Scott came to my Saturday Morning Y class. We alternate step cardio and biking. This week was the spin class and he came for the full hour! There's options to get off for ab work so that helps but I was amazed he was ready to trek up the 4 flights of stairs to make it to class. It was extra fun because Whitney and Carly came too, actually Zach (a sat am regular) was the only other person in class... So much fun!!!
Christina brought the boys for a visit and Whit & Carly came over to the house too. It was fun having girl chats and hanging out before Carly is off to College. Wow it seems like just last year that I met all the girls I worked with in Young Women's and now they're starting to go to College! Time sure flies which is obvious since Coby gets baptized on Saturday. Wow I have an 8 year old? He's half way to driving lol scary!
The only not so fun part of the weekend is that BoogZ has decided that 100 degrees is too hot to go out in. So every time we go out for the bathroom, he goes to the stone wall that has an edge of dirt and lays down. What Fun!
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Pictures of the week
Coby's ER visit on Monday evening. Here he's getting an X-ray of his elbow to find out he has a small fracture.
He just kept saying "they better give me a cast." When he found out that they were putting on a splint, he was not happy!
But after he found out what a splint was he was OK with it. He didn't like having to relax his arm while it dried though.
The next day the swelling was at a point that they wanted to put a cast on it. He was really excited to choose the color of his cast like his friend Noah who had a bright green cast a few months ago.
On Wednesday July 21st Coby turned 8 Years Old! WOW SO EXCITING! It was a great birthday! So low key that mom actually made the cake :)
We just had a few friends over and of course Whitney had to come too. It was a nice surprise for him to see her. But mostly he played with Skylar, Emily, Johnathan, Austin and Derek.
Scott enjoyed the extra kids so much he slept for the most of them being over lol.Mommy and BoogZ talking about going potty OUTSIDE!
Today is one of those days where he doesn't seem to care about bathroom needs as much as lounging needs!
Can't beat 'em.....
... join 'em
For more info on the happenings of the week see the next post. Life being what it is, I had to do these in 2 posts :)
It feels like ages!
I have had so much going on these days that I haven't had a chance to blog. It feels kind of funny to think about blogging so much now and yet only a few months ago I had never been on or posted on a blog. So let's see what can I remember that has happened.
Scott: Last Friday we went to the pool for the first time. His swim endurance is not where it was before but hey he can still do the whole breathing thing which is more than I can say:) Later that night he went back with to the Y to lift. Wow already trying a 2 a day. We're continuing with him working out as often as possible. He has ST on Tuesday's and going a full hour and a half is more taxing than he expected but so worth it to only go once a week! It's been fun having Scott see what life is like through the summer with all of us home.
Coby: He has had a fun summer of playing that is now hampered by a broken arm! We went to play at the open gym time at gymnastics on Monday and well I'm still not totally sure how he did it but he hit his elbow just right and chipped the bone. It was something to do with running to fast, jumping on the tramp that goes up to the vault, loosing his balance, falling off and hitting the only piece of metal that didn't have a pad on it...given the angels of everything, I still don't get it lol. He was a trooper about it too. We iced it and with in 30 minutes he was back playing. It took hours for it to start to swell so we didn't even know something was wrong until almost 6pm. All he could say was why does this always happen near my birthday! Over the last few years something always happens, usually it's just getting sick.
He turned 8 yesterday and we had a small gathering of a few friends. A nice and low key play date not a party, just perfect! He really enjoyed having friends to the house, we haven't done that much this summer.
Cora: Has been...I'm going to say growing...she has complained about her knees hurting at least...but with this she has been a pill box! She constantly switches from Cora, nice lovable girl to Corkscrew, the name Scott gave her when it feels like she's driving a corkscrew in his head :)
A lot of it is she gets bored and Cora doesn't do bored well. She has spent a lot of time with her 'other brother' Johnathan which has been very helpful in keeping her mood in check. I noticed this weekend if she spends more than 3 days without playing with someone other than her family she goes a little stir crazy...hopefully I can remember this for the future.
