Snow Days

We've been enjoying quite a bit of snow up here in Boston. And apparently we're supposed to get slammed again sometime this week. I think we had about 22 inches between the 2 big storms we recently had. Kevin had tons of fun digging out our cars...only to be plowed back in. We had an awesome snowday last week where we all slept until 10:30 (Elias too!), made some chocolate chip pancakes, and hung out with some friends for the day.

Elias got his cast off his arm and now has a little splint that he has to wear all the time.



He also sat in his high chair and tried a few bites
of rice cereal for the first time! He liked it!



When we went in for his weekly cast appointment, we talked about our next step for Elias and his little feet. Elias will be undergoing surgery on Monday, January 31 to correct both feet. Kevin's mom is coming up for a few days to help us out, which is SUCH a blessing. Kevin's classes start that week, and while he'll probably be able to miss the first day to be at the hopital while Elias is in surgery, he probably wont be able to be there much. And the doctor says he'll atleast be there one night, if not more. They will put a pin in the right foot to hold the dislocated bone back in place for a couple weeks, and then have to go back in to remove it. On his left foot (clubbed), they will be done a couple tendon releases. After this, he'll be in casts just for a couple weeks to until they heal, and then he'll go into some custom orthotic braces. We really don't know much about these braces, other than they're more appropriate for Arthrogrypotic kids than the boots with the bar (which is what "normal" clubbed feet kids get). We were going to have his thumb and skin tags removed all in the same operation, but the hand doctor wants to wait a little while longer for it to have more time to stretch. And the ENT who would remove the skin tags said that he really wants to wait a few more months because the longer we wait, the less scarring there will be as he grows. As he grows, so would his scar. I can't imagine these little skin tags infront of his ear would leave that big a scar, but we trust he knows what he's talking about :) So we'll have both of those (hand and skin tags) done in the same operation in a little while.

Here's a few pictures from the past week or so.