Zeke's Favorite Fish

Quite a bit has happened in the last few weeks, although it’s been almost entirely family related as opposed to Zeke-related. We did have a routine doctor’s appointment earlier this week and the news was great – Zeke is growing well and is very healthy, including his head circumference. That’s an important metric to follow over the next few years, since dramatic brain damage will cause the brain to grow at a slower rate than normal; so if his head circumference is keeping pace with the rest of his growth, it’s a really good sign.

He’s doing very well with his hearing aids – they’re fitting better since we got his new inserts (he grows out of them at an astonishing rate right now) and he really lights up when he has them in. We had a long meeting with the local state program coordinator for deaf children – up until age three there is a fantastic early-development program to help us integrate and get involved with the Deaf community. We’re finding out that there is a big difference between being deaf and being Deaf; the latter signifies an incredibly tight knit community, encompassing the hearing losses of most ranges all the way up to profoundly deaf. Zeke falls solidly in this group, and we’re really excited to start getting involved (once we make it through the winter).
Our pediatrician reinforced his earlier contact mandate, and we’re finding a rhythm having spend a full month now in relative isolation. So far so good, although we’ve begun making “heeeere’s Johnny” jokes as the first snow of winter begins to fall. We’ll either come out the other end this spring a very close family or our classical nuclear family will become just that – nuclear.

We’ve also found a groove in our daily lives after the chaos of resigning from my “real” job to try and make our business fly. It’s been a little crazy and we’re defiantly not out of the woods (or really near the edge of the woods, for that matter) but we’re having a blast and it’s been incredibly refreshing to take a risk that we’ve chosen, rather than the long summer of things happening to us. We’ve got time before failure would force me back into a corporate job, but we’re doing everything we can to succeed on our own. You’ll probably see some of our ventures linked from here over the next few months, but since this is predominantly about Zeke, we’ll do our best to keep it that way.

Thanks to everyone for the continued support! We’d never have guessed 6 months ago where we’d be today, but God is faithful and he hasn’t failed us yet.