Diane: Let's see outside of all of the above and trying to train a puppy to go potty outside I haven't done much else. I did make it to the church on Saturday to make a few projects at the Relief Society craft thing. To bad I haven't finish them yet, I think I was the only one who didn't too. I taught my Saturday Combo class and was late, mix that in with lots of chatting & well what do you expect lol.
Scott: Last Friday we went to the pool for the first time. His swim endurance is not where it was before but hey he can still do the whole breathing thing which is more than I can say:) Later that night he went back with to the Y to lift. Wow already trying a 2 a day. We're continuing with him working out as often as possible. He has ST on Tuesday's and going a full hour and a half is more taxing than he expected but so worth it to only go once a week! It's been fun having Scott see what life is like through the summer with all of us home.
Coby: He has had a fun summer of playing that is now hampered by a broken arm! We went to play at the open gym time at gymnastics on Monday and well I'm still not totally sure how he did it but he hit his elbow just right and chipped the bone. It was something to do with running to fast, jumping on the tramp that goes up to the vault, loosing his balance, falling off and hitting the only piece of metal that didn't have a pad on it...given the angels of everything, I still don't get it lol. He was a trooper about it too. We iced it and with in 30 minutes he was back playing. It took hours for it to start to swell so we didn't even know something was wrong until almost 6pm. All he could say was why does this always happen near my birthday! Over the last few years something always happens, usually it's just getting sick.
He turned 8 yesterday and we had a small gathering of a few friends. A nice and low key play date not a party, just perfect! He really enjoyed having friends to the house, we haven't done that much this summer.
Cora: Has been...I'm going to say growing...she has complained about her knees hurting at least...but with this she has been a pill box! She constantly switches from Cora, nice lovable girl to Corkscrew, the name Scott gave her when it feels like she's driving a corkscrew in his head :)
A lot of it is she gets bored and Cora doesn't do bored well. She has spent a lot of time with her 'other brother' Johnathan which has been very helpful in keeping her mood in check. I noticed this weekend if she spends more than 3 days without playing with someone other than her family she goes a little stir crazy...hopefully I can remember this for the future.
Diane: Let's see outside of all of the above and trying to train a puppy to go potty outside I haven't done much else. I did make it to the church on Saturday to make a few projects at the Relief Society craft thing. To bad I haven't finish them yet, I think I was the only one who didn't too. I taught my Saturday Combo class and was late, mix that in with lots of chatting & well what do you expect lol.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Once again I have been reminded of how fortunate we are!
Scott and I have randomly watched the show Deadliest Catch. It's pretty much been watching reruns here and there on the weekends. We watched a few times while in the hospital in Seattle so we both knew that Captain Phil had passed away. We actually were in Seattle the day they had the memorial service for him and saw the news broadcast of it, but today was the first time I found out what he died from. It was a shock to hear he suffered a stroke the same as Scott only 2 months before. I don't know what the cause was but I had seen the episodes where he talked about and went to the doctor for blood pressure & stress issues. What a humbling experience to know that we were blessed to be in the right place for getting the medical attention that Scott needed relatively quickly.
I sat today listening to Scott's ST talk about the advances he has made in the few weeks since she had worked with him (he has ST with Tracie and the clinic, where we stayed when we 1st got to Wenatchee). He has been promised through priesthood blessing from the beginning that he would make a full recovery and I realized that it is because of so many things in our life that have been slowly taking place over the last year. There are so many things to be Thankful For!
By the end of that episode of Deadliest Catch, I had been through a full memory of Seattle. But watching the stories of the others was amazing as well. It really gave me a touch of understanding of what it must have been like for others. By the end with the boats all out in a huge storm with the waves crashing... it was a beautiful way to capture what I felt through so much of our time in Seattle. Once again I am grateful for a little look into others lives to see how they are effected by traumatic situations.
Scott and I have randomly watched the show Deadliest Catch. It's pretty much been watching reruns here and there on the weekends. We watched a few times while in the hospital in Seattle so we both knew that Captain Phil had passed away. We actually were in Seattle the day they had the memorial service for him and saw the news broadcast of it, but today was the first time I found out what he died from. It was a shock to hear he suffered a stroke the same as Scott only 2 months before. I don't know what the cause was but I had seen the episodes where he talked about and went to the doctor for blood pressure & stress issues. What a humbling experience to know that we were blessed to be in the right place for getting the medical attention that Scott needed relatively quickly.
