What a trooper...

On Tuesday I took Henry in for his 9 month well baby visit. He wasn't exactly well (cough & congestion), but I already had the appointment. He's now 22lbs 6 oz and 29 inches long. While we were there our doctor decided he needed to get checked out a little further. They did a breathing treatment there in the office and then sent us (Henry, Mo and I) over to the lab for an RSV test. This involves saline up the nose and then vacuuming it back out. Then over to the hospital for a chest x-ray. I can't remember any of the other kids having a chest x-ray before. He was a trooper, didn't make a peep. I had to grab a picture:

Then we went back to the doctor where she decided he needed to be on breathing treatments every 4 to 6 hours (closer to 4 the better). He puts up with it:

We were at the doctor yesterday for over 3 hours, then we went back today. He does not have RSV or pneumonia. She thinks he might have asthma. We going to continue with breathing treatments for the next 24 hours and then on an as needed basis. We're hopeful that it is something that he will grow out of. Tonight I ended up having to take Emma to the doctor. She was having some pain while going potty. She's fine, but it did make me feel like I was living at the doctors office. If I have to take another child to the doctor this week, I'm done!!

Recovering...

Now this title is slightly deceptive! We had a great weekend. We went down to LA and N8 went to the Stake Temple Day (a 4 hour session!) while I took the kids and did some random shopping. We picked up some fun thing-fabric for Christmas gifts, fabric for baby blankets, fabric in general and these:
We did them last night for FHE, very fun! I want to get these for Christmas!
We didn't really need to recover from Sunday either. We got a call from Ricky, Saturday night, letting us know my Aunt and Uncle came to town and would be joining for dinner. Ricky and Kim made lasagna so we were very happy! At church we had great talks, especially Mirilou's! And the kids did well practicing for the upcoming Primary Program.

Monday we a little different and could cause for some recovery. Since last year we have been doing things both here at home and at school to help with behavior modification for Bud in relation to ADHD. For the last month or so we have been working with the school more because of some more problems we have been having. We had the school Physiologist come in and observe him. We also had a SAT (Student Assessment Team) meeting. And he is meeting in a small group once a week with the school councilor. But it came time that we met with our Pediatrician again. After a long discussion (really I don't think I've ever had a doctor really sit down and talk with me & N8 for so long) we decided to start Bud on a low dose ADHD medicine. Over the next couple of weeks we will be fine tuning the dosage to see how it helps. She also wants to rule out mini-seizures. Since Bud was about 3 he has had a "tick", habit, whatever one want to call it. He shakes his arms. When he does it, he does not respond and can't do anything. It only lasts for a few seconds, but at some points in the day can be very frequent. So, on Monday we get to get him up at 3am so that he can be sleep deprived and take him for an EEG that morning. I'm glad we're working on things and hope that we're making the right decisions.

Now what I really am recovering........ are some chairs! I know, a lot of other junk from our lives to read through to get to the more interesting part! A few weeks ago I got 4 old church chairs from a ward member. They were in good condition but the fabric was itchy and not very pretty! Part of my shopping down in LA was to find fabric to recover the chairs. Luckily Joann's was dong 50% off their red tag decorator fabric and it only cost me $10 in fabric! I now have 2 of the four done and I like them so much better! What do you think?
Before:

After:

My other recovering project was covering clothespins! I have seen these around and just thought they were too cute and had to try it myself! A little scrapbook paper, modge podge, magnet and embellishments and there you have it!

Now here's hoping that we have a calm, productive week that requires no recovery, except for recovering chairs and clothepins!

Feeling better...

I'm feeling physically better and better about life in general!! I got my energy back today. Still a little bit of the runs, but not as bad. Emma has more appetite which is good. I was able to actually clean some of my house today! It's really been awhile.

We also has a doctors appointment today. It was with a new OB and went well. It didn't start well, but ended well. The other doctors office still hasn't sent over my medical records. So, they wanted to reschedule me. I pleaded my case, hoping just to quickly hear the heartbeat to make sure everything was a-ok! Luckily they had pity on me and the doctor actually did a quick ultrasound. The heart beat was there and strong. According to his measurements he put me at 18 weeks 2 days which is about 10 days father along that previous. We also chatted about my previous history and he said he'll probably want to induce me. I also chose not to do the AFP. All in all I'm happy with it!!

The cat is out of the bag...

So, we finally broke the news to our parents yesterday that we are expecting #3! We are excited, but I am more excited to not have to keep it a secret anymore. We have so many pregnant women in out ward right now. We always seem to go in spirts, but geez! Four of the YM's leaders wives are pregnant plus 2 more. I think I totally caught my mom off guard, she didn't know how to respond on the phone.

I'm also in a doctor dilemma. We haven't been happy with our first 2 appointments and are pretty sure we're going to try a different doctor. I just wish we had more choices.

It was a great thing to be able to share this news on Father's day with out families and hope and pray that everything continues to go well.