GO June!

My oldest sibling is my only sister, June. She's been around the world, traveled seen amazing places, yeah she's been to the touristy places Paris, India, Australia, but goes to places like Kazakhstan for fun. She's lived in Germany, Turkey and currently lives in England. She comes home (back to Utah) every year or so. Even though she's traveled all over, speaks a million and a half languages, is gorgeous, is a prize winning photographer, she's an amazing mom. She does the cutest things for her boys, (yep, 2 very active smart boys). But she had a baby (another boy) a week or so ago and I got the first picture today.

I'm so excited for her! One day I'm going to go visit!

He's So proud of himself!

Daddy took him out on a motorcycle ride

He found the Markers!

New slide!

a HUGE sigh of relief!

Seth has started drinking and eating a TON lately.

Drinks: A gallon and a half of whole milk in 4 days, 2 pediasure's has to be strawberry, 3-5 Capri suns, a sippy cup of V-8, 3-4 sippy cups of juice, not to mention all the sneaky drinks he gets out of the dog's water dishes when I'm not looking, in 1 Day!

He will eat a whole PB and J sandwich for breakfast, snack on cereal, goldfish, graham crackers, steamed carrots, oranges, fruit snacks, nuts, zucchini and squash slices all day long. Not to mention the 3 to 5 string cheeses every day, 2 slices of cheddar, and who knows how many slices of lunch meat. For lunch he loves mac and cheese with hot dogs and can eat about half the box and 1 1/2 hotdogs by himself. More snacks which usually include some sort of noodle. For dinner rice, meat, or whatever I've also scaled down the portions in the list because I"m sure some of it ends up being eaten by the dogs.

Me being a freaked out first time Mom, I figured drinking a lot, not gaining weight, stress on the body from recently being sick, family history of diabetes...

I tested his blood sugar 313. (normal is 80 to 120). It was March 13th (3/13) and Friday the 13th no less.

Ok so out of all the chronic illnesses Diabetes isn't the worst. But I've grown up with it, it wasn't easy and I didn't want Seth to have to.

So I was expecting him to cry while getting poked he just looked at me with a puzzled look and made a few funny sounds.

I tested it again 314, and again on his toe 114. WHAT!? That doesn't make sense I convinced myself it was because he had just eaten some honey covered toast and some honey just got into the blood sample.

I called the Doctor of course it was Friday afternoon and they were gone. I calmed myself down and figured I'd watch him close over the weekend and we already had his 18 month check up on Monday morning.

I told the Doctor of the blood sugars, he told me it could be a few different things so to stay calm until we got the results back. He ordered tests, we talked about which endocrinologist I wanted at Primary Children's, how long Seth would have to stay, and other options. We went down and got his blood drawn. He was not happy!

Ok side note here, Seth did finally almost make 18 lbs at the visit! 17 lbs, 8 oz! He's in the bottom 0.2 percentile for weight, 48% for height and 40% for head size. I can't believe he's 18 months old.

The next day I waited and waited and called the poor nurse a million times to see if the results were back. When I talked to her at 1pm she told me that the results were a little more complicated that she was able to explain so the Doc would call me later.

That can't be good.

The Doc called back about 1/2 hour later. NOT DIABETES!!! Yeah! His sugar is slightly elevated, but normal. He just has a really high metabolism. The metabolism is burning off the food so quickly that the body doesn't have time or the need to release insulin to cover it. The Doc said he's to young for meds, and he'd most likely grow out of it. So we have to put Seth on a higher fat diet and a special vitamin. Sigh of relief!

The only reason we ever get a home phone...

Even before Sam and I got married we both have just carried a cell phone, we've never had a home phone... until Sam got called to be the executive Secretary in the CP ward. So when we moved we disconnected our home phone and went back the just having our cells. Well, Sunday Sam got called to be the new executive Secretary in the 5th ward. So our home phone was installed again today! I guess it will be easier to have a local phone number instead of just our SL cell numbers.
Sam is excited about his calling.

Things I miss...

I got thinking today about things I miss...

Alone time with Sam that's not beginning at midnight My Grandma, not really thinking about it I tried to call her on Thursday and then it hit me she was gone. So I went to the nursery and bought a bunch of flowers to plant because my Grandma loved her flowers.
I'll always miss my Grandpa's Seth not being about to climb the chain link fence to chase Mogel's cats. Or Seth climbing the bar stools to bang the pots on the pot rack for that matter.

Having 10 people I could call at any given moment to hang out with, babysit Seth, or vent to and not worry that it was an intrusion. It was so nice to have such great people so close, across the alley or the office foyer. Walking the dogs every night with Sam, visiting the neighbors as we went

I Miss Louie... The CP Primary. I had so much fun in there! The CP Primary Pregnancy, Bishop losing his tie, bedrest primary activity... and so much more.
I miss not having an echo in my left ear. I want the side effects of the stupid ear infection to go away.
I miss my siblings living closer so I could see them and their families more often.

I miss sleep. I guess I could be doing that right now, but instead I am blogging.

Don't get me wrong I am so grateful for what I have now. My life is great, overwhelming, hectic, a chaotic mess, but great.
I just miss things sometimes when I reminisce.

I guess I could put a more positive spin on it...I have a wonderful husband who is bettering himself for me and it will only be 2 years, I'm so grateful I got to know my grandparents, that I enjoy my siblings and can still call them, that I learned so much in Primary, that we rescued Louie and got to love him for 2 years, that I have great friends, that Seth is a happy active little boy (I've worked with some parents that would give anything to have a child that could do active things), that it's only an ear infection and not my kidneys. So it doesn't sound as depressing, because I'm not depressed just had a moment of missing.

An update...
Well Seth is doing much better and would live outside if I let him. He's still coughing a bit but they say his lungs are finally pretty clear and the nose isn't green anymore. He's cutting a molar so the running nose is still there but not even close to what it was.

My second round of antibiotics are finally working. I had a double ear infection. Which spread to my middle ear on the left side, a sinus infection and pneumonia. I'm still hacking stuff up but had more energy yesterday than I've had in a while. And I'm so excited I think I've worked everything out to be in Texas for Cinco De Mayo! I can't wait to see Brad, Sally and Ty!

FD got the cold and stayed home from school yesterday. But she felt great this morning and was excited to go back. She's joined the unified track team at school and is competing in shot put and jumping. She's so excited.

Sam is still working and going to school like mad. He's got the cold but won't admit it and slow down. He's excited because the hot tub is up and running, and it's been warm enough for him to ride his motorcycle a few days. What more could a guy want right?

Well there's an update on us. I hope all is well with you guys!