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My New Favorite Picture!!

So we have been really busy the last couple of weeks and i feel like i am so behind. I got sick at the End of last week and it took alot of sleeping over the weekend to help. Thank God for brandon watching gavin and just letting me sleep. There was also the mass amount of flooding in Indiana. Brandon actually was off a day of school because driving on back roads was so horrible. It was great for the pond which was low from last years drought but not great for the man space. It has finally dried out. but i am finally catching up. I feel so productive.

Last week When i was talking to one of Gavin's Theripist we were talking about how he has made leaps and bounds of improvement and now he is just soaking up information. But he still struggles with his Gross moter skills. Part of it is his own frustration, he wants to be able to figure everything out and get no help (yes he got that from me). So when he doesn't get it on the first try he will throw it or hit whoever is trying to teach him. (yeah for me cause it is mostly me). So in an effort to work on the gross motor and work on colors and numbers i Dyed Pasta and have been working on putting them on string and making pasta pictures. He has not been thrilled about putting them on strings but it gets better every day. He still only likes to be right on green and blue , and the counting is improving but this is how it goes 1,3,6,7,8,9,10 haha.

My Aunt and Uncle were also her last weekend ( just when i was starting to get sick) Gavin LOVED them visiting. He would take them by the finger and tell them to play or read a story. It was great. He doesn't get to see them much at all normally when my mom and me to Minnesota to see family. So it was really Great to see them. Sorry i was didn't get to hang out with them more. ( See pictures from last post)

So Gavin Still has the "i don't want to eat new things". He has limited himself to maybe about 10 things and about 5 of those are bread/grain related. So not getting tons of variety. I got him into a Program called Feeding Friends. It is an all food based therapy. It makes kids interact with food in non eating ways to work on sensory and touching in hope to work towards the eating. He has to kiss the food, make pictures with food and then at the end actually try to eat. It is really Interesting, and Hard. any one who has met Gavin knows he has a a temper and at the first session he showed his bad side. But that also means it cant get any worse then he was haha. I can't see what the next few weeks of class will do for eating.
Playing with his food instead of eatting!

another therapist of Gavins said that i should try to cook with him more so that he gets interested. So I have been trying to let him help more. But i realized that it is easier to let him help when we do it from scratch so I am now trying to do more from scratch. It is a little overwhelming cause i am use to only baking from scratch but i am really enjoying it. (Thanks to Sarah and Linds for her blog )Now i am starting from easy stuff. I made homemade apple sauce 2 weeks ago and got really excited when i successfully canned them. Today I made Hot sauce ( bailey family recipe) and tomato sauce and successfully canned that to. Gavin also helped me make pumpkin muffins ( or mermans in Gavin talk) HE loved helping . I never realized how excited i would get over it. I also am realizing that it is healthier to.

We also have Started Gavin on Potty training and it is going AWESOME! I held off cause i thought that Gavin was going to be the worst! I was so wrong. He has peed on the potty every time. He is also so proud of him self. I am so happy!! Thanks Sarah D. For the advice it is great!
Sorry it was a long one!

Busy week!

Now that i have a computer back i am once again a picture Nazi as Brandon calls it. well my mom wants me to post some pictures. So more to come later!!

WE ARE BACK!!!!

I am finally back to the internet and computers. My computer decided to get a virus and hate it self and it took me almost a year to get it back but i am back yeah!!!!!!!!!!

Well Gavin is 2 1/2 now and talking up a storm. He is still slightly delayed but he is catching up. He has been cleared to eat real food ( food everybody normally eats at his age) but he has decided that he is two and he doesn't want to try much of anything. Because of this he still eats jars of baby food to get his meats in. He loves bananas, and strawberry (only at grandmas house, meany) and yogurt is a staple in this house with him. We also have a huge love for COOKIES..... figures. So it is a work in progress. He is still getting breathing treatment but less often. We wont know about the asthma untill around 4. He is a happy little boy!

