Modern Day Miracles

Surgery number three is done and hopfully it is the last. Reggie did so great. They found out that the blockage was from scar tissue. The tissue from the second surgery wasn't healed enough so it scared and constricted. So they did have to take out some more of my little guys intestine. That is the bad news but, the really amazing thing is they found 40cm more. They told us that the intestine will not regenerate but it can grow a little with how small he is. They were talking like 10cm and Reggie grew 40cm!! We trully believe that it was do to all the prayers on his behalf. I prayed for a miracle and the Lord did bless me greatly with one, who my kinding with many. Since then he has progressed remarkable well. He has been able to do more in the last week than he has in the last month. He is finally taking milk out of a bottle(only a very small amount not even an ounce yet) and pooping! Yes poop is very exciting when you have lost a huge portion of you intestines. He gives lots of smiles,wants to play, kicks, checks out is environment, is very alert, and all those normal baby things. They are slowly increasing his feeds every day and monitoring him to see how he does. It is a slow process but it is now going forward. That is the update in a very small nut shell but it is late and I am very tired. I will keep the updates coming. This is a picture before his third surgery and he no longer has that nasty nose tube.
I wanted to get a picture of his war wound for his baby book. Sorry I don't have a current picture my battery died on my camera.

Halloween

Holy insanity Halloween was so crazy!! The night was stressful for me but fun for the kids and that is the most important. It was go go go and then crash. Cory was with Reggie so it was just me and the other three. They were candy monsters and just didn't want to quit. I was very glad that the rain let up for the perfect amount of time to get in some great trick or treating. Did I mention that Jordyn loves Mini Mouse:) This is her doing the "Hot Dog Dance".
My hard core boys.

Me, my kids, Tiffany, and her kids always get together if only for a moment or two. Tiff is a much cooler mom than me she gets dressed up and what a cute Dora she made (even though she was freezing because she said a coat didn't go with the costume).

Happy Birthday Jordyn

Ok ok my baby girls birthday was over a month ago and I am just getting to this but I do feel like I have a good excuse. Even though we have been busy I still wanted to show how much Jordyn enjoyed her fifteen minute party.Very Excited!!!!

Making her wish with her Tinker Belle cupcake

Yes she is her mothers daughter she loves sugar

She is officially two and a true two year old at that. She cries and throws temper tantrums when ever you tell her no, she says "back off", gets into everything, and doesn't like you one minute and adores you the next. She is a charmer also so the bad things don't seem so bad. She loves and I mean loves Mickey and Mini Mouse. She is already like her mother trying to keep up with her brothers playing karate, and anything else that is rough housing. She is one of the most polite two year olds I have ever seen. She says "excuse me" when she burps, "no thank you" if she doesn't want something, "your welcome", and "please" with a big grin when she does want something. Jordyn is my joy I adore her so very much and am so blessed to have her for my daughter.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL!!!

Family Road Trips (life part 3)

All set to go to our family reunion

Cory was getting ready to take Jordyn on a canoe ride and she hated this life jacket. We all were laughing so hard at her waddle.

Who doesn't love ice cream

Is this a really big chair or did my children shrink?

Finally we caught Fish (life part 2)

We have tried on a number of occasion to go fishing and after many tries we finally caught some. It did take a stocked pond made for kids but, hey you got to start somewhere

Jordyn loved eating the velveeta more than the actual fishing

Ashton showing off his catch(Jordyn was so proud of him)

This is how Jordyn fished

When life was simpler:) (Part 1)

I figured that life has been so crazy for quite some time that I haven't put some of the fun summer things that we did on my blog. Now that things are a little stressful I wanted to put on some fun happy things. It lifted my spirits so here you go. These are pictures from a splash pad in Highland I heard about it all summer and finally found it. The kids LOVED it!!! We will deffinately go next year. What is better than fun and free:)

Surgery number three:(

We just found out that Reggie is going to have to have another surgery. He hasn't been progressing like he should so they did a dye test and found out that he has some kind of blockage. They think it is scar tissue that is blocking his intestines. At this point they don't know if it is scar tissue on the inside or on the outside from the insicision or some of the stomach fat that they cut into before. We hope that no more of his intestine have to be cut out so best case is that it is scar tissue on the outside that they can just cut out. But, either way we hope this will be the final surgery and then we can move forward and get him eating so we can bring him home. Thank you again for all your prayers, concerns, phone calls, food, and everything else on our behalf. More details to come later.