Playen with his hands
My li'll baby punkin
Asleep in his cute bear coat
Just after a bath
Snugglin' with mom
Tommy's discovering grass day
Things have been going great for the Eaton house hold. Tommy is getting alot more interactive with every one. he is still working on holding his head up but as blind children go he is doing great. (you see he dosent have the visual insentive to rase his head to see things as visual babys do)
he is eating like no ones bisness and is sleeping pritty darn well throught the night. we ushaly only have to get up oncce with him, at around six in the morning.
Tommy is growing really nicely as well. he has thined out a little and has definitly gotten longer and heavier. he's such a solid little kid.
Tommy really injoys danceing ( waving his limbs and talking when music is playing) swinging in his swing, cuddling with mom or dad. Being held, espechaly by his Daddy, Aunt Patty, and Grandma. Oh and eating.
Tommy is also getting better at not puking after we feed him. "YES".
For the future: We are going to start giving tommy rice cerial soon, (I am So excited to see how he likes it). We are also planing to spend Thanks Goving with my parents as well as go to Tommys doctor apt at the Dibites Center in salt lake at about the same time.
Tommys groth hormene hearing is on the 18, hopefully everything will go well and we will be aproved. and Tommy is Turning six months old on the 16th HURRAH!!! - my little guy is just growen up.
So everything is going great. We just took Tommy in to get his latest CAT Scan yesterday. we wont know the results for a little while. the doctors up at Primary Childrens need to compare it to our last CAT Scan. Tommy is as cute as ever and growin. we are going to start him on rice cerial soon, its crazy how time flies.
I want to share a very special occasion with you all. We had a life or death experience today.
As most of you know, Tommy has been under constant vigilance with his hydrocephalus, making sure that it doesn't increase. This past week Nita and Tommy came back from Utah from a doctors appointment and Tommy seemed to be doing great. Yesterday, however, he became more lethargic and distant. His lips would randomly turn blue and he wasn't really eating. We watched him carefully, but through last night he got much worse. So the first thing Nita did this morning was to take him into the doctor.
Well, the doctor decided it wasn't more than a really bad cold. We were very grateful for this because, even though a cold is very detrimental for Tommy, a flare up of his hydrocephalus would be worse.
However, after Nita and Tommy came back, he sat for a few more hours doing nothing and we decided it was time to try to feed him, for he hadn't eaten very much all night and had nothing all day. So around 11:30 today I tried bottle-feeding him. Two minutes into it he turned solid blue and stopped breathing. I immediately realized we couldn't panic, meanwhile flashes of a CPR video they made us watch in the hospital ran through my mind. We bounced him around for about 30 seconds to no response whatsoever. He had passed out. He was not breathing. He was all blue and purple, limp and cold. I layed him down on the floor and began CPR as Nita called 911. As Nita gave them the details, I continued CPR for about a minute, when he twitched his arm. Afterward Nita told me that the whole time on the phone his feet twitched with every breath I gave him. I continued CPR and Tommy started to stir. We were asked by medical personnel whether we still wanted them to come, and we said no. Tommy finally started taking sporadic, shallow breaths.
Tommy is now alright. Still sickly, but getting better by the hour. His color has returned, and he's eating a little. We're very grateful for the spirit guiding us through the moment and know the Lord had a hand in calming us and helping us to remember what to do. I know God lives and watches over his children. He wants Tommy to stay, and I'll work my hardest to fulfill this plan of God's.
So Tommy and I are down here in Utah again, Tommy has a doctors appointment on Tuesday and we are just visiting family until then.
Its really nice to visit and see everyone, I sure do miss my hunny though, it will be nice to be home again.