I sat today listening to Scott's ST talk about the advances he has made in the few weeks since she had worked with him (he has ST with Tracie and the clinic, where we stayed when we 1st got to Wenatchee). He has been promised through priesthood blessing from the beginning that he would make a full recovery and I realized that it is because of so many things in our life that have been slowly taking place over the last year. There are so many things to be Thankful For!
By the end of that episode of Deadliest Catch, I had been through a full memory of Seattle. But watching the stories of the others was amazing as well. It really gave me a touch of understanding of what it must have been like for others. By the end with the boats all out in a huge storm with the waves crashing... it was a beautiful way to capture what I felt through so much of our time in Seattle. Once again I am grateful for a little look into others lives to see how they are effected by traumatic situations.
Back to Therapy
Well today was the 1st day back to therapy. We're looking at going once a week for an extended session of Speech Therapy to start. At the end of the session today we talked about what Scott's goals are and we decided that it would be best to focus on speech therapy now and continue going to the Y doing what he has been. I guess I should explain why I have bee pushing yoga so much. Part of the progression with ST is doing deep abdominal breathing, really working to strengthen the vocal cords and diaphragm. Yoga and well Pilate's both focus 1st on breathing then on the movement, so that is the reasoning for pushing yoga lol. He now has deep breathing as homework so I'm thinking we'll have to get the yoga mats out and practice some total relaxation at home. As far as other therapies. Our speech therapist suggested not starting with them until we felt he had a specific concern to work on.
As far as today, he took the same cognitive test that he's done 4 times now and has shown huge improvement. His eyes are slowly focusing better which showed a lot when it came to the reading paperwork she had for him to do. We actually left with Scott saying that ST was good today.
As far as today, he took the same cognitive test that he's done 4 times now and has shown huge improvement. His eyes are slowly focusing better which showed a lot when it came to the reading paperwork she had for him to do. We actually left with Scott saying that ST was good today.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
BoogZ is here
An addition to our family has arrived in the form of a cute little puppy!
Scott's excited he's finally here.
Twixy & Thomas are amazing with him. I thought for sure they'd hide for days with a dog here. Thomas is the worst with new things and here he is smelling BoogZ for the 3rd time!
The kids are way to hyper & running crazy with him here. But they, especially Cora have been actually helpful.Me, I'm trying very hard to not think about all the 'fun' this puppy will add to my life:)
Friday, July 9, 2010
week in review
Man time flies when you've got a list of to-do's hanging over your head.
Suz tells me that she likes my random rants so here goes...
I've been trying and failing to get Scott to go to yoga with me lol. Wednesday I started my one night a week closing shift and since it's the same day as yoga Scott said he didn't want to go. I think he just doesn't want to turn into a yogi or maybe it's the 4 flights of stairs we'd take to get to class :)
I promised Coby I'd take him to see "Last Airbinder", so on Thursday I set up for Cora to go play with Johnathan her 'other brother' and Cob and I had an outing. The movie was in 3-D. The 1st and last time I'll see a 3-D movie! Honestly why pay more for being annoyed the whole time with having to wear bulky glasses. I'm thinking it wasn't the best of 3-D movie in the first place but whatever not worth the extra cost for the 3-D price, BUT the movie was a good one. I really like the cartoon and was not disappointed with the movie. I was a little naive in thinking they could do it justice in one movie which they did not, if you go see it be perpared, it's not over.
When it was time for Cora to leave on Thursday, she decided she didn't want to leave me after all. I had to promise her an outing of her own for Friday. Our outting was going to the Y for her to work behind the desk. She really likes to scan members cards as they come in, so her outing was for her and I to scan people in at the Y. Of course me being me, I found a way to get some work done too. We also had to do a building walk through which is another of her favorites. She walks through the building top to bottom with a clip board checking off that she has checked each room. It's extremely cute! I guess she is right when she says she's going to work at the Y like her mom when she gets older :)
After this we decided we should be nice girls and pick the boys up for lunch. We went to play at McDonald's, I was thinking ahead and picked a table outside the playroom at the window to watch the kids play without having to hear all the kids play.
