Last Day of School

I am not sure what happen to my previous post about last day of school.

So I redid it.

Last day of school was Wednesday June 9, 2010.  We had a nice time and a great way to end the year.  

Jonathon received a few items also.

Pictures with teacher ~ 3 at end are teacher, teachers aide and social worker ~ last picture is gift from Miss Lori(social worker)

Wordless Wednesday

                                                           no more sitting on mommy's lap

Wordless Wednesday

Sickness confirmed

Jonathon has Roseola!  But I have been very lucky this time around.  The highest his fever got yesterday was 100.7.  His rash was on his inner arms, outer arms and neck and partway down his back.

This morning he has no temp ~ the rash is barely noticeable ~ he is eating and playing again ~ and he is drinking like normal today also.  he will remain contagious until the rash is gone.

I asked Dr. Peditrician if this was airborne ~ no ~ he got it from someone coughing near him ~ runny nose near him ~ someone had it and gave it to him.

Now there is this one particular little boy at school that spends more time outside of school being sick than actually being at school.  He has taken a liking to Jonathon for some reason.  He wants to hold Jonathon's hand all the time.  He wants to hug on Jonathon all the time.  And I have worried about this much contact.  And I don't know if he got it from this particular child, but he has not been anywhere except school.  Except for Thursday afternoon, we went to the park and to McDonalds.  Soooo not sure where he got it.

And the reason I said "I got lucky this time around"  When Kenny was a baby (under 1) he got Roseola.  He had a high temp of 104 that we had a hard time getting down.  It was very scary and he was very sick.  He also burst his eardrum from the fever.  We made it through that and he recovered just fine, but I am so glad that I did not have to go through that with Jonathon.  I am glad he had a mild case.

We have school on Monday and field trip on Tuesday so I hope he is better by then!

Sick little boy

So last night Jonathon woke up needing to go to the bathroom and well lets just say we almost made it ~ but not quite ~ my poor(baby)big boy was almost on toilet and he exploded.  I am very proud of him that he woke up and actually made it that far ~ definitely not his fault.

We stayed in bathroom for about 15 min til he was finished and I cleaned up.  The whole time I am thinking "ok, did he have bad McDonalds", did he catch something at McDonalds, did he catch something at the park, did I remember to wash his hands after everything, maybe he just had an upset stomach.........

This morning he woke up and seemed o.k.  Daddy took him in to go potty and then I got up and took him from daddy to go find his underwear for the day ~ when I took his hand it felt warm ~ I then touched his arm and head ~ yep warm ~ go get thermometer and yes he has a low grade temp ~ got him some juice and let him climb up on couch to watch t.v.

Usually Jonathon eats right away with his brothers before they go off to school ~ not today ~ he did not eat breakfast until 8:30a.m. and it was only yogurt ~ he is still on his first cup of juice ~ he is not playing ~ he is laying around ~ he is being quiet `~ I was kinda hoping that maybe he had 2yr. molars coming in and nothing else ~ now I am not so sure.

I had to make a couple of phone calls and when I was finished I went over to tell him how I was happy and thankful that he was a good boy and remained quiet when I noticed he has a rash.
So I begin to look him over and he has a rash on the back of his neck partway down his back ~ on the insides of his arms ~ and on his cheeks.  So I called the dr. and even though he is doublebooked I am taking Jonathon in this afternoon(the receptionist tried giving me her diagnosis) umm don't care, you are not the dr.  So we will go and wait our turn at 3:30p.m.

Hopefully it's nothing major, but seems how it's the weekend I need to know.
I really hate the E.R. and don't want to end up there.

Another Milestone Complete

I have finally decided that Jonathon is finished with his stairs and we will be donating them to Memphis Schools(Jonathon's school)next week.  He has been working on his stairs since December 09 and now they are pretty much just sitting in the corner unless I take them out for Jonathon to play on.  I say play on because he is really good at going up and down.  He now holds a ball in one hand and holds the rail with the other hand and walks up ~ sits down ~ rolls the ball ~ stands up ~ walks back down ~ and does this all over again.  He will climb the stairs and go down on his butt ~ he will stand on the landing and practice standing on one leg.

Our close friend "Mr Randy" made the stairs for Jonathon and agreed that we could donate them. (Thanks Randy).  We just want other children to be able to have the opportunity for this part of physical therapy if needed.

