Happy New Year!

From our family to yours... We would like to wish you a very happy new year! Happy 2012!

Feeding himself

Happy Holidays!

A lil late ... But... Happy Holidays from Kyle and family to you!!!

Some recent pics below...

13 months and growing

Walking!!!

Yay!!! Today not only did you get a hair cut but you walked about 10 steps on your own!

National Biliary Atresia Awareness Day

Today is the annual National Biliary Atresia Awareness Day! Check out the video made by baaware.org ... http://video214.com/play/Pk1Qxv9T50ohovMb7gdSSA/s/dark

Please help spread the awareness of BA! Thank you!

Post Thanksgiving

Yummy! Drum Stick!!!
11.27 @ Chruch Celebration

Yummy!!! First Turkey ever made by Daddy & Mommy



On the charts!!!!

Dear Kyle,

Mommy and daddy decided to start writing to you on this blog instead of just posting away. This past weekend we finally saw a spec of white growing out of your gums! Yay! Finally, it only took you 12 months and 1 week!

Today was your one year old doctors appointment. Daddy took you! You cried the minute you saw the nurse! You weighed in at 18lbs 12ozs!!! That's 10ozs heavier than your sister when she was a year old! So proud of you! You are finally on the charts... Not high on the percentile but at least you are on the lines! Keep it up little man!!!! We're so proud of you!

Always,
Ur #1 fans - mommy & daddy

Sweet dreams!!!

Baby boy finally falls asleep... On our bed! What a habit to have .. Good for him... Bad for us! Ek!

Standing on my own

Happy 1st Birthday!!!

Birthday Boy!

yay! I'm standing on my own!!!

first cake of the day

second cake of the day

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Kyle the monkey...his first halloween!

Happy Results!

We're so proud of our lil tiger! His numbers came back from his blood work last week and they're amazing! His bilirubin count is .3 over .1 -- NORMAL! we love that name! Liver enzymes number according to daddio is half of what it was last time. Stable! We like stable! And best part...we can take him off of his vitamins. Even better...next appointment is 4 months from last week! Woohoo! Go lil tiger!!


We were told he need to start feeding himself...so the next day grandma gave him a piece of fruits...and sure enough he ate it!  Yummy!! :)

Picture Perfect

When I'm nice with my sister.

I know...even the older girls can't resist me. Coming to my crib.

This was us 23 years ago!



You just can't carve me up and put me in your front porch.




Yeah I'm the man of the house since daddy's not around.




Wink Wink! This is how I get girls :)



Happy Doctors!

Kyle had two doctor appointments today, one round of drawing blood and one round of flu shot, even with all that my lil man is still happy as ever. He weighed in at 17lbs 2 ozs. Impressive weight gain since the last time for them! They're extremely happy with how well he's maintaining the weight gain. I can't say much about his height as they both came in at different numbers, but I can say he is def not a tall one. Guess the wishing for him to get the recessive genes didn't work out.

At his liver appointment, they were so happy on how he looks and acting. Even the surgeon stopped by and said hi. His doctor took Kyle all around the office and was just telling everyone that Kyle was her lil one and how great he looked. Hopefully his blood results are stable and nothing fishy comes up. The best part is they decided that instead of seeing him every other month, they are going to see him every 4 now. I'm extremely happy about that. It just means he's going at the right track.

At his pediatrician, his doc was happy with him as well, especially with his developmental skills. The last time we saw he was there she was concerned about it all. But now she's not worried at all. Overall, it was a good day at the doctors. Extremely proud of how my lil man is doing!!

Will update pics shortly.

Next up on Kyle's adventure...Boo at the Zoo with his other stooges and company!

Eleven Months...

HAPPY 11 MONTHS!!! 

Can't believe how fast he's growing up...one more month and he's going to be one year old!

Almost the big 1

Kyle's turning 1 soon! Time flies by so quickly! The little man has been thru so much and no matter what he's still our little trooper. Besides being on the small side compared to others his age, I would say he's catching up nicely to everyone else in the development skills. Kyle has finally started crawling on all fours, almost using his pinchers and he's able to pull himself to a standing position when he's in his crib. Hopefully he keeps it up and will eventually chase his big sister around.

It's been super busy lately! Sorry for the lack of post! We have so much going on...Kyle's first Halloween, birthday parties, playdates, weddings, etc.! Making up for the lack of post...here are some updated pics of our lil tiger boy!


moving around non stop...



Kyle wanted to take over the wheels for his daddy...



Trying on his fall/winter jacket



sweetheart playdate <3



And for an exclusive look at what Kyle will be for Halloween....



Kyle the Monkey...Kyle waving Hi!!!

Happy 10 Months!!!

Happy 10 Months Old Baby Boy!!!