Brandon is doing ok... He found out that he needs another surgery and as of right now we are getting a second opinion. No fun. School is going well. and the house is getting a little more finished all the time. It is finally starting to be a real forever home. I am doing well just kinda sick of being in the house and can't wait for the weather to improve.

And here is gavin danceing!!! Just make sure you wait till it gets good....

Summer fun!!!

Brandon is back in school and Gavin and I are having a blast learning and enjoying the nice weather ( at least when it is not humid). We have been going to the park every morning after we drop brandon off at school. It is so peaceful, and quite. Gavin has the run of the whole park cause it is early. We love it. we also went to the Children's Muesum last week. There was a guitars and cars exibit and he loved it. He walked up to every car and said "car" he was so proud of him self.

We went to the State fair with Jordan, Jenni, Ben and emma. we had a blast. The kids got to be farmers, and pet/feed animals, and play at the fish pond. We had so much fun and the kids just love playing together.

Gavin and his Swallow study

Gavin had a swallow study last tues. We were hopeing it would tell us if he could eat more solid food and not have to thicken his drinks. But Gavin had a different plan altogether. We only Got a few swallows of liquid before he realized that it tasted like crap and then threw a fit. He started thrashing and it really was a waste of time. So we are still where we left off. But what they did see from the study was that he is still asperating liquid. So we are still on a waiting game

COLTS!!!!!

The Colts tranning camp is in anderson for the Next couple weeks. Brandon's Cousin Hollie and I have been going to the camp. We have had a blast!!! We have Gotten Autographs from Peyton Manning, Jeff Saturday, Dallas Clark, Reggie Wayne ,Coach Caldwell, Jamie Silva, Devon Moore and Antoine Bethea. We have had a Blast!!! Gavin Went one day and He loved watching them throw the ball. Every time he would see it in the air he would be like "ball" "ball" It was so much fun. I talked to clark and got Brandon's Jersey signed and told him that i was doing this for my husband becase he had surgery and He asked what type and then said that brandon needs to stick to therpy! It was great!!!
Jeff Saturday
Coach Caldwell
Gavin Zadia and Blue
Reggie Wayne
Peyton Manning
Gavin Having fun
Addi'

Brandon Surgery! Gavin and the great outdoors!

Brandon Had surgery on Tues. He did really great! He had two pins put in his ankle. It only took about 45 min. He came out and was joking around about bungee jumping ( much to my not liking this) and went home about 45 min after surgery. He had a nerve block so he didn't feel his foot for the first 24 hrs so other then the big cast on his leg you would have never guessed he had surgery. He is doing well now but is bored out of his mind and hates crutches. Gavin had the fun part of surgery he got to go to the Children's Museum with Ben and emma! Thanks again you guys!

Gavin for his birthday got a sand box and we finally got sand for it! He has been having a great time in it. He loves the new back yard and all the running around he can do. He is doing great in therapy for the most part. He is getting a speech therapist on Tues.. He is saying a few words now.. Up, Car, Ball, Cat, outside. We are working on more everyday!! He has a swallow study comingup in Aug. so that we can see if his swallowing has changed since the tonsils came out. So we are just praying that maybe he can eat big boy food!!!

We also went to Haley's 2nd birthday today! We had a lot of fun! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HALEY!!!

Dr apt's Birthdays and surgery

I really have sucked at up udateing this. Sorry

SO anyways Gavin had his surgery on the 10th of june. It went well for the most part. We found out that codeine makes him hyper so we had a night of no sleep and nurses waking him for breathing treatments. yeah fun!!! WE got home and he had good days and bad days but over all we have seen an improvement in him. He is making out more words witch may me that his adenoids were to big so he didn't hear himself talking other then like a muffled sound. So that could have improved it. Other wise we haven't really found much else out. It is kind of a waiting game to see how he improves and then to decide what the next step is.

Gavin had his Second Birthday! It was a great party. We had a lot of his little friends come and i think that they all had a great time. It was fun to see him with all the little kids running around!! He was scared of his cake so we sang to him with no cake. And Amber ( brandon's ex student) Gave him a little Einstein's ball and he found it before we started opening presents and well he was done after that. He just wanted the ball. It was funny!! Thanks to everyone who could make it!!!

