12.31.2009
12.26.2009
Christmas: Round 2 Santa's Busted
On Christmas Eve, we get the boys tucked into bed, telling them that Santa will come while they are sleeping and leave them more presents. J wasn't tubed because he had drunk (drank?) his allotment for the day (woo hoo!) We come downstairs, put the presents under the tree and sat down to watch TV. A few minutes later, a little brunette streak of light went running past the doorway straight for the tree. J stood there looking at the mound of presents and then back to us. When he moved toward the tree, that bleepin' Let's Go Thomas started yelling, "Hi, I'm Thomas! Let's go to Boulder Mountain! Let's go to Farmer McCall's farm!!" J's eyes got huge as he tried to figure out where the sound was coming from. Daddy scooped him up and put him back to bed. Disaster averted (I think), he didn't try to get up again and didn't mention anything the next day. I still think the whole Santa thing is still a bit confusing for him. Whew!
The boys got up about 6 on Christmas morning and we all went downstairs to open gifts. They loved everything they got, J especially loves his Leap Frog Learning Letters toy and J2 loves everything that was given to J. I think the Color Wonder markers set and of course the "Boom Boom" aka drum are J2's favorites. J finally got his Pinpression, which he's been using to mould around all the little toys he can find. It's especially hysterical when Daddy puts it on his face. They both love the Trio blocks set. I made a "Blue's Clues car wash" which kept them both entertained for quite awhile.
Let's Go Thomas has proven to be a dud so far. With the the trouble that thing has given me by yelling out of my Target bag, yelling every time I opened the closet, and of course the incident above which could've lead to Santa's downfall, and they couldn't care less about it. Meh. Whatareyagonnado?
We got a few inches of snow today, so Daddy loaded up each kid individually in snow gear and took them for a walk on the sled. Jameson didn't want to get off. He absolutely loved it! Daddy has promised them another ride tomorrow. (They can't go together because a friend borrowed one of our snowsuits for a trip, but this works out better to take them alone.)
One more round next Saturday and we are finally done! Jameson's second birthday is a week from Monday. How the heck did that happen!? Wasn't he just my ginormous, almost 10 lb newborn? It's going too fast!
Object du Jour: All the new "stuff." Man, does everything talk and take 3 AAA's?
PS Now that Christmas is over, I'm officially sick of snow! So, I decided to give the old blog a tropical theme!
The boys got up about 6 on Christmas morning and we all went downstairs to open gifts. They loved everything they got, J especially loves his Leap Frog Learning Letters toy and J2 loves everything that was given to J. I think the Color Wonder markers set and of course the "Boom Boom" aka drum are J2's favorites. J finally got his Pinpression, which he's been using to mould around all the little toys he can find. It's especially hysterical when Daddy puts it on his face. They both love the Trio blocks set. I made a "Blue's Clues car wash" which kept them both entertained for quite awhile.
Let's Go Thomas has proven to be a dud so far. With the the trouble that thing has given me by yelling out of my Target bag, yelling every time I opened the closet, and of course the incident above which could've lead to Santa's downfall, and they couldn't care less about it. Meh. Whatareyagonnado?
We got a few inches of snow today, so Daddy loaded up each kid individually in snow gear and took them for a walk on the sled. Jameson didn't want to get off. He absolutely loved it! Daddy has promised them another ride tomorrow. (They can't go together because a friend borrowed one of our snowsuits for a trip, but this works out better to take them alone.)
One more round next Saturday and we are finally done! Jameson's second birthday is a week from Monday. How the heck did that happen!? Wasn't he just my ginormous, almost 10 lb newborn? It's going too fast!
Object du Jour: All the new "stuff." Man, does everything talk and take 3 AAA's?
PS Now that Christmas is over, I'm officially sick of snow! So, I decided to give the old blog a tropical theme!
12.24.2009
Christmas: Round 1
My parents, brother and niece came over today for presents and lots of food! Special thanks to the local grocery store for cooking and carving the turkey for me! I made The Pioneer Woman's Buttery Rosemary rolls. Absolute Heaven! http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/ Her recipes are fantastic. She also has a cookbook out too.
While we were eating, one of the presents kept meowing. Jameson was fascinated and, I think, a touch concerned that someone wrapped up our cat. Turned out, it was a "Fur Real Kitty" for his cousin.
Watching kids open presents is always so much fun! Jackson finally got that Elmo microwave he's been pining for. That was the first present he opened and he took it into another room to enjoy it in peace. He couldn't care less that there were other presents to be opened. We had to keep bringing him back to open the rest. The Handy Manny fix-it TV is a close second favorite.
