A Nice Long Weekend!

It was definitely a nice long weekend for our family. We had some very beautiful weather the past few days that we all enjoyed. Even Parker went for a little stroll yesterday. My parents have a beautiful pool and Parker's cousins go swimming quite regularly there. Everyone wishes that Parker was able to also join them in the pool but unfortunately that is not possible for a couple of reasons. First, the little monkey is not allowed to be around other kids so if his cousins are there he is unable to be. Secondly, a pool of water is generally not the safest place to hang out if your immune system is compromised. Even the cleanest of pools would contain quite a few bacteria floating around. So, as it stands Parker will have to spend this summer away from the pool. Learning to swim is something I will not be working with him at the moment. That said, sitting, crawling and communicating are, and for that reason I will focus my time on those.

Parker is very close to being able to sit all by himself. I alternate between him sitting unassisted and with him using the Jolly Jumper pillow. Parker has sat unassisted for a good two minutes at a time; however, I still feel uncomfortable leaving him by himself as he sits there playing with his toys. Although he lost his balance yesterday and bumped his head on his mat, he didn't seem to mind very much. Parker is definitely one tough kid.

We will heading off to Sick Kid's tomorrow for his blood work and ADAGEN injection. We were told last week that we should be able to reduce his blood work to once every two weeks. That would definitely be nice as it would mean one less poke every other week. Maybe tomorrow we will be lucky and his IgG level will be back up over 2.2. It had fallen to 1.9 and for that reason Parker is slated for an IV to increase his IgG level. I am keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best as that is what my wife and I are getting very good at.

I am posting a new poll tonight. So check it out and vote for your favourite video of Parker. For those of you who are wondering what the result of the last poll was the message I wrote to my wife our first month in isolation was the winner by quite a few votes. It gathered over 50% of the votes by our readers. You can read it by clicking here.