In the mix of all of this, I have had a list in my head of to-do's before our new addition of a puppy gets here. I must say I have not been very good a staying on task and it has been very annoying to me. After what felt like all day on the phone yesterday, I finally decided I need a list of to-do's that I can check off to keep me on task. I got a lot done today with an actual list lol.
Scott is doing alright feeling in limbo right now. A few calls that I had to make were to the insurance company and rehab center to figure out why we have had a week of not hearing anything. I found out that as an out-patient is not a pre-authorization, it seemed like it was our responsibility to let the therapist we wanted to work with know & try to set up appointments... wow that would have been nice to know. Oh well I made the calls and next week Scott starts again. He probably liked having some time off anyway.
Suz tells me that she likes my random rants so here goes...
I've been trying and failing to get Scott to go to yoga with me lol. Wednesday I started my one night a week closing shift and since it's the same day as yoga Scott said he didn't want to go. I think he just doesn't want to turn into a yogi or maybe it's the 4 flights of stairs we'd take to get to class :)
I promised Coby I'd take him to see "Last Airbinder", so on Thursday I set up for Cora to go play with Johnathan her 'other brother' and Cob and I had an outing. The movie was in 3-D. The 1st and last time I'll see a 3-D movie! Honestly why pay more for being annoyed the whole time with having to wear bulky glasses. I'm thinking it wasn't the best of 3-D movie in the first place but whatever not worth the extra cost for the 3-D price, BUT the movie was a good one. I really like the cartoon and was not disappointed with the movie. I was a little naive in thinking they could do it justice in one movie which they did not, if you go see it be perpared, it's not over.
When it was time for Cora to leave on Thursday, she decided she didn't want to leave me after all. I had to promise her an outing of her own for Friday. Our outting was going to the Y for her to work behind the desk. She really likes to scan members cards as they come in, so her outing was for her and I to scan people in at the Y. Of course me being me, I found a way to get some work done too. We also had to do a building walk through which is another of her favorites. She walks through the building top to bottom with a clip board checking off that she has checked each room. It's extremely cute! I guess she is right when she says she's going to work at the Y like her mom when she gets older :)
After this we decided we should be nice girls and pick the boys up for lunch. We went to play at McDonald's, I was thinking ahead and picked a table outside the playroom at the window to watch the kids play without having to hear all the kids play.
In the mix of all of this, I have had a list in my head of to-do's before our new addition of a puppy gets here. I must say I have not been very good a staying on task and it has been very annoying to me. After what felt like all day on the phone yesterday, I finally decided I need a list of to-do's that I can check off to keep me on task. I got a lot done today with an actual list lol.
Scott is doing alright feeling in limbo right now. A few calls that I had to make were to the insurance company and rehab center to figure out why we have had a week of not hearing anything. I found out that as an out-patient is not a pre-authorization, it seemed like it was our responsibility to let the therapist we wanted to work with know & try to set up appointments... wow that would have been nice to know. Oh well I made the calls and next week Scott starts again. He probably liked having some time off anyway.
Monday, July 5, 2010
4th of July Weekend
We had a great weekend! We were all able to relax and sleep in everyday! Of course I didn't remember to pull out the camera until Scott got down on the little bed I made for me & Cora to watch fireworks. She was so tired but loved watching them.
She Actually fell asleep! Scott's just closing his eyes from the bright flash of the camera.
We went to the Farmers for the evening. Their neighborhood has a huge show with everyone lighting off fireworks and BBQing. It was so fun having a relatively normal weekend, hanging out with family & friends and blowing stuff up of course. Early in the evening we heard popping that kept going for a few minutes, pretty soon people are running from everywhere to see who's blowing up what. It turned out that some guys had like 4,000 blackcats all strung together. It was Awesome!!!!
Here's Coby with their neighbor Jim. He gave Coby a little tank to lite.