Last week was a tough one for us. Kyle probably lost a few ounces, but it's ok because he's slowly gaining it all back up. We think Kyle had everything pretty much you can imagine all at once. From a minor ear infection, a little cold, a stomach bug to teething. Poor baby! It was quite scary for me, I felt like a first time mom all over again. He couldn't keep much of his food down, so we had to cut back on it. It was even to the point where he only consumed pedialyte because formula was not just staying in.  Finally, the last two days he started picking up his eating habits and acting like his normal self. He even got another hair cut.

Below are a recent pics...

Haircut by grandpa

Hurricane Kyle

Hurricane Irene is approaching, but while everyone in the city is prepping for her our little Hurricane Kyle sent us to the emergency room last night. Yesterday, he had his liver check up. He weighed in at 16lbs and 26ins (still in the 3^rd percentile – but doctor is still happy with it). He got his blood drawn (which we found out the results were pretty much the same as last months). He was doing great in the morning, he was his happy usual self. Then towards the afternoon, he started acting strange. He wasn’t eating, the solids that he consumed for breakfast came back up. It was scary. All he wanted to do was sleep. He looked so uncomfortable. When we arrive home, daddy tried feeding him cereal and formula. All that came back up as well. We saw he looked extra tired too. Finally, we called it in and they told us to make a trip in so he can be seen. We went to the ER, took forever to get seen only to be kicked out with them saying it’s nothing because OF COURSE at the hospital Kyle was jumping and laughing. The one good thing about the trip was finding out his blood results a little earlier than usual. Today is another day, he’s doing better but still looks exhausted and not eating as much. We’re hoping this is just a bug that will go away fast. He’s also teething…which doesn’t make it easy at all.

Some other news-  he also started OT (2x a month) and PT (1x a week)...and he no longer needs monthly visit, it is now bi-monthly! YAY!!!

Here are some photos of our little man:

Kyle gets a hair cut

Playing peek-a-boo

At CP Zoo - scared of the big polar big



Approved!

It's been awhile since we last updated! Both Mommy and Daddy are super busy at work and sister finally started school again. As for Kyle, we had an interview with the Dept of EI this week and he was granted approval for PT and OT. Yay!  It'll be great to have others who specialize in this field to help him develop all his milestones! He was granted once a week for PT and twice a month for OT for the next 6 months. Hopefully by the time his sessions expire, Kyle will be all caught up with the rest of his buddies so when we have playdates with them Kyle can have fun too. He's next check up with the liver team is in next week. We're hoping they tell us we can stretch his appointments out to every 2 months instead of every month and maybe even take him off his medicines. And I also hope he has gained some weight since his last visit. I mean our boy does consume about 36-40ozs of milk a day!!!

Here's a photo from Kyle's Auntie Heidi's surprise birthday party. Kyle is being held by his Uncle Steve. Photo credit: Kyle's Uncle Quan

Happy 9 Months!!!

Kyle is 9 months old today... Just in a few more he'll be one. My how time flies! We haven't weighed since his last visit to the doctors, but we're guessing he's around 16 or so.

We also got his evaluation reports from The agency. By looking at it, I hope he gets approved by the city and does get the services.

Candids

We were at Kyle's cousin's birthday party and his aunties took some pics of him! Check it out below! Photo credit: Kyle's auntie Cathy's camera

Go Kyle Go!!!

We got his blood work back! Go Kyle Go! His bilirubin is .4 over .2!! Exactly where the doctors want it...to stay going down and in fact it dropped from his last month's result! But the best part ...his liver enzymes are HALF of what they were last month! Go Kyle Go!!! So extremly proud of our little man!

And another note...he's sitting on his own now...straight instead of leaning forward. At times he'll flop over, but it's alot better than what he did last week. He still needs PT and OT, hopefully that will get approved by city soon so he can catch up to speed with his other friends.

Here are some pics that we didn't get to post last week:

Kyle sitting upright



Birth weight double!!!

Finally Kyle is double his birth weight!!! He's 14lbs 7ozs as of today at his monthly check up with his liver team. (still a little short though) Even though he's a little off his developing skills, the np thinks he looks great. Liver is sill enlarged but that's ok cause liver is a remarkable organ and it may go back to normal size as he gets bigger. He's come a long way!
As for the physical therapy part, he's been evaluated by the pt (thx to our wonderful friend!!!), special Ed teacher and nutritionist - results are that he's borderline, so city may not approve for the IE program. He's being evaluated by the OT today. Even though he may not qualify for city funded IE program, he's got some amazing aunties that will help us out. Like his np said he's young and will catch up.

I'll post pics later.

Happy 8 months

wow! How time flies! Happy 8 months to our little tiger! (a day late)
here's a few updated pictures of our little tiger!