Good Times!

We are all off to a great start for the weekend! Yesterday Will and I went to the Dome in Marquette so I could get my excercising in. I walked for about four miles while William napped in his stroller. Then we borrowed a ball and went out onto the football field and messed around. He loved the turf and kept trying to pick at it. Oh, and he has a new word to add to his vocabulary...ball!

We also had to stop by the mall so I could return some things. We didn't end up getting fancy for New Years Eve afterall so I couldn't justify keeping that little red satin number. Will liked playing in all of the cars that you can ride there. They are .75 cents each, he doesn't need to know that they are supposed to move right?! I am good with letting him think they are just there to sit in and get your picture taken!

Then,last night Matts friend Jay and his son Vinny came over for a play date and dinner. Vinny is only about 6 weeks younger than Will so it is nice to get them together. Matt made some yummy pasta and Jay brought garlic bread. It was a very nice dinner!

Vinny and Will had fun playing together in the playroom. Turns out, Vinny is quite the drummer! He also likes to give hugs while saying, "Awwwww". It is so cute!

It was a very good day yesterday and I am looking forward to a very good weekend. Especially tonight since I am meeting some girlfriends for some drinks. Yeah!!

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This is how we do...

walks that is. We must make quite a sight going through town this way, but what is a Mom to do. When you live here yes,

that's the sidewalk, and you a winter lover for a dog like this, then you do what you have to do. Right?! Anyway, Will and Myshka (our dog at the right) love it. Apparently I do to by the way, I am done 3.2 pounds! Woohoo!!! I have FINALLY broken my plateau. I am so excited by that and it makes me more motivated to keep it up. I have been using http://www.sparkpeople.com/ to track my food intake and my excercise. I think that it really helps.

So far Wills new medicine seems to be working. No more throwing up since Monday!! That makes me immensley excited. We are still trying to get rid of the granulation tissue that is around his g-tube right now. Last night was his third silver nitrate treatment. I feel so bad doing that to him. I know it hurts. The granulation hasn't gotten bigger since doing that, but I don't think it has gotten smaller either. Hmmmm

It is a nice beautiful sunny snowy day out, so I think we are about to embark on another walk as pictured above. Try not to be jealous!! :)

Last Week in Pictures

This is how you make a trip downstate to multiple doctor appointments fun and exciting! Hey, if you have to travel so far and so often with a 17 month old, you might as well make the most of it...

And we are back...

After a long week of travel last week, we are back home. It always takes me a few days to get back into the routine of being back home.
Will did awesome at his doctors appointments. He had them Tuesday and Wednesday. We switched around some medicines and I am crossing my fingers that they will work better. He has been throwing up a LOT lately. We are giving him through this next weekend to see if these will help before we try something else.
We got to spend sometime with my sisters while downstate as well. Jill's apartment is really nice. Jenn and Isabella (my niece) came to visit us there as well. It is so great to be able to see them regularly even though I live about 8 hours from them both. That is one good thing about having to make regular trips downstate for Williams doctors appointments.
Matt's Mom wasn't able to come back up with me this time. Lindsay (Matts sister) will bring her up on the 29th for a visit. I am looking forward to having her for sure! Like I have said before, she is a great Mother in law.
I will update with some pictures tomorrow of our trip. Will rode on two different carousels. He loved them, well until we had to get off that is. Have a great day everyone!

He WALKED!

We were at Walmart today waiting for Will to get his first big boy haircut, my batteries died so no pictures :( , but Will let go of my hand, stood there for a few seconds and then walked to Matt and I. It was so freaking exciting. He also did great with his first haircut. Ever since then Matt has been trying to get him to do it more. Will won't hold Matts hand anymore since he knows he will try to 'trick' him into walking some more. It was such a relief to know that he can walk afterall.

As promised, here are some pictures of what I did around the house last week. The first picture is of a coffee table that I had gotten at Goodwill for $9.00. It was stained, but it was chipped and had stains on it. I liked the shape of it though so I bought it and painted it bright white. I really am happy with how it turned out. It helps brighten up that area. This second picture is in the same room as the above coffee table. It is behind the papsan chair you can just barely see in the picture above. I found some shelves in the shed that I had bought at Goodwill awhile ago. I painted them the same white as the coffee table and with some picture frames from around the house, made a photo wall. It doesn't look crooked in real life like it does in the picture for some reason.

We also put up shelving in the bathroom for towels and other bathroom stuff. I will wait to picture that until we get the tile done and new doors in. We are waiting for our tax return to finish that room up. I also made some little chalkboards with chalkboard paint and some picture frames I had laying around. I put them on top of my kitchen cupboards.

So, all in all it was a busy week. Will and I are headed downstate in the morning, so I probably won't update much this week. Now I am off to see if Will will walk some more for us before bedtime!

New Years Eve!

We had a great New Years Eve party at our house last night. Our friends Kelly and Shawn came over. We had lots of yummy food and drinks and great conversation as usual! We played the game You Must be an Idiot that I had gotten at Borders when we were down state last. It was a lot of fun.

This morning we went out to breakfast with my Mom and John. Then they came over to pick up their dog Buddy who spent the night with us since they went to a hotel in town to celebrate New Years Eve.

Will and I are headed downstate again on Monday for appointments he has on Tuesday and Wednesday. His Tuesday appointment is with his ENT doctor to make sure everything is still going alright with his Sub-Glottic Stenosis. Then Wednesday's appointment is with the surgeon who put in Will's g-tube. Will is having a lot of granulation tissue build up around the g-tube site so they need to figure out what to do about that.

After all of his appointments, we are going to go see Jennifer (my sister) in Lansing and then on to Jills (my other sister) in Sterling Heights for a day or so. Then I am going to pick my wonderful Mother in law up and she is going to stay with us for a few weeks. I am so excited to have her! I have an awesome Mother in law and am so happy to have her come stay with us.

I think I am done revamping things around the house again. At least until we get out tax returns back. I will update tomorrow with pictures of what I have been up to the last couple of days.

Happy New Year everyone!!!