2 Months Old

It's a little late, but on July 20th Carter was 2 months old.

Sienna loves him. Sometimes she reads him books. Most of the time he really likes her attention.

He's gotten so chubby! He has such a big belly and little rolls on his arms and legs. On his 2 month birthday he weighed 12 lbs 12 oz.

He's a good boy.

He sleeps pretty good at night. Usually only waking up once or twice. During the day when he falls asleep though, I can't put him down or he wakes right back up. He likes riding in the car and usually falls asleep. I took the kids to Safford by myself and Carter slept the whole way up and back. He smiles a lot and talks to us. In the picture above you can see that Carter's right eye is almost half brown, half blue. The outside half is brown. I noticed it before his 1 month appointment and Garrett wanted me to ask the pediatrician about it. So I asked her and when she was looking at his eyes she said that the coloring was normal. His eyes might change color more anyways. Then she noticed his pupils are different. In both his eyes he has what is called a coloboma. It means his pupils are elongated at the bottom of his eyes. His irises, the colored part of the eye, didn't develop all the way at the bottom. It's a birth defect that happens in the first part of pregnancy and happens in 1 in every 10,000 babies. It's not really easy to see right now unless he is looking up but it is noticeable. Colobomas can range from causing blindness or just being cosmetic and not affecting the vision. We had to take him to an eye specialist and he said that he will be able to see but right now we don't know how much his vision will be affected. We'll just have to wait and see. He also has a heart murmur so we had to take him to a cardiologist to get it checked out. It is normal and he should grow out of it so that is nothing to worry about. The eye specialist wanted to get an MRI to check out his brain since the brain is closely related to the eyes. So on his 2 month birthday we had to take him to Phoenix Children's Hospital to get an MRI. It went pretty well considering he couldn't eat four hours before it and was starving. He usually eats every two hours. They had to give him light anesthesia for it. He came out of anesthesia just fine so we only had to stay at the hospital for two hours afterwards then we were able to go home. The results of the MRI were good. There is nothing wrong in his brain. One coloboma is worse than the other so we'll just keep getting his eyes checked and see what happens. Right now he seems to see fine so we're not too worried about it. We're just glad that everything came out alright and we're lucky to have two healthy kids.