october rush

holy moly, where has the month gone? its nearly november already! october has been a busy month, ill try to recap.
the boys picked zach's birthday theme, pokemon, lol and we planned out his party, was going to make a cake, but looks like we will have a full house, so we will order a cake. his party will be on the 23rd, so hard to believe he will be 3! he is doing awesome. he has been off oxygen during the day and LOVING it. he is trying to run and doing so well. this morning in therapy we did some mouth work and he tasted about 4 tiny bites of spegetti sauce. wahoo!!
Harold had bronchitis a few weeks ago, we got lucky and everyone else stayed pretty healthy, a few days of coughing and small issues, but it could have been soooo much worse, i credit alot of that to our daily intake of vitamin d. the boys take 2000iu's a day, even zachy, and me and harold take 10000iu's, harold actually stopped taking them, he forgot and then he was on steriods for an allergic reaction to some meds, so that lowered his immune system, and BAM he got sick. sigh.
we had to let our day nurse who had been here for about 2 years go, she was just worn down between school and her night job and was getting ill, cancelling shifts, coming in late, leaving early, etc. so we had a replacement, she had been here about 2 weeks, was caught sleeping twice and then today tells me she has had bronchitis for about 5 days..... um HELLO???!!! really? and your here with my baby boy?? um no....so as of today she has been let go. looks like we may be without a day nurse tomorrow and maybe tuesday, hopefully we will get some new ones in to train and see if they will work.
we went to houston to see zach's original surgeon about his scoliosis, left there with no answers, but we are getting an appointment with the head orthopedics/scoliosis dr there, so maybe soon we will know more. was nice to be able to see a nicu nurse and the milk bank ladies. zach was hamming it up there.
ive had my dietician appointment (finally) seemed like it was taking forever, the appointment went pretty well, ive gained another 1.8lbs. WTH?! so anyway i will attend a seminar next wed, about the surgery options, though im leaning towards the sleeve now, the dietician said she preferred it and i only stopped thinking about it because i didnt think it would be covered by insurance but it is covered if done at the army hospital, so anyway after the seminar and talking with the surgeon i will have a better picture. i have another lab work to do for my iron, and then a psych eval and attend a support group meeting the last wed. of oct, and i will be set to schedule and appointment. im so excited, i know its gonna be a challenge, its a life style change, its forever, but im so ready.
mikey is going to be wolverine for halloween, chance is iron man and zach will be cookie monster, cant wait for that as well. 71 days till christmas!

well i have put off writing any kind of update simple due to laziness, there has been so much going on that my mind barely has time to process it and to even think of rehashing it at times is too much. were hanging in there.
ill start oldest to youngest here with the kids.
Mikey..was tested for dyslexia and i have an ARD meeting with the school tomorrow to discuss the findings, im pretty nervous about this, kinda like a momma hen i guess...the thought that i may hear something that sounds criticle of mikey makes me ready to go into "attack" mode. mikey missed two days of school last week due to a fever and a cough, poor guy. he is feeling better now thankfully. he has a busy few days with appointments, a physical on tuesday, appointment with the audiologist on the 4th, the neurologist on the 8th and a dental appointment on the 4th to i think.

Chance, bout the only thing to announce with chance is that he has learned his abc's, he can say them, and usually about 90% of the time he gets them all. he can also count to at least 50! im pretty impressed with this since he wont be 4 till Feb! Chance also got a lil under the weather the other day and had to get some breathing treatments, he had a couple asthma attacks, luckily he seems like he is doing better.

Zach is doing well, he had his ultrasound on his testicles (unsure if i even mentioned that ordeal with getting the appointment here?) but anyway we ended up getting an appointmetn at 11am not 1 am! i still cant believe they even offered the appointment at 1 am. anyway his testicles are right on the verge of dropping so maybe we wont have anything to worry about. zach also had an appointmetn with the ortho doc, they did an xray of his spine and told me he does in fact have about a 20% curve, and for now were just watching it. we go back in 6 months. zach has been doing well other than those though, he is such a joy, always so happy and content.

Harold is doing okay over there, his unit has lost their minds though, to much drinking and fighting, i think he said half of his unit went to jail last night, insane hu!?! he misses home and we miss him being here. thanksgiving was very quiet and we didnt feel like doing anything. im trying to get better for christmas, and am going to send a small tree and all the deco to him over there, im sure it will brighten his day as well.

wow tomorrow is dec 1st, ready for a new month, ready to enjoy the holidays as much as i can. hope all is well!!

BTW 46 more trash days till Harold comes home, 23 more pay periods, 9 more house payments, only 6? more holidays until he can be back home. :)