Another First Day

Collin started his second year as a preschooler today. He was so excited to go that he was in my bedroom at 6:30 this morning telling me just how excited he was.
We were in a rush this morning and I forgot to take a picture of him before school. So I promised that we would take one when he got home. We ended up taking quite a few.
I'm sharing the many faces and personalities of Collin with you.
He came home proclaiming that he had met his best friend ever, but couldn't remember his name.

It's nice to have him busy doing his own thing in the mornings, but I'll miss the time we had before he started. Like just last week he went outside and showed me what it was like to chase the wind. What?? So I went out on the porch, and there he was running through the grass as fast as he could yelling, "see mom, I'm chasing the wind!", and then afterwards coming up to me and panting, "I won against the wind." Okay...

And for the first time in a long time I had a morning alone. Well almost alone. I did have to do a little entertaining...but he wears out much quicker than his older brother. So I did end up with some much needed quiet time.

I needed to contemplate a few things, mainly my new callings I received in church yesterday. More on those later.

After Collin's morning away and first day picture frenzy, he nabbed the camera from me and did a little photography of his own. Here's his work.

I'm not sure what he did here, but it's pretty cool, I might ask him to show me how to work my camera like that.

This wasn't distracting at all to a child that already hates eating!

He even managed to take some video, which I don't even know how to do on my camera.
So enjoy!


Caleb Update: This week is a busy doctor week, I'll start at the beginning.
Monday-Audiology appointment. We put him in the sound booth this afternoon to test him. The testing was a little dissapointing. I held him in my lap and as each sound and noise got louder he showed no response, even with the bone conductor hearing aide on. I'm trying not to get too disappointed, we don't have all the answers and children at this age often times don't respond consistently to sound.
Tuesday-Home nurse Tanda comes. She's awesome, she comes every week, sometimes three times a week to our home to check up on Caleb. Then we have Early Intervention working with Caleb and Staci comes over to the house once a month to work with Caleb and teach him things and mainly to teach me things, like how to interact and play with him.
Wednesday-I leave at noon to Iowa City. I meet with the geneticist that afternoon and we go through the genetic testing and get that process started.
Thursday-We have the Baehr first thing in the morning, which is a neurological hearing test. They will put Caleb to sleep and test his brain responses to sound. Diana (Caleb's audiologist) tells me that we will have some more answers after this test and hopefully a clearer picture as to what Caleb's future will be. We're also hoping to meet with Dr. Davis that day who is the pediatric heart surgeon that will be repairing Caleb's heart. If he's not in the OR that afternoon we'll sit down with him and discuss the surgery and all those details.
Friday-A trip to our in-town cardiologist Dr. Mooradian.

I know you're all jealous at the fun Caleb and I will be having this week, we'll keep you updated as to how it all goes!