AMBROSE

Ambrose's Daddy spent all day carving this giant "AMBROSE" into the snow bank.

We are obsessed with our little darling.

When Ambrose turned 3, it was time to say goodbye to FIT and our wonderful early interventionist, Mary and hello to Ambrose's new team from Essential Early Education. (bottom 2 photos.)

Top is Ambrose multitasking on his tactile beanbag chair (or nest) that we got him for his birthday.

Blueberry Eyes

Ambrose wins the 1st annual Brosieolympics

Ambrose has been excelling at winter sports, as evidenced by his gold medal win in the first annual Brosieolympics held recently in our backyard.

Ambrose won in the ski jump (slide) competition. The crowd of plastic figurines filled the stadium and cheered him on.

Ambrose turned 3 on January 19th!

Here are some pics from Ambrose's historic third birthday party. It was a modest party with Mommy, Daddy, cat Lucy, nurse Meghan, EI Mary, and many stuffed animal friends. Ambrose conked out pretty early on from all the excitement.

Merry Christmas 2010!

Legs and Lights

I was just reading back over the small number of post I have made this fall and they all seem to focus on fevers and illness. Sorry about that. He has been well a lot too.

Of course he has been up to his usual trick of staying up all night.

The most exiting thing is that he has been SMILING a lot more. His smiles are small and hard to capture in pictures, but we are seeing them and that is wonderful!

He got new KAFOs (knee-ankle-foot orthotics) which can be worn over the AFOs or alone. These replace his old velcro knee immobilizers, which weren't working too well. The problem is his incredibly tight hamstrings, or "hamsprings" as his EI recently dubbed them. His keeps his legs bent at a 90+ degree (why is there no degree sign on a keyboard?) angle. He wears these for an hour at a time for stretching. These new ones have a hinge at the knee which enables you to put them on his bent legs and gradually tighten them. We only go as far as is comfortable and hopefully will eventually be able to get them to loosen up. I have posted a picture of him getting cast for them a few months ago (while wearing his AFOs - notice how bent his free leg is) , and wearing them recently.

Brosie has been enjoying playing under the Christmas lights. He really seems to be seeing and enjoying them. I hope so! Tonight we put up the Christmas tree.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Little Ambrose was sick again a couple of weeks ago. He had fevers up to 104.5. He started another course of Bactrim, complicated by a pharmacy error causing him to get too big of a dose, which resulted in some bleeding in his stomach. GRRRRRRRR!!! A couple of days later he was wheezing and very uncomfortable. He was put on a 5 day course of steroids. Within 12 hrs he was doing so much better. Again he was able to recouperate at home. Yeah!

I have enjoyed a week off of school in which I got to spend much more time with Brosie and we all enjoyed a wonderful visit from our dear friend Lisa. She drove many hours to cuddle Ambrose. As you can see, he has had a haircut since his cheeseburger pics.

I hope you have had the pleasure of watching the videos in the previous post. If not, you must do it now.

Wonderful videos of Brosie at play

Please note the yellow submarine jamies.

Tom's Diner Part 2, 11/24/10

Hey I just noticed we are now at well over 10,000 hits. Yeah! Thanks everyone for your interest in my darling boy!

Cheeseburger in Paradise

Ambrose dressed as a cheeseburger for Halloween. I cannot take credit for making the costume, it is from Old Navy.