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Monday, November 30, 2009

I'm finally getting the pictures from the hospital stay off the camera. (I'm horrible I didn't get the camera out all last week when my brother and his family where here and we haven't seen them in 3 years).

Jackson's had tummy problems for a long time now. but they seem to be getting worse. We've been dealing with horrible constipation and lots of abdominal pain. In the past few weeks things where getting a lot worse by the day. We couldn't get things moving at home. We where doing everything you could think of. We where having to do enemas constantly and then we had to stop doing those as well. His autonomic system couldn't handle the stress of the enema and his temperature would drop and he would faint afterwards. So, we stopped doing any enemas and just where doing everything oral to help with the constipation. He was crying in pain for extended periods of time, waking up in the middle of the night screaming in pain. I just hated seeing him in pain and there wasn't anything I could do for him. Finally it got to the point where we could do no more at home and he was in to much pain so he was admitted to the hospital.

We got up to his room and waited for a little while. Then they ran some tests, xrays and such. While the doctors came up with the plan Jackson fell asleep for awhile after going through all the tests. They came in to put in the NG tube and started pumping fluids into his stomach. It was going pretty fast. I got him calmed down and he fell back asleep. He then rotated between vomiting and sleeping for a long time. After the meds and fluids made there way through his system things started going. Weeks worth of stool poured out of him over the next day.

He's feeling better now which is great. He's still in pain and having problems with constipation. We have another check up today.

After getting an IV and blood drawn.

Getting compfort from his monkey.

Playing with his car that he got for being brave during the IV

Cute sleeping boy!

After the NG tube was put in.

After he was feeling better and the NG tube removed.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

	Jackson is being admitted to the hospital today. We could use some prayers that things go smoothly for Jackson and I at the the hospital and for Noah as he will probably be at home with my parents.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Halloween Pictures

Its 930 and both kids are asleep in their beds. I think its been at least 2 months since this has happened. They are both usually only asleep at the same time between 1 and 6, and then both of them usually wake up once during that time. So, I figured I would finally get some pictures uploaded off the camera and some put on here because if I don't do it tonight it might not happen for awhile.

Last week as the week went on I got a little down. I kept thinking for the past two months that we'll get healthy again and we'll do everything I wanted for halloween and stuff. I'm really big on holidays and making tradition for my kids. So there was a lot of things I wanted to do. The weeks kept passing and one of us was always sick making it difficult to do things. Then last week I realized it was the week of halloween and we hadn't done anything like going and getting pumpkins or anything like that.

Last weekend Noah got really sick and I took him back in to the doctor. He had developed pneumonia secondary to the flu and was very weak. We where able to keep him home and he's doing much better now. There was only about 36 hour period where he slept a lot and I was getting really worried about him. But he pulled through it. But because we've all been so sick and Noah have pneumonia I didn't think we would do anything for halloween. Friday night was the ward party at church and I thought maybe I would take Jackson just to the trunk or treat part that way he could get a little trick or treating without going out for too long. Well Jackson was too tired and Noah wasn't do to good so we didn't go. Jackson on halloween was feeling pretty good. So I decided that I would take him trick or treating with some friends that live a few houses down from us. Noah stayed at home with Michael.

Jackson walked to a few houses and then was too tired so I started carrying him from house to house. He was still able to walk up onto the porch by himself but then after a few more houses walking up the stairs was too much him so I ended up carrying him from door step to door step and setting him down to knock and get candy. We only made it a few more houses of me carrying him like that before we where both exhausted and decided we had enough. We where about 15 houses down the street from our place and I was really tired from carrying him(he's not a light kid) so after we walked back a few houses we stopped at another friends house they where all sitting outside passing out candy so we sat with them for a few minutes to rest. But then we realized how tired Jackson was and they offered to just drive us back home. Jackson fell asleep within about 40 minutes of being home.