Stairs are only located at Woodlands in Marysville.  The only reason that we were able to access these stairs was because we were involved in summer school and summer school is located only at Woodlands.  And this is where I got my idea from.  And I am glad that I had these stairs made, what a difference in Jonathon's therapy for walking better.

I hope Memphis staff and the students enjoy the stairs and get as much from them as we did!

I wanted to post a video also, but I am having problems figuring it all out.  Soooo when I finally figure out how to do it  I will show everyone just what Jonathon can do!

Wordless Wednesday

I see the finish line

around the bend!  I started the process of potty training with Jonathon Feb 21 2009.
As of April 5, 2010 Jonathon has been wearing underwear!!

Now he doesn't wear underwear ALL the time, but pretty darn close.  Jonathon wears a pull up to bed at night ~ when he gets up in the morning I take him right to the bathroom to go potty ~ sometimes he is wet ~ sometimes he is not wet ~ after going potty we take off the wet/dry pullup and put underwear on for the day.

I now ask Jonathon around 3 hours if he needs to go potty ~ he will now answer me "yes" and then we go ~ I now ask Jonathon if he needs to go "poop" or pee ~ he will now answer me.

Since Jonathon has been wearing underwear sometimes I catch him undressing from the waist down ~ I ask "do you need to go potty?" ~ and most always his response is "yes" ~ and then we hurry off to the bathroom ~ and 98% of the time he does go.

When Jonathon takes a nap, I put a pull up back on him ~ he understands its just for sleeping ~ and when he wakes up from his nap I give him a few minutes and then we go potty and change back into underwear ~ sometimes he is wet ~ alot of times he is not wet.

When I was leaving the house I put a pull up on Jonathon ~ even though since I started potty training he has only been wet maybe 5 times ~ he has been the easiest out of my 3 boys to potty train ~ but I never wanted him to have an accident and send him 10 steps backwards so this was my security blanket I suppose.

But as of April 19th I decided it's time ~ I no longer put him in a pull up when we leave the house ~ well ok only for 1 thing and that is when he goes to school ~ he has never come home wet ~ it's just a little of my security blanket left I suppose ~ I will be working with Jonathon all summer on how to communicate with the teachers about potty since he will go to preschool full time in Sept ~ cannot even believe I am saying that.
Anyway, we get up, we go potty, we put underwear on for the day!  He has been doing awesome~ I am so proud of him ~ My sister watched him on friday for a couple of hours ~ She told me that Jonathon walked over to her bathroom door ~ she then asked if he needed to go potty and he responded with "yes" AND he did go for her!  HOORAY!

That has been another worry of mine that he won't go for someone else, so this makes me happy.

Now today we had another break thru!  And this is why I say I see the finish line
This morning I was busy putting clothes away and getting ready to take a shower ~ Jonathon was watching t.v. in the living room and playing with his cars in the window ~ I knew he would be entertained for a little while with Elmo so I could hurry and get my shower done ~ I turned around in the bedroom and he was coming in kinda holding belly and pulling at waist of his pants ~ I said "Jonathon do you need to go potty?"  He said "yes"  I said "ok, lets go"  He hurried off ahead of me and went straight to the bathroom, I helped him up on toilet and OMG he went within milliseconds!!!   I was sooo happy that when he finished I let him know just how proud I was for him to come and find me and tell me he needed to go!  He is becoming such a big boy!
And usually I take his hand and walk him off to bathroom, I didn't have to do that he went right ahead of me!
So now I will start working on waiting for as long as I think he can wait and see if he tells me he has to go!  As far as I am concerned my son is potty trained!  He wears underwear all day except for sleeping.  Just because he doesn't verbally tell me ALL the time doesn't matter to me!

I won't give up ~ I will continue to work with him ~ I want him to be able to just go ~ Like I said "I see the finish line"
I am so proud of Jonathon!  He truly is amazing!!

Wordless Wednesday

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Enjoying Outside

I have been wanting a jogger stroller since last summer, but never found one and really did not want to buy brand new if I could get away with it!  So I went searching on Craigslist and came across one not too far from home.

Jonathon and I ventured out after school to find the place.  And I decided yes that it was a great deal.  The jogger is by Instep and is in excellent condition and we purchased it for $25.  Brought it home, washed it up and loaded it back into the van so we were ready to try it out.

