Well, it started out as a regular day, until J told me about the "bump" in his mouth that was bugging him. I looked in and he had "blood blister" type bumps in his mouth (3 to be exact) I could tell they weren't normal so I called the dr. to see him that day. Luckily we were able to get in first thing in the morning. We had planned to go to the park with a friend and her son, so she just watched the other kids. Well, the Dr. noticed that J's blood was not clotting and he sent us for blood tests. The nurse said "this could be nothing or something major, we'll call you asap!" So, needless to say I was sick with worry. We continued out to the park until the Dr. called us at 1:15 (pretty fast) J had ITP, which means his blood platelet count was really low. Normal is 125,000 and J's was 4000. Yeah, a little low! So, we had to go to the hospital for an IV of meds. We checked in around 4. (bless my friend and family members who took the rest of the kids) Finally the IV was started aroun 7pm and in until 5am. Then we had to wait for the blood test results to see if his body stopped kicking out his platelets. (basically he was fighting an infection and his body got confused and started removing the platelets). The first blood test only showed slight improvement, but we did another one around noon and it came back with positive results and a much higher platelet count. So, J was released from the hospital! YEAH! He was ready to go, what started out as fun soon lost its luster! So, now we just need to do daily blood tests (J is not happy about that) until we get closer to the normal range. It was an absolutely frightening moment not knowing what was going on, but all turned out well. We are just praying that his body continues on this path!
Today I took the biggie bigs to get his one year photos at Sears. There were quite a few tears and clinging hugs to momma, but in the end there are some dang cute photos. So many that I spent $170 on photos. Oh well, they are only one once...then two, then three... It is a never ending saga of money. But as I always say when scrapbooking, I'm preserving their life! Enjoy a few photos and let me know if you need some...I bought the CD too. 
Well, it started out as a regular day, until J told me about the "bump" in his mouth that was bugging him. I looked in and he had "blood blister" type bumps in his mouth (3 to be exact) I could tell they weren't normal so I called the dr. to see him that day. Luckily we were able to get in first thing in the morning. We had planned to go to the park with a friend and her son, so she just watched the other kids. Well, the Dr. noticed that J's blood was not clotting and he sent us for blood tests. The nurse said "this could be nothing or something major, we'll call you asap!" So, needless to say I was sick with worry. We continued out to the park until the Dr. called us at 1:15 (pretty fast) J had ITP, which means his blood platelet count was really low. Normal is 125,000 and J's was 4000. Yeah, a little low! So, we had to go to the hospital for an IV of meds. We checked in around 4. (bless my friend and family members who took the rest of the kids) Finally the IV was started aroun 7pm and in until 5am. Then we had to wait for the blood test results to see if his body stopped kicking out his platelets. (basically he was fighting an infection and his body got confused and started removing the platelets). The first blood test only showed slight improvement, but we did another one around noon and it came back with positive results and a much higher platelet count. So, J was released from the hospital! YEAH! He was ready to go, what started out as fun soon lost its luster! So, now we just need to do daily blood tests (J is not happy about that) until we get closer to the normal range. It was an absolutely frightening moment not knowing what was going on, but all turned out well. We are just praying that his body continues on this path! 
It has been a nice quiet couple of days. Wed. all the kids went to their "other homes" and Biggie Bigs and I hung out with friends. Then yesterday he went to daycare and I started scrapbooking our family vacation. I managed to scrap 2 of the 6 days. (unfortunately one of those days was the driving day, but hey, I'm 1/3 done) Looks like a nice weekend (I'm not talking about the weather) We'll go visit Grandma GG at the Relay for Life, go to Grandpa & Diana's wedding reception/party, help out at church, take B up to camp, and most importantly spend Biggie Bigs real birthday thanking God for our perfect creation! Where did the year go? Amazing!
fireworks. It was a great time. I love the 4th! Earlier in the day we went down to Old Towne and walked around the booths, it was freezing!! The afternoon and evening at our house was much better, no wind and no sun, but also no fog. We did fireworks when dusk arrived (does it take longer to get dark on the 4th of July?) and the kids had a blast. Even the biggie bigs loved it. 