Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Family pictures, Lead, Tubes, princesses and love

In all of the hassle of the last weeks I have said a lot about Logan and not the rest of us so here it goes

Look at this sweet boy he is talking a ton and loves to smile. He has given us a few laughs, but he is still working on that. He weighed 12 1/2 pounds at his 2 month check up. He is a pretty good sleeper, he is sleeping from about 9 to 5:30 or 6 in the morning now! YEAH!!! This is cousin Ellison, isnt she beautiful. Peyson has a pretty good headstart on her, but she is healthy and will catch up. It will be so fun to have cousins so close together.


What a princess! Rosa is learning to write her name and is really into singing. She has a pretty good imagination and is always telling us stories about her imaginary sister "lollipop" Lollipop comes around and does all of the things that Rosa would like to do if she would not get ino trouble.
Growing strong. Logan is doing well, he talks a lot and speaks pretty clear for his age. He also has a strong imagination and cries if you take his imaginary stuff away from him. The lead inspector and nurse came yesterday and found lead in our windows, base boards and some doors. So as soon as some technicalities work out they will replace those. After all of the work is done, the inspector will have to come back and recheck and give it the all clear, so that will be a great piece of mind. It will be a big job, but worth it if his #'s go down and he is healthy. In the meantime the kids room tested higher than our room so yesterday we swapped rooms with them. They are now vacationing in our room and Colby and I are sleeping in the fish room with glow in the dark stars above us. How romantic! We also pushed something against every window so that they cannot be reached or played under. The inspector told me to set boundries and tell the kids to stay away from baseboards and to play in the middle of the floor. He said "they will listen, their kids." Upon hearing this I responded "Do you have kids?" He also said to clean clean clean, the house should pass the white glove test. Unfortunately we do not own white gloves so we are hoping brown will work! The state is sending a nutritionist to see us to help with Logan and also Early Access which will help monitor his development and help us catch any problems early so we can work with him in the areas he will need help. It is a relief to know what it is, but the fears are still there for Colby and I, we are praying his next test (2 weeks) will show some improvment so maybe we can breathe a little easier. so here is my plug if you have not have your kids tested. Even if your house is newer. The nurse told us yesterday that it would only take a sugar packets worth of lead to contaminate a whole football field. It is only a finger poke and you cannot reverse the effects of lead, that its why it is good to catch it early! JUST DO IT!!!
Our poor sweet boy, with all of this lead business we did not even tell many people that Ace was having tubes put in his ears today. We had to be the at 6am today and surgery was at 7. It was a super fast surgery, we were home by 8. But they still had to put him under and make an incision. I was unprepared for the part where they took him from us. I just assumed we would stay with him until he went to sleep. But the DR. came in and took him from us and we did not even see the room or the 1st recovery room. I kept thinking, where are you taking my baby! He was not to happy with us when we got back to the room. But once we go home and he had a nap, he has played and laughed all day. I think even he could tell a difference. Ace is running everywhere and is such a joy. He loves to laugh and tease, he as a bit of a temper, he likes to stomp his feet scream, but luckily he is also a super sweet hugger so we forgive him! They think the adoption should be compelted by early May! YEAH!!!


An attempt at a family picture, I think we are going to have to take individual pictures and cut and paste them together! Logan kept running and Rosa did not want to smile or take her fingers out of her mouth! What a blessing they are, our babies!




Thursday, March 13, 2008

TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!

Grandma is spoiling Mr.Peyson a lot.
















Logan wants to play with the big boys!




