Pumpkin Carving

Each year, Abi and Eric have a big pumpkin carving party. They each picked out their design and went to work. Jax got in on the fun of digging out the 'guts' of the pumpkins.

Abi is learnign how to use the carving knife.

I think they did a great job.

Mismatched

This week as school has been 'Say no to drugs week'. Each day, the kids have been asked to wear a particular type of clothing in support. Today was mismatch day--wear mismatched cloths. Abi was more than thrilled and excited to get to wear two different colored shoes. Last night, she started reciting some of the things they have been taught: "No smoking", "Say no to drugs", etc. Not sure I am ready to have those conversations with our daughter, but I guess its never to early to start drilling that stuff in.

Socks Anyone?

The other day, as I was folding laundry in the bedroom, I noticed it was unusually quiet in the house. Not a good sign since the two littles were in the house. I found them in the living room trying on Daddy's socks.

10 Naughty Little Monkeys

My mom's cousin Rebecca sent Jaxon this adorable top and book. It is too cute and goes great with afternoon snacks. Thanks so much

Cinderella Pumpkin

Abigayle had the opportunity to make a pumpkin into her favorite storybook character for a Kindergarten fall project. She chose Cinderella--big surprise. We took it in this morning and wow, we are going to have to step up our game in the future. The project was open to all students in her school and there sure was a lot of creativity. Good Job Abi. We are proud of you.

The Fine Art....

Abigayle is very busy these days--teaching Jaxon the fine art of how to wear high heals that is. Hmmmmm. At least he chose a color that matched his outfit.

Yippeeeee Yahooooooooey

Today we went down to the medical center to receive the results of all the tests we have put Jax through lately.
Ph Test--he has 1% acidity. Well within the normal limit. No acid reflux here. Yea!
GI Test--his esophagus is only narrowed b/c of the original surgery. He does not have any strictures and does not need any dilation procedures. Yea!
We could not have asked for any better results for a kiddo who has Esophogel Atresia. We are estactic. We go back in 2 months for a follow up appointment. We can start giving him food with more substance as long as we reinforce that he eats slow and drinks lots of liquids. We have actually already started that. Two nights ago he had chicken fried steak for dinner and last night he had pork chops. He celebrated his good test results with a Filet O Fish from McDonalds at lunch today!

Don't Leave Home w/o It.....

Milk that is.

Quack Quack

We have had at least 4 batches of ducks born this summer in the pond by our neighborhood. They are very friendly as the whole 'hood' feeds them. The literally surround you and will eat out of your hand. Jax squeals with delight every time we go feed them.

Ph Test

Last week we had the Ph test done to see if Jaxon is suffering from acid reflux. Apparently it is very common with kiddos who have Esophogeal Atresia. Here is our cutie with the horrible tube down his nose. It was taped to his face and then connected to a machine in the backpack which took all the data. We get the results back next week. Notice his arms were also splinted so he couldn't pull out the tube. Later Jaxon and Abi removed the splints all by themselves. We ended up leaving them off and he never bothered his nose.

Pure Cuteness

Last week we ventured out to have lunch with Daddy. Since Daddy works with ships and yachts, we had to put on our best nautical outfit.