Lexi is home

Lexi is home from surgery. She only had to stay 1 night and came home late last night. She is doing pretty good. She is still in pain alot, but on 2 diff pain meds so staying comfortable. She is on a strict liquid diet for 2 weeks then we shall see what the dr says she can have after that. She was sick last night and puking, but so far none today so thats good. I am having a hard time trying to get her to drink anything, and she needs to so she doesnt get dehydrated. So I am watching her now for dehydration. I have bought her so many diff drinks so she can choose what she wants, hoping that will get her to drink something. I will keep you updated.

Lexis surgery

Lexis surgery is Tuesday. We need lots of prayers and good thoughts.

Finally

Finally done with all my classes at school. Now I just have to do my clinicals which i should only have about 36 hours left to do, since I have already done some of them. And then I graduate on July 17 at 7pm. Woot woot. I will be waiting till sometime in August to even try and find a job. Lexi is having her surgery on July 22 so I will have to be home with her for a few weeks. Once things are back to normal and the kids start school I will start my search.

Happy Birthday Nathan

Happy Birthday to my big boy!!!
My little man Nathan turned 3 today. Tonight we are taking him out to dinner then tomorrow is his party. Last night me and Nathan went to see Diego Live for his birthday. He really enjoyed it. I thought it was a cute show. Here are a few pics of him at Deigo.

Happy Birthday big boy!!!

Lexi surgery

So Lexi went back to the surgeon on Tuesday. She will have one of 2 different surgeries. She will either have a Pharyngeal flap or a pharyngealplasty. They will scope her right before surgery to see which one they will do. they were gonna scope her a few weeks before to see which one, but they decided instead of putting her under twice just to do the scope in the op before the surgery so they only put her under one time. So all this is scheduled for July 22. So give us good vibes it all goes good.

Lexi's dress rehearsal for her dance recital

Oh by the way. Lexi had her dress rehearsal for her dance recital today. Here are a few pics of the rehearsal

Been a busy few weeks. Lexi turned 5 last week. She is groing fast. We had her birthday party at the jungle gym and she had a blast. She had 15 friends show up and she made out good on gifts.
She had her 5 yr check up and weighs 36lbs. she got one shot which she did real well with. She laughed as the stuck the needle in her leg and said it tickled.

Jake went in for his 6mo check and shots. He is now 15lbs 11oz. He is in the 3rd percentile for height and 6th percentile for weight. He got 2 shots and goes back next week to get another shot.
He also went to the neuro again. I still do not like his neuro and I am finally getting a referral to another one in Shreveport and am now waiting on an appt. His seizures are pretty much under control and hes doing great in therapy.

Tomorrow is Lexi's last day of school. She has her graduation at 8:15am. Ansleigh's last day of school is Monday, she has her awards day that day. Then Taylor goes Tuesday for her awards day. I can't believe school is already over with. Now on to a summer full of kids lol

Been a while

Yeah yeah. I know I suck at keeping this blog. We of course as usual have been super busy. Ansleigh and Taylor have started softball again and we are at the ballpark 4 days a week.
The kids are all doing good. We think Jake's seizures are under control with meds now, but as they said I wont always tell if hes having them. He goes back to the neuro next week.

Last week Lexi managed to fall at walmart and split her head open. She had to be taken to the ER and instead of stitches they glued her back together lol. She's doing fine now. She says it hurts when she touches it, well duh then don't touch it.

Ok more later and I will try harder to blog everyday.

Just a quick update

Ahhh!!! I think I am gonna go crazy. I have had so much to do and not near enough time. Just here to update on kiddos real quick.

Ansleigh is doing good. She was sick last week with some type of stomach virus. I had to pick her up from school Friday sick, after only being there for 1 hour. I made her an appt and figured she had the flu since Nathan had it the week before. Nope she tested neg for the flu and was told it was probably the begining of a stomach virus. Poor girl puked all day. She couldnt even hold a sip of water or sprite down. She finally got better the next day. Ansleigh just got her report card and had straight A's again.

Taylor is doing good in school. She had all A's and B's on her report card. Taylor went and spent the day Sat. with my sister and that mad her happy. She hardly ever does anything outside of the house so she was excited.

Lexi is doing great in dance. She is also selling candy bars for school. We picked up 50 bars yesterday and in 4 hours they were all gone lol. I guess she will end os selling alot. Lexi has a dentist appt today. she wont be happy when we leave there.

Nathan is all boy. He runs every where he goes. Hardly ever walks. He climbs on everything. His favorite word is no. It doesnt matter what I say to him or ask him he says no.

Jake is doing real good. He starts OT this week. It was suppose to be last week, but his OT lady got his paper work late. I am hoping they can help him make progress. He goes on March 6 for his 4mo check and then on the 13 to the nuero again. I am hoping for answers soon.

Days are to short

The days are way to short. I have been wanting to blog more often, but by the end of the day I am so tired most of the time I don't think about it or I am just to worn out to even type. Jake is doing better. His seizures are under control for the most part. We go back to the nuero on the 13th of March. Jake also goes for his 4mo check and shots on the 6th. We do have some concerns that his development is a little behind. Which I do blame the phenobarb cause the meds makes him sleep ALOT!. He has smiled just a few times and each time just half a smile, no grin on both sides of the mouth, if that makes sense. He still has poor head control. And when he is placed on his tummy he cant even pick up his head at all, he just lays face buried into the blanket and screams. He has qualified for OT and will start that this week, so I am hoping that it will help some.

