One busy week

Lucas' surgery started around 7:30am on Monday, which meant that we had to be there at 5:45am. The surgery was done in two parts, with urology going first and ophthalmology second. Everything went very well, and the surgery was over by around 11am.

The ophthalmologist said that there is a 50% chance that Lucas will need a follow up eye surgery, and that it will take around 3 months for his brain to learn how to use the new eye muscles correctly. Even now, we see an improvement - with his eye not drifting to the outside, but still occasionally drifting inwards. Our hope is that Lucas will learn to use his eyes more and more, and his development will speed because of it.

In the last few months, Lucas has been getting much better control over his body. He can hold his cup and drink from it on his own, and is beginning to be braver about taking steps (while somebody holds him up by the arms).

So far, he's been very sweet towards his sister - and it's amazing for us to watch her and see the things that she is able to do within days of birth that Lucas is still working on. But as she grows bigger and it becomes safer for her to spend more time dodging Lucas' headbutts - we hope that her development will encourage Lucas all the more.

I'll let Esther give an update of Eliana's birthday. I posted some more pics and a video of her from the night she was born:

Eliana Piera DeSantis