The Mitchells: 1/2 A YEAR ALREADY!!

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

1/2 A YEAR ALREADY!!

William "Will" "Billy" "Bubba" is already 6 months old. He's cutting his first tooth, rolling all over the place and LOVES to eat. Here are his stats:

Height: 28 1/4" (95th%)
Weight: 17 lbs, 10.5 oz (55th%)
Head: 17 10/16" (80th%)

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Way to go big guy!; 4:53 PM
~The Neaves Nest~ said...: Happy 1/2 birthday!!; 6:01 PM
Maggie said...: Oh, I love seeing his stats!!; 6:23 AM
The McGuire's said...: Way to go Will! Yay to both the kiddos growing so fast.; 10:11 AM
* ~ *Jessica* ~ * said...: Wow! Will is a big little guy :) Parker is 20 months and barely 22lbs! ('course, he started out at 4.6) WTG Will!!!! Handsome little man!; 10:12 AM
The McGuire's said...: it seems like yesterday when I was in the hospital looking at your blog when Gracie had just been born and Will was in your arms. It's amazing and so wonderful.; 10:13 AM
Annie and Jeremy said...: Awww, what a cutie!!! :) Congrats, Will! :); 1:51 PM
Anonymous said...: Where did the background go?; 8:48 PM

Ella's Story

Elizabeth "Ella" Hope Mitchell was born on May 10, 2006 at 3:45pm...by 5am the following morning the whole world turned upside down. The doctors came in to inform us that while Ella had been resting in the Newborn Nursery, she began to have irregular breathing and seizures. It was touch and go for the next 3 days. We were told several times that she probably would not make it alive through the ordeal. She had contracted Group Beta Strep which had resulted in meningitis. Due to the seizures and the infection we had no idea what the long-term effects would be. After Ella spent a long and trying month in the NICU we came home to see where the effects of her illness had left us all.

A few months later, almost a year, we had an official long-term diagnosis...Ella has Cerebral Palsy. She is a happy and loving child. She struggles with physical delays, cognitive delays and all sorts of things that have come and go.

2-eye surgeries to correct lazy eye
3-EEG's to check for siezures
5-MRI/MRV/MRA to check actual brain damage
3-CT scans for brain stuff
1-G-button/feeding tube surgically put in (and then Ella removed herself)
10 (approx)-Swallow Studies
1-Scoliosis Study
2-Kidney Reflux tests
2-Upper GI tests
1-24 hr reflux test
8-hearing tests
countless UTI tests
seemingly a million developmental tests
a hand splint
bath chair
adaptive stroller/wheelchair
stander
gait trainer
AFO's

ha, not to mention all of the therapist...currently: OT 2X/week, PT 3X/week (2 land, 1 horse), ST 3X/week (2 oral motor, 1 speech), develomental 1X/week, vision 2x/month, and we are about to start ACCDAT camp.

As of 4/8/2009.