Happy Birthday!!!

We celebrated Jeff's 34th Birthday with Horstmeyers on Sunday with a trip to acute care for Sam (another sinus infection) and ice cream cake. We celebrated with the Bennetts on his birthday Monday night. (I'm trying to cover the "football on the brain" shirt that grammy Joyce doesn't like!)

Talking On The Phone

Sam is enjoying oreos while listening to a song on the phone! Both grandmas have their own special song that they sing to him when they call or visit. As you can tell, he loves to hear their voices as much as he loves to eat cookies!

Play Time

Sorry we have been out of touch the last few weeks! Sam has had one more seizure and another sinus infection. We are continuing to watch close for the seizures to see if we need to do another EEG or switch medications. We also scheduled an appointment with an ENT Dr. for Sept. 7th. The pictures are of Sam and grammy reading and playing when she and grandpa were down a few weekends ago.

ER Visit

This weekend started off well with a visit to the Pizza Ranch. Friday night we went to dinner with Tom, Robin, Carson and Brook and had a great time. Saturday, Sam was a good boy for daddy while I took a trip to visit a friend's lake cabin for few hours. I returned in time for the three of us to have dinner with my mom and dad to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary today. Sam was a very good boy, but had a seizure in the car on the way home. He has not had a seizure in almost two years. We were able to stop it with the medicine we always carry and drove to Av. Mckennan ER. Thankfully, he did not have any more seizures! He did have a CT scan done and the good news is that it looks the same as it did two years ago. They had to put in an IV which never goes well, and we couldn't get him to settle down without a lot of medication. It was a tough night for all of us!!! We finally made it home around 1:00 AM and Sam slept for most of the night, thanks to the meds! Please pray for a less eventful week!

Feeling Brave!

This afternoon Sam and I ventured to the pool to enjoy the beautiful weather. I guess I was feeling brave because this is not typically an activity that I would fly solo on. We had a great time and Sam was perfect!!!

Snug as a bug in a rug!

This week is the first of our four week summer vacation from school. Summer school ended last week and we have been a bit lazy in the mornings. Sam starts school again on August 28th (Jeff's Birthday) and I am sure we will both be looking forward to the activity. Mom is just not as entertaining as all of those people at school, I guess!

More Therapy Pictures

These are pictures of Sam in swimming. He is learning to move back and forth in the pool by listening to grandma on one side of the pool and then moving back toward me on the other side. He wears a swimming collar so that he has freedom with his arms and legs. He also wears weights on his ankles to keep his feet down. He enjoys swimming and works hard too!

Therapy at CCHS

Yesterday we had our Monday therapy at Children's Care which consists of PT and swimming. Sam is learning to ride a bike and is really starting to catch on after riding it the last three weeks. It would be great to have one at home, but for the value price of about $1000.00 we will just have to keep riding in therapy! Grandma Donna comes to therapy with us each Monday, which means she has to work on the weekend to be away from the office Monday mornings. We sure are blessed to have family that will do anything for us! Sam also received his new orthotics last week. They are going to take some getting used to since I had them made higher on his calves this time. Time will tell if they need to be cut back down. Our thought was that he would get more stability out of them, but then Sam always keeps us guessing! Please keep praying for Sam to catch on to walking. He is working very hard at it and I think he would find so much joy and freedom if he could have mobility!