Another last year Photos of my kids

************ Again it was uploaded and forgot to post ***************
Cardiology visit: October 26, 2009
Gerald had his visit with the cardiologist last Thursday.

Gerald Jay playing with the chair.

After the crying and playing they were out like a light.

My happy baby

One day in the cold October .

Pumpkin that Gerald picked from school.

my crying bumble bee

 

He doesn't like his suit that covers his ears ;(

the pumpkin that I curved 

He still enjoying that toy :)He was too big for him now.

My family

the donut boy :)

 

kathlyn

Kathlyn just had her breakfast...at school

happy baby

boys will be boys

Doctors visit!

Botanical Garden

the family

my kids

we are  again

Gerald

uh tired!

facination over the water fountain

Entrance

kathlyn was wearing her brothers baby clothes

another

looking at the mirror

me and my kids

daughter's facination

These pictures taken last year December 2009, and I uploaded and forgot to post. So, now I got a chance to go through all my unedited post and it is now up and for everyone of see. Happy viewing to photos to all! Have  a great one!

Gerald will have a minor surgery

I know it has been a while since I posted about our every day adventure and it will be shocking to all to know the Gerald is having a minor chest surgery tomorrow. Yes! tomorrow. This surgery was not related to his heart condition. It was the wound site that was infected with MRSA. We were hoping that the infection will just cured it by itself since Gerald had the two six weeks doses of vancomycin and two three weeks doses of bacte--- some thing. Anyway, every time the wound heal in three or four weeks I seems to come back and erupt. We have been to the plastic surgeons and this is her opinion that the infection might be attached to the wiring in his sternum. So, tomorrow they are going to fix that and hopefully this problem will be solved. Rather than the chest wound infection that keeps coming back Gerald is doing great everyday.

First Time Sledding

They said it was fun playing in the snow, and it is a great experience to sled.

Well, I tell you that it was not fun for me and my little boy.

This is what happened. I didn't even make it to the bottom of the sleeky snow ..ugh! Plus my boy scared to death! I need to practice and get a better sled.

I couldn't get up! My little screamed from the top of his lungs.

I felt so sorry for him.... I thought he and I are going to have a wonderful experience sledding, but I was wrong.

here he was...still crying. Oh sorry baby G!

Walking towards Daddy and Kathlyn..subbing

my little Kathlyn first time seeing the snow...

it was cold...

she was kinda heavy

I was gonna go down the slope , but I was afraid I cannot come back up.

Frozen lake

here I am was chicken out hehehehe.

Anyway, it was a one day trip to Northern, Arizona and we had fun. Also, Gerald did real well up there. His saturation was in the high 70's and low 80's and he didn't even turn blue at all. He loves playing in the snow.  This was our first trip to higher altitude since Gerald had the fontan surgery and he was great!

Happy New Year To All!

Happy New Year to all! More Blessing to come to all and God Bless!

Christmas Day

***** A Christmas greeting to ALL ! *****

I would like to greet everyone a Merry 2x Christmas! I was blessed to received tons of Christmas cards from around the world. Thank You , Thank You very much to all my friends, you guys are very thoughtful! It was such a nice feeling knowing that I have tons of friends that thinking about me and my family this holiday season! Merry Christmas!

***** The Day Before Christmas *****

We were kinda tired the day before Christmas since my little daughter had slight fever overnight. I normally cook food for Nouche Buena but ate it before 12 midnight ( in my country we open gifts at 12 midnight and eat dinner at the same time) that is our tradition that I followed. But this year we had a slightly different arrangement. I had no plan of cooking Christmas dinner this because my husband went to work, and he was gonna take me to a restaurant to do our own family tradition. However, this plan changed. So, I prepared some quick Christmas Lunch/Dinner on Christmas eve within 70 minutes including arranging my table to a nice and presentable Christmas theme. I don't know how I did that, but I have pictures to proved it!

Here we are... Merry Christmas!

The next day we went to mom's house as part of my husband's family tradition. Here is the picture of my kids with their cousin Austin.

Kathlyn was checking out her stocking that full of baby goodies.

She also received few dolls this year from Santa and her cousin Austin. Thank you very much!

Gerald got a new play-dough. I was surprised when he touch the dough with his bare hands. That is a big improvement from the past. Before he wouldn't even come near by the play dough.

Gerald got a new flat screen TV... a huge one :)

 

... and a new game. He love it! I got it one sale the day before Christmas :)

I love sales!

