I am so far behind on this-it's not even funny! Yikes! Sorry Grayson fans-if there are any. It's been hanging over my head that I need to update this and have new pictures posted! Ugh. Who would have thought that having an 11-month old would take up so much of one's time!?!?
Anywoo-things are going great--he actually started walking the other day! We can't believe how big he is. Time sure flies! He will be going in for surgery tomorrow at Children's Mercy to have his cyst removed. Of course Rob and I are crazy messes-but it's a simple surgery. Should only take 15 minutes to an hour tops. And then he will need to stay a little longer for observation. We go in at 11:30 and his surgery is scheduled for around 1 or so.
Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow-and I promise to update with pictures super soon!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Finally!
**I wrote this post last week--I have just been waiting for Blogger to be up and running to allow me to upload the photos--so some of it is a little old**
Finally here are some pictures of our little guy! Whew! It's been awhile-so I won't be writing all that much about the pictures. Halloween was quite awhile ago-so no need to go into that again. This bath time was also awhile ago-and then he saw Santa just last weekend. But you all will be able to decipher between them all. And there are also some photos of Gray's first Thanksgiving. He LOVED all of the food-just like his momma!
Grayson's Mimi came in town last week and his Great Aunt Carole came in town as well. They took him to the dr. on Friday for his 9 month check-up. It's a little over due since the original date that we had scheduled Gray was sick. This past week he got thrush from the antibiotics from his ear infection. This poor kid can never catch a break! He checked out just fine at his appointment-just a little bit underweight. They aren't too concerned about it yet-we'll just see what happens at his next appointment. I swear this kid eats ALL the time-and he's holding steady at 19 pounds.
We are finally moved-and it finally is starting to feel like it's our house. We went yesterday and bought a TV-it had been over 10 days since we had TV-which is pathetic-we were so excited to get it. What did people do before TV? We also have ordered furniture from some different stores-and it will all be delivered in the next few weeks. Sara came over today and we all decorated the house for Christmas while Gray was taking a nap. There wasn't that much to decorate since we don't really have any tables or anything-so it went pretty fast.
Another change that's happening is that I'm starting a new job on December 17. I'll be working for a local domestic violence shelter at the local SRS office. I'll be doing some safety planning and some teaching and outreach in regards to dv. I'm excited about the new change-but scared all at the same time. I have been at my current position for over 2 1/2 years. Making a huge change is always scary and exciting at the same time.
I think that's about it that's been going on with the Swindle family. Lots of changes coming about-but so far so good. Hope all is well with all of you-and you're enjoying your holidays!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Still on Hold...
Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still on hold for the pictures. I finally got my computer back today-and they were able to save everything! Yahoo! But now the key board isn't working-so I can't really update the blog with pictures.
Plus-we are moving next week into our new house-which we are both really stoked about-but packing boxes is becoming really annoying. We have movers coming on Wednesday (day before Turkey Day) to move the furniture-and then Rob got a moving truck for Friday-and we are going to move all of the boxes. So since I'm anal-I'm missing the KU/MU game at Arrowhead on Saturday so that I can unpack boxes while Rob enjoys it with all his friends. I can't wait to get all moved in-get back into a normal routine-and go from there. I'll post pictures as soon as I can.
Gray turned 9 months this past Monday. Time has seriously flown by. He is the sweetest kid in the entire world. He is babbling and has about 3 1/2 teeth now--3 on the bottom-and 1 on the top which is just starting to poke through. This past week he was really pretty sick. Temp was up to almost 104. The dr. said that he had the start of an ear infection-which bless his heart-his temp had never gone up that high. So after about 3 days of a temp over 101-he was able to go back to Missy's on Thursday. We switched him to his big boy carseat this weekend. We'll see how much he likes it. I guess he'll just have to stare at the back of the seat until he can face forward.
Have I already talked about Halloween? I don't think I have-but if I have-I apologize. Gray was a monkey. He was super cute. We went to Doug and Michele's and did a combined my birthday dinner and Halloween. In their neighborhood, everyone sets up shop on their driveways and hands out candy from there. So Doug had the set-up with outdoor heaters, adult beverages and S'Mores! Gray had a great time trick or treating with Lucy and Livy.