We love great weather. We have played outside a ton



























I am not sure it is a fair fight
























Our little redneck

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

To warmer weather we go

Well Colby and I woke up Monday morning and decided that we could not sit here for a whole week and think about what was making Logan sick. Especially because since we found out about the lead we have not changed anything, because we dont know what to change. The lead nurse said you dont have to leave, you are probably just overreacting. But it is words like "probably" "shouldnt" "in most cases" that drove us away. When you are talking about our kids "probably" is really not good enough. And poor Logan has been watched like a hawk and Colby and I are driving ourselves crazy. So we left around 2 yesterday leaving everything in our house but clothes, to avoid bringing the culprit with us. We stopped at Target with some money that my aunt had given the kids when we were last in OK and said "ok shop away" what a mistake, the kids were in joyland, they looked and looked. They all got new cups, a something to sleep with, books and a couple of toys. On a side note Colby and I bought the little hand held 20Q game and it was great, we played with it almost the entire trip! But with fussy kids, bottles and diapers we did not arrive in TX until 4:45 am. Rosa had no nap before we left and only slept twice for about 45 minutes a time. Colby said when she turns 16 she will be allowed to drive all night if she wants. Despite the lack of sleep they were still up by 8 this morning and Ace slept in my arms in a chair for most of the remainder of the snoozing time. So as I type Colby is in the other room sleeping (in his favor he did drive the whole way) but I will get my revenge, when the kids get super fussy I plan on waking him up and claiming my nap! So the plan is to stay in TX until Friday, to OK until Saturday and then to DSM. On Sunday Colby will preach, Monday the lead nurse and inspector are coming, Tuesday Ace has tubes put in his ears and Thursday we go to KC for LTC! How crazy!

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Logan

Just wanted to let you all know what we learned from the doctors and lead poisoning nurse yesterday. Overall they say the biggest cure is to find the source and get rid of it. The inspectors from the health dept are coming out on the 17th to see if they can find the source of our problems. They do not treat lead poisoning at these numbers if the numbers will go down after finding the source. They will test him again in 4 weeks so pray for that. When I finally just asked the question of long term effects at his numbers they said that slower learning when they start school. The CDC page also says that nerve damage can start at this number. I have cried many tears for this. And it may never happen, but I am sad at the thought that he could have a strike against him from the start. But that said, we are grateful that it was caught in time and the longterm effects are what they are, because the alternative is horrible. So we will find the cause, get rid of it and not spend the next 5-10 years wondering if the side effects will show up. Colby and I are pretty protective about somethings when it comes to our kids, we dont let them have artificial sweetner, we keep our meds in lock box, but all in all we cant protect them from everything. I so wish that we could, but I look at Logan and his sweet face and funny spirit and just have to know that it will all be okay.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Our Mr.Potato Head

On Tuesday when Logan went for his 2 yr appointment he tested high for lead. They pocked his finger twice in the office and his #'s were 25 and 26.6. They should be below 10. So they sent him to the hospital to draw blood from his vein, it took 3 pokes and 48 hours for those test to come back and he was a 28. That is a high level, but not a level where they treat it. They are going to test his iron tomorrow because it also showed low and they will retest his lead in 4 weeks. Now we are in the process of getting someone to come out and test the house and its contents. High levels of blood poisoning affect your brain so we are going to fix the problem before it gets that high. It has been a scary few days because we know so little about lead poisoning and what we do know is not good. But we have been assured that he is okay and will continue to stay that way. But every time he stutters or says ouch we jump. Poor kid! Rosa and Ace both tested fine, so it is a little odd, but because his iron started out low they said this could have made him more susceptible. Please keep him in your prayers. Actually keep us all in your prayers, it is very scary when you start talking about your baby's brain.
I did it again! Tilt right We were all a little tense and the kids were picking up on that so yesterday we destroyed an old phone book...it was great therapy

Rosa's first date

One monday Colby took Rosa on her first date or "gate" as she called it. She was so excited, all day she kept saying "I've never been on a gate before" and "Logan tonight I am going on a gate and you cant go because you have a diaper." They went to the mall to play at the game store, to Taco Bell to eat (a date on a budget) and then to the library. She had a great time and when she got home she said "mom going to eat is a gate!"








Look at his sweet smile

February


In February we celebrated Logan and Ace's birthdays. Ace turned one in January and Logan 2 in February so they had a joint party with the kids at church.










Ace really loved cake

Okay so turn your head to see these, because I cannot figure a way to turn them! But Logan looks super cute in his overalls.



Well that is Ace behind the plate. I think the picture says it all!

January

Okay so I am going to give this a shot, I will try and update the pics about once a week. I am going to start with a review of our year so far.





On January 2nd our little Peyson Glenn was born. He weighed 8lb 8 oz. He has dark eyes and a dimple like his Daddy!
A couple of short weeks later he was back in the hospital with RSV. It was a tough few days, but he is doing great now!
Proud Brothers and Sister!