THEY'RE HIS KIDS: May 2008

Ethans Doctor Visit

We took Ethan in for his yearly check up on Friday. I thought it would be just a normal exam, in and out. He seems like a typical healthy little boy to me. As his doctor, Dr. Katie, was listening to his heart she started to get a really funny look on her face. This is sometimes normal for her, if you know our doctor. But this time she continued and then the looks got more serious. She started having Ethan lay down and sit up, and lay down, and sit up, all the while listening to his chest. She was going up into his neck to hear the heart beat and that started to make me well, panic!!! We all now what a calm person I am, even when I'm not pregnant. Anyway she thought years ago that he might have a heart murmur, but that it wasn't a big deal. But this time it sounded a lot different than a murmur. She had another doctor come in and he did the same exam, poor Ethan got his ab workout for the day. He told her he'd have a cardiologist check him out as well. Her concern is that there's something wrong with a valve that's coming from his heart. That's my interpretation. So we got an appointment with the cardiologist at Primary Children's Hospital on July 6th. They will do an echo.(sp), to see what's wrong. Worse case he will need surgery to replace the valve. Hopefully everything will be fine, and this is just another attempt to see if I can keep from going into early labor. Dr. Katie could see my panic, and said, calm down, don't go into labor. There are a lot of good signs that he's fine. His blood pressure is perfect, as well as his coloring. And he doesn't get tired easily. That helped a lot. I am very grateful that my stabilizer, Jared, was with me. He usually doesn't come to these kinds of appointments, but I'm so glad he was with me. He can always calm me down and help me see the reality of the situation. (Love you honey!). I did loose it in the car when I called my Mom, but I got the immediate feeling that, we have the priesthood in our home, so why was I worrying so much. We got to go to the temple that night, for my youngest sister Amanda's first time. That was very special. I'm glad I went, because the entire time I was sitting there all I could hear is, I've given you everything you have, now do you have the faith that I can take care of it. DO YOU HAVE THE FAITH. That seems to be the theme of my life lately. I guess I better just hand it over, and use all the faith I can muster (get it?). Anyway, we could use all the prayers we can get. Thank you for all your love and support.

ETHANS 4th BIRTHDAY

I can't believe he's 4!!! If you can't tell from the pictures we had a pirate party. It was a ton of fun. I was surprised at how quiet our house was even with 11 4 and 5 year old's, (some younger than that). If I have any advice to anyone else crazy enough to invite that many kids under 5 to a party, do it at 10am. That seemed to be the trick. Ethan had a lot of fun, and we're grateful to all those who came to celebrate with him. Emma was upset because she was up all night the night before throwing up, so she missed out on the party, but made sure that everyone knew she was still around and just in the other room. Thanks to those of you who showed pity on her and risked sickness to appease to her need to be in the spot light.
(Oh and I made the cake. I know, if you'd like me to make your next event special with such a spectacular creation I'll be waiting by my phone. Ha! It's not ringing!) (it's a treasure chest if you can't tell)

The Jungle Book

Emma's kindergarten class did "The Jungle Book" as an operetta. Emma was a narrator. She did a really good job. It was really cute. They practiced for months and it was worth it. I was impressed with all of the student's. Some kids had solo singing parts and no one chickened out. It was a lot of fun. Emma was excited to have her Grandma Loulie and Grandpa there. She was excited to see her Aunt Anna come with her cousin Chloe as well. Thanks to your support, it means a lot. (Thanks again Anna for the flowers and candy!!! Love, Emma)

HAIRCUT

I went to get my hair cut and Emma wanted to get hers done as well. I'm glad she wanted to, I'm sick of the crying and screaming as I brush her hair. She got about 6inches cut off. WOW. She looks really cute. I love it.