CPR Class

Though I hope to never need it, we had a CPR class at our house last night given what happened last week. My buddy Erin's mom is an instructor so she offered to teach us baby and adult CPR.

Colt is doing great....he was fast asleep during class last night. We're headed off to Tarzana (where is that you ask? FAR) to have him checked out by an eye specialist so hopefully when I return to blogging I will have some good info on his vision.

Back to Himself Again

You know he's feeling better when he's back to his antics of pulling ALL of his toys out of his toy chest.

His fever is ALMOST all gone, still a little higher than normal but he's feeling better attitude wise. He did break out in the telltale Roseola rash yesterday so at least we know what it was. I was never so happy to see a rash in all my life.

We started back to therapy today, and it was nice to be back. It had been 10 weeks since we'd been to Littlefield Physical Therapy. She said despite his absence he has made much progress since she has seen him. He has met some of his goals since last she saw him, and we set some new goals to get him walking in the next few months.

It's looking like his ankle is the balance culprit rather than the toes. She said we just need to re-teach him how to weight bear evenly so that walking will come naturally. He's having a hard time right now because his right foot isn't allowing even weight bearing. So we're back to work on it!

Trip to the Neuro

But first some cute pictures......

We went to our home away from home yesterday, Children's hospital. It was oddly comforting to go back, we hadn't been back since we were discharged. We stopped by the NICU to say hi to Tabitha and a few other nurses. Most of our nurses weren't working, but we got to see Tabitha which is always awesome.

The neurologist was amazing. God forbid, if anyone ever needs a pediatric neuroligist- I have your guy. We already had this appointment pre-seizure to have him checked for cerebral palsy. So that was our first order of business. He said that based only on the fact that he had a brain bleed, that clinically means he will carry a CP diagnosis. The definition of CP is a brain injury causing some motor or cognitive delay or disability and since he is delayed this definition plays out for him. He did say it is so mild that it will not hinder him in any way. He said he'll be fine to walk independently, run, do activities, etc. Since he's responded so well to therapy, we need to conintue therapy to make sure he gets to his fullest potential. He grips the ground with his toes on his right foot, so we need to work that out in Physical Therapy. We start back tomorrow.

In regards to the seizure, he said that since he's had a brain injury we won't just chalk it up to a febrile seizure. Even though it was a seizure caused by a fever, he's sending us out for a full EEG to check the brain activity and make sure he is not at risk for it happening un-provoked by something. He also told me that we should try to rest and not hover too much, because it's extremely rare for a child to die of a seizure. Most come out fine, and even though he turned a little blue...that is the body's way of protecting the brain by stealing the oxygen from other parts of the body.

He seems almost entirely back to normal today. The low grade fever hasn't fully disappeared, but he is eating and acting like himself today- so that is great news!

Parenting: Not for Sissies

Colt loves this book (thank you Aunt Cheryl and Uncle Allen). It's his favorite, he goes and gets it by himself and opens it and turns the pages all by himself!

Little monster gave us the scare of our lives yesterday in the wee hours of the morning. At 4am I heard a weird little hum coming from the baby monitor, and I looked in the video screen and saw his little leg twitching. I knew immediately that something was wrong and went running for his room, to find him having a seizure. Kreg and I in the midst of freaking out, called 911 and waited for what seemed like 5 hours (and was only probably 6 minutes) for the ambulance to come. By the time they got there, he was out of the seizure but a little non responsive and confused. He was at least crying which meant he was breathing :) He had stopped breathing for a few seconds during the seizure so we had a major freak out. He's almost back to himself now, and after many tests yesterday they've ruled it to be Roseola. It's an infant illness that is a viral infection with no other symptoms but a fast high fever spike with a rash at the end of the fever. No rash yet...but the fever just seems to be breaking today. I am taking him to Children's Hospital tomorrow, so maybe we'll feel better with a 2nd opinion. He's his active self now, so my worries are easing as we speak.

Seriously, Mom?!?

How excited does he look to be trying on his bunny ears???

Next week we have an appointment down at Children's hospital, and it will be the first time we've been back since he was discharged in January last year. So we're planning to stop by the NICU to show everyone how big and cute this little monster is :)

Asleep at the Wheel

This is what missing a nap and then going to the park looks like.........getting a little too comfortable.

Just a cute photo with the sun shining away.

And falling asleep at the wheel, he literally dozed off in the swing.

Summer came early...

Summer decided to show up in March this year, so we headed to the beach to soak up the sun with Auntie Deir.

Colt was H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S on the swings today. The Dad next to us was playing peek-a-boo with his daughter and this had Colt in stitches, which was contagious.

Trying to keep a hat on this kid: mission impossible.

Family Photos

Happy as can be to have a day with Kreg!

Take One. At least we're all smiling.

Take Two, gearing up to smack Kelsey in the head (notice mischief on his face).

Take Three, seconds before smacking sister in head. Nice one Colt.

Toddler Heaven

Does he look like he's enjoying himself at all? Yeah, he had this look on his face ALL DAY LONG.

No shortage of crazy toddler fun here.

Who doesn't love a ball house, I think I want one at home.

Jett had some fun too....he's the birthday boy, and the reason we were introduced to this fun place! Happy Big Number Two Jett!

I promise I will stop at some point.....

Just not yet :)

Yes, More Giggles

So I meant it when I said...I.Can't.Get.Enough.Of.This.

We Have a Genius on our Hands......

Colt is obsessed with hats, and I for one, I have no clue why!

Colt smothered in Green Tea ice cream :)

Here's the genius!! Straight A's and three A+'s!!! Wow.

Happy Birthday Great-Grandpa!

Here is Colt with his Grandpa Denny and his Great Grandpa Maurice. Any resemblance?

Ummm...yeah right, trying to get Colt to sit still for a photo these days is not so easy anymore. He wants to go!

But he does sit still for a good book :)

Dad's Eyes

They both were lucky enough to get their Dad's beautiful blue eyes, isn't this so stinkin' cute?

This is my new favorite picture!

I Can't Get Enough Of This........

I hope that I'm not losing my mind, but I just think this is down right hilarious. Hopefully, I'm not the only one who gets a kick out of this. That's my mom making "meow" noises to him :)

God love him for loving everything about animals, especially their sounds.

Colt's Pal

Monkey see, Monkey do!

Sandy Hands

This was Colt's first experience with sand. He's been to the beach and played there, but this was his first "let loose" in the sand. He wasn't too sure what to think, I thought it was so cute to watch him try to get going but he couldn't get past how weird it felt!

Stella!

Stella wasn't too sure about Colt, but they did get a few pokes in.

Colt, on the other hand, liked Stella very much. He stared at her all throughout breakfast :)