A Little Progress

Evan's finger didn't heal too well since he decided to pull the stitches out.  He did a pretty poor job of leaving the bandage on, too.  Evan wasn't able to extend his pinky at all.  I didn't want him to blame me someday for not being able to play the guitar, or anything else that requires the use of your left pinky, so at his two year check-up Dr. Worrall recommended that we take him to a hand specialist.  The hand specialist said that he may or not need surgery and sent us to an OT to get a splint.  I'll have to post pictures of him in his splint.  He had to wear it all day for a week and then nights after that.  We are almost into the third week and he is definitely able to extend is pinky more than before.  Hopefully, it gets better before we go back to the hand specialist in a couple of weeks.  I'd hate for him to have to have surgery for a bent pinky, or anything really, before he even turns three!

In other news, Evan has grown rounder and not much taller.  At his two year check-up he weighed 27 lbs. and was about 35 inches.  He was between 25th and 35th percentile for weight, chunky monkey!  For Evan at least.  He's never broken the 25th percentile before.  He was only 50th percentile for height and I don't think he's ever been below the 75th percentile before.  His projected adult height is 5' 10''.  Dr. Worrall said he is either about to have a growth spurt or is just starting to even out.  I guess we'll just have to wait and see.  Not that there is anything wrong with average.  I was hoping, for his sake, that he would get his Grammy's and Uncle Jeremy's body type genes and not ours.  Here's hoping!  Everything else is perfect!  We are so blessed with our sweet little man. 

Some current favorites of his...
Bayineti (Baby Einstein), not sure why he is back on this, maybe because he can say it?
Little Einsteins, a little more appropriate ;)
Singing Tinka Tinka Tar (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star), Baa Baa Sheep (Baa Baa Black Sheep), Jeuh Uv Me (Jesus Loves Me)
Dancing
Watching shows in our bed with the cubers (covers)

It probably doesn't sound like his speech is much better, but he went from not talking much at all to talking all the time!

I can't get over all the things he knows, and can't help but wonder how he learned it all.  He can rote count and count objects all the way to 10 (technically he gets stuck on 3 and needs a little help sometimes).  Evan says "bye-bye" to everything he sees.