Jameson watched J open the microwave with a huge smile on his face. When he opened his first present, it turned out to be two pairs of jeans from Grandma and Grandpa. He looked and the jeans, put the top back on the box and said, "Bye Bye" while waving at the pants.
All was forgiven when he opened the kid sized drum kit from Uncle Mike. J2 has been banging away since it was put together.
Tomorrow we do it all again after Santa stops by. And then again with Daddy's family a week from Saturday.
Object du Jour: It's a toss up between the microwave and the tv.
While we were eating, one of the presents kept meowing. Jameson was fascinated and, I think, a touch concerned that someone wrapped up our cat. Turned out, it was a "Fur Real Kitty" for his cousin.
Watching kids open presents is always so much fun! Jackson finally got that Elmo microwave he's been pining for. That was the first present he opened and he took it into another room to enjoy it in peace. He couldn't care less that there were other presents to be opened. We had to keep bringing him back to open the rest. The Handy Manny fix-it TV is a close second favorite.
Jameson watched J open the microwave with a huge smile on his face. When he opened his first present, it turned out to be two pairs of jeans from Grandma and Grandpa. He looked and the jeans, put the top back on the box and said, "Bye Bye" while waving at the pants.
All was forgiven when he opened the kid sized drum kit from Uncle Mike. J2 has been banging away since it was put together.
Tomorrow we do it all again after Santa stops by. And then again with Daddy's family a week from Saturday.
Object du Jour: It's a toss up between the microwave and the tv.
12.17.2009
Cash registers and Jello don't mix.
GI follow-up today. We only saw the dietitian and speech therapist. The dr. wasn't on the team today and the behavior psych had an appendicitis and was out for the week. Ouch!
J's weight is 28 lbs, 9 oz and his height is 3 ft, 1". So he's up on both fronts! Yay! No wonder his pants were getting too short. He's currently wearing 4T tops and 3T bottoms (they are adjustable waists and the band is pulled all the way to the end, but hey, the length works well!)
They are pleased with the weight gain and with the increasing variety of foods J accepts. Yesterday, he ate a whole bowl of peas, 4 squares of sweet potatoes and a cup of applesauce in less than 2 hours. Wow! Maybe he's having a growth spurt!
While we were waiting for the staff, J kept asking me where the air conditioner was. I told him probably on the roof. He was in hysterics over the word "roof." He'd say it in different voices and then just crack up.
We've now put J on Prilosec instead of the non-covered Prevacid. Tonight was his first dose. The pharmacy at the hospital is wonderful. The meds are compounded in a big bottle and they gave me a cool adapter so I can put the syringe in the top and draw out what I need. Fancy!
J got his second H1N1 shot at school yesterday. I feel relieved. Hopefully, we won't need to worry the rest of the Winter.
At feeding therapy on Monday, we ran into Santa on the way in. J just about jumped out of his skin. He ran the opposite direction so fast, I don't think his feet touched the ground! Jameson buried his leg in my thigh and wouldn't look. Santa gave them each a jingle bell from his sleigh and off he went. Neither one of them wanted to talk about it when Daddy asked them where they got the bells. lol
J2 brings me the toy cash register today and says, "Money broken." At first I couldn't figure out why the money wasn't coming out of the change chute. It was going in just fine. I flipped it over and figured out the problem. Somehow a huge chunk of finger Jello ended up inside the chute. Hmmmm, I wonder how that happened?
Object du Jour: A little pink rectangle Barbie boom box.
J's weight is 28 lbs, 9 oz and his height is 3 ft, 1". So he's up on both fronts! Yay! No wonder his pants were getting too short. He's currently wearing 4T tops and 3T bottoms (they are adjustable waists and the band is pulled all the way to the end, but hey, the length works well!)
They are pleased with the weight gain and with the increasing variety of foods J accepts. Yesterday, he ate a whole bowl of peas, 4 squares of sweet potatoes and a cup of applesauce in less than 2 hours. Wow! Maybe he's having a growth spurt!
While we were waiting for the staff, J kept asking me where the air conditioner was. I told him probably on the roof. He was in hysterics over the word "roof." He'd say it in different voices and then just crack up.
We've now put J on Prilosec instead of the non-covered Prevacid. Tonight was his first dose. The pharmacy at the hospital is wonderful. The meds are compounded in a big bottle and they gave me a cool adapter so I can put the syringe in the top and draw out what I need. Fancy!
