Well, after months of waiting for appointments at St. Louis Children's Hospital I can't believe we are leaving on Monday to meet Josie's new doctors. We are excited and nervous! Chad, Josie, and I leave Monday afternoon for a couple of days there. She will be meeting her new Ear, Nose & Throat doctor, GI doctor, and having a swallow study on Tuesday. They have told us to be prepared to see other doctor's that day or stay for additional procedures later in the week. We are hoping we won't be gone too long but it will be nice to get a number of appointments into one or two days. Grammy Stewart is going to stay in Olathe with Mr. Hank. We are going to miss him terribly but I know he will have a good time with Grammy:) I will try to update the blog after we get back with news on the trip. I hate to hope for a surgery for Josie's future, but if they believe she needs one we may be one step closer to her eating safely.
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| Cowboy Hank |
The kids have had a good couple of weeks. We traveled down south for the Labor Day weekend and celebrated Hank's birthday. I think the kid really had a birthday month rather than a birthday since we seemed to be celebrating left and right. The kid was a little confused by the time it got to the actual date:) Josie keeps telling us that it is her turn for a birthday party. She got over it a little when I said we are having a party for Uncle Phil's birthday this weekend:) School is going very well for both of them and we've spent a couple of weekends at home enjoying Deanna Rose Farm and the good weather. Hank rode the horse at the farm for the first time. You have to be three years old and he has been keeping track of when he can ride it. Chad and I really wondered if he would be resistant when it came to the time, but as soon as we got to the farm he marched over to the horses and got on! Last weekend he said "I not Hank no more". So I asked him who he was and he said "cowboy". I told him there are no more name changes allowed until he is an adult. I don't think I'm going to start calling him cowboy even though I think he makes a cute cowboy. He is wearing his cowboy hat everywhere and leaves it in his carseat when I drop him off at school and puts it right back on when he gets in the car.
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| Signing "Go" she's ready to go! |
This weekend we are headed to our first Pitt State football game of the season. The kids are super excited! Josie, who loves to watch Gus the Gorilla on YouTube constantly, keeps reminding me that Gus is not going to be at Nana's house:) I think this must be a love from a distance kind of thing. It will be interesting to see what she does when she sees him. Hank has to put on his Pitt State jersey anytime he sees football on TV so he is going to have a blast.
Hope everyone enjoys the Fall weather this weekend and I'll update the blog next week with info from St. Louis.