Coby & Cora were running around playing with everyone. They started collecting all the burnt fireworks. At first it was like OK the tanks and paraschutes are cool but why they wanted smoke bombs and the sticks from rockets, I'll never know.
She Actually fell asleep! Scott's just closing his eyes from the bright flash of the camera.
We went to the Farmers for the evening. Their neighborhood has a huge show with everyone lighting off fireworks and BBQing. It was so fun having a relatively normal weekend, hanging out with family & friends and blowing stuff up of course. Early in the evening we heard popping that kept going for a few minutes, pretty soon people are running from everywhere to see who's blowing up what. It turned out that some guys had like 4,000 blackcats all strung together. It was Awesome!!!!
Here's Coby with their neighbor Jim. He gave Coby a little tank to lite.
Coby & Cora were running around playing with everyone. They started collecting all the burnt fireworks. At first it was like OK the tanks and paraschutes are cool but why they wanted smoke bombs and the sticks from rockets, I'll never know.Today was again nice and relaxed. We slept in really late and then chilled all day. Unfortunately our internet and phone have been having issues so it's nice and late in posting today. I guess I should be happy, techs have been here 3 times in the last month, but they actually came out the same day I called each time. Tonight I also taught a yoga-pilate's class, my 1st class back at the Y. I must be weird because teaching a class totally different than what I usually do was just what I needed for going back to that part of my job.
After having a relaxing long weekend Scott is excited to go workout tomorrow afternoon. With our phone having been out, I'm sure we'll be getting a call to start rehab soon too.
Friday, July 2, 2010
1st Road Trip
Yesterday was a long day for us all.
10am Dr. Ross ~ It was a good appointment. We were able to talk to him about a few concerns we have come across. Mostly just wanting to understand the meds Scott's on. The great thing about Dr. Ross (our primary doctor) is he gets to be the one who collects all our questions and then talks with all of Scott's other doctors, Neuro and Kidney to get us all the right answers.
11am running around town finishing a few things I had to do and then it was off for the road trip.
2pm We drove 1st to Monroe to visit Besty and the boys, Scott 'Farmer' was still at work. We had a great time visiting with Betsy as the kids ran through the house playing. From there it was off to Arlington. We eat dinner and chilled! The kids got to stay up late and watch shows with nana cuz....
9:35pm Eclipse!
That's right Scott, Suz and I went to a late night movie. I felt bad pulling Scott along as we followed the line to the theater... can you believe there was a line outside at 9pm to get into the movie on a Thursday? Oh wait it's the 1st weekend of a Twilight movie, yep should have expected it! Even Scott enjoyed the movie and we were all proud of staying awake the whole time. We all agree it is the best of the 3!
The best part was getting to sleep in today. No plans for the day so we slept nice and late. Tonight we're going to take the kids downtown Arlington to see the Karate Kid. I'm really excited to see this movie too!
10am Dr. Ross ~ It was a good appointment. We were able to talk to him about a few concerns we have come across. Mostly just wanting to understand the meds Scott's on. The great thing about Dr. Ross (our primary doctor) is he gets to be the one who collects all our questions and then talks with all of Scott's other doctors, Neuro and Kidney to get us all the right answers.
11am running around town finishing a few things I had to do and then it was off for the road trip.
2pm We drove 1st to Monroe to visit Besty and the boys, Scott 'Farmer' was still at work. We had a great time visiting with Betsy as the kids ran through the house playing. From there it was off to Arlington. We eat dinner and chilled! The kids got to stay up late and watch shows with nana cuz....
9:35pm Eclipse!
That's right Scott, Suz and I went to a late night movie. I felt bad pulling Scott along as we followed the line to the theater... can you believe there was a line outside at 9pm to get into the movie on a Thursday? Oh wait it's the 1st weekend of a Twilight movie, yep should have expected it! Even Scott enjoyed the movie and we were all proud of staying awake the whole time. We all agree it is the best of the 3!
The best part was getting to sleep in today. No plans for the day so we slept nice and late. Tonight we're going to take the kids downtown Arlington to see the Karate Kid. I'm really excited to see this movie too!
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