Long Overdue Update

I don't know what happened but I had every intention to update our blog last weekend after our series of doctor's appt. But somehow, time flew again. I spend every weekday running between work and home to try to get work done but still squeeze some time in with Isaac. Then on Saturdays I usually run errands and on Sundays I spend the whole day taking care of Isaac.

Anyway, the doctor's appointments went well. We first went to St. Luke's on Wed March 7 for Isaac's "official" follow up. Dr. Kusakawa was very happy with Isaac's development. Isaac put on a show and commando crawled for Dr. K. Isaac is currently able to breathe on his own when he is awake but still needs supplemental oxygen when he is sleeping. Dr. K said said that they will probably do a sleep study on Isaac in early May to see if he can come off of oxygen completely. This will involve a monitor that can record his oxygen saturation levels all night. Isaac was okay till he got his Synargis (anti-RS virus) shot. Unfortunately, they use very long needles at St. Luke's. Poor baby.

We then went back to Toho to have Isaac's eyes checked out on Thurs March 8. It was very good timing because both Isaac's NICU primary nurse Ayako-san and Isaac's GCU nurse Imae-san were working the day shift that day and we were able to visit them after Isaac got the eye drops to dilate his eyes and we had to wait 30 minutes before the eye doctor checked his eyes:
When it was time to have his eyes checked, the doctors took Isaac from us into a room. We figured it was not fun for Isaac because by the time they took him out, he looked pretty worn out. Poor, poor baby. The good news was his eyes were fine (because of the language barrier, that's about all we got from the doctors. lol).

On Friday March 9, we took Isaac to Dr. Che at the international clinic for immunization shots. This time, Isaac figured out that it wasn't going to be a fun visit and whined the whole time we were there (so far he has never complained when we go to the doctors and would only cry for a little bit after getting shots). Fortunately, Dr. Che uses much shorter needles so it wasn't too bad for poor little Isaac. We put shoes on Isaac for the first time for his visit with Dr. Che. Check out Isaac looking cool in his New Balance sneakers:
We invited Pastor Dennis and Judi over for dinner on March 8 Thursday after our Toho visit. It was there first time to meet Isaac. We had great fun and fellowship that night.

The rest of the pictures are from this past week and this weekend.

What's Daddy and Isaac up to?
I haven't taken sleeping pictures of Isaac for a while so I took a few on Saturday:
I also realized I haven't taken bath time pictures of Isaac so here is one (*For those of you who checked earlier, you will notice that I took out a few pictures. Jong didn't think the conveniently placed leaf was big enough and that Isaac was going to get mad at me when he gets older, so I took them out ;)).

Hope you all have a blessed week!

Sonia