Sawyer's 2 Year Stats

Had Sawyer's 2 year well check up and he is getting so dang big!

Weight:27 lbs = 40th Percentile

Height:35.5 inches = 80th Percentile

I have to say I am so thrilled that his weight has improved so much. Just 6 months ago he was in the 10th percentile. I was afraid he was going to have to have surgery that would make it so he would no longer be able to vomit. EVER. Yes, it may sound like a good thing but it would be horrible on his body. We vomit for a reason and to not ever be able to??? What would happen? I am horrified to even think about it. Thankfully our prayers were answered. We went to see my mother-in-law's brother-in-law who is a chiropractor and he was able to give me some total biotics and chewable enzymes that have improved his reflux and in turn made him much healthier!! I am so grateful he was able to help us and that the Lord truly heard our prayers. He still has the reflux but we are able to manage it so much better now! So grateful!! Words can't begin to explain!

Holistics

Took Sawyer to a Holistic doctor today. Kinda strange but I am praying he can help my baby. We really really don't want to do surgery but his reflux is getting worse again and he is still not eating. The holistic doctor did some pretty interesting things. He had me hold Sawyer and hold out my arms. He would touch Sawyer then push my arm to test for weaknesses in Sawyer. It was nuts! Some areas my arm was strong and others it just fell. He did a few little things to Sawyers T8 & 9 and said it should help to align him and help with his reflux. We have another appointment on Monday to see how its helping. Oh how I pray we can resolve his reflux naturally. To get off all the medications, help ease is pain, and get him to eat again would be a miracle!

"He Drank What????"

Here is our little sick story of what Sawyer drank on Monday.... It was a perfect beautiful day outside. It was hot enough I thought I would break out Sawyer's little pool from last year and let him splash around in it. I put warm house water in it and he loved playing in his pool. He had already had a fairly large poop that morning so I thought I was safe to take off his diaper and let him play in the nude. Again he LOVED splashing around especially in the nude. Now, he has this bad habit of drinking the water in his bath tub (EW I know) and of course he did the same thing with his pool water. I kept trying to keep him from doing it but he just kept drinking from his pool. He put rocks in his pool, grass, and even a potato bug. After a few hours of him playing, I noticed his pool had turned kinda dark.... kinda brownish. I noticed him drinking it again so I ran over and pulled him out and once he was out up floated some little brown 'logs'. He'd been drinking water in his pool that had poop in it!!! Oh yeah, I wigged out! I dumped out the water in his pool and ran him into the shower. I scrubbed him twice. Then I called Wee Care to ask what I should do about it. Thankfully they said that since he was up on all his shots he should be ok but if he started having tummy issues (diarrhea, vomiting, etc) then to bring him in. Thankfully he hasn't had any issues that I have noticed. Next time we play in the pool he will be wearing a diaper the whole time! lol

On another subject, Brandon and I went out on a date and we saw "Date Night"

Oh my goodness I loved it! I was laughing so dang hard tears were streaming down my face! Loved it!

Brandon and I also signed up for a co-ed softball team. Scary! lol I am not a great player and I get so nervous when I am up to bat. I totally panic. Last night was our first game and we slaughtered! The first inning we were 15! The end score was 19 to 9! Woot woot! Brandon even scored a homer! He's so dang hot! Watching him hit and watching those little Speedy Gonzalez legs go is awesome!

Today is going to be interesting. We take Sawyer into the surgeon at 3pm. We are going to see what he has to say and then go from there. We both don't want Sawyer to have surgery but if its necessary, what else can we do??

Just a post

This week Brandon and I decided to go try out some SUV's. We are wanting something with three rows of seats, and something with towing capabilities. We had about 8 SUV's we wanted to look at but once I looked at the Suburban that was pretty much all I wanted to try. It was pretty fun to go test drive the cars though. We laughed and laughed about how funny car salesmen are. We were in the parking lot for about 2 seconds when one was already hunting us! I teased that we should weave in and out of cars and run get back in our car and take off! Just to be cruel! It would have been hilarious! We decided to be nice.
We looked at a few cars like a Sequoia, Tahoe, Pilot and a few others but decided we really like the space in a Burban. I want something that we can put the back seats down and have plenty of room in the back to go to a drive in movie. I love drive ins! We have pretty much decided on a Suburban. Our goal now is to fix up Brandon's car and sell it, pay off my car, and buy a decent burban. Just got to find a good price.
Sawyer is being such a doll. He has started trying to sing. He sings Pat a cake and some of Twinkle Little Star. Its adorable! He is so dang smart. We bought him Elmo's Potty Time to see if we can get him to start wanting to use his Elmo Potty. I try to have him sit on the potty at least 3 times a day. Just to get use to it. I don't think he is really ready for it but I am trying to just put it out there for him.
I talked to his Doctor about his PH test and the results weren't good. He basically failed the 'test'. The doctor said she thinks he needs to have surgery. Sigh. I am praying we can find some alternative or pray that he will soon out grow it......
Here are some of his test results:
During the 20 hours he was monitored he refluxed 155 times. When he coughed/choked it was 100% caused from his reflux. The acid in his esophagus was very high. Normal is 6% or less his was 15%. Duration of his reflux was 6 minutes (way too long). Basically, it's bad. We have a name of a surgeon and we are going to set up a meeting to see what he has to say. I want to know all the risks of not getting it done and and risks of the surgery. Plus, of course the benefits. I just hope everything turns out well and we can help stop him from having all the pain.