J got his second H1N1 shot at school yesterday. I feel relieved. Hopefully, we won't need to worry the rest of the Winter.
At feeding therapy on Monday, we ran into Santa on the way in. J just about jumped out of his skin. He ran the opposite direction so fast, I don't think his feet touched the ground! Jameson buried his leg in my thigh and wouldn't look. Santa gave them each a jingle bell from his sleigh and off he went. Neither one of them wanted to talk about it when Daddy asked them where they got the bells. lol
J2 brings me the toy cash register today and says, "Money broken." At first I couldn't figure out why the money wasn't coming out of the change chute. It was going in just fine. I flipped it over and figured out the problem. Somehow a huge chunk of finger Jello ended up inside the chute. Hmmmm, I wonder how that happened?
Object du Jour: A little pink rectangle Barbie boom box.
12.14.2009
Milk, it does a body...in J's case, no good.
The boys have figured out how to dump the toy buckets and use them as step stools to reach things they shouldn't have. They both like to take things off the counter and sink to pretend to "cook." Jackson grabbed Daddy's empty milk cup from dinner off the counter and took off running with me in hot pursuit. The whole time he was running he had the cup over his mouth blowing raspberries into it. This was all of 12 seconds before I recovered the cup.
Daddy took the boys upstairs to get them ready for bed. He called me up to look at J's face. It was bright red and blotchy on his chin and right cheek. My best guess is that some of the milk left in the bottom of the cup touched his face and he was having a mild reaction. I, of course, start to worry that his tongue is going to swell or his throat will close up. I gave him some Benadryl and watched him sleeping no less than 10 times last night. He's fine this morning. But, I think we've answered the, "Is he still allergic to milk" question.
I think when J's GI panel is drawn in Jan/Feb, I'll have them recheck milk and peanuts and see where he's at.
Speaking of GI, we have a check-up Thursday.
Object du Jour: Still the toy flyers. He especially attached to the Target toy book from a few weeks ago. This poor thing looks like its been through a shredder. J wanted to bathe with it this morning. We had a long philosophical talk about the effects of water on paper.
Daddy took the boys upstairs to get them ready for bed. He called me up to look at J's face. It was bright red and blotchy on his chin and right cheek. My best guess is that some of the milk left in the bottom of the cup touched his face and he was having a mild reaction. I, of course, start to worry that his tongue is going to swell or his throat will close up. I gave him some Benadryl and watched him sleeping no less than 10 times last night. He's fine this morning. But, I think we've answered the, "Is he still allergic to milk" question.
I think when J's GI panel is drawn in Jan/Feb, I'll have them recheck milk and peanuts and see where he's at.
Speaking of GI, we have a check-up Thursday.
Object du Jour: Still the toy flyers. He especially attached to the Target toy book from a few weeks ago. This poor thing looks like its been through a shredder. J wanted to bathe with it this morning. We had a long philosophical talk about the effects of water on paper.
12.10.2009
All the better to see you with, my dear.
Met with the opthortist (I think). Didn't get to see the eye doctor of the awesome name on this visit. Bummer.
J was a riot in the waiting room. We had the whole place to ourselves and Ice Age was playing on the TV. He asked for The Wiggles (naturally) and I told him we are going to watch this cartoon. He latched onto the word "cartoon" and tried it out in every voice he could think of. J was also giggling maniacally at the word "outlet." As in, "Please don't touch the outlet." *more fits of giggles*
But, the second we were called back, the giggles were gone. He kept saying, "Open the door, get in Daddy's new car." (Daddy got a new car from work two weeks ago, it will probably be the "new" car for a long time as far as J is concerned.) He sat on my lap and the tech covered J's right eyeglass lens with a patch and asked him to label an apple, circle, house and square on a computer screen across the room. J latched onto the house and square, but was able to ID the others too, in between sobbing and yelling, "Cover off eye!" Same story for the left eye.
The opthortist feels that J's left eye is 20/80 and that the testing wasn't accurate for the right eye because he was so freaked by the patch. But, if there ends up being a huge discrepancy between the two eyes on our next visit, we'll need to take stronger action. We're currently attempting to patch his right eye 2 hours a day in order to get that left eye to work better. The concern is that if he relies too much on the right eye (which is ironically the one that wanders, but the left eye is the one with ptosis), he'll lose function in the left eye.
