Our Sunshine Boys: the 80's

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Something random and silly

For those of you that grew up in the 80's do you remember Monchichi dolls? I thought I would do something random and silly since I did mention that Evan looks like a monchichi with his thumb in his mouth back at one of my weekly winners posts.

Sorry-you will have to go to the bottom of the blog and pause the music player before you reminisce about your childhood.

I certainly learned more than I ever wanted to know about these dolls from the wikipedia link. I remember the commercials and the song...I had a (wanna-be) monchichi. It was a knock off from the real thing. Never watched the cartoon...didn't know there was one. Apparently monchichi is still going strong in Japan.

About the boys

As of 3/31/08

Ryan is 4 1/2 years old. He is in preschool and loves every minute of it. He loves to color and he loves Larry Boy, the superhero from Veggie Tales.

Jack is almost 3 and he is the aggressive one. He likes to pick on his older brother. Even though he picks on Ryan, he likes to do whatever his big brother does.

Evan is 4 months old but is the size of an average newborn. He was born 9 weeks early. He was only 1 lb 15 ounces and 12 1/2 inches long at birth.

All of the boys have had their medical issues.

Ryan was diagnosed at birth with hydrocephalus. He was shunted at 3 days old. That shunt failed at about a year old. That is when the docs performed a third ventriculostomy. That failed one month later and was redone. His last surgery was January 2009 when he was 5. He has MRI's annually to make sure the hydrocephalus is under control.

Jack was diagnosed at 3 months old with hydrocephalus. He was shunted immediately but that shunt failed at 7 months old. They performed a third ventriculostomy and he has not had another surgery since. He has MRI's once a year.

Evan was born Intrauterine Growth Restricted(IUGR). He was born at 31 weeks 3 days gestational age. He was only 1 lb 15 ounces and he spent almost 2 months in the NICU.