milo update....finally!

it's been so long since i last posted, I was supposed to tell everyone about the whole hospital stay but honestly there isn't too much to tell, like so many things with milo it was a mystery. he was vomiting repeatedly whenever he was on his j-tube feeds, when he wasn't on the feeds he was still not feeling too great but not vomiting, so at the hospital they stopped his feeds and put him on an iv for a couple of days and did a ton of tests, which all came back normal. when we started his feeds again he did better, so we went home.

everything is going great right now, milo has been feeling really good, i think this is the longest stretch of him being healthy and feeling well we have had in a long time, if ever (knock on wood). the only issue he has been having lately is teething, which is a nice, "normal" issue that all parents deal with! he is getting his upper molars, and he is not happy about it, his z-vibe helps a lot...

jesse recently got laid off from his job, which sucks. we have been doing a lot of job hunting for him...so cross your fingers that he finds something soon. although it has been nice having him home, and he has been really helpful, it would be nicer to have him working!

so that is what is new with us.....i will leave you with some new photos of mister m!

we are home!!

i will elaborate more later....but milo is doing great now. thank you everyone for your words of support!

hospital-land

milo has been admitted to children's hospital in dallas. he has been retching, dry heaving, and vomiting up stomach acid constantly since monday night, we went to the e.r. last night for the second time (we had gone very early tuesday morning but were sent home after five hours because they could not reach anyone from the gi department and they told us it was probably just a stomach virus). his poor little face is one big red puffy rash from the throwing up, and it definitely is not just a virus, he is only retching and vomiting when he is hooked up to his j-tube feed. they took a second x-ray last night (they had taken one in the am as well) and they are thinking that he is impacted. they are also doing a bunch of other tests and we are hoping to get to the bottom of what is wrong soon. i will keep everyone updated as much as i can, right now i have to get ready to head back to the hospital.

wordless thursday

rexy stealing a kiss from mister milo

i heart faces and kitties

this week at i heart faces they have a special "anything goes" pet category. this is my little sister's cat spanky, he is a manx cat and so, so, sooooo cute! hope you all like it!

a new look and a half birthday

i have revamped my blog...and finally made a banner with milo's adorable little face on it, which i have been meaning to do for a while. so much has been going on here lately. i keep meaning to sit down and write an actual post but never seem to get around to it. milo turned one and a half the other day, it has been a crazy year and a half too! so much has happened and i think i have probably aged about 10 years in that time, and i have the grey hair to prove it....but i am so in awe of milo, and so proud, and although i get really sad sometimes thinking about all he has gone through, and we as a family have gone through, i am so happy that he is my son...it's all so worth it, every last grey hair is worth it!

we had to make a tough decision recently regarding milo's issues with vomiting...we basically had to decide whether or not milo should get a nissan fundo, or a gj tube. both had their advantages and disadvantages...nissans don't work for every kid, from what i was told it seemed like a 50/50 chance, it was either going to work great, or cause even more problems. the gj tube meant that milo would have to be hooked up to a continuious feed for a majority of the day, no more bolus feedings. so after alot of internet searching and talking to different people about it we decided to start with the gj tube. it was a less intrusive option and if it doesn't work it's very easy to reverse, unlike the nissan....and if it doesn't work a nissan is always an option in the future.

he just had the procedure done yesterday and so far so good. he seems to be feeling better then i have seen him in quite a while. i can't imagine it was much fun for him vomiting several times a day, and when we did our practice feeding by mouth today he ate half a jar of gerber stage 2 mac and cheese which is the most he has eaten by mouth in a long time....since before the vomiting got out of control, so keep your fingers crossed that this does the trick and milo can start growing and thriving....milo has been a skinny baby for much too long, bring on the chubby baby cheeks!

under construction

i'm changing the look of the blog....and have temporarily lost my blog roll and some other things, but everything should be fixed soon!

i heart faces

this week at i heart faces it is the blurb book photo contest, and if your picture is chosen it will be in the blurb book....there is no theme per se, just pick you favorite picture. I really like the expressions that milo and his daddy are making in this picture, they are both too cute!

I am submitting this photo into the www.iheartfaces.com Blurb Book photo contest. I am granting I ♥ Faces permission to use my photo in a printed version of a book for commercial use and possibly advertising of a photo book on both the Blurb and I ♥ Faces web sites.

Happy Mother's Day!

i heart faces

this is my first time entering a photo in an i heart faces contest....the theme this week is 'hats', and i had the perfect picture for it so i thought, why not.....i love this picture of milo, he is such a little goofball!