Wow! What a Week!

    Wow! What a long and busy week we've had! This week we've had our 18 month old niece because her mommy is having a new baby! We've welcomed a new niece into the world, we've been to UNC for more appointments with Tucker, a parent teacher conference with all of Madi's teachers, Scotty was inducted into the Masons and my mom spent the night with us one night! And on top of all of this Tucker has chose this week to sleep no later than 1:30 AM! I feel like I could use about 48 hours in the bed! 

Madi loving on sweet baby Emily!

      We have an adorable new niece named Emily Hope who was born on August 10, 2011 at 12:28 pm. She weighed in at 7lb 11oz and was 19 inches long. I took Madi and Sarah Grace (our niece) to the hospital on Thursday to visit her and Madi fell in love. She so reminds me of myself when I was a little girl. She was such a natural holding Emily and I had to beg her for a few minutes to get to hold her myself! Sarah Grace didn't pay too much attention to Emily - but, she sure loved having some time with her mommy!!

Madi, Sarah Grace and Emily!

Tucker had an appointment with an immunologist and a test called an Upper GI on Wednesday. The Upper GI was not a hit and he screamed the whole 40 minutes. Scotty said he could hear him screaming in the waiting room - 3 rooms over. They strapped him to this contraption and made him drink barium with Strawberry flavoring while they had an x-ray machine over him so they could watch the barium go down his esophagus, into his stomach and then into his small intestine. This basically is to make sure that his anatomy is correct. We still haven't got the results yet - which is kind of aggravating - but, we should have them by today. The doctor that did the test did say that he refluxed several times in the short amount of time we were in there and that it took him a little longer than normal for the barium to exit his stomach and go into his small intestine. What this means? Your guess is as good as mine. Wink! Again, hopefully, I will find out today! We also saw an immunologist who was very nice, but, had no answers for us. He did tell us that a subcategory of his IgG (a category in your immune system) was very low, but, it usually corrects itself by the age of two and it wouldn't cause any of the symptoms that he has anyways. He also let Scotty and I listen to Tucker's lungs through his stethoscope and WOW I had NO idea. The pulmonary doctor told us last time we saw her that she couldn't hear his heart beat over his wheezing, but, I had no idea that she really meant it! I knew he was wheezing because I could hear it if I put my ear to his back, but, I had no idea how bad it really was. His oxygen level on Wednesday - which was a good day for him...no fever, minimal runny nose and cough - was still only 95. 

Our sweet Tucker

The immunologist left us with this...."I'm very sorry I can not do more for you, but, his lungs are not right, something is wrong....there is a doctor that will figure it out....please don't give up or let someone tell you that he's fine or he will outgrow it....something isn't right." While those aren't exactly what most people would call encouraging words - it was nice to hear....to know a doctor feels the same way I do....to know that something isn't right and I'm not just a crazy paranoid momma! He told us that we should definitely do the lung biopsy and the lung function test that the pulmonary doctor had mentioned. We should find out the dates for those today, too. So, again....no answers, but, looking on the bright side we do know that he doesn't have cancer, he doesn't have CF and he doesn't have an immune disorder and God is so good!!!

   Scotty has had a long time dream of being a part of the masons and this week - his dream came true! He is so excited to be a part of this group! Madi is being Madi and giving the teachers a run for their money! She does her work when she wants to and guess what?!?! When she doesn't want to - she doesn't do it! When they told me this the only response I had was, "Welcome to our world!" We told her that if you give Madi and inch she takes the mile so they have to just let her know who is boss and that she has to do what she is told! She'll come around when she realizes that now they have her ticket! I'm sure of it! Dylan is doing great in school and seems to be really whizzing through his math and reading which was such a struggle at the beginning of 1st grade! So far, Dylan and 2nd grade seem to be getting along just fine! We were fortunate enough for my mom to offer to spend the night on Tuesday night and Dustin got to spend some quality time alone with Mimi on Wednesday while Scotty and I were gone to UNC with Tucker! I guess him and Mimi really had a blast because on Thursday I noticed Dustin had gotten quiet so I went to check on him and found this.....

Sound asleep on the floor in my room

Last Sunday we took Scotty's dad up to my parent's lake house with us to look at doing some tree work and Dylan and Madi talked him into riding on the boat to watch Dylan kneeboard....well, Madi was feeling a little brave (which is unusual in the water) and wanted to try kneeboarding! She popped right up the first try and was even holding on with just one hand! She was SO excited! 

     So, like I was saying we have had quite a busy week and I could use a few days of down time! This weekend we are watching How To Train Your Dragon with our Sunday School class on Saturday evening and the rest of the weekend we are just going to take it easy and enjoy each other! 

"Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever."- Psalm 136:1