WORDLESS WEDNESDAY!

fun in the sun!

Where do I begin???

Let's begin with an update on Jack and his CT results and health:
Last Saturday he played soccer in the morning (100% turnaround...NO CRYING) and afterwards he went home with daddy (i was working) and ate and took a nap. A few days prior he had a bit of a cold but nothing crazy. During his nap he started breathing funky and retracting. Daddy gave him his "puffer" and that was that. By the time I got home he was breathing in what looked like a "wave" pattern. Typically your lungs and stomach simultenously got up and down together, well Jack's stomach would cave in and then his lungs would puff out. It was freaking me out. I woke him up and he acted fine. He wanted to run around and we wouldn't let him. Then we sat down and read books and he could hardly say 4 words at a time without taking a breath. That really freaked me out. I gave him another "puff" and contemplated the ER...........BUT HE WAS ACTING PERFECTLY NORMAL. We held off. Long story short.......I got some xopenex in him for about 1.5 days and he was good as new. Not sure if all that funky stuff was due to the cold or due to him running around AIMLESSLY during his soccer game the whole time. Either way, he is better.

Wednesday we went to the ENT to get the results of the CT of his sinuses. Good and Bad news. CT didn't show anything funky (that's my word today huh?) or any tumors of any sort. It showed that he had some pockets of pus, indicating he was getting over a sinus infection. It showed that his ears are full of goop and it showed that he doesn't have much of a mastoid on either side (air pocket type thing behind ear that is used for "reserve" space). There were no structually abnormalities so that's good. The doctor concluded not much of anything (bad news). He still doesn't know why he keeps getting all these infections and why he has yellow goop coming out of his ear all the time. So........option 1) PICC line with IV antibiotics 2) 3 months worth of oral antibiotics 3) surgery on sinuses 4) tonsilectomy. I guess I wouldn't call all of those options..........maybe possibilities. His tonsils are BIG, not infected or swollen....just LARGE. If he continues to have true sinus infections, we would lean toward that surgery. All in all..........Dr is going to be doing some investigating and research a colleague of his and he will get back to me in 1-2 weeks. There is no immediate answer we are looking for. We are looking at long term: hearing, developing and health. He is stable and he is not struggling so right now.....A-ok.

Now onto the fun part.................PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!

My columbine (so proud of it because it was diseased and speckled last year!)

remember my picture a few posts back of my peony...........here it is now!!!!!! (it must be a hybrid because I remember peonies being much fluffier than this.......but i love them!)

This is Jack......."working at Lowe's"

my 2 new chairs I got for Mother's Day

my new flower bed that Matt and I made on Mother's Day (we won't mention that it was under water 2 days later............)

CUTIE PIE!

Jack and mommy on Mother's Day

Jack did GREAT at his 2nd soccer game. Probably because I wasn't there. I had to work. He was a little sad at the beginning and then went out there and was a TEAMER!!!! He ran around aimlessly the whole time. Not a care in the world. Looking at his shoes run!!! HAHAH!!! He is awesome. He even did great at practice this week!!!!

getting ready to start the game

too afraid to get in there and kick it....so he just watched.

like i said.........running around AIMLESSLY!

GO JACK GO!!!!!!!!

oops.....down he went!

getting ready to kick the ball

running FASTER AND FASTER AND FASTER

walking away from the game with daddy. what a big TEAMER!

(sorry it's blurry) but this is after the game....big smile.....and so proud of himself!!!

Ali and David with my mom and dad

my niece Ali and her boyfriend David at their Senior Prom

Jack's 1st soccer game

Sorry there are a TON of pictures. They are all pretty much self explanatory! It was a FREEZING cold WINDY day and it was just terrible for 3-4-5 years olds to play soccer. Jack was all talk until we got there and then he was glued to hips of anyone he knew. We was set to go out on the field for the first period and he bawled, sobbed and picked his lip the whole time!!!! He wanted to hold the coaches hand the whole time and she was not letting him (we told her not to let him) and it was making me lose my mind. I felt so terrible because he was so upset. So I had the coach let him out of the game for the next period (they have 6 little periods). So then we had to have a PEP TALK!!! I told him what an awesome job he was doing and how he needed to run like a big soccer TEAMER and how after he was done his friend Kaden and his mommy brough snack and then we could go to Mcdonald's and then take a nap and go see his girl ZOEY!!!! All that worked!!!!!!!!!! Next thing you know he was out on the field and he didn't need to hold his coaches hand and he actually kicked the ball about a dozen times. He wasn't super enthusiastic but he wasn't crying and that was a PLUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Afterward he said he wanted to play next time but he wanted to wear his Thomas shoes cuz he can run "faster faster faster" in them!!!! He HATES his cleats!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy the pictures!!! (he has a black hooded sweatshirt on in all of them)