Keegan: Six-Month Update

Today was Keegan’s six-month appointment. We got some erythromycin for his goopy eye, since it hasn’t yet cleared up on its own, and he is otherwise doing great! He weighs 19 pounds, 9 ounces.

Rona and had checkups too, and we both have high cholesterol. Rona’s blood pressure is perfect as always, but mine is above the hypertension line. If it’s above next time, too, then I officially have high blood pressure. Rona got some allergen testing results back, and so between those and the cholesterol, we’ll soon be dumping dairy, wheat, eggs, and some other stuff from our diet for a while at least to see if we can get things back out of the red zone.

“Soon” rather than “now” would be because this Friday we’re partaking in a cooking class at Blue Ribbon Cooking School for Nicole’s birthday. We’ll cook a gourmet meal under chefly supervision, and then the food will be served to us in the dining room. Sounds like a perfect last hurrah before our cleanse.

Zoey had preschool this morning, and then came with us to our long appointment at Dr. Tracy’s office. She had fun coming in and out of the room to go get more toys and visit with the other doctors and their patients and the front desk staff.

Moving back to Keegan, tonight we gave him his first food, butternut squash! He loved the eating process, but didn’t seem too keen on the squash itself. We just hope that introducing some solid food will enable him to sleep longer at night. Wish us luck!

And of course, we’ve posted First Food Photos to Flickr:

We’ll post a video soon, as well (with a Quicktime link for Grandpa Robert, too).