Pictures and More Pictures

Here are some February Stories and Pictures!

These are all 3 from Valentine's Day!

Just some updates first:

~Thomas' MRI was NORMAL!!! Then they sent him to a Physical Therapist to be sure about his muscles being so tight, and to see if it would help with the night pains. So, we went to the Physical Therapist yesterday, and she gave him some stretches to do, but otherwise thinks he's fine! Yes, his muscles are tight, but it's not a big deal she said. So, we'll stretch and move on!

~Sarah had surgery on Tuesday again, and they said everything is looking much better! She goes back for a follow up tomorrow. The last tiny bit of Kidney Stone got blasted away during the surgery! So that all looks good too!

~Grace is under the weather right now. She has a bug that causes a high fever, but the doctor said she should be ok in a day or two. Bad news is, I'm pretty sure I'm fighting it now too. (Plus of course we didn't get any sleep last night, so I'm exhausted!)

~Thomas will be 4 years old on March 9th! He is having a Star Wars party at our house on March 7th at 2pm. (Assuming the Power Stays on and the Creek Doesn't Rise...)

~Our friends Don and Derema Bledsoe are being induced this Tuesday Morning March 3rd! Baby Lucas will be here in no time! (Thomas told Derema he "hopes it doesn't hurt when the doctor helps the baby come out." She smiled and said thank you.)
Here are the pictures!

~Grace went to her 1st Tea Party Last Saturday! (2/21/09) Emily and her Mom invited 3 of the granddaughters, Samantha, and Grace over for a fancy tea party at 2pm. They were sooo cute.
They got all dressed up for the party, then when they got there, Emily had 2 tables full of princess dress up clothes to add to their outfits. After this, they all went down to the end of the hall and then one at a time marched down and into the room for a fashion show!
Later, she had these plastic tea cups there with princess foam stickers for them to decorate. Last, the girls sat down to a fancy lunch of tiny sandwiches (PB&J or Bologna and Cheese) and cookies.

Grace and Emily's niece, Eva who is 4, asked for "Banas Please," so they also shared a banana. She even had a fancy rose for each one with a giant diamond ring. Grace threw her ring and flower in her dress-up box for later!

Ready for the Fashion Show!

Emily Taught them how to hold their pinky out.

Grace found this purple shawl and white feather boa in the dress up stuff!

She's telling me here how fuzzy that boa is!

Decorating Tea Cups.

Grace's 1st Earrings!

These are pictures from the kids' school!

This is Ava, Thomas' favorite friend.

This was from when Tyler spent the night with Thomas during Sarah's hospital stay.

Thomas showed Grace how to do flips a couple of days ago.

Here is a picture from dinner last night of Derema and Don. They are pretty excited, baby will be here Tuesday!

Thomas' MRI is Normal! Praise God!

I just heard from the doctor's office!

They have given us the unofficial word that Thomas' MRI was normal.

The nurse practitioner got a chance to look at it, which I am assuming means she read over the Radiologist's notes as well, and she says they are normal. She will still want to talk to the head orthopaedic doctor on Monday, so then we'll get an official word, but they didn't want me worrying all weekend. So that's great news! :-)

There may still be something causing his leg to hurt off and on, like growing pains, which can apparently be fairly painful sometimes, but it's not life threatening obviously, so that's all we care about! :-)

Thanks for your love, support, and prayers!

Mary, Sam, Thomas, and Grace

PS- Thomas did really really well with taking his sleepy medicine, then once he was really drowsy getting his IV.

Then he was totally asleep for the MRI. So, no worries!

Thomas' MRI is today!

Thomas had his MRI Today: Feb. 11th, 2009
Kosair Children's Hospital

Here are pictures from Thomas' big day getting his MRI.

He has to have both legs and both ankles scanned. The radiologist thought he saw an abnormality between the right and left leg during the bone scan, and decided to have an MRI done to rule out any soft tissue damage.

The first time we were scheduled to go was the Tuesday of the big Ice Storm, so we got cancelled.

So, we were re-scheduled for February 11th, 2009.

He brought his Star Wars characters and got all set up in his cartoon room. This first picture shows him watching Nickelodeon, waiting for the lady to bring in his sleepy medicine to drink.

They didn't do his IV until after he was very "Drunk" as she called it. He was very very giggly and then basically asleep with his eyes open.

He then slept through the entire MRI, which lasted about an hour and 15 min. He was allowed to sleep an additional hour and ten minutes after he was brought back to our room, but we had to wake him to leave for home, due to the wind storm! They thought there was a tornado heading our way. It ended up splitting down the middle and going north and south of us; all we got was rain!