What's Going On

No a whole lot going on around here lately except enjoying the wonderful rain for the past week. They boys love to go outside now and when its raining they just beat on the window like lets go! Hard to keep them entertained when all they want to do is go outside.

During the month Carter had a swallow function study done. We were able to get him to swallow about 4 times and it was good enough to show that he can swallow fine and is not aspirating. We pretty much had a good idea that he was not but since he has not swallowed very much since Jan of 2008 we thought it would be a good idea. Thursday we went and had a renal ultrasound. We are awaiting these test results and hope to hear something by Tuesday. This was a follow up to a scan we had done in the NICU that should he had calcium deposits in his kidneys from the TPN. We started new speech and OT therapy and hope that we can get Carter to liking food soon. He does have minor allergy issues which have required us to try numerous allergy meds. Right now we are on a nose spray but while we were on liquid meds we were able to get him to take more by mouth which has been a bust lately. We may consider trying periactin to help boost his appetite but still toying with the idea.

Riley has a few appointments coming up. The one we can't hardly wait to get to is the eye doctor. His glasses are becoming too small again (only 6 months old) and he does not want to wear them as much since they hurt his face. Only two more weeks til this appointment! Lets hope they stay in one piece til then.

The Cribs...it only took a week and we got the new ones around July 12. Took apart the old cribs and returned them to Target. After about twenty minutes, got my store credit on the full purchase price of the cribs. Once you explain that you don't need a receipt and it says it on Target's website that recalled items do not need one - you are good to go. Unfortunately, we did travel their on a weekend where staff was limited but the woman behind the counter just started to do the return as normal and once the code was entered the screen politely explained to her what exactly she needed to do to refund my money. The best Target return I ever did except for the fact I had to get store credit.

I will post pics soon. This is the second day I have had the internet back up a running. The storms last week crippled my internet connection and prior to that my laptop when kaplooee. Thanks to my brother for getting me back up and running.