With Jackson being so tired and fatigueing like that it made me think about what we'll do in the future for things like this. Jackson gets tired very easily. Somedays are better then others. We have to walk up 2 flight of stairs to get into our apartment. Most days Jackson is too tired to walk up the stairs by himself so we have to carry him. In the mornings when he's going to school he can usually walk down them by himself. But sometimes(like this morning) he was already to fatigued to walk down then so I had to carry him down the stairs. Jackson is able to walk and some days he's able to walk for a long time. Stairs are definitely harder and wear him out faster. In physical therapy one of his goals is to build up endurance. He really hasn't though for a long time. There is no way to know a prognosis for this area for him. We don't know if or when he'll gain some more endurance. there's been some disscussion about getting him a special needs stroller at some point(probably around the time he turns 4 or so). A special needs stroller is like a cross between a regular stroller and a wheelchair. We would get one made for some one who is able to walk but not for any distance. I think next halloween(and other events as well) he'll be a little older and want to be out trick or treating(or doing other things) and not have the endurance to keep walking and he'll be much to big to carry around for very long. So we would probably need to use the stroller and push him around. It makes me wonder what that will be like and plan for the future of him possibly being in a stroller a lot and having to make things hadicapped accessible. Just things to think about for now, to wonder and try to plan as best as I can.

Onto pictures. I dressed both Noah and Jackson up in their costumes over at my parents house so they could see them and we could get some pictures.

Jackson was a monkey and Noah was a giraffe.

Jackson's theme since he was a baby has been monkey and he's holding his monkey that he's had and slept with since he was a baby. Noah's theme has been giraffe and he's holding one of the giraffes that he has. We got both the monkey and giraffe from the same store, the monkey one for Jackson was the first thing I bought for the baby when I was pregnant.

Jackson wouldn't wear the hood so we only got a few pictures of him with it up. the rest of the night he had it off.

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Friday, October 23, 2009

I jinxed us

Last weekend we found out Jackson had strep throat. I was done with all the illness and we didn't even have the "flu" yet. Well, guess what. We have the flu. I must have gotten it that day from someone in the doctors office. I started getting sick monday. Wednesday I saw the doctor who confirmed it was H1N1. Noah and I can't take tamiflu but Jackson started it wednesday night and Michael started his thursday morning. We're all really sick holding up in our apartment. Hopefully we'll all be feeling a lot better within a few days.

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Saturday, October 17, 2009

OK, so Jackson's had a rough week and lots of stuff has been happening(more later) I decided to take him into the urgent care at his doctor's office today. We where there from 11 tell 145. It was a very long time. But Jackson has strep throat. Yep he's sick again. In the past 2 months we've had a cold, stomach virus, whooping cough and now strep throat. UGH!! I have a feeling this will be a very long winter with illness and we haven't even had the "flu" yet.

I've been working on doing an update on Jackson and Noah, all the health problems and one about what they've been up to recently. Most of the time I'm on the computer is when I'm nursing one of them or one of them is sleeping on me so its difficult to type very much. But I haven't been posting very much lately and I've been meaning to do one about all the money I've been learning to save lately because I'm so excited.

I've come across peoples blogs from time to time that are people who coupon. I never really understood how they where able to save that much money and was never able to really do to much but I was interested. As time went on I was less and less interested as I became more and more concerned about the food that my family eats. We've cut things out of what we eat, I buy organic(not everything just somethings right now), I buy a lot of fresh vegetable and fruit. I thought that there wasn't coupons and really good deals on that stuff. But I was wrong. There are organic coupons out there. I've also come across some really good sites and I've figured out how to save money on groceries and other areas. I'm still learning and will get better over time. Especially once I have a better stockpile. (the key is to only buy on sale with coupons for very little and stock up so that you never pay full price for anything.) I know that I won't be able to save as much money as some people save on groceries because I feel its more important to eat healthy then to save money on certain foods. Like we don't eat sugary cereal even though you can almost always get a box of cereal for less then 50 cents. We'll still always be paying more for produce too. Some people just don't eat fresh produce at all because its expensive. But I feel its worth it for my families health. So we'll just price match when I can and buy locally and stuff.

But I've gotten some really good deals in the past few weeks since I started saving money better and I wanted to share them.

Main grocery shopping trip for the month total was 200 brought down to 130 after coupons. save 70 dollars with coupons.
We bought the new Snow White movie for only 4 dollars.
things I've gotten for FREE deodorant, pumpkin carving tool, chapstick, two samples of happy baby organic baby products,a $5 gift card to target and I think there was a couple other things I'm not remembering now(very little sleep these days) and there was a few things I signed up for and will be getting free products and coupons in the mail over the next couple weeks.

I've been pretty excited about finding things like this. I also found some other really good deals that I would have loved to get but just couldn't fit in the budget this month.

I also wanted to post a new picture of Noah so here is a few of him all smiles for mommy.

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