lellow tic tac toe

Well, that's jack's new name. "LELLOW TIC TAC TOE".

Jack and I were talking about names and i asked him what his name was and he said "tic tac toe" and i told him that his name was jack and he said, "no, tic tac toe." and i said, "ok tic tac toe" and he then proceeded to tell me it was "lellow tic tac toe." (as in yellow the color) and then i asked if it was red or blue or green and he got real firm with me and stated that he was "lellow tic tac toe". so there ya have it, going to the courthouse to have his name changed. hahaha.

Jack is really into pretending lately. The pictures below are him pretending he is Mimi and he has her shoes and socks on. The socks looked so funny on him because they had that black heel part and they went so far up on his leg and stuck out and it looked like he had high heels on.

We have also been watching and playing a ton with Thomas the train. He liked him before but now we are almost obsessed. As well as with Diego and Bob the Builder. He is way into the trains because they have magnets on either side and he likes to put them together all in a row. He is great when we go out to dinner now because we just bring those along and it keeps him occupied for our whole time out. What a great invention....just don't get them if they are made in China!!! :-)

Next week is officially jack's last shot for RSV and I am very excited about that. Taking him into get a shot in each leg once a month is not fun when he is smart now. haha. i'm sure he will not qualify next year since we are extremely lucky that he did for this year. I think that's why he has been so healthy this winter. Only a few sniffles here and there and 3 year infections (better than last winter).

And speaking of ears, we have to go back there the middle of April. His left tube is out of place and his right one keeps getting goopy in it. Wish us luck that they will decide not to redo the left one and just let it go. On average he has been doing better so I hope that is the case.

Jack is doing a lot better in the eating department recently too. So a big HIP HIP HOORAY for that. He is constantly eating it seems like and actually trying new things. He is way into the color yellow so he likes to eat yellow things; corn and bananas and he even calls cereal yellow and rice. we got him to try mint chocolate chip ice cream the other day because we told him it was JT ice cream (john deere). hahaah...it worked. He usually won't take a bite of ice cream cuz it's brrrrr. And he likes yogurt because we have diego yogurt. it's amazing how all those characters have a purpose for something!!!!

Anyway, here are a few more pictures from recently and then some from back in the day of our peanut.... I love looking back to see how far he has come. He is AWESOME!!!!

(The picture of him climbing head first off the couch is 3.25.07 and the one with me feeding him a bottle is on 3.17.06 and that was his very first bottle he ever had. Remember March 16 was his actual duedate so he had his "2nd birthday" a few days ago...haha)

HELP SAVE BABIES!!!

HELLO everyone!!! It's that time of year again for Matt, Jack and I to start our fundraising for the March of Dimes. As many of you know, WE are the Ambassador Family for Allen County this year and it has really been an awesome experience. We have spoke on several occassions and told our story of Jack. It's been an emotional time but really awesome to get our story out there for a great cause.

I spoke in October at an event called Chef's Auction. That was probably about 400-500 people. For the auction Jack fingerpainted a canvas and the doctor that delivered him bought it for $625!!!!! The 2nd event that I spoke at was the Relators Luncheon. Then I spoke at Peg Perego's kickoff meeting. Peg Perego is a big contributor here in Fort Wayne. At that meeting, Jack recieved a battery operated tractor with trailer that he was very excited about. And last but not least, I spoke at the Allen County kickoff meeting. So we have been very busy.

So....here I am asking for all your help, donations, time, etc. to help the fight to save babies. That's the bottom line: HELP SAVE BABIES! We are asking for any of several things.

1) Walkers for the March for Babies that will be happening in Fort Wayne on April 26 at 9am at Johnny Appleseed Park

2) Donations (big and small)

3) t-shirt buyers. We will again make t-shirts for our walking team "Jack's Joggers" We haven't had them designed yet so I am going to guesstimate that they will be about $10-15.

4) help me in the fundraising project. Anyone that is on our team that raises $125 or more will get incentive products. ie) $125 gets a t-shirt

5) garage sale: I will be having a garage sale at our house on April 10 and 11 (Friday and Saturday). 100% of the proceeds will go to the March of Dimes. We did this last year with a friend in Warsaw and made about $700-800. So either come and buy!!!! or donate items to be sold....OR BOTH!!!

So you can either email me back and let me know what you would like to do or what you wouldn't like to do or you can go to this website: http://www.marchforbabies.org/matt_lindsay0423 and sign up to be on our team and have your own page to send out to others and get donations or you can go to that website and put a donation. Please email me with any questions or concerns you may have. The Walk is a really fun time. This year there will be many more things to do and there will be many things for children to do (face painting, clowns, big blow up jumpy things....)

Again, please email with any questions!!!

Thank you ahead of time for anything you can do to help save babies like JACK!!!!