Weekend and More Tests

This weekend was great! I got to go out and do whatever I wanted to do! Brandon had Sawyer Friday night and ALL day Saturday! It was very interesting to not have a baby to worry about. I did enjoy it though. Went out shopping, ate at the Olive Garden, and saw Bounty hunter with my girl Ashlee. We had a blast! I didn't get home until late and then Sawyer was up at 3 until about 4:30 which was horrible but I still woke up around 8 the next morning. Brandon even made breakfast! After breakfast, I met Tia at Clearfield High and we ran for 2 hours, went back to my house to do P90X Stretch {AWESOME} then went and did a little shopping! Later that afternoon I went with my friend Camie to a Slumber Party. It wasn't as fun as they normally are. I think the girl was just a newbie so she wasn't as good as some I have been to. After that, Camie and I headed to Pizza Factory for some Delicious pizza, salad, and bread sticks and just talked for a while. I got home late that night too. I had a wonderful time though! I did miss my baby and hubby. Sunday, we went to Bryant and Liz's house for a BBQ and bonfire! So much fun! Got to see Jeff, Vida, and Aiden which was nice since I never get to see them as often as I'd like. We ate and talked, roasted marshmallows, and just hung out. It was a great weekend!
Monday was kinda torturous. We had to take Sawyer into a feeding specialist. The specialist asked us a bunch of questions and had Sawyer eat so she could 'evaluate' his eating. He did his horrible cough/choking thing that he does and she knew it was his reflux acting up. She said that his eating looks fine that its just his reflux is so bad that its causing him to associate food with pain so he's not eating well. She said that she would call the GI specialist again and give her report and have them run more tests on him. I got a call back within a few hours from the Doctor and they are going to do a probe test of some kind. He will have to have a tube in his nose and down his throat to monitor his reflux. He will have to be there over night. **Sigh** Its going to be a rough night I am thinking. I will be staying with him. I know without a doubt he will try to take the tube out. That being said I think they will have to tie him down so he won't. I will probably be turning into MOMMA BEAR too. I am dreading it. Poor little stinker. I hope they can find out something we can do about it and hopefully its not surgery. We go in Monday so please keep him in your prayers!!

The past two weeks have been quite interesting. Last week with Sawyer's doctor appointments and this week all of us have been sick. When one gets sick, everyone does! We are all starting to get over our nasty colds though which is great. Still a little congested but overall better.
I called Sawyer's GI specialists again on Wed. and told her we needed to try something different since the medication she put him on was not helping. She recommended an over the counter drug called Pepsid Complete. We have been giving him it for two nights and he has slept through the night without any reflux or vomiting! I woke up and had to go check on him to make sure he was still breathing! Its crazy how one full night of actual sleep makes you worry that your baby is not breathing. Along with giving him the Pepsid, we have stopped giving him any food past 7:30 pm. Not even a baba. Its been kind difficult cause he is very use to a baba at night and he doesn't eat much during the day so he seems to get very hungry at night. Its seemed to be helping him sleep though. Now if we can just get him to start eating more....
Saturday I am hostessing our Lee family party and am a nervous wreck! I never feel like my house is 'good enough' for my family. All my families houses are so well decorated and quite a bit larger than mine. Yes I know they are older and have had to work to get these nice things, it just makes me feel a little intimidated. So I have been buying a few things to help spruce up my little home. I know it really shouldn't matter. I just want people to like my house. Is that so wrong? I am glad we are getting together. Its what my dad always wanted, to keep us all close and I want to carry on his wishes. Even if I have to hostess every single family get together!
Onto a different subject: Brandon started one of those in house garden-starter kit things and already we have plants growing! He planted them only about a week and a half ago and they are taking off like crazy! We are thinking we are going to have to move some of the beans out into a bigger pot cause they are just cruizin! Makes me so excited for spring! I am also going to grow some of my own herbs I have decided! Gardening is kind of a pain to start but reaping what you have sown is so wonderful!
Just looked outside and its snowing. What the crap?! Where is the sun? I am ready for spring to come.

