Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Eight Eyes

Weight Check
William - 24lbs 2oz
Aaron - 24lbs 4oz

As expected, William now has glasses to help with his eye occasionally turning inward.  The technical term is intermittent esotropia, a form of strabismus.  His is neurological based and not vision related - his eyesight has actually slightly improved since the last visit, and he is just barely farsighted.  Because of his extreme prematurity and/or the brain bleeds, there are times when his brain isn't quite telling his eyes how to line up correctly. Luckily it's not constant, so his depth perception should be able to develop normally, although he is slightly behind Aaron in that area according to the ophthalmologist.  The glasses should help, but probably not fix, the issue.  At some point down the road we may discuss eye muscle surgery to correct it, which was mentioned previously by our pediatrician.  I waited to post this until the glasses were received, so that I could post adorable pictures of the boys in their glasses together...however, William will not yet wear them.  It took a good two months or so for Aaron to wear his consistently, so I expect it will take at least that long for William.

Other than that, no real news for the boys.  They are making great progress with speech.  William is putting two words together "not nice!" and Aaron is building up his vocabulary.  Our speech therapist believes he'll be caught up to the expectations for their actual age by age 2.  Developmental clinic was cancelled last month due to the late season snow storm and we're waiting to go back again until they're two.  I'll keep everyone posted with their progress...until next time, here are a bunch of pictures :)

William

Aaron

Aaron

Anna


Troublemakers

William...stealing Aaron's glasses

William, Allee, and Aaron

William

Aaron

William 
Aaron