Sunday, December 2, 2007
Halloween 2007
We took Kyle out for Halloween this year. He was a caterpillar. Hannah was a superhero. Here's some pics....
Lots of Updates
The car we got from my classmate worked well for a month or two and then quit out on us. We thought we'd just have to go back to how things were (me dropping Chris off at work each morning before going to school and him taking the bus home) but then a couple with a child in therapy with Kyle offered us a '97 Honda Accord for free. The Honda has been a real blessing. Right now it's having electrical problems but we're getting them fixed for a whole lot less than it would have cost for an entire car and we should have it back middle of this week. The Kia has also been a bit temperamental. There was a problem with the heating core but Chris and Steve Eloshway fixed it.
I'm still pregnant, of course. We had a bit of trouble getting on the medicaid for pregnant women but we've finally got it so I'm seeing Dr. Igel for my prenatal care. Last Tuesday, they did a comprehensive ultrasound including fetal echo. This is the second ultrasound. At the first ultrasound they ruled out twins and adjusted the due date to April 22nd, 2008. From the recent ultrasound, it looks like a girl (from the butt shot she gave them). Her first name will be Audrey. We're still debating about the middle name. Everything is going really well. They plan to schedule me for C-section a week before the due date (April 15, 2008).
School's still going well. Other than one B in Cardiac Pathology II, I've been maintaining all A's. We started our integrated clinicals which means I'm going to a clinical site once a week to observe and assist an actual tech. I am with a mobile tech who goes to several different sites during the week to do echos as well as general ultrasound. Who knows? Maybe when I'm settled in this career, I might cross-train for general. Six month full externship is supposed to start March 4th, but because of the baby, I'll be starting full externship after I recover from the C-section. Then six more months and I can graduate. I'm hoping to be able to extern at a pediatric cardiologist for my full externship since that's the specialty I want to be in.
We are still planning the Christmas party for this year. It will be December 22nd in the clubhouse here. We're just working out the details for the invites. As always, all are invited.
Hannah's been growing quickly and learning a lot. Kyle still gets his feedings from a tube. He's quite stubborn in that department. He's in speech/feeding therapy for that. He is able to roll over and stay sitting up if sat up by someone else. He's still not crawling, but we're working on it with physical and occupational therapy. It's all more about sensory input than physical capability. He can't take much sensory input. If there's a loud sudden noise by him, he screams worse than if he's hurt. He's learning new words every day though. He claps and says "clap" or "yea". He says Hannah, Mommy, Dadda, Nana, tickle, go, open, baby, Kyle, no, nap, nite-nite, hello ("ello"), etc. Cutest things so far is when he moves his fingers on you and says "tickle, tickle, tickle" and when he picks up a phone (real or fake), holds it up to his ear and says "ello".
I'm still pregnant, of course. We had a bit of trouble getting on the medicaid for pregnant women but we've finally got it so I'm seeing Dr. Igel for my prenatal care. Last Tuesday, they did a comprehensive ultrasound including fetal echo. This is the second ultrasound. At the first ultrasound they ruled out twins and adjusted the due date to April 22nd, 2008. From the recent ultrasound, it looks like a girl (from the butt shot she gave them). Her first name will be Audrey. We're still debating about the middle name. Everything is going really well. They plan to schedule me for C-section a week before the due date (April 15, 2008).
School's still going well. Other than one B in Cardiac Pathology II, I've been maintaining all A's. We started our integrated clinicals which means I'm going to a clinical site once a week to observe and assist an actual tech. I am with a mobile tech who goes to several different sites during the week to do echos as well as general ultrasound. Who knows? Maybe when I'm settled in this career, I might cross-train for general. Six month full externship is supposed to start March 4th, but because of the baby, I'll be starting full externship after I recover from the C-section. Then six more months and I can graduate. I'm hoping to be able to extern at a pediatric cardiologist for my full externship since that's the specialty I want to be in.
We are still planning the Christmas party for this year. It will be December 22nd in the clubhouse here. We're just working out the details for the invites. As always, all are invited.
Hannah's been growing quickly and learning a lot. Kyle still gets his feedings from a tube. He's quite stubborn in that department. He's in speech/feeding therapy for that. He is able to roll over and stay sitting up if sat up by someone else. He's still not crawling, but we're working on it with physical and occupational therapy. It's all more about sensory input than physical capability. He can't take much sensory input. If there's a loud sudden noise by him, he screams worse than if he's hurt. He's learning new words every day though. He claps and says "clap" or "yea". He says Hannah, Mommy, Dadda, Nana, tickle, go, open, baby, Kyle, no, nap, nite-nite, hello ("ello"), etc. Cutest things so far is when he moves his fingers on you and says "tickle, tickle, tickle" and when he picks up a phone (real or fake), holds it up to his ear and says "ello".
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