Lindsay, Matt and Jack

p.s. Email our website for the March of Dimes to anyone you know that might want to donate to our cause.
p.s.s also if any of you are interested in fundraisint a tiny bit there are little things you can do at work
1) pay a dollar to wear jeans
2) bake sale
3) if you work retail, we have little squares that you sell for $X and hang them in your store. If any of you work in that area, let me know and I can talk to your manager or what have you!!!

okay, i'll stop now!! :-)

bath time craziness

Just wanted to share some sillies from last night bathtime!!!! ENJOY!!!

sorry to make you wait so long

Sorry to make you wait to long to see what Jack's big surprise was last week.

jack got his very own "JT" Well , it's not really a john deere, it's a cub cadet but he calls it JT and he thinks it is, so IT IS!!!

We were invited to a March of Dimes Kick Off meeting at Peg Perego. They are a big sponsor and team for the March of Dimes here in Fort Wayne and since we are the ambassador family, we were asked to speak...well i spoke...haha. At the end of the 2nd meeting Jack was given this tractor and he was so excited. Screamed with excitement. He of course didn't want to get off of it and didn't get that we were putting in the back of the car and taking him home....he screamed bloody murder all the way home.

He hasn't quite gotten the hang of how it works but i bet he'll get it fast once it's outside and he can go FAST all by himself!!!

THANKS PEG PEREGO!!!

Me, Matt, Mike (March of Dimes), and Jack

Also, just wanted to update you a little on Jack. He was a little sickly last week and beginning of this week. He started with a fever, no other symptoms and so we assumed ear infection. I called dr. on call Friday night because his respirations were high and he said since he didn't have a cough, wheezing or runny nose he could only assume it's because of the fever. Kids kind of pant like dogs when they have a high fever, that's how their body tries to compensate. So most of Saturday he was fine, no fever, until right after dinner out with Auntie Ang. So more tylenol and such. Sunday morning he woke up icky and grouchy and HOT and so I took him to redimed. I would NEVER have taken him there had I thought it was something other than ear infection. We have too many specialits to think about going to a redimed but it worked out fine. The dr there was very nice and accomodating. I told her his ear history and she basically looked at his ear, said yes that it was an ear infection, asked me what antibiotic I wanted, dosed it and we were on our way (1.5 hours later). So i think he is starting to feel better now. On top of all that, i THINK he is getting his 2 year molars. I don't know for sure because i do not dare put my fingers in his mouth for fear of them getting chopped off!!!

and speaking of teeth, Jack has his first dentist appointment next Wednesday. PRAY LONG AND HARD FOR MATT AND I ON THIS ONE!!!! we might need some drinks or xanax afterwards. he is getting very hard at the dr's now...because he has been through so much and he is getting too smart!!!!

Will post more about that next week unless I take some cute pictures between now and then!!!

HUGS!

Children's Museum and dr update

Last Friday, Jack and I and our friends Samantha and Kaden headed down to Indy for a pulmonologist appointment and for a day of fun at the Children's Museum. First I will tell about the pictures, then I'll will tell about the appointment. Fun things first!!!

Jack was so happy to see John Deere stuff there. This is the bull dozer that he got to sit in. He was in heaven!
This was in the nutrition section and Jack and I were sitting with "Couch Potato"

This is also in the nutrition section. jack eating pretend food...too bad it's not real!!

This is the "potato" head that Jack and I made together!

This was a pretend ice cream parlor (Kaden in the background). This was actually pretty funny because there were a bunch of older girls in there pretending that the parlor was really busy and carrying on about that. One of them asked Jack if he wanted ice cream and he said "uh huh" and then she took it right back from him because she was "too busy" and he just looked at me like what the heck are these girls doing!!!

This was in their library. A "little tykes" computer. It was adorable and as you can see, he knows exactly what to do with the mouse and everything.

this movie above was supposed to be a picture but I had it on the movie mode but it turned out cute. it's a picture of Jack kissing Curious George in the new exibit at the museum.

So now for the doctor's appointment update. It went fairly well. We had an appt to get his RSV shot on the Wednesday before and he weighed 22 pounds 10 ounces and that was a bit of a loss from the previous month so I knew that we needed to talk about that. Also, he had a bit of a cold at the shot appt and the respiratory therapist said he was rattly in his chest so I was concerned on Friday about how he sounded. Well, good news there, dr said he sounded clear and his heard sounded good and all that jazz. I told him about his weight loss, we talked about his eating habits, or lack there of, and he wasn't too happy with his weight. (He is at less than 3rd percentile for weight and height). Although he didn't like it too much, he said he wasn't concerned right now because his pulmonary function is not being compromised because of it. He said if he continues to have this problem than he may want to do a sleep study to see if he desats at night causing him to use up calories to breath. He doubts this is happening but it would be worth checking in to. He said it might just be is metabolism or a caloric thing and we just have to give him some time. Although he is a bad eater. For example...he ate nothing for dinner tonight!!! YAY!!! and drank about 1 oz of milk all day. Thank goodness for multi vitamins i guess.

So all, in all the appt went ok and we go back in May! At that time he may change some medications around to start weaning him off the steriod.

I hope that you all enjoyed the pictures and just so you know....I have another topic to post on but I will wait a few days to do that. Jack got his very own............brand new.....................................