Brandon has surgery next week on his ankle. So we are in scramble mode to try to get anything left that is big to do done on the house so that he can just sit and relax and get better after surgery! Keep him in your thoughts!!

Dr's Apt!!!

Lately it seems like the boys love to go to the dr.

Gavin is still a puzzle to the Drs. All of His specialty Drs got together and decided on a plan of action a few weeks ago. They are planning on doing :

• adding a breathing dr
  
• MRI to check for a malformation at the back of the brain
• Take out his tonsils and adenoids
• Do a Laringosacopy/ Broncosopy (sp)
• And alot of blood work that i can't explain

they want to do all of this in one sitting so that they only have to put him to sleep once. That is where we are at with him.

Brandon Sprained his ankle very badly about 6 weeks ago. With much encouragement we got him to go and get an Xray and see a specialist. Then he had to get an MRI because he tore some tendons. He was supposed to get surgery but the tendon that he injured may actually repair it self over 6 months. It is a 50/50 bet if it will but if it doesn't that he will have to get surgery. He then will be out of commission for 16 weeks with crutch's and everything! So we pray that it fixes itself.

But a bit of Good news!! We put a bid in on a house and they excepted but we are doing inspections and all that good stuff so we are hoping!!!! yeah!!

SICK OF SNOW!!

We are getting cabin fever!! Gavin has had his taste of being able to walk around outdoors and He can't get enough now!! he will bring his Jacket to me and then point to the door!! He loves being outside, now lets hope for some more warm weather!!

Gavin is now able to eat small pieces of cracker and yogurt bites about the size of his finger tip which for him is a great improvement. He also is feed them to himself. Now it is just a fight for him to eat baby food cause he wants to be a big boy!!! Little steps!!! He also is talking a whole lot more but nothing that is really understandable to be a word or it sounds like it and then he will never say it again.

Can't wait for spring witch means BBQ's and freinds and camping We can't wait!!

Gavin's Endoscopy

Gavin had his Endoscopy this smorning. We had to be there at 5 am no fun at all but gavin was in a great mood and was just happy as a clam. We Got to be in the room which was kinda freaky but interesting. They put him under and did the scope in less then 15 min and said everything went well and looked good other then his tonsils look a little big. they also biopsied his intestines, stomach and esophogus. We wont know the results for about to weeks.
I am glad that it is done but i still just feel like i have no answers to what is making him not eat normal. I had this idea in my head that they would find something and it would all be answered and we would start the process of getting him to eat real food. I instead feel like i am still at square one with another test down and who knows how many more to go before we get an answer. In the end it just is great to see that he is doing okay and still my happy little boy!!!

Thanks to everyone who had him in your thoughts and prayers today We really appreciate them!!!

New year New adventures!!

First of all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! Hope that everyone had a great holiday!!!

Also Congraulations to the Newton Family!!! Lindsey gave birth to a precious baby boy on Jan. 1st at 2:38!! Micah was 8 lbs and 20 in.!!! Congrats you guys You have a wonderful family!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

So i have been really bad at updating this but i am going to try my darndest to be good again.

We have had a wonderful Christmas season so far.
We saw Santa at the children's museum. We were with Arayah and Rachelle and we let arayah talk to him first and then we put him on his lap. He as ok while arayah was with him but when she got down He started the lip and almost cried. We Took him again to see if it would go better and we were so Wrong!! He would not let go of me and had his head in my shoulder and would not move or even look at him. Not what i expected but still a great memory.



We had christams with the Westerns and the Dingers last weekend. We had a wonderful time and the kiddos got to play together and it was alot of fun. We have had Christmas with my parents and sister, It is always nice to have christmas the way you grew up and Gavin had a blast!! We have so much more to go and we are enjoying every min of watching Gavin enjoy it all!!

We are still in the baking process and have only had a few causalities to Gavin But he is loving watching them bake!!

