Yay!

I have forgotten to mention that Luke had his Infant PFT several weeks ago and the results were beautiful! It's always interesting trying to get ready for those because they are so early in the morning and I have to fight morning traffic with a crying baby in the backseat because he wants to eat. However, I can't make the crying baby stop because I am not allowed to give him food for sedation reasons and he is sleep deprived anyways so I couldn't make him happy anyways.

So after I finally got there with my screaming child, I realized that we were a half hour early. I could promise you that the last time we had one I had to be there that early! Thankfully though, Luke's tests came out above normal and his lung function is not a problem at this time. We also found out that the albuterol that we have been giving him for months is not really doing anything so we were able to cut it out. I only have one tiny breathing treatment to give Luke every day! I still do 2 airway clearances but 1 breathing treatment frees up so much time in my day. I think that Luke likes it better too because he doesn't fight as hard during his Chest PT.

With all that free time you would think that I would be blogging like crazy right? Well actually I have been fighting this ear infection and blogging was the last thing on my mind. Luke has been sorta left to himself a lot as I just sit in front of the tv trying to hear what is happening. I miss those days before I was married when I actually COULD sleep all day. I think that I took those for granted *sigh.

I want to share a couple of pictures showing Luke doing what he does best. Snacking! Oh and riding on his little car thing. He likes his little car thing and will sit there for hours :) It's really cute.

Voting!

Here are a few pictures of Luke after we went and voted today. I think he liked all of the old people at the polling place :)



This is what Luke will do if Obama wins.

Tomorrow is the Day!

So I am pretty much sick of all the election talk but I figure that I am going to write a quick post about it.

I plan on voting tomorrow morning and even though I know that my vote is pretty much useless in Illinois (oh the joys of the electoral system) I feel that I need to make my voice heard. While I do plan on voting McCain I must say that it has been a topic of discussion with my dear husband. While I would never ever vote for Obama and neither would Dan we have discussed whether or not we should vote 3rd party which is what my conscience tells me to do. Especially because we live in Illinois and Popular vote really does nothing and this is suuuuch a Democratic state and so my vote really will just be put into the popular factor. I have decided to vote McCain. For no other reason than I don't feel like writing someone in. Dan has decided to go 3rd party and I guess I don't care. He can do whatever he feels like as long as he is happy :)

That's all I am going to say about my voting issues. I don't really get into politics as much as I used to but this election has turned me off even more to Washington. I really don't see them as caring about the average American. It will be interesting to see what will happen.

I will leave you with an example of what happens when you leave little boys in the living room while you blog. Yes, that is chocolate all over his cute little face :)

Bactrim

I am sorta irritated right now. Luke's nurse was supposed to call in Bactrim yesterday but nothing has happened. AAAAHHH does she not realize that I have been calling Walgreens and checking on this prescription for 2 days now? It may only seem to be one little prescription but my mind keeps thinking that it may help keep him out of the hospital. Oh well, I guess it will all work out.

Dan and I had a great time last night meeting a young man with CF. He's 20 and goes to DePaul University so he was able to walk right over to the hospital and meet with some of the parents who have children recently dx with CF. It made me feel better to see a nice looking, well adjusted, kid who has CF. Sometimes I fear that Luke will be odd or have some weird issues because of this. I will say that one of the things he impressed upon us was that it was his parents that helped him have the correct outlook on life. That is a huge task that Dan and I feel we have to start doing even now.

Anyways, this was rather an odd post but I guess I just had to get some things out of my system :) I must now go face the Ravioli covered bundle of energy who is my son.

Finally stopping by!

It has definitely been awhile since I have blogged :) I decided to take a crack at it this morning. We have been super busy with Luke having some more health issues and me going to Spain. I hope that I can share some of the pictures with you soon.

The big news is that Luke started walking! Not consistently but enough that I can say he is walking. It's very cute if you ask me :)

The past month or so has been a character building experience for me. I was worried when Dan lost is job but now the Lord has blessed him with an even better job than the one that he lost. I can't even explain to you how awesome the Lord provided for us when Dan was laid off. We didn't get too far behind in our bills and we didn't get evicted. I guess that I was very scared about that. God is good though and He lovingly brought us through all of this.

Luke did have a PFT last week and that went very well. We found out that he doesn't need Albuterol with every treatment and so that minimizes how long a day I spend sitting with him on my lap.

Here are some pictures for you!

This is the area that I went to in Spain. This is high above the valley where we distributed literature and worked on the farmhouse that the missionaries own and use for various things. It was such an amazing trip!


Me and my sister :)


Here are some of the fall pictures that we took. I hope to upload more to photobucket soon.

Moving

Yep, we're moving today! After a year of living in another family's basement it feels really good to be out on our own again. Well, good and scary :) I am sitting in the new apartment right now but we only have our computer set up and our tv. The Comcast guy came and set it all up for us so we are still in the 21st century.

Hopefully tonight people will come out to help us move and then we can get nice and settled... until Spain :)

Have a great weekend! I will be unpacking and enjoying every minute of it, well, sorta...

Oh What a Crazy Life We Lead!

It's been quite awhile since I posted on here. It seems like ages actually. So much has happened to us in these short few weeks.

Luke turned one! It was very sad and happy for me. I guess I was sad because he is not my little itty bitty baby anymore and I loved having a little baby. Now he has 4 teeth and is walking along furniture!

I finished my jury duty. Yippie! It ended up lasting four almost five weeks. It was very interesting and I did learn a lot but I think that next time I will try even harder to get out of it. Especially if I hear that it is going to be this long again. I really do feel good about doing my Civic duty though :)

Luke has been doing well healthwise. He is eating like a growing boy and has been able to stay out of the hospital for 3 months now! That is the longest that he is gone in between hospital stays almost his whole life. His first hospitalization after birth was when he was 4 months old and it has been 3 months since his last stay in May. I believe that it was the day before Mothers Day the last time that he was released. He has almost constantly been on anitbiotics though but that is fine with me. He is getting over c.diff right now though. Two Sundays ago we were getting ready for evening church and when I was changing his diaper right before we left I noticed that there was blood in his diaper. Not a little, a lot. I can honestly say that freaked me out almost more than anything else I have ever seen! I believe that he is now over that and we are just waiting for his Infant PFT. His doctor wants a new one because she thinks something isn't quite right yet. He sounds clear so I don't know what exactly they are looking for but I am sure she wouldn't order one just because.

The biggest thing that has happened to us is that Dan lost his job on Friday. It was not really a huge shock to us because his boss has not been to happy with him lately. It's not performance based it more that his boss is an unsaved man and I think that he doesn't like it that Dan doesn't go out drinking with him and laugh at all his dirty, crude jokes. I can already see that God is sustaining us and I know that He will continue to sustain us. We are able to get unemployment and Dan is doing a few freelance jobs. We are praying that he is able to get a job before I leave for Spain. That would be awesome.

This is a little that has been going on with us. I hope that I can update with some pictures soon but right now I am running out the door to go babysit. Have a great day!