Thursday afternoon I met up with my sister after my morning errands/appointments to go for a walk.

Now it is a very nice stroller ~ Jonathon is very comfortable riding in it ~ its very easy to push ~ I love the bicycle tires ~ I love the fact that it has a big storage underneath and there is pockets all over the thing ~ Great buy ~ EXCEPT ~ the front wheel does not swivel ~ I knew this when I bought it, but didn't realize how much of a pain it actually is.

Maybe over time I will adjust to the way it is ~ maybe not ~ I will use it and see if I can learn to like it more and in the meantime I am searching for one that the front wheel swivels.

Here are some pictures of our day yesterday.

Aunt Carol-Ann(godmother) and Jonathon

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Jonathon and I getting ready to hit the trail

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Warming up and enjoying the beautiful day and scenery

 

Today we will test it out on our dirt road ~ It will be nice to be able to get out and take Scruffy(dog) along with us!

Continuing P.T. at home

P.T. ended for Jonathon as of January 2010.  We still have his stairs in the house and he uses them often.  We also have basement stairs that I take him along with me when I do laundry(once in awhile).  He has a basketball hoop inside(that needs to go outside) and he has grown enough that he can finally make a basket and he so loves to play basketball with all of us.

With spring and summer coming and with full time preschool starting in the fall I wanted to make sure that he had enough therapy items at home to keep him going and not fall behind.  So I started looking on craigslist for a Little Tikes playset of some sort.  We have a swingset (that I bought him last summer)but it has a very big slide on it and a some swings.  I want Jonathon to be able to climb up and down and just play (like the play structure at school) and then I won't worry about him and it will be great P.T.

 Here is what I found ~ Jonathon loves it ~ and I love Craigslist!

                                                Peanut Butter Land!!!!!

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 I cannot wait for the weather to warm back up again so Jonathon can get back out and enjoy his new sand and his new play structure!

School Field Trip

to the zoo on Friday!  It was a little unorganized if you ask me, but we had a great day anyway.

We invited Jonathon's bestest girlfriend Rylee and her mom and they brought along big brother Logan.  Weather was decent.  Little chilly in the morning, but it did warm up and we had a blast.

                                                                mommy and Jonathon

                                                   Jonathon with Logan and Rylee

                                                           snow monkey

Rhino

                                                 Jonathon's favorite!  

Going for a walk

 

Jonathon looks sooo small here!

 

                                               Good times with good friends!

                                            And Jonathon's souvenir from Zoo!

Wordless Wednesday

Old Sand - New Sand

When Andrew and Kenny were growing up we actually had a huge square sand box in the back yard for them and the swingset around it.  Last year I decided that I didn't want that for Jonathon.  I just wanted a little sandbox that he could sit in and play and we could cover it up at night.

After searching we found a little crabby sand box out by the road for garbage. It just needed to be pounded out and it was fine.  Jonathon received sand for his 2nd birthday from Uncle John(my bro) and he was very very happy.  He loves his sandbox. 

  

And then there wasn't any sand!  When we opened up crabby this Spring it was full of petrified worms!  Ok ok so I cleaned them all out ~ Disgusting don't want any part of worms ~ then it rained ~ and we went out to play ~ crabby was full of petrified worms on top ~ live worms crawling through EVERYWHERE!! ~ I draw the line when I have to take out more than 20 ~ we dumped crabby!

Now Uncle John works out of state.  He is located in Texas.  Jonathon sent Uncle John a picture of empty crabby and told him to come home that he needed more sand PLEASE!!!!

Ask and you shall receive!!!!!

Look what showed up at our house on Friday afternoon ~ Remember Uncle John is out of state.

And look what showed up right after the sand was delivered........

UNCLE JOHN!!!!!!!

What a wonderful surprise for Jonathon to get sand only days after asking Uncle John and the best surprise for Uncle John to be on a trip to Michigan and able to stop in and say Hi!!  My boys have the best Uncle in the world!  Thanks brother for being a great Uncle and brother!!!  Love you bunches!!!!!!

So then we had to move the sand from point A to point B

                                                                           Point A  (a very happy little boy)

                                                                      Point B

And even though Kenny did a superb job helping out this would have taken us all weekend to finish so I called in a favor.

