Kansas City and Genetics Doctor

It's true, I'm a little ashamed of this post. I typically try to find some humor or something interesting to post about. This has neither of those two things, unless you consider our visit with the Genetics doctor of mild curiosity. We played in KC for the weekend, leading up to the appointment on Monday. Pictures first, info later.

Sophie slept on a roll-away in the hotel. We put chairs next to it to keep her from rolling out. Both mornings, we found her with her legs on the bed and her upper body on one of the chairs. Silly girl.


On Sunday, we took the kids to Wonderscope, a hands-on children's museum. I must admit that when we first went in, I thought it appeared... errr.... sketchy. However, Sophie had a fabulous time and we were overall pleased with it!

In the water-play room:




There was a room for 2-years and under. Will ADORED this place, especially the little mirrored-in area that he's in below. He got quite upset with me when it was time to leave. It was perfect for our little crawling monster.

In the market room, Sophie got to go shopping and do her own checking out - I think this may have been her favorite room.

Will tried to get his own bite of the produce:

In the market car... not really sure why this car was in the market room.

Below is in the room called Raceways, which had many different tracks to put balls on. Will surprised me here - he really loved watching the balls! You can't tell in the first picture below, but he would watch a ball on the track and then just break into a fit of giggles! So cute!

Here he was cracking up at the balls:

This was not a posed picture... those two are 2 peas in a pod:

Swimming in the hotel:

So, on to the Genetics appointment. In the past, Will has been tested for the "hearing loss gene," called Connexin-26, and he was negative, so his ENT thought we should look at what other possible causes there could've been for their loss. He wanted to make sure their hearing loss was an isolated issue and not part of a bigger problem - some other disease.

At one stage in the game there was a heart disease mentioned as an extremely slight possibility. At this Genetics visit they completely ruled out that disease, praise God! They also looked at all the physical components of the kids (they were trained at noticing any physical abnormalities) and at family history. After a quite lengthy evaluation the Genetics doctor decided she did not see fit to test for any other diseases at this point.

She did mention that Will's testing for the Connexin-26 was not quite complete enough, so they're going to retest him for that. Other than the hearing loss, she felt the kids were completely healthy and had nothing to worry about! Yay!!!

They also mentioned that because the hearing loss is obviously a genetic factor, it is most likely that Ben and I are both carriers of something recessive. So, they gave the new baby a 25% chance of having hearing loss. Not much of a chance, but Will and Sophie managed to make it happen!

We continue to be completely humbled when we see how God takes care of our family the way He does. Oh, how blessed we are to be His children, and to have been entrusted by Him with our precious babies!!