I still want to post some pics from our Napa trip back in September-and of course all the pics of Gray.
Ok-enough procrastinating. I need to continue to pack boxes. Everyone have a fabulous Turkey Day!
Plus-we are moving next week into our new house-which we are both really stoked about-but packing boxes is becoming really annoying. We have movers coming on Wednesday (day before Turkey Day) to move the furniture-and then Rob got a moving truck for Friday-and we are going to move all of the boxes. So since I'm anal-I'm missing the KU/MU game at Arrowhead on Saturday so that I can unpack boxes while Rob enjoys it with all his friends. I can't wait to get all moved in-get back into a normal routine-and go from there. I'll post pictures as soon as I can.
Gray turned 9 months this past Monday. Time has seriously flown by. He is the sweetest kid in the entire world. He is babbling and has about 3 1/2 teeth now--3 on the bottom-and 1 on the top which is just starting to poke through. This past week he was really pretty sick. Temp was up to almost 104. The dr. said that he had the start of an ear infection-which bless his heart-his temp had never gone up that high. So after about 3 days of a temp over 101-he was able to go back to Missy's on Thursday. We switched him to his big boy carseat this weekend. We'll see how much he likes it. I guess he'll just have to stare at the back of the seat until he can face forward.
Have I already talked about Halloween? I don't think I have-but if I have-I apologize. Gray was a monkey. He was super cute. We went to Doug and Michele's and did a combined my birthday dinner and Halloween. In their neighborhood, everyone sets up shop on their driveways and hands out candy from there. So Doug had the set-up with outdoor heaters, adult beverages and S'Mores! Gray had a great time trick or treating with Lucy and Livy.
I still want to post some pics from our Napa trip back in September-and of course all the pics of Gray.
Ok-enough procrastinating. I need to continue to pack boxes. Everyone have a fabulous Turkey Day!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Sorry for the Delay....
...but my computer is fried. I'm hoping that I can get all of my pictures off of there that I have downloaded. I haven't copied and saved them to a flash drive for over year...Oops. So this is everyone's reminder--copy your items on a regular basis! Once it gets back up and running I'll be able to post photos and funny stories about our favorite little man.
Enjoy your Wednesday!
Enjoy your Wednesday!
Monday, October 19, 2009
CT Results
Sorry I wanted until Monday to post about Friday-but we were exhausted.
So Thursday night-Gray could only have formula until 4 AM and then clear liquids from 4 AM-8 AM on Friday morning. I woke up with a fever around 2:00 AM-and then Rob woke Gray up around 3:15 AM to give him a bottle. We were hoping that he would fall right back to sleep after the bottle-and that sure didn't happen. Since I was already up-not feeling well-I brought Gray into the family room around 4 AM to play and watch cartoons-thinking that might work. Uhh...no. Around 5:30 AM he started rubbing his eyes-so we slept for about 30 mins. Not being able to eat didn't seem to really bother him-which was a good thing. So we were up from about 2 AM-3:30 PM. We were exhausted!
We left for Children's Mercy around 9:15 for his 10:00 appointment. Right when we walked into CMH-my eyes started to fill up with tears. It is a fantastic hospital-but just being there made me nervous. We went to the radiology department where Gray got his hospital bracelet on his little ankle-and we waited. They called us back right at 10. We had Nurse Bobbi-who was fabulous. We went into the sedation room-where there were 3 beds and that was about it. Bobbi was able to explain how Gray was going to be getting 3 different meds-and how the scan was going to go, etc. He wouldn't have needed to be put under if he didn't need to have dye ran through an IV-but he did-so he had to be a big boy. All the nurses came by and held him and played with him talking about how cute he was, etc.
So it was IV time-and I of course-had to stand outside. There were 3 nurses and Rob holding onto Gray to put the IV in his little baby foot. I was balling outside-and another nurse walked by and said "I bet your baby is getting an IV"-ok-so good-I wasn't the first mom to make a fool of herself. I could hear Gray screaming behind the door-and I didn't know where to go. If I walked 2 feet one way-I would walk into the ER Dept-and I for sure didn't want to see what was in there-and then 2 feet the other way-another baby was screaming her head off-so I locked myself in the bathroom for about 10 mins-and then was told they were done. I went in and snuggled my baby. And then it was go time.