If he continues to really fight the patching, we may use some drops to block that right eye. Typically, they use atropine, but it's contraindicated in kids with Down syndrome because of potential heart issues. J doesn't have any heart issues, but he does have the trisomy part. She did say that there are other drops to try, but they aren't as effective. We head back Feb 4.
Because the "blanket glasses" don't fit over the new rectangle glasses, I had to get inventive. I have the right lens covered with Kleenex, then band-aids and then a Wiggles sticker. The trick is to make sure he's not looking around the patch. But, with the new glasses fitting tighter against his head, it doesn't seem to be a problem so far.
Object du Jour: Toy catalogs! Wheeee!
J was a riot in the waiting room. We had the whole place to ourselves and Ice Age was playing on the TV. He asked for The Wiggles (naturally) and I told him we are going to watch this cartoon. He latched onto the word "cartoon" and tried it out in every voice he could think of. J was also giggling maniacally at the word "outlet." As in, "Please don't touch the outlet." *more fits of giggles*
But, the second we were called back, the giggles were gone. He kept saying, "Open the door, get in Daddy's new car." (Daddy got a new car from work two weeks ago, it will probably be the "new" car for a long time as far as J is concerned.) He sat on my lap and the tech covered J's right eyeglass lens with a patch and asked him to label an apple, circle, house and square on a computer screen across the room. J latched onto the house and square, but was able to ID the others too, in between sobbing and yelling, "Cover off eye!" Same story for the left eye.
The opthortist feels that J's left eye is 20/80 and that the testing wasn't accurate for the right eye because he was so freaked by the patch. But, if there ends up being a huge discrepancy between the two eyes on our next visit, we'll need to take stronger action. We're currently attempting to patch his right eye 2 hours a day in order to get that left eye to work better. The concern is that if he relies too much on the right eye (which is ironically the one that wanders, but the left eye is the one with ptosis), he'll lose function in the left eye.
If he continues to really fight the patching, we may use some drops to block that right eye. Typically, they use atropine, but it's contraindicated in kids with Down syndrome because of potential heart issues. J doesn't have any heart issues, but he does have the trisomy part. She did say that there are other drops to try, but they aren't as effective. We head back Feb 4.
Because the "blanket glasses" don't fit over the new rectangle glasses, I had to get inventive. I have the right lens covered with Kleenex, then band-aids and then a Wiggles sticker. The trick is to make sure he's not looking around the patch. But, with the new glasses fitting tighter against his head, it doesn't seem to be a problem so far.
Object du Jour: Toy catalogs! Wheeee!
12.07.2009
Nothing New to Report
I haven't written anything lately, mainly because it's been pretty quiet around here. *knock wood* J has eye clinic tomorrow and GI on the 17th. I'm worried about where his weight is with all the illnesses he's had lately. The ER still had him around 28 lbs, which is close to where GI had him last time.
Santa is done shopping, but we still need stuff for the rest of the family. The boys are getting a "Let's Go Thomas", which talks, tells stories and rolls across the floor. When he talks, his mouth moves and his cheeks blush. I think he's adorable; Daddy finds him creepy. lol We'll see what the boys think.
Object du Jour: The flyers from the Sunday paper. J loves looking over all of his toy and small kitchen appliance options.
Santa is done shopping, but we still need stuff for the rest of the family. The boys are getting a "Let's Go Thomas", which talks, tells stories and rolls across the floor. When he talks, his mouth moves and his cheeks blush. I think he's adorable; Daddy finds him creepy. lol We'll see what the boys think.
Object du Jour: The flyers from the Sunday paper. J loves looking over all of his toy and small kitchen appliance options.
12.01.2009
Green Boogies!
J was sent home from school yesterday with a case of green boogies. I'm keeping him home today too and I'm going to place a call to the ped. No fever or anything else, just the nose faucet. His face is red and chapped from being wiped so much. I don't know if this is a holdover from the croup episode or the H1N1 shot or something else. I have noticed that Jameson is heading down the same road. It really never ends, does it?
Object du Jour: Still the toy catalogs. Santa is bringing him a set of Fisher Price Trio blocks because he's been obsessed with the "cubes" in the FP catalog. They look like cube Legos that he can put together himself. They must be popular this year because I had to go to several websites before I finally found a set.
Object du Jour: Still the toy catalogs. Santa is bringing him a set of Fisher Price Trio blocks because he's been obsessed with the "cubes" in the FP catalog. They look like cube Legos that he can put together himself. They must be popular this year because I had to go to several websites before I finally found a set.
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