I wish I spent more time on here keeping up with where we are in life. I really want to keep a good track of how the boys are growing, but I can't seem to find the time to write about life, well because of life.
Alas my new year's resolution will once again be to blog more and to document more things in our lives. Considering this has mainly been about Austin's medical issues, I will put a few things in this post that have happened lately.
Yesterday marks 1 year SEIZURE FREE! I can't believe it has been a whole year, it seems like a lifetime ago but I still remember every scary detail. While we are still not out of the woods with medical mysteries, I will take this milestone.
Over the past year the doctors are still rather worried about his lack of weight gain. He is still very low on the charts for weight and only 25% for height. Considering Adam is so tall, and Noah is the size of a 7 year old this is worrisome. Over the past 6 months we have seen various doctors, checked for allergies, and have seen a food therapist weekly and they can't find one thing wrong with him. I suppose this is good news, but I just wish we could find something that we can easily fix and move on with our life. We have decided to perform one more test, and Endoscopy to rule out anything that might be going wrong, before we can finally decide that this is just Austin and he is small. They will also check in more detail for Celiac Disease. So, I promise to post more on that after the 17th. For the most part BHS have been mild to non existent, but we still have one at least once per week.
We moved!
Which is another reason I haven't blogged in forever. We left our amazing first home in July. We sold it after only 30 days on the market. We were very excited to move into another more amazing home.
San Diego
A few weeks ago we took a really fun trip to SD to see the grandparents. Only to miss the arrival of our new nephew Hillis! I love having a new baby in the family, and Austin does too! He LOVES to hold him.
Kindergarten
The search for a good kindergarten for Noah has began. The process of open enrollment is very tricky. While our local school is good enough, it is very over crowded because of open enrollment. Don't get me wrong I love having the choice of where to send the boys for school, but because of this the local parents do not have to send their kids to the new school that was just built to compensate for over crowding because their siblings already go to the school that is in our neighborhood. Colorado also has many charter schools, so that is where our search began. We have toured 6 schools in the last few weeks 4 are charters, 2 are public.
One that really stuck out the most was Flagstaff Academy in Longmont, this became our school of choice. We plan to apply for all 6 schools to hopefully get accepted to at least 3. Most of the schools do a lottery, but Flagstaff is a first come first serve school. The registration began on December 1 at 8am. The night before Adam decided to drive by the school because we heard a rumor of parents camping out. He went by after work to find at least 20 parents already waiting in line with their tents. That is when he called me for supplies to stay the night. I packed dinner, sleeping bags, coffee, snacks, and a little booze. He then proceeded to sit in line for 15 hours so he could be 22 in line and 13 in line for Kindergarten. We will not find out if we have secured a spot until February but our chances are pretty good, well better than most. Adam said that around 4 am there was at least 200 more people behind him, so I have to hope that we have a better chance than they do. So I am very thankful Adam stayed the night even though I was a little annoyed that this is how we have to get our kid into a good school.
Until next time, I hope to update again soon!