Nurse Bobbi showed us where the CT Scan was going to take place-and she had his binkie and blankie with her and promised she would stay with him the entire time. The scan only took about 3 mins-but then we had to wait an hour for him to wake up. So Rob and I waited in the waiting room-talking with other parents. Around 12:15-Rob called the nurses to check on our guy. They came and got us-and we went back into the sedation room. And there was Gray-laying on his side-sound asleep. And then he all of a sudden woke up-and was super happy! Nurse Bobbi gave him some diluted apple juice-which of course he thought was fabulous. Bobbi said that he would be groggy all day and want to sleep ALL day and night-so we were really excited about taking a LONG nap when we got home. Right when we were getting ready to leave-Gray started talking and laughing and squirming around. He was acting like he was drunk-and we think he was having the total opposite reaction then what he was supposed to!
We went to Children's Mercy South to meet with Dr. Jiang-and the entire way Gray was laughing, singing, definitely NOT sleeping. We checked in-and the nurses even said that he was acting totally opposite of what other kids do after sedation. Our kids special! So here comes Dr. Jiang-and he pulls up Gray's scan. And the results are...it's a normal cyst!! Yahoo!! So that means a normal surgery-since it's not inter-cranial! Yay!!! Rob and I were so overwhelmed with joy-we didn't know what to say! But the pictures were pretty cute-you could see his binkie in his mouth-and all of his teeth that will eventually come in.
We are scheduled for surgery on February 4, 2010. We don't know if we will have to stay over night or not-it just depends on how he does with the sedation. And as Dr. Jiang said-it seems as if he handled the sedation just fine--so hopefully we'll get to come home.
Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers for our little guy. It was rough on Rob and I-but we realize that this probably won't be the last time that we will be worried about Gray-and we know it won't get easier-but we can handle it.
So Thursday night-Gray could only have formula until 4 AM and then clear liquids from 4 AM-8 AM on Friday morning. I woke up with a fever around 2:00 AM-and then Rob woke Gray up around 3:15 AM to give him a bottle. We were hoping that he would fall right back to sleep after the bottle-and that sure didn't happen. Since I was already up-not feeling well-I brought Gray into the family room around 4 AM to play and watch cartoons-thinking that might work. Uhh...no. Around 5:30 AM he started rubbing his eyes-so we slept for about 30 mins. Not being able to eat didn't seem to really bother him-which was a good thing. So we were up from about 2 AM-3:30 PM. We were exhausted!
We left for Children's Mercy around 9:15 for his 10:00 appointment. Right when we walked into CMH-my eyes started to fill up with tears. It is a fantastic hospital-but just being there made me nervous. We went to the radiology department where Gray got his hospital bracelet on his little ankle-and we waited. They called us back right at 10. We had Nurse Bobbi-who was fabulous. We went into the sedation room-where there were 3 beds and that was about it. Bobbi was able to explain how Gray was going to be getting 3 different meds-and how the scan was going to go, etc. He wouldn't have needed to be put under if he didn't need to have dye ran through an IV-but he did-so he had to be a big boy. All the nurses came by and held him and played with him talking about how cute he was, etc.
So it was IV time-and I of course-had to stand outside. There were 3 nurses and Rob holding onto Gray to put the IV in his little baby foot. I was balling outside-and another nurse walked by and said "I bet your baby is getting an IV"-ok-so good-I wasn't the first mom to make a fool of herself. I could hear Gray screaming behind the door-and I didn't know where to go. If I walked 2 feet one way-I would walk into the ER Dept-and I for sure didn't want to see what was in there-and then 2 feet the other way-another baby was screaming her head off-so I locked myself in the bathroom for about 10 mins-and then was told they were done. I went in and snuggled my baby. And then it was go time.
