This past month...

We finally got our computer up and running again. For those of you who haven't heard, Brenna thought it would be fun to have our laptop go for a swim in apple juice. We ended up having to replace the hard drive since laptops don't like to go swimming in apple juice:)

We've been having a fun summer enjoying the air conditioning in our house:) Easton is getting SO big!! He just turned three months old and he's about 15ish pounds. He's such a sweet little guy. I've been avoiding dairy for about a month now and he hasn't had any more blood in his diapers (unless I accidentally eat something with dairy). I can't tell you how much I want ice cream. So far, it hasn't been so bad, but cheese is the hard one - that stuff is in everything!! We're hoping he grows out of it soon:)

Brenna is really into coloring right now - she'll do it for HOURS!

She really likes her swimming suit - but refuses to run through the sprinklers - they are very scary as you know! She would rather play with sticks and dirt.

Here's our garden with the lovely zucchini bush - good thing we only planted one this year!

Easton's eyelashes are longer than my hair!

Sometimes Brenna's crayons go crazy and draw on the walls. Thank goodness for washable crayons!! I make Brenna clean it up - and she loves it!

This is Brenna's favorite - seriously - she wants ice ALL THE TIME! I shred it and she eats it plain and LOVES it. She will even ask for it for breakfast. Silly kid.

Good thing Easton is a tuff little guy - you have to be to live with Brenna. She sure loves kissing on him!

I'm going to eat their cheeks for breakfast tomorrow morning...

YUM!

Easton has to sneak and sit in the Bumbo chair when Brenna's not looking 'cuz she doesn't like it when he steals her chair (even though she hated it it when she was little).

These are Easton's three month pictures - he's SO Sweet - look at his tummy!!

This is our handsome three month old before church this morning. He looks so dang cute, but he hated the outfit and couldn't wait for church to be over to get out of it!

He's a lady killer. See ya!

2 Months and Primary Children's Hospital

I can't believe Easton is 2 months old already!! He's getting SO big and now weighs 12 lbs. and 9 oz. He's such a happy smiley little guy.


Poor kid has had quite a time the last couple of weeks. On the 4th of July, he started having quite a bit of blood in his messy diapers - enough to totally freak me out! All day Sunday and then all day Monday he had quite a bit, but nothing else seemed to be wrong - he was still his normal smiley self. We were finally able to get him into the Dr. Tuesday the 6th (the day he turned 2 months old).

After checking him, the Dr. was pretty puzzled because normally he would have said he had a Cow's milk protein intolerance, but since he was such a happy baby he wanted to have him have a Meckles Scan just to rule out Meckles Diverticulum. Some babies have a finger like indentation in their small intestine where the umbilical cord was attached and didn't get totally cut off. This indentation is called a Meckles Diverticulum and it can make it's own stomach or even pancreatic fluid that can cause an irritation and in turn cause bleeding. If that's the case, it needs to be surgically removed.


So we set up an appointment at Primary Children's Hospital on the 9th. The poor little guy couldn't eat for four hours before the procedure and BOY WAS HE HUNGRY!!! I think that was actually the worst part for him.

They put an IV in his little hand, inserted some Zantac to keep the stomach fluids contained, then 20 min. later, they added Technetium-99m, a radioactive substance that will pick up any abnormalities during the scan.

Then, he was scanned for 30 minutes - and THANKFULLY nothing showed up!! In the picutre below, the two black boxes on the screen are of his little body. The top one is from the front and the bottom is his back. The two little white areas are his little tummy and his bladder. If there had been anything abnormal, it would have glowed as well.

I was SO proud of him - he did such a good job during the test. It seems crazy to feel proud of a 2 month old, but he really did a great job. And boy was he happy to eat after a five hour starvation:)

On one hand it would have been nice to see a positive so we would know for sure what it was, but on the other hand, we're so thankful he won't have to have surgery. After talking to his Dr., and doing some research online, we've decided to see if it really is the milk intolerance. SO, I have to stop eating dairy to see if it goes away. SO FAR, he hasn't had any blood since I stopped and everything seems to be getting better. It's probably a good thing I'm a milk hater - I really don't know how you could do it otherwise! So, bring on the soy milk - I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get our little guy healthy. Thanks for all the prayers!!!!!

Camping over the 4th

We went camping for 4 days with Tyson's family over the 4th - yes camping with a baby. All I have to say is that I'm thankful for our trailer and the water it carries because holy cow did Brenna get DIRTY!!!

and YES M&M's DO melt in your hand!

we had a great time, but the kids were sure happy to be home. The first thing Brenna wanted to do when we walked in the door was to take a real bubble bath!

6 Weeks

Every picture I take of Brenna lately looks like this 'cuz she wants to see the picture.

this is what happens when she helps weed the garden

SUCH a sweet little boy!!

Mom's little helper

Every once in a while I give Easton a bottle and he doesn't seem to mind the little change of how his food gets into his tummy - he just likes to eat. Brenna is SO good with him and likes to help out when she can. She likes to burp him, give him a pacifyer (and doesn't seem to understand why he wouldn't want it all the time like she does hers), and she likes to try to feed him too. He drank a tiny bit for her and boy was she proud!!! It's so fun to watch them together.

Just Hangin' Out

These were taken on my birthday so they're a little old. This little guy doesn't like to be by himself, so this is how he spends his time while Brenna takes her bath:)