                                                                   So our good friend Mr. Randy came with his tractor and moved the sand from Point A to Point B for us.  And daddy helped too.

                                                And here it is ~ our new sand!

And the diagnosis is.......

ALLERGIES!!!

This is our new symptom that we will be dealing with for about 2 months.  Jonathon started last Wednesday afternoon with a runny nose.  I was blaming myself for opening the sunroof on a trip down to the city.

I started him on Benedryl Thursday evening and by this morning he was not getting any better so I decided that we would skip school and head out to the doctors.  After waiting for over 1 hour to be seen we found out that Jonathon has allergies ~ just like his big brother Andrew ~ Andrew is on Fluticasone and prescription Claritin (Loratadine)~ Jonathon is on Fluticasone and prescription Claritin(Loratadine)........Ummmm I see a trend developing.

I am extremely glad that it's allergies and he is not sick though.

He will take the meds for about 2 months and Andrew has already started his allergy medicine early this year, I took him a few weeks ago.

Thank you Spring........ 

Surgery is Over!

What a long and exhausting day this has been!  We were up at 4a.m. to leave at 5a.m. to be at hospital at 6:30a.m.


We got lost ~ we (hubby and I) got into huge arguement over me not getting correct directions! I did, they were just confusing. ~ by the time we turned around ~ we missed our exit AGAIN! ~ Again I got yelled at! (as our 14yr. old is sitting in back with Jonathon) poor Andrew and Jonathon. ~ I am so over getting yelled at! ~ so I called hospital to let them know what was going on. ~ they were fine and said to take our time ~ we woke to a snowstorm ~ roads were horrendous! ~ we were only 10 minutes late. ~ and by now I was a little ticked off!


We stayed with Jonathon til 7:35a.m. and then they took him back.  Even though this was a much simpler surgery than OHS, it still crushed me to watch my baby get wheeled away. ~ We went to the next waiting area and then Andrew and I hurried to go get a drink ~ I forgot my Gatorade at home. ~ and most everyone knows I "NEED" that! ~while we were gone (2 minutes) someone had come out and let my husband know that yes they would be taking the adnoids out too. ~ so we waited. ~ not very long and they came to get us to go to another room to wait for the Dr. ~ as we are sitting and waiting Gilbert and I hear a scream ~ "Is that Jonathon?"  First time we weren't sure. ~ but when that door opened again and I heard it again ~ a mother just knows ~ "IT WAS MY BABY!"


Trying to hold composure til Dr. came in.  He talked with us really quick and then someone would be out to get us in about 20 - 30 minutes he said. As he was leaving the room a nurse was walking in to get us. ~ Thank God! ~ Dr. was surprised. ~ i didn't care ~ just get me to my baby. ~ I walked into recovery ~ to Jonathon screaming and thrashing all about ~ trying to come out of the anesthesia ~ They gave him to me and I just "hugged   him sooooo tight and talked to him"  ~ And yes lots of tears from mommy too ~ After a few minutes we both settled down. ~ he drifted in and out of sleep ~ took maybe 30 to 45 minutes to get him to drink ~ then he felt better. ~ we were dressed and on the road by 9:30a.m. "HOORAY!"


We were half way home when Jonathon vomitted all over! ~ Luckily we were able to pullover and luckily I always pack way too much stuff!  I was able to clean him up and carseat and change his clothes and we were off again.


got home around 10:30a.m. ~ He has had a little bit of water and just a few bites of jello.  I know he is hungry ~ but his throat is bothering him ~ rocked him to sleep and I think I will give him Tylenol later so then maybe he will be able to tolerated the jello.


I have to put drops in his ears ~ 3 drops 3x per day for 3 days and then we go for a recheck in 3 weeks. ~ It will be really weird tonight when I don't have to do the Little Noses.


Happy to be home ~ Happy Jonathon is resting ~ Happy surgery was a success!

Andrew and Jonathon

Gilbert, Jonathon and me

Jonathon waiting to go

   

Happy New Year!

Brought the new year in with me jumping out of a sound sleep to Jonathon screaming!!!!!(bad mommy).  Last night I took his bed rail off of his toddler bed thinking that "maybe" he wouldn't fall out anymore.  WRONG!  He fell out this morning at  6a.m. onto the metal frame of my bed. "OUCH" I grabbed him and hugged him tight and then got him his boo boo puppy out of the freezer.  After 10 minutes he was good and ready to start his day.  Just a little red mark now, no bump.