Nurse Bobbi showed us where the CT Scan was going to take place-and she had his binkie and blankie with her and promised she would stay with him the entire time. The scan only took about 3 mins-but then we had to wait an hour for him to wake up. So Rob and I waited in the waiting room-talking with other parents. Around 12:15-Rob called the nurses to check on our guy. They came and got us-and we went back into the sedation room. And there was Gray-laying on his side-sound asleep. And then he all of a sudden woke up-and was super happy! Nurse Bobbi gave him some diluted apple juice-which of course he thought was fabulous. Bobbi said that he would be groggy all day and want to sleep ALL day and night-so we were really excited about taking a LONG nap when we got home. Right when we were getting ready to leave-Gray started talking and laughing and squirming around. He was acting like he was drunk-and we think he was having the total opposite reaction then what he was supposed to!
We went to Children's Mercy South to meet with Dr. Jiang-and the entire way Gray was laughing, singing, definitely NOT sleeping. We checked in-and the nurses even said that he was acting totally opposite of what other kids do after sedation. Our kids special! So here comes Dr. Jiang-and he pulls up Gray's scan. And the results are...it's a normal cyst!! Yahoo!! So that means a normal surgery-since it's not inter-cranial! Yay!!! Rob and I were so overwhelmed with joy-we didn't know what to say! But the pictures were pretty cute-you could see his binkie in his mouth-and all of his teeth that will eventually come in.
We are scheduled for surgery on February 4, 2010. We don't know if we will have to stay over night or not-it just depends on how he does with the sedation. And as Dr. Jiang said-it seems as if he handled the sedation just fine--so hopefully we'll get to come home.
Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers for our little guy. It was rough on Rob and I-but we realize that this probably won't be the last time that we will be worried about Gray-and we know it won't get easier-but we can handle it.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Dermoid Cyst
Rob and I took Grayson to a plastic surgeon at Children's Mercy last Thursday to have the bump on his face looked at. Dr. Jiang confirmed that it is a dermoid cyst-and will need to have a CT Scan done to find out anymore information.
We are going this Friday for the scan-and then will find out the results that afternoon. They are checking to see if the cyst has grown into the brain-which we hope that it hasn't-because that means we have an entire different situation on our hands which would include a neurosurgeon.
But if it hasn't grown into the brain-it will be a simple 45 minute procedure that will leave him with a black eye for a bit-but he's a tough guy-he can handle it.
So hopefully all goes well on Friday--momma is preparing herself for having Grayson be put under and have an IV put in him-this is the part of parenting that we aren't too excited about. I'll post when I know more!
We are going this Friday for the scan-and then will find out the results that afternoon. They are checking to see if the cyst has grown into the brain-which we hope that it hasn't-because that means we have an entire different situation on our hands which would include a neurosurgeon.
But if it hasn't grown into the brain-it will be a simple 45 minute procedure that will leave him with a black eye for a bit-but he's a tough guy-he can handle it.
So hopefully all goes well on Friday--momma is preparing herself for having Grayson be put under and have an IV put in him-this is the part of parenting that we aren't too excited about. I'll post when I know more!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
A few more firsts
Once again it's been quite awhile since I've written anything-imagine that. So here's some new photos of the little guy from the past few weeks...
Grayson had his first trip to the zoo a few weeks ago when the weather was fabulous. Let's just say-he was more interested in what was going on on the ground then what the animals were doing.
All set and ready to go in and see the animals
Daddy and Gray at the zoo 
This is what happens when you spend the whole day with the animals...
Gray also went to his first KU game a few weeks ago. He enjoyed himself--now momma on the other hand-was a little bit hot. Wearing an extra 19 pounds isn't the most coolest thing in the world. But Grayson had a wonderful time watching all of the people, the players, the tailgates, etc.
Daddy and Grayson with Campanile in the back
Family KU pic-this was supposed to be a Christmas card picture-but as you can see-we weren't looking anywhere in the same direction-not to mention that I look like a dill weed
One day when Rob was upstairs cleaning the room-he put Gray on the bed with Tubs-and decided to take some pictures
Rob and I are finally heading to Napa on Tuesday. It's been a trip in the making since October 27, 2007. We are going to celebrate our 2 year anniversary, my first Mother's Day, and whatever else we want to celebrate. It will be the first time that we will be leaving Gray for
more than a night-so I'm hoping that I'm going to be ok-but I'm sure there'll be a few tears (on my part)-but Mimi and Papa LeRoy came in town to watch him until Friday-and then Mom and Joe will take him for the weekend portion of our trip. I'll post pictures when we get back. Have a fantastic week!
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