All Over the Place and Right on Track

Day 330:

Today was as hectic a day as one (or three) can have, Conor.  From the word 'Go', the whole lot of us were on the move.  With a few busy schedules in so far as work, a developmental appointment with Dr. Wallin at Virginia Hospital Center, lunch at Lost Dog Cafe to ask about their interest in supplying us with gift cards for our NICU philanthropy (more on this later) over the Christmas holiday, then to drop you at Ms. Zeny's, then I came home to work for a couple hours while Mommy went to Maryland for a few meetings of her own.  By 2:00pm this afternoon I'd been just about all over NoVA and Mommy was covering Maryland.  Madness!  But it didn't end there...

For the few hours I was home I powered through a number of things for work and then managed to get changed into a three piece suit for a business conference and cocktail hour I was to work from 5:00pm to 9:00pm, and so off I went...  And while that was my day, Mommy's day would get even worse... In fact, she was an hour late getting you from daycare because it took her almost an hour and a half to get from Bethesda, MD to Merrifield, VA thanks to an accident on one of the busiest bridges in the country; the American Legion Bridge.

Now that that's out of the way, here's the good news...  Your appointment with Dr. Wallin went really, really well, Conor!  So well in fact that you managed to impress the good doctor with all your cognitive skills!  Skills like sitting on your own, interactively playing ball with me, your center line movements, responsiveness to your name and commands... The whole works, Son.  And you see, for children born at full term these things are generally not of any concern.  However, for preemie guys like yourself working through an understanding of what's referred to as your "adjusted age", they're all important milestones for tracking how you're developing your circumstance of being born a full two months ahead of schedule...

With all that said however, you are still a bit lacking in your motor skills... And by motor skills I mean crawling and sitting up on your own.  Not to worry though, Boy'O, we got you covered.  Some new exercises and activities on the horizon and I've little doubt that you'll be up and going in no time...

Well son, I'm proud of you.  You're doing so well and of course, as handsome as ever as evidenced by the picture on this post.  And with that, it's time for me to hit the rack, Boy'O...  We got some work to do tomorrow...

I love you, Son.
-Dad