The other kids are doing ok. Nathan just got over the flu and I am hoping the others do not get it. The poor boy felt so bad. Aaron also had the flu and when a grown man gets sick you have one big whiney baby. He about drove me nuts. Next time he gets sick I am checking into a hotel or checking him into one.

I also need to ask prayers for a friend of mine. He 8yo son is very ill with lots of medical issues. He is not expected to make it more than a few days. They could use some major prayers.

baby Aiden Waller needs prayers

Aiden Waller is a 10 month old little boy from Georgia, who is a victim of child abuse. He has been fighting for his life at a hospital and his mother is in jail for it. Aiden had been taken from her once already for abuse when he was 4mo and had a black eye. The state then turned around and gave him back to her. Please read his story. This little boy needs to be known and prayed for. Warning this will make you cry. Please visit these links. And Please visit his myspace and leave a comment for little baby Aiden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83fGqH4VHLg

http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7812140

http://www.myspace.com/aidenwaller

I'm sleeeepy

So it's been a few days since I posted anything. I have been soo tired. This not sleeping much is starting to get to me. Jake is not feeling well, hes been congested. Ansleigh was home from school sick Thursday and Friday sick with a stomache bug or something. Aaron woke up Friday morning also sick. Just waiting to see whose next, and hopefully not me.
I took Lexi to the Mardi Gras parade Saturday. She was the only one that wanted to go. Ansleigh went with a friend and Taylor didn't want to go. She was scared of the loud noises. Lexi had a balst, it was her first year to go. She got a ton of beads and cups. I hate the cups. She caught at least 15 of them and most of them will be going in the trash soon.
I went yesterday and bought Jake some more sleepers since he has started growing some and needed some new ones. I also bought him some more little toys and the other kids also got some new p.j's. They now want me to go back and buy them a Hannah Montanna pj set, even Nathan lol, of course i am not buying my 2yo son Hannah Montana pjs.
I am starting class back today. I havent been since the day Jake was born. I had my class that morning then had him that night. It's time i went back. He's 12 weeks now. He has just had so many health problems that I havent wanted to leave him. I still don't, but I need to get back to class.

UGH

For the fisrt time Jake finally slept from 1am to 8am. The bad thing? I was up from 2am till 630am with a terrible migraine. I didnt have any of my meds either since I have not yet been back to the dr to have them filled since before I found out I was preg. I think I will be going back and asking for more axert just in case that happens again. i am hoping Jake will sleep that long again so I can sleep that long.

Today I went through and cleaned out the toy box and got rid of all the broken toys and all the happy meal toys. That only took me about 2 hours. I hate doing that, it seems like such a chore. Now I just need to go through all their books and get rid of the ones with pages torn out. Then I need to go through their clothes and get rid of all the ones that either don't fit or they don't wear anymore. Can you tell I am spring cleaning? Or in the mood to spring clean lol.



Tomorrow Lexi has a field trip to go and see the floats that will be in the mardi gras parade. After that she will go eat at Catfish Cabin for lunch. Then I will have to check her out cause she has an appointment in Shreveport to see a team of drs for her speech problem. We have been trying to pinpoint this for about 2 years now so hopefully these new drs will be able to help. Our ped has done refered her to several diff drs and they just refer us to other places so in other words we have been getting the run around for 2 years. We are finally getting somewhere though. After her appt. we may just stop by KMart since we no longer have one here. Oh and this will be the first time I will be away from Jake for that long of a time. My mom took off work so that she can stay home with the other 4 kids. I will go crazybeing away from jake for sooo long.

Tired

I'm here. I have been busy. This sleeping for 3-4 hours a night is starting to catch up with me. We went to the nuero on Thursday and still do not know anything, Glenwood gave me a copy of his mri on a cd to take with me to Dr. Pena and when he tried too look at it his comouter would not open it. So now I have to wait to the hospital to send his ped a report and the ped to send it to Dr. Pena. I am geting tired of waiting, I just want answers.
Jake is getting sick again. I just hope he gets over it quickly. On top of him not feeling well he has had colic soo bad. I feel so bad for him.

Been busy

I have been so busy I have not had time to update. Jakes mri came back and all Dr Bimle seen was that he had a double ear infection and fluid on his years. I am not sure how he got an ear infection while going through 6 rounds of antibitoics. We go back to the neuro on Thursday so maybe Dr Pena can tell us something.
Jake got his 2 mo shots yesterday. He of course did not like them at all. He ran fever most of the night from them. Today he has slept most of the day. The lil man is growing so fast. Yesterday he weighed in at 11lbs 10oz and was 21 3/4 inches long. He is still in newborn clothes, the 0-3mo fall off him still. He is still in newborn diapers the 1s are a tad to big still.
Ansleigh's best friend is moving in a few days back to cali, so she is upset. I told her we would get some envelopes and put her address and stamps on them to give to Kendal that way she could write to her.
Lexi is still her wild self. Always bouncing around with a smile on her face.
Taylor is doing good in school and Nathan well he's still being a typical 2yo boy.