Fast Forward

Well, Since I didn't think to start this blog until recently, and Reis is now just over 4 months old, I figured I would fast forward through the last couple of months and bring everyone up to speed.

Within the first few of months of Reis' life, we have already made several trips to Kansas City.  During these trips, we met with the team of people that would be doing his surgeries as well as the ENT, Audiologist, Nutritionist and other people that will be following his progress as he grows and gets older.

We have made several trips to Fales Pediatric Dentistry to get his palatal expander fitted, and to have a few more checkups to see how much further it could expand and then finally our last appointment with them, Dr. Fales told us we could stop expanding as it was out as far as it would go.

During the past 3 months, things have been basically normal, with the exception of the frequent trips to Kansas City.  We have had some issues with ear infections, but other then that, everything has been fairly normal.  We have been to the lake, been to Wichita to see my dad and step mom who live down there a couple of times and even been out of town shopping like normal since we have had Reis.

On September 12th, 2009, Joe and Darla Conaway, with the help of some others held a benefit for Reis at Pooches in Smith Center.  They had a 70's costume party with all of the proceeds from the door entry going to an account that we had setup at the Peoples Bank.  This benefit went very well, and we raised quite a bit of money to go into the account that we had setup.  We have decided to use this money exclusively for travel, food and lodge (when needed).

Reis is scheduled to have his lip repair surgery this week, November 5th, 2009 at 6:30am and as you would probably assume, we are very nervous about how it is all going to play out.  We are confident that Dr. Singhal will do a wonderful job with it and we don't expect that when he is done on Thursday, everything will be hunky dory, but we know it is all going to work itself out in the end.  Our biggest concern is giving up our little man for the 4 hour or longer surgery.  Once the surgery is over, I will be sure to post more pictures and if time allows, I will post another segment on how everything went, so please stay tuned and thanks so much for keeping us in your thoughts.