Evaluation update

We took Isaiah in to the CDD for his regular evaluations on Tuesday.  Here's the skinny:

Isaiah grew quite a bit!  The kid is 33.5 inches tall (average for an 18-20 month old boy) and he's 26 lbs (on the charts for his age!  5-10th percentile!)  And his head circumference was 45 centimeters (average for an 8-9 month old boy).  His weight jumped up percentiles, and head and height stayed on his own curve, so we will take it :).   They discovered a heart murmur, which was obviously more worrisome for me than anyone else, so we will just monitor it since it sounded like an innocent murmur.  They also found something with one of his eye.  I couldn't tell you what it was because I'd never heard of it before.  They are referring us to his pediatric ophthalmologist to take a look.  They also said that sometimes there are markers for genetic disorders in the eye structures so they are going to be looking for those as a last ditch effort to find a diagnosis.

Speech:  Isaiah scored at 15-18 months for receptive language.  Expressive language he scored at 22 months which is amazingly higher than what he scored 6 months ago (he was scored at a 12 month level 6 months ago).  Isaiah has never made more than month to month progress before in anything, so this was exciting for us!

Physical:  Isaiah scored between a 20-22 month old for gross motor.   Our OT was gone for the day so he was not assessed for fine motor.  6 months ago he was evaluated at 22-24 months for fine motor, and I'd guess he's still right there since he hasn't made many gains in that area.


So that's that.  We've aged out of the clinic he's been in (or will be in 2 months) but he will follow up with our CDD team annually, and we will stay with genetics every few years and neurology when ever they want us to go in.  Isaiah will be 3 years old in 2 months.  His first year was constant worry about why he wasn't meeting milestones or growing.  His second year was spent trying to figure out what was going on, and his third year was spent embracing his differences.  He's come along way, and so have I.  :D