Round 2 of The Medical Center

We were just in the Medical Center for my dad yesterday. Tomorrow, we go back to Texas Children's for Reid's tubes and removal of his adenoids. We have to be there at 8:00am but the surgery won't be until 10:15am. This baby of mine is going to starve and be so thirsty. He can have clear liquids between 12:00am-6:00am, so we are waking him at 5:45, just to let him drink as much as he wants. I will update tomorrow if I can. I will be in 100% "mommy bear protecting her baby cub" mode. :-)

We spoke to Dr. Massumi yesterday afternoon and he wants my dad to go back for a nuclear stress test. He will decide if a bypass is necessary after the test.  Right now, he has him on Aspirin, Plavix (blood thinner), 2 blood pressure medications, one for cholesterol, and nitroglycerine (to be used if necessary). They also had him buy a blood pressure machine so that he can take his pressure a couple of times a day. Since this ordeal began, my dad has noticed how much of a worry wort I have become (asking the doctors/nurses a thousand questions until I feel comfortable with their explanations). So, to make fun of me, he either calls or emails me his vitals (including his weight) twice a day. He doesn't even say hello- JUST gives me the date, the time and his vitals. LOL!!

My dad. Post Angiogram.

Doctors were not successful in placing the other stent. However, since he hasn't had chest pain they don't feel he'll need a bypass for now. Dr Massumi said that this is blockage that has been there for years and his body has created a natural bypass with arteries called collaterals. If he ever has chest pain, he will need a bypass. So, good news but still worried about the uncertainty. Then again, none of us are ever guaranteed anything. I gotta have faith. Gotta have faith. Yes, the George Michael song... :)

My dad, Reid's 2nd Opionion and Randomness

My dad's aniogram is scheduled for this Wednesday. Please pray that the doctors will be able to do the stent. They'll let us know tomorrow the time, but either way he'll stay the night at St. Luke's that night.
I'm confident that they will be able to do the stent and then my dad will be better. However, regardless of my confidence level, I need to ask for prayers that everything will turn out ok and they won't have to do a bypass.

Reid got another ear infection, so after he finished his antibiotics I took him to an ENT at Texas Children’s in the medical center for a 2nd opinion. Dr. Albright was recommended to me by 3 different friends, so it was a no-brainer... First, they did a hearing test and the audiologist said that Reid has a lot of fluid in his ears and because of it, he has a very hard time hearing. This would explain why some of his words sound funny. For example, he says “tank you” instead of “thank you” and used to say “Dole” instead of “Cole”. I kept telling myself not to compare him to Cole because each kid is different. Reid is more reserved/shy so he speaks up only when necessary. If it’s just the 4 of us, he’ll speak but throw another person into the mix and he clams up. When Dr. Albright saw him, he found ANOTHER ear infection, although Reid had finished antibiotics a couple of days before! That pretty much convinced me right away to move forward with tubes. I hate giving him so many antibiotics. If he ever gets a serious infection, what would he be treated with? He’s already building resistance to antibiotics. The lack of hearing is affecting his speech and the pain that my baby is feeling is not something I want to treat with antibiotics anymore. We are scheduled to go in for tubes and have his adenoids removed this Friday. I will need a Xanax that day. Never been a pill popper but I will have to do *something* to ease the anxiety of having my baby go under anesthesia. The thought of it is keeping me up at night. I know that once the procedure is done, I’ll be so relieved that we went ahead and had it done. A couple of days later, I’ll probably find myself praying that he doesn’t start talking like Cole (100 miles an hour, every second of the day?). haha!

Making sandwiches and quesadillas.

Addi is showing Cole (and Reid sort of) how to do the Texas Tech sign.

Bad influence? :)

This little guy (Reid) is making us NUTS with his sudden change in taste. Change in clothing taste. OH MY GOD. He freaks out every morning because he wants to wear this or that. We give him options (usually 2) but he wants to mismatch the 2 outfits. I’m ready to give up fighting him on it and just letting him dress himself completely. So, if you happen to see a little clown hanging around us a lot, don’t be alarmed. It just means that we have given up on dressing Reid. Why are we the only ones with 2 kids that are so freaking picky about their clothes? All I hear from my mom is that they both turned out just as picky as me when it comes to clothes.
I can’t wait until Christmas! Speaking of…The other night, Cole asked me “Mommy, do you think Shadow visit us this Christmas?”. Shadow is the “Elf on the Shelf” that visits in December. I can’t believe he remembered him and I can’t wait to hide him all over the house.

 Go Tigers!

I took the day off today to play with my babies and and I'm enjoying it so much. They are being awesome and it's making me feel like a good Mommy. : ) Also, I feel like rolling around the grass because it's so nice outside. Have a great week!

End of Summer. Start of Fall.

I can't believe the summer came and went in what seemed like the blink of an eye.

Cole is doing amazing in pre-k and for some reason "show and tell" is so much fun now. I'm enjoying coming up with ideas with Cole to bring something to "show and tell". The first week, the theme was "back to school". So, Cole and I went to Target and bought Transformer and Toy Story pencils for the whole class. Tomorrow's theme is "the senses" and Cole will take cookies for his class and teachers. Cole went through his senses and told me "I can see the cookie, I can smell it, I can touch it, I can taste it and I can hear it when I bite it". It's SO fun for me! :-) His teachers have not stopped telling us how great Cole is at puzzles. They tell us that he'll complete 50 piece puzzles in no time and he loves to do them. Puzzles always bored me to pieces (no pun intended. hehe) so I'm not sure where he gets it...

Cole has started his 3rd soccer season. During practice, he had 2 goals and he is so ready for his first game. Poor Reid wants to play SOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad. He still has to wait until next year to play. :(

My Reid has abandoned me for his Daddy. This boy is *in love* with his Daddy! Daddy this. Daddy that. Every second of the day.  I want my Reid to want his Mommy back all of the time again. He is growing more independent and he looks so big to me lately. When I tell him "No more growing ok? You are my baby", he tells me, "I stay little Mommy". I wish he would.  :)

Here are some random end of summer pictures....

Cute. cute. cute. kids!

  

These turtle smiles make me smile. :)

HOOK'EM HORNS!

Preparing to watch the 1st Longhorn game of the season!! God, I hope these boys go to UT. :-P
This is Reid's attempt to make a Longhorn. Still working on it. :)

The serious Longhorn faces.