Computers hate me that means really bad at updates

since the last time i updated the blog Gavin has turned one, he is crawling, he is pulling himself up, and has most of his front teeth. and he is close to walking!!! We have gone to the state fair, a family reunion, a trip to cinni. ,the zoo and haley turned one and joshua has turned two!!
That is alot!!! My computer hates me so i dont have internet but i am hopeing to have that fixed soon!!

Gavin had a great birthday! on his birthday we went to a surgen to find out about his cyst and he said it didn't seem to affect anything and just to watch it. We had a party at our house and it was a blast he did a good job of screwing up his cake just none of it went in his mouth.

Gavin's dr. decided that we should see a neroligist because of gavin's delay and eatting issues. So we saw her and loved her and she couldn't get enough of Gavin. We have to see how far he progresses before his next visit if not we might have to get an mri So because of that he may have to be put under so we went to go see an ENT (ear, nose and throat dr) and we are now waiting to go threw a swallow study and meet with a speech therepist and wait to see if he has food allergy. It has been along road with drs but we are progressing each day more and more. and we are just happy that he is a happy boy and we love him.

gavin also got his first hair cut!! how sad he is getting to be a big boy

My grandma turned 90 this year so i made her 3 cakes and put 30 candels on each. One had beer tabs on it, one had a tolit, and one hadcards. All related to stories or things we all know grandma loves!!! She loved them. While at the family reunion we got to meet bella , one of my cousins kids and they were just so cute together.

We went on a trip to cinni. with branon's mom and brother and had a blast!!! We went to kings island. We road a bunch of insane rollercoasters one that u lie down on. Gavin and grandma hung out and went on some little kid rides. we went to the water park and we took him on lzy river and had a blast. we also took gavin to his first reds game. We lost but still we had a great time!!We went to the state fair 2 times this year. Once with Jenni and joradan and ben and emma and once with my mom and dad. We had a great time. We also went on the fair train with my mom and dad and gavin loved not having to be in a car seat!!



My Best Friend Kim moved back to Indiana!! I am so excited!!! He boyfriend also made the drive from cali back with her and we all got to meet him!!! Gavin Loved Nick!!! He loved hanging out with them!!

Haley also turned one and We went and saw her make a mess!! It was great she had cake all over and even tried to get jeremy (her dad covered in it) Happy Birthday Little Girl!!
Joshua My roommate from College Son turned two yesterday and we got to go to the Zoo with them!! We had a blast all the animals were out and the boys loved seeing them!!! Happy Birthday Joshua

Swimming

Gavin got to go swimming for the first time in a big pool!! He loved it.

still stink at updating

We have been so busy since school has been out!!

Brandon has a job!!! He will be teaching in west dell comm. schools!! We are so thankful and happy.

Gavin is going to be 11 months, I can't belive it my baby is almost a year. I am having a blast trying to get things ready for his birthday and still enjoying the summer.

Gavin had his first trip to the zoo with Rachelle and Arayaha.
Gavin and arayah
Gavin and his Giraffe(cow) and the giraffes

MY FAV PICTURE!!!!! If any one came to our wedding you will notice this is where we got married!! i was so happy i got to take him and see it almost 2 years after we got married!!! so cute!!!

Brandon's family had a get together in southern Indiana at Spring mill national park. We had a great time with the family and getting to take hikes!!!


Grandma BeBe (my mom) and me and gavin all went to minnasota. He got to meet some of my moms best freinds and some of my mom's side of the family. He was such a trooper on the 12 hr. drive. (partly thank you to little einstines)
Gavin meeting Gage Pat (My mom's teaching freinds grandson) Gage is about 4 months older then gavin
Gavin and grandma bebe, and Jen, Mary Jo and me
Everyone, Pat, Jen, Gage, mary Jo, mom, Sharron, Gavin and Me

Grandma shell ( brandon's mom) took gavin on his first Carasel ride at the pendleton fair

And Brandon and I went camping for the first time this summer. We have had so much fun and there is so much to come!!!

P.S. KIM IS MOVING BACK TO INDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy i can't wait!!!!