!

Just ducky for Daniel...

Here's Daniel playing with a duck toy that Daddy bought him. A pre-present for the big 2 birthday tomorrow!



Unfortunately in other news Sofia is not just ducky. Her last scoping wasn't encouraging and while she is tolerating her passy almost the whole day it looks to the surgeon that there is some damage in her trachea as a result of reflux. We are going to go see a *new* GI specialist so we can "aggressively treat" it, then maybe her trach issues can be surgically corrected. However, it looks like she may be keeping her trach in through the Spring, since no one performs surgery in flu/rsv season. We'll have to wait and see, as usual.