As luck would have it... At least my luck

Well Kierra woke up this morning with the abscess on her bum again. So I spent all day at the hospital with her. The surgeon squeezed her in for surgery and it is now all over (hopefully).
She is doing great. The surgery was like one hour all together. Then they just had her stay in recovery for one hour then she went home.
Her blood pressure was high at times but also excellent at other times so I don't know what is up with that.
She was cute waking up she would be totally out then wake up and say up or ball then go back to sleep.
When we left they said she should sleep all day. Ya right the girl is all over the place and crazy as ever.
We continue to have Zack in our prayers.

Prayers...

Another reminder how precious life is. Our good friends son (Skyler's buddy) was hit by a dump truck last night. Zack is 9years old and clinging to life right now. He has been in and out of surgery and has had lots of blood transfusions. He has already lost one kidney and has multiple other injuries. Please PRAY for this family!!! His father Dan witnessed the whole thing.

Jackson is in lots of pain but was so excited when he received balloons from his Hamma and Hoppa.

Surgery

Boulder Beach at Silverwood

In the water

Brian and Jackson spraying Skyler in the bumper Boats

At Silverwood watching magic show and eating pizza
Skyler and Jackson enjoying Silverwood

Jackson at home today.

On his HAPPY medicine

Not feeling so great right after surgery.

Well surgery is over for Jackson. Hopefully this will be his last. Kierra ended up not having to have surgery because her abscess miraculously disappeared.

Jackson has staples on the inside of his stomach and stitches on the outside skin. He is in a lot of pain from the procedure as you can imagine. He didn't have to stay overnight just till about 7ish in the hospital. They wanted to make sure we could control the pain with meds that can go home. He is much happier at home.

He is having a hard time with having to lay down and be calm so that his tummy won't hurt but he is a trooper. We have just been watching movie after movie.

For the next few days he has to be on a liquid diet so that he won't hurt anything in his stomach. He also has a bandage on it that has to stay on for two weeks.

Visiting Preschool...

I just got back from visiting Jackson's preschool. We had ice cream and watched an ice cream movie. His class is CRAZY. I give props to his teachers.
Skyler found out who his teacher for the fourth grade is. I guess her name is Mrs Erickson. He is getting bored but still not ready to go back to school.
Jackson and Kierra are out of school for one week. We are going to Silverwood and doing surgery on Wednesday.
Kierra is talking a lot now. She says "Ball", "Up", and "Mom". She growing too fast. She just turned 8 months old. Where did all the time go?

Cardiologist and Kierra

OK so yesterday was Kierra's big cardiologist appointment. She had high blood pressure for the second time so she will go in one month (September 17th) to get her blood pressure checked again. If at that time it is still high she will start blood pressure medication. I also found out that because she has a little bit of renarrowing of her aorta that she will have to take antibiotics before she has surgeries or procedures even dental things for the rest of her life. Wow it never ends does it.
We are planning on going to Silverwood sometime this weekend so we are excited. Nothing else really exciting going on just work and kids.

Rainy Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaN2o_uOF_I This is a good video that always makes me think of my nephew Noah.
Well I painted half of Kierra's room last night and I am so tired. The kids here at work are wild today. Maybe it is the rainy weather. One more day of kids then I am done till September 4th and I go back to my baby room.

What a sad day...

I was reading my friends blog today when I discovered a baby that I have been following on another blog had passed away yesterday. http://thelauers03.blogspot.com/ His name is Noah.
This makes me so sad for the family. Read what my friend Jodie says it will bring tears to your eyes and is so touching http://www.jodified.typepad.com/.
Noah brings back so many things for me such as my beautiful nephew Noah that died of SIDS on September 4th 2006. It makes my heart break that he had to leave us.
It also makes me think of Jackson when he was so sick in the hospital as a baby and nobody knew what was wrong. All the times when we didn't know if he would make it. His skinny little lethargic body clinging to life, surprising us each time he pulled through. He is now so healthy and keeping us so busy. Do I ever stop to think that could have been me. I could have never seen him grow to be who he is and who he will become. Life is so precious and having the privilege to have children, even if for a short while is such a blessing in itself.
I hope we can all slow down in our lives and realize how things can change in a second and love every minute we have with our loved ones.

This is Skyler's favorite new shirt. It's Meaty from the show Rob and Big.

So I am going completely nuts with this whole mobile stage. Kierra is obsessed with climbing everything, especially the stairs. She also will not play with any of her toys. My fix for it was this spoon and pot. Ya it lasted two minutes, I guess that is pretty good though.

Then she went straight for the stairs.

It's as if she is saying Ha Ha Mom

This was fun.

http://wordle.net/

J town

If you can see this is the boys. They were hard to track down.

Kierra wants back in the water.

Kierra in the water


Kierra and Isabelle in Kierra's Tinker Bell Costume

Swimming

So it looks like all my kids are fish. I sat Kierra in the water for the first time thinking she would be cautious of the water but I was sure wrong. That girl got right in the water she looked like a little dolphin scooting in the water. She was going everywhere not even afraid of the deeper parts when the water went in her face.

I took my niece and nephew along with Jackson, Skyler and Kierra and met my friend and her kids. We went to the new Aquatics Center it was a blast. They have a lazy river, water slides, and big water toys. The kids couldn't get enough.

Skyler went to an arena football game tonight and I am babysitting my brothers kids while they are at the movie. Brian barbecued steaks for us and I am trying to motivate myself to finish painting my bathroom. I am so sick of painting.

On August 27th both Kierra and Jackson are scheduled for surgery. Leave it to my kids to have surgery the same day with the same surgeon. Jackson will get his g-tube site sewed together and Kierra is having an abscess removed. Hopefully this will be the last surgery for both of them.

I only have 4 more days of work till I get a little time off. Then back to my regular classroom September 4th. Of course no vacation for me because of the two having surgery. Oh well such is life.