Busy weekend, but lots of fun!

This was a busy week for us at the Cohen house. Besides the unpleasantries mentioned in the previous post, we had a friend of mine visit from Arizona. Candace and Josh have been on a cross-country treck with their son Henry and stopped by our great city to visit for a couple of days. It was wonderful to have them here and Henry is just the cutest little guy ever! His vocabulary is amazing! I also threw a baby shower on Saturday for our friend's Dave and Mike who adopted baby Abigail. That was alot of fun and everyone reallyenjoyed themselves. Then on Sunday we headed out to Downingtown to swim at my parents' and have dinner. We have been busy!Here's Aaron laughing at daddy...
Dave and Abigail
Henry and Charlie

Me and Aaron, Candace and Henry in front of the liberty bell

Candy, Aaron and Henry

Slepyhead milk face baby on tutu's shoulder

Charlie did so well at the pool on sunday. He loved getting dunked under and actually got the hang of holding his breath when he went under. He kept saying, "don't forget the breathe!" Then he actually jumped off the edge into Alex's arms. What a big boy! He also discovered that he could touch the bottom in the shallow end and insisted on walking back to the steps himself!

Aaron had his first dip in the pool and decided he'd rather stick to warm bathtubs!

chillin in the wagon

"sunning" himself

Aaron went to the cardiologist today (monday), as well as the neurologist. The cardiologist dd a thorough echocardiogram and really does not think that a vascular ring is anything to worry about. He thinks that his breathing and all of his other "issues" ar not related to anything cardiac. Hooray, one specialist to cross off our list of docs.

Then we went to neurology. The doctor was very nice and very thorough with Aaron. He agrees that he is hypotonic with motor delay. His reflexes are preserved so there does not seem to be a "neuromuscular" problem, just a muscular one. I found a great website that explains what the doc said very well. Basically there's a number of reasons for hypotonia...it may be something he will outgrow, it may not. We are slotted to have numerous bloodtests done to try and get some concrete answers, and also to see if there is a medicine or something that can be given to reverse the problem. There are so many possible reasons for hypotonia, and it may be that we never find the reason. But he'd like to try. We are going to opthamology to look for changes in his optic nerves that can give some clues as to what the neurologist should look for. I'm a little thrown back by all of this but I love Aaron madly and will do whatever i can to make it better for him.