Although I feel like crap. I really thought he was ready.  So I will put the bed rail back on today.


I really wish Jonathon had his own room so he had room to move around and fall out of bed safely!

Ask and you SHALL Receive..........

Jonathon needs to work on climbing up and down stairs.  He "can" do it, he just "needs" to get better at it.  This is one of the requirements to start preschool next fall.  Now that it is cold out, we won't be able to go to the park anymore.  I really did not want Jonathon to take a long winter break from step climbing sooooooo........I decided to ask our good friend Randy(Mr. Randy to Jonathon) for help.

                                                                        Showing stairs to daddy at Woodlands

                                                                                 Step 1

                           

                                                                                            Step 2

                                            

                                                                                 Step 3

                                                                                    Step 4

                                                                          I'm  " Steppin"

                                                                             Made it to the Top!!!

                                              Jonathon's Stairs for Therapy

"Thank you Mr. Randy for my stairs ~ now I won't have to go out in the cold and I can keep on practicing!!!!"

We had an accident in house

Jonathon shares a bedroom with my husband and me.  So i have to rearrange the furniture to accomodate us sometimes.


Our bedroom is right off of the living room and one wall is off the kitchen and entry door to come inside house.  It is loud at times and the light bothers Jonathon at times.  We cannot completely close the bedroom door because then it's too cold in there for Jonathon.


I figured out a way to rearrange the furniture and get Jonathon off of one wall and block the light with a dresser from another wall.  In order to do this and make it so our bed fit I had to take off the wooden footboard ~ which we had done last winter so no big deal ~ I thought.  So besides running into a problem ~ having the bed fall apart on me ~ I got it all done and am happy with it.  The dresser does block the light from the living room pretty good and Jonathon seems to sleep a little better.


Monday morning I woke jumped up to hearing a big loud thud and Jonathon screaming!  Remember Jonathon is in a toddler bed so he can get out.  I jumped out of bed to see him trying to get up from foot of bed on the floor.  Oh my god is all I thought ~ his head and his face.  He had fallen onto the metal frame of our bed.  There is a portion that sticks out since I took off the wooden footboard.  I grabbed him and went to the kitchen to get his boo boo puppy(ice pack).  I then returned to the bedroom and laid him on my bed to look him over.  He was upset, but seemed to be o.k.  I couldn't believe it, I didn't see a mark anywhere on his head, a small scratch by his eye, but overall he seemed o.k.  This bothered me, I heard him fall, it was a very loud thud and I knew there had to be a mark somewhere on his head.  So I put him down after a good hug for a few minutes and we went to go potty.


After he finished I let him in bathroom with me.  He started getting into mischief as usual so I told him to look at me.  At first he didn't, then I said again "Jonathon, look at mommy".  He looked up at me and then started screaming all over again.  I didn't see anything.  I told him to come to me and I said "let me look"  you are crying for some reason and I need to find it!  All I can say is "OMG!!"  I finally found where he hurt himself.  It was under his chin all the way down into his neck.  I seen a mark that I didn't know if it was a puncture wound, so I immediately called my husband to come back home.  By the time Gilbert got back home I had Jonathon calmed down and was able to look him over.  Luckily he somehow scraped himself when he fell onto the piece of frame.  Thank God, if he would have just landed full force onto the frame across his neck.  I can honestly say this is the first time Jonathon scared me.


Yes I have been scared about surgery and medical issues along the way, but this is his first real boo boo and oh my, it was scary at first!  The doctor said to keep an eye on him and that is what I have been doing.  His throat seemed to be sore yesterday morning, but by dinnertime he ate with no problem.  He is awake this morning and seems to be back to his happy self.  Another lesson learned!  Don't assume all is ok!  I feel so terrible that this accident happened.  I should have checked out the situation a little better.  Last year he wasn't as old and he was in the crib.


Oh and I did fix the bed. I pushed the mattress toward the foot of the bed and wrapped a blanket around the metal piece.


Here are some pictures.

our bed last winter - notice footboard

This is frame where footboard is missing -

he was headed back toward me and tripped and fell onto this

piece of the bed in the dark at 5:15a.m.

                                           Jonathon's BOO BOO