Playing after opening gifts. KC just following what big brother was doing... making a mess!

thats what kids are for... to enjoy being a kid!

yup she was having fun as well...

One week before Christmas

One more week before Christmas and I haven’t done any wrapping or even shopping yet. I only bought stuff for my two little angels and that’s about it. I think Christmas for me now is not as exciting, and I don’t know why I feel that way.

Anyway, I just put up some of my Christmas decors and the Christmas tree just up this evening. While I was in the process of decorating my tree…my two angels were taking all my tree ornaments. Even my eight month old helped her brother grabbing all my tree ornaments. I put my tree on the top of our grand piano just to make it sure that no one can reach it J. The down side of having a tree on the top of the piano is that I cannot get higher than 3 feet. So, my tree is just half of size than it was used to be.

Another thing that happened is that my hubby got me a supposed to be a Christmas presents, but it did make it to Christmas day. I opened it last night, and I enjoyed it the whole of taking lots of pictures of my darling kids. Yes, he got me a nice camera. It was kinda pricey in my book, but he likes me to have a quality one. He always like to buy a quality product because it last longer which I agree 100%.

Also today I picked Gerald Jay from school. It was his last day at school and took some of his pictures while he was in the classroom. But, I did get a nice pose from him. He was kinda sleepy according to GJ’s therapist and his teacher, and they were right because we went to bed very late last night.

Autism Issue:
I mentioned this issue with Gerald’s other therapist just to gather some ideas of what they think about Gerald’s current behavior and progress. In my previous post I mention that one of the therapist expressed his concerns about Gerald’s behavior that he might have autism because he was not progressing in his speech therapy but instead he was withdrawing ( hmm I can’t get this issue straight). Anyway, different therapist have different opinion and the other therapist was surprised when I told her about the autism issue. She sad she never thought about autism since GJ was very social and he said he have some odd thing that he does repetitively, but autism was not hit in her mind. But she will recommend GJ to a genesist (I can’t get that spelling right) the doctor might have another opinion about it.

For me it’s not a big deal, I mean he is my kid no matter what I still love him. His gone through so much in his life that every moment now is a blessing for him and family. Dad on the other hand is a worrier, and he has the right to be.

Merry Merry Christmas to all!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

What??? Autistic???

What??? Autistic??? I hope not! That was my first reaction when my husband told me that Gerald's speech therapist mentioned that he might have autism. I hope they did just come up something like that word because he is not formally talking yet. He had gone through a lot this year, and he is not out of it yet (MRSA need to deal with). Gerald Jay has this weird thing that he always do like staring up on the selling or moving his pupil towards the corner of his eyes, and his therapist thought that he might have the signs of autism. I can see that he has another appointment to look forward too grrrr. My husband has been troubled by that thought since he came back home from Gerald's therapy session today. So, I searched some information about autism online. I found some websites  that are very informative and read the sign and symptoms of early autism  just to comfort him.


Possible Indicators of Autism Spectrum Disorders ( About.com: Autism)

• Does not babble, point, or make meaningful gestures by 1 year of age  ( GJ does meaningful gestures all the time)
• Does not speak one word by 16 months ( he had a higher social skill by six months)
  
• Does not combine two words by 2 years ( he doesn't do this often I agree but he copy what ever we say to him.)
  
• Does not respond to name ( This is my biggest concern because he does not respond when you call his name. Although, he knows that we are calling him ;( )
  
• Loses language or social skills ( he lose some language skills due to his heart surgery last Feb., but he has the best social skills [ at least that is what we saw from him])
  
• Poor eye contact ( he can stare at you actually)
• Doesn't seem to know how to play with toys ( He knows how to play toys and even figure out what to do with it or how it works)
  
• Excessively lines up toys or other objects ( he does line toys up like a train.  That is also the reason why I bought him the train and train tracks)
  
• Is attached to one particular toy or object ( No, he his not focusing on one particular toy, but he have favorites one. I think all kids do.)
  
• Doesn't smile ( He score higher point on this. As you can see his pictures)
  
• At times seems to be hearing impaired ( he can hear me when I yell )

I also look at the sign and symptoms of  Asperger Syndrome , and seems he only have couple signs that almost match. I
I don't think that he is autistic though, but whatever they recommend to get this issue strait  I will do it. It's just frustrating and sad.

Please give me your opinion or if you have a knowledge about autism. I will appreciate it! Thanks