Busy Fall for us...

Okay, okay, okay. So with a little nudge from "you know who", I've decided to update myself into this day and age of blogging and "facebooking". So here's my fist shot at blogging...

So its a busy time of year for us..Tevan is in 1st grade and Luna has just started Preschool. Both boys seem to be enjoying school. Just yesterday when picking Luna up from school, he said, "Mom...I love school!" So this makes me very happy that he is enjoying things. Tevan is working so hard at reading and learning basic math...mom and dad are proud. Every night he has homework that involves his sight words, his blending words and two books to read to me. Though he does get frustrated sometimes and has some difficulty managing his frustration, he has made HUGE strides in the last couple of weeks, and is reading so much faster and sounding out words on his own, and able to write words down after having them dictated to him.

Tevan is on the tail end of having to wear his brace for his broken arm from July. Boy was that a fiasco! One of the worst days in our life! It was a compound fracture, breaking both bones in his left forearm after a fall from the monkey bars at a nearby park. One bone was aligned well, but the other was completely misaligned and overlapping and needed to be re-set. We were super advocates for our lil man, and tho the hospital staff asked us to leave the room while they re-set his bone, I refused to leave. I knew my Tevan needed me in there, and though he was sedated, his spirit would need me close to him through this traumatic time. So I assured the staff that I would sit down, since they were afraid I would fall, that I would wear a radiation jacket - as they were concerned about the risk of radiation to me from the X-ray..which was a bogus line, since they didn't have me wear one...ARGH! And I didn't interfere with their care of Tevan. I just sat quietly, sent positive vibes to my son and my being in there helped me and him, I know. That was just the start of the fiasco little did we know.

They used the highly potent drug Ketamine to sedate Tevan. Which doens't put him to sleep, or "under". It essentially drugs him up, so that he is in some sort of trance, eyes open, but completely unresponsive. What a creepy thing to witness. For those of you that don't know, Ketamine is also a street drug used for date rape (special K), and is a hallucinogenic drug, much like LSD!!!!!! Yeah, and they used it on my 6 year old! Well, Tevan went on to have a bad reaction to Ketamine, and it is now listed as a known allergy for him. For the next night, for about 9 hours, Tevan had phsycotic hallucinations. He had brief periods of lucidity and calm, but the worst ones were at the start of the evening with thrashing, violent behavior, scared for his life, seeing things that weren't there and all that entails a "bad trip". It continued for many weeks, though they did get progressively less intense, lasted less time and became less frequent...thank goodness. Oh what drugs can do to our precious brains. This, of course, only further fueled my dislike of drugs and distrust of the medical field. But I digress, he is doing better, only experiencing some night terrors since then, and we can't wait for this arm to back in full swing again!

He has started Boy Scouts, and is a little Tiger Cub. He has his first "rainguter regata" with a boat that he and Casey made next week. He lost his first two teeth this summer, and already has his adult teeth coming in fast. The tooth fairy was quite generous with her payment of $1 per tooth. Much more than in my day of .25 per tooth! Luna was a little resistant to going to school in the beginning, but now can't wait til his next school day and play with all of his friends! He is at Old Mission Pres, not even 1 minute from our house and Tevan's Roesland Elementary..which is great..and saves us from helping the oil companies make even MORE money!

Speaking of buying gas...Casey is having fun driving his Mini, tho currently he is driving a replacement while his Mini gets updated with some racing stripes and some MORE horsepower! He is busy with InTouch and loves keeping himself current with his freelance business. He just traveled to San Francisco in August for the Flash Forward Conference and got very inspired while adding some more knowledge to his noggin.

Ziah is a mover at 8.5 mos, crawling super fast and pulling up to stand..he'll be walking before we know it. He has 4 teeth..but the upper two are hilarious with a little space in between! I am still teaching and working on my lactation clincial hours and enjoy all of that.

Casey and I just celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary and 15 years together! We went to Grog and Galley in Lees Summit on Lake Lotawana..what a gorgeous setting and fun night we had together. Both of us have been trying to stay fit. Casey with his frequenting the Powell Center gym and me with doing my Pilates and just taking up running. Getting outside and running is so much fun. Everyday I walk Tevan (with all the other boys in tow also) to school, and once we drop him off, the younger two go in the jogging stroller, and away I run. So that's been enjoyable for me.