October is DS awareness month and therefore I will share some T-21 facts (21 facts on our little T-Man Tyce)
1. He was born on May 31, 2010 and weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces and 20.5 inches long. He was one week early because he was becoming too big of a boy for his momma's belly.
2. He passed both of his apgar scores with 7 and 8, however did fail his hearing test on one ear, he ended up passing his hearing test a few months later.
3. He started to crawl the correct way at 11 months on all fours. Before that he did the army crawl from about 9 months on.
4. He began to pull to stand at 13 months and started cruising along furniture and pulling up on anything and everything after that.
5. He is the number 12th grandchild on my side of the family and number 2 on TJ's side of the family.
6. His first real word with meaning is Bo
7. He can sign "more" "more please" and "eat" all with meaning.
8. His favorite toy's are not toys! I.E. My lap-top, our cell phones and standing on our book shelf making all the books fall out one by one.
9. His full name is Tyce Coronado Matchinsky (Thijs= means child of God in Dutch, we decided to spell it like Tyce because we wanted to call him Ty for short) Coronado- is my mom's maiden last name and I adore my mom to death and she adores her family and heritage back in Tampico, Mexico. Tyce has Mexican, Irish, Dutch and Polish ancestry so we tried to incorporate all that in his name.
10. His favorite food lately is sliced turkey and cheese slices and he will inhale anything sweet.
11. He loves to flip through books all by himself!
12. He just started a pilot therapy group through our local early on, and he likes it so much that when I come to get him for pick up and story time he literally pushes me away with his hand and turns around to ignore me.
13. He is a mommas boy (other then at group)
14. For his first Step up for Down syndrome walk he had over 50 friends and family support him and walk for him in such PRIDE!
15. At 16 months he has 10 teeth (and each one came in with its fair share of unhappiness and pain)
16. He wears a size 4 shoe and knows how to un-Velcro them and take them off as well as take of his socks and chucks both of them as far as he can.
17. He attempts to clothe himself, particularly likes to try to put his own socks and shoes back on as well as shirts and lets them dangle around his neck while he cruises around the house. However, he prefers to be naked all the time! He screams with happiness around the house when he is naked!
18. He recently learned how to climb up and down a step, very unconventionally but he makes it work.
19. He will eat anything you give him, there are very few things he will not try. Mostly at feeding time he signs "more please'' while there is still food in his mouth.
20. He was prescribed glasses at 9 months but upon a third opinion we were told to wait until he was at least 3. His only health concern was one I knew while I was pregnant which is that he has hydronophrosis in his kidneys which means he retains fluid instead of letting it all out. At 18 months they may have to perform a surgery to help that fluid all be released. We will know at his 18 month check up. He also spits up and takes reflux medicine, but as he gets older that is finally getting better!
21. He is a healthy 23 pound boy who loves to give kisses, waive and if you ask him how much someone loves him he will spread his little arms out and wait for you to say "THIS MUCH"!
Those are our T- Man's T-21 facts :) He is a baby boy full of energy and love! We are lucky to be his parents!!!
Tyce has T-21 which is the non hereditary form of Down syndrome. No one in either one of our families has it and it was just a plan of God for Tyce to be born into our family. After all we did name him Child of God :) And we thoroughly thank God for giving us our Tyce!