Friday Happenings

Friday was an interesting day to say the least! We went to my mother-in-law's dad's funeral and ended up leaving early. I am now thinking Sawyer does not like funerals. We were listening to the talks and Sawyer had been coughing a lot all morning. Well, he started coughing really bad, hard enough that he threw up.... in Brandon's hands! Picture it if you will, sitting in the front few rows, surrounded by people land having your child puke in your husbands hands. It was pretty horrible. I grabbed some baby wipes and tried to clean Brandon up when Sawyer started coughing heavily again. I grabbed him and started to run out the door but was not quick enough. He puked ALL OVER. All over him and all over me. I was so mortified. A guy told me I could go into the nursery cause there was a bathroom in it so I ran in there and tried to clean the two of us up. Of course I was stupid and didn't bring him any extra clothes even though I had thought about it. Should have listened to my instincts. I'm an idiot... moving on. I fortunately had brought some extra clothes for me cause we were going out later so I wanted to change. I was able to take off the pukey shirt and put on another one but the puke was still all over. On my skirt, on my leggings, bra, and garments. Ugh. Brandon just wanted me to change and we could keep Sawyer bundled up but there was no way I was staying there cover in puke with my baby in a pukey onesie. So I took Sawyer and we headed to my moms. I washed our clothes and took a shower while Sawyer slept. I felt so horrible. I wanted to be there for my mother-in-law but there was nothing I could do. Sigh. The rest of the day was ok after that. He even ate semi decent which was wonderful. We got a call from his doctor and she said from the x-rays everything looked normal. Whew! That was wonderful to hear. I told her that he was still coughing a lot and puked and she told me to watch him for the next week and call her with how he does. When he woke up today he had a fever and a runny nose. Great! lol Poor kid.

My mom won tickets on the radio to see Monster Jam at the ESA so we invited our friends Liz and Bryant to go with us. We went out to eat at the Olive Garden. We went to the one in West Valley, not even close to as good as the one in Layton. Everything seemed dry.... The Black Tie Mousse Cake was still wonderful as ever though!! That's all that really mattered! :) We started talking about the Monster Truck Jam and thought it would be funny if we dressed up kinda Hick-ish! We went to Walmart and got some Camo hats, shirts, and the boys got wife-beaters! hahaha. They wore the wife-beaters over their shirts. They looked ridiculous! It was perfect! The Monster Jam was pretty dang cool. I had never been to one but I loved it. After it was over we waited in line and had the drivers sign our shirts! Bryant wrote on his wife-beater I heart Grave Digger and drew the truck! It was hilarious! I drew an 8 pack of abs and pecks with green nipples on Brandon's shirt! It was awesome! All the drivers thought it was pretty hilarious too! The woman driver got to sign Brandon's breasts! lol How often do women get to sign men's breasts I mean really?! It was awesome! We had a lot of fun. It was a good Valentine's Activity!

So we were trying to look like hicks right, well one of the drivers was a definite hick! He was missing teeth and everything! We thought about blacking out our teeth to go with our ensambles but sure glad we didn't now! lol Might have gotten into a rumble! HA
So for Valentine's Day, Brandon gave me my present early! We decided to not do any gifts this year {except I get to give him one cause I got it in January} so we could go on a trip instead but he got me a little something anyway. Sweet hubby!

He knows I love me some Diet Coke and roses! Such a sweetie!

The Upper GI

Had the Upper GI today. Things went pretty well. As well as can be expected for a 17 month old anyway! We got him there and when they took us back to the x-ray room he freaked! Of course. We stripped him down to his diaper and he clung to me like he was just layer of my skin! He was uncooperative when it came to laying still to take the x-rays so they ended up having to strap him to a board so he couldn't move his arms or legs. That was pretty dang traumatic for him. He screamed and struggled the whole time. He wouldn't drink the barium from his baba either so they had to use a giant syringe. Thankfully he began to drink with the syringe. If he wouldn't have he would have had to have the tube in his nose. Ek! That would have been more than I could take I am thinkin. I stood up by his head the entire time and tried to keep him calm and talk to him. I didn't succeed in keeping him calm but I tried! They took a bunch of x-rays as he drank and the doctor said that his esophagus looked pretty good as well as his stomach. Whew. I just hope the GI doctor can tell us what we can do to help him and hopefully its something fairly simple. After all the testing was finished, the nurse started to unwrap his legs. He started kicking his legs as soon as the straps were off. He couldn't wait until his arms were free either. He was trying to scramble into my arms with one arm still tied into the strap. Once we got him all unscrambled, I just held him. Oh how I long to just take all his pain and fears away from him. We got him all dressed and got him a bottle. When we got him in the car his little eyes were so heavy. He was out in about 10 minutes! He needs the sleep. He had a really rough morning poor thing. The doctor should call tomorrow so I will update when we get word from her!