ENT

So, I took Jackson to a Pediatric ENT because I've been concerned about his snoring and sleep apnea. I brought up my concerns of his snoring with his Pediatrician at his one year appt, May '09, but she said that an ENT wouldn't do anything for him until he was two. Since the fall I've been more observant of his snoring to see if he's actually having sleep apnea too. I was able to get a great video of snoring and sleep apnea so I decided to make a ENT appt now instead of waiting until he was two.

At the appt the ENT put a camera down his nose (after a numbing spray, although I don't think it helped much) and we found out his adenoids block his airway almost 100%. Wow, so it looks like he will have surgery at the end of March to remove them. I also brought up my concerns with the ENT that he really isn't speaking very much at all, only a handful of words. So the plan right now it to put tubes in too. Although, after speaking with a few Pedi's that I work with they've encouraged me to have his hearing tested first. So I will plan on doing that too. I've also made an ECI referral for him too for further testing.

Valentino

Emma's pet fish, Nicodemus, died a few weeks ago. When I told Emma that he died, she ran off into her room and cried. It took her a while to calm down she was so upset. She didn't want to join us in the "burial". She got over it pretty quick, especially when we told her we would get her another fish.

Well, I would like to introduce our new addition to the family, Valentino. Needless to say, he was a Valentine's present to Emma, hence the name. Isn't he beautiful? I've never seen an orange Betta.

Hopefully his life will be longer.

Symphony

I don't know if I mentioned it before, but we are planning on homeschooling Emma. I've been involved in the local homeschool group for the last two years just to see what it's all about and to get support from other families that are homeschooling. Anyways, the homeschooling group arranges field trips. We have done several of them, at least the age appropriate ones. It's a lot of fun and I enjoy doing them with her. Here we are at the symphony.

Dentist

I took both the kids to the dentist today. Emma did great! She brought her dentist book along with us. Speaking of the dentist book, you would think that a book designed for kids about going to the dentist they would have left out the picture about the shot with a huge needle on it. Just sayin'. Anyways, Jackson wasn't so hip on having the dentist check out his teeth. Both kids checked out! No cavities! Yay for us!