Halloween 2012

This year, Isaac wanted to be Batman for Halloween. Well actually, he keeps just saying "a bat" and then picked the Batman costume. I wanted to trick or treat in our new neighborhood, but instead we decided to go to my cousin's house nearby. This worked out perfectly because as mentioned in my last post, I was put on bed rest that day and wasn't able to actually go trick or treating-plus daddy had school and couldn't go either. While I sat on the sofa, my cousins helped me out by taking him (along with their kids) through the neighborhood. From the pics, looks like he had a blast and he certainly brought back enough candy for the family. haha. Thank you so much to my cousins for helping me out!! Love ya'll so much.

Bedrest :(

Hi everyone! You may have heard by now but on Wednesday I got placed on bed rest. For now, it's at least until I see the dr. on Monday. Hopefully I'll be able to work after that. On Wednesday, I felt really flushed all day-just very hot and I had a headache, nausea, and seriously swollen feet. I usually don't have any symptoms when my blood pressure is high but decided to have a nurse check it out anyway. And it was high. The highest we got was 147/109 and the lowest it got (after sitting in the dark, staying still, and turning the lights off) was 142/102. I have seen numbers higher than that but I knew that I had taken my meds and it shouldn't be that high. What also concerned me was that I had actual symptoms.

I decided to call Dr. Dutreil's office (my OB), who then told me that I needed to do bed rest. My next check up was originally set for Wednesday but since I have a cardiology follow up on Monday, we moved it to Monday as well. I'm guessing his hopes are that taking it easy for a few days will lower my bp. I've been doing my best following doctor's orders, and I've been routinely monitoring my blood pressure. It runs a little high in the morning (right after I take my meds). After that, it's been really good. No swelling in the feet and no symptoms.

I guess if I have to do bed rest, this is a good weekend to do it (hoping that it'll only be a weekend). Isaac is going camping with Nanny and Poppy until Sunday afternoon. I'm really sad about it, but it works out. In the meantime, I guess I'll just be watching Netflix and trying to come up with a baby name. I'll also be going through baby's 0-3 month clothes collection to see if there's anything else that I'll need. I've been blessed with tons of hand me downs (including Isaac's), so I'm sure he'll be covered.

Please send prayers our way in hopes that the check up goes well and I'll be able to return to work! And I leave you with a pic of my bed rest buddy...

A Second Opinion

I know I haven't mentioned Isaac's hypoglycemia in awhile. That's a good thing, because he hasn't had any recent episodes. We have been giving him cornstarch before bed and paying extra attention to keeping food in him when he's sick. But we still have no answer/diagnosis. Today we visited the geneticist at Children's Hospital-Dr. Marble. He's really smart and good at his job...he specializes in metabolic disorders. I would know-working at Children's, I'm training in helping the metabolic dietitian :).

He basically got his history and did a physical exam. Isaac will be getting some labs drawn on Saturday to help with a diagnosis.For the most part, he did rule out some disorders. Now he's thinking it may be possible for him to have some type of glycogen storage disease (a defect in the breakdown of stored glucose to glucose you can use when fasting)...although this usually causes an enlarged liver, which he does not have. He also mentioned possibly having just ketotic hypoglycemia. This is better than nonketotic hypoglycemia. Making ketones is a normal response during fasting...it feeds the brain during those periods of fasting. And of course, there are other disorders on the table.

We had to reschedule his 4 year checkup but according to his measurements today, he's growing well! He weighs 34 lbs 5 oz and about 39 inches tall. His BMI/age is 50-75%, Wt/Age 25-50%, and Ht/Age 25%. His height took the biggest jump! In February he was between the 3-10%. So we are very excited about his progress.

Please keep him in your prayers and let us hope that we can find some answers to these episodes that he's had in the past.

Big Belly!

Here are more current belly pics. And you have no idea how much it kills me that these have not consistently been in 4 week increments :P. If you didn't know, we  just bought and moved into our first house last week so things have been hectic! Be on the lookout for house pics soon :)

23 Weeks

27 Weeks

Isaac is 4 Years Old!

I can't believe  how big our boy is getting! Well, Isaac turned four a couple weeks ago. We celebrated with a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse themed party at Tat's house. It was a very dreary and wet day, but that didn't stop the kids from swimming anyway! He also had fun with balloon animals and a pinata. Thanks to everyone that made it out to Lafayette on such a yucky day! And thank you to all that helped with the party...especially Tat and Omi for hosting the party. We hope everyone had fun :)

Catching Up on Belly Pics

Just as suspected...I have not been doing as much blogging this time around. haha. Well, I have been taking my belly pics though. I have to say, I am definitely looking bigger now that I looked with Isaac at this time. I've pretty much made the switch to most maternity/elastic bottoms. I'm just much more comfortable...especially after lunch :).

I'll be 18 weeks on Friday and I'm feeling great. I'm starting to feel little thumps now :). It's so exciting! Next Wednesday we find out the sex...Isaac is insisting it's a boy, which is making me think so too. Although Isaac's premonition may actually just be wishful thinking on his part. haha.

Enjoy the belly pics!

8 weeks

12 weeks

16 weeks

St. Mary's Walk/Run Challenge

Hi everyone! In October, we'll be doing a fundraising walk for my little brother's school, St. Mary's. St. Mary's is a residential training school for children and adults with developmental disorders. For those who don't know, my little brother Sage (who is now 21!) has Down Syndrome and has lived there for a few years. It is a great school and we want to take the opportunity to raise money. To learn more about St. Mary's, you can visit the website.

If you'd like to help our team and donate, please check out our team page. Every little bit helps! We're "Sage's Saints" :) And of course, anyone is invited to come walk with us!