School and Zoo Adventure

     I had a crazy schedule for the month of June. I was taking the COM 270 at Mesa Community College which was quite a distance from where I live. I was taking the bus and train to save some money for gas, but it doesn't save me time at all. It took me total of four hours in one day to commute. Sometimes, my husband take me to school in order to save time, that was very nice of him. When I get home I have to study for my daily test :( spending less time for my two precious kids. The good thing is it is not as bad as regular semester. Summer class is just four weeks, and I finished it with an "A" grade. Thank God! A little sacrifice was paid off!

Taken 6-30-2011 the day of our finals.
Sabrina, Nelda, Sarah, and Amy

     Anyway, we took my kids to the zoo today. There is an advantage if you are a zoo member because you can get in an hour early as early as 6 am. So, thats what we did today. I woke up the kids at early morning and headed to the zoo. Not so many people at this early hour and even some of the animal were still asleep! But anyway, my kids had fun.

playing in water fountain at the Zoo

HopeKids event: Birthday Bash at Pump it UP!

My kids had a great time... thank you very much HopeKids of Phoenix

All switched to day feeding

We been working on Gerald's  feeding schedule for the past 3 weeks now. I am proud to say that we are successfully switched him from a night drip to day feeding now.  He needs 1200cc calories per day of pediasure,but we add 500 cc of water to make up the difference to upto 1700cc per day. He gets so dry during the summer if he doesn't get enough fluids. Anyways, we have no throwing -up episode at all on his day feedings and no problem at all. He is now in the normal feeding schedule like the rest of us. It nice to switched because we do not have to wake up early in the morning to turn-off the beeping feeding pump or to clean up the floor because of the feeding bag broke, none of that now. His last feeding is at 8pm and that's it! This way we can completely potty train him during the night.

We still have working on the oral feeding though. We have come to the point that he can taste every food that we ate now. I just need to teach him how to chew and swallow solid food. At this time a feeding therapist comes in handy if we have one. I hope the services that he is on provide an hour feeding session per week, but they don't! I even offered to the his case manager that I would give up two of his services in replace for a feeding therapist because that is what he really need at this time. Still, they won't do that! What a big frustration!

First Movie: Kung Fu Panda 2

Kung Fu Panda 2 was an awesome movie!

As I mention in my previous post... today was our first time to watch a movie in the theater after five years. It wouldn't be happening without the HopeKids of Phoenix.  So I would like thank Hope for their program and generosity.

Anyways, when we got to the theater door 7 ( I just writing the door number just for the record for my kids to remember someday) it was showing the sneak peek for Happy Feet 2. Of course my kids were excited since they have been watching the first movie of Happy Feet so they already know it. Okay, so they were so calm. When the movie started Gerald was really interested and sat for about fifteen minutes. While my daughter was fascinated about the colorful and big screen :D. Anyway, a little while later GJ started saying, "pooppyyyy" so I took him to the restroom. That is his one way of saying I wanna go out or do something else. But he did use the toilet though. On the way back to the movie room, I got them a kids combo snacks. Some of the popcorn dropped on the floor and GJ started picking them us. I told him that it was dirty already, but he still want those popcorn and when he waved his hands upward something happened to his left eye and he scratched it ( until now it still painful). Probably salt or something got into his eye.

So , we went back in the movie room and he was doing alright. Kathlyn (2 years old) on the other hand was enjoying the movie (thumbs up for her). While GJ started being fussy again, so I took him to the lobby and we stayed there for 40 minutes and I got to chat with other hope moms. Gerald was happy running back in forth in the hallway.

Anyway, I saw part of it, but I can tell you that this movie was a good one! I should let Gj watch the first movie and introduce him  to panda before we watch it. Well, that was a good start though. Cars 2 he might do well on that because he already watched the first DVD gazillion times. If it wasn't to our Nurse Gigi who gave him that movie I wouldn't know that there is a movie like that :-). Thanks to Nurse Gigi for that!

Thanks a lot to HopeKids again for another great adventure! More power!

Harkins Theater in Arizona Mills, Tempe

Cinema: For the first time in Five YEARS

Today, we are going to watch a movie in the theater courtesy by Hopekids. Gushhh it has been awhile since my husband and I watched a movie together. I told him yesterday that we missed a lot of movies and we don't even know where the entrance and exit of the theater hahahaha. Anyway, my heart boy is five years old now and he likes to watch some movies on DVDs, so today we are taking both of my kids to a movie theater. I just don't know how my boy will react since this is gonna be his first time to be in the movie theater. I know my daughter will do well, since she is a trill seeker! We are going to watch Kung Fu Panda 2.

Thanks to HopeKids for the great opportunity to take my kids to the movie.

5th Birthday

We just got done celebrating GJ's 5th birthday day. He had a lot of fun and enjoyed his thomas and friends cake! Happy happy birthday to my precious boy!

 He is now officially a 5 years old boy!

Happy Birthday my only boy!

 I made his shirt's applique since he likes train

 And of-course a Thomas and Friends cake

 Playing with his cousin

 With Dad

 ...and with grandma

 he was taking a peek of what is inside the gift bag

 he loved it!

 this is picture was actually before we started and didn't have much photos :(

 Kathlyn was saying " oh so cute! look at me..."

 It look nice on your fingers sweetie!

 my lovely daughter interacting with granny, aunt su, and cousin Austin

 can't bet dad's funny looking smile!

 my daughter and her cousin...

Anyway, we had a lot of fun on his birthday!

Wedding Anniversary

Today we are celebrating our seventh wedding anniversary... Happy Anniversary to my beloved husband!

Last day of being 4 years old

Time flies when you are having fun as what they say. Yup! It is true. My little boy will be turning 5 pretty soon!  Soon as in half an hour. Anyway here is a glimpse of his day today.

I hope he wont be a nudest anymore. And I am hoping that he can put his pants right when he turn five and wont be lazy put his brief on.

Anyway, I order a Thomas and Friends cake for him since he likes Thomas the tank engine. I also ordered pizza. We will only have a small pizza party for him and I know he will be happy to see his cake. I can't wait to see his reactions tomorrow!
Advance happy birthday to my little prince!

HopeKids event: Jumpstreet

We had a great time at the Jumpstreet indoor trampoline park courtesy by Hopekids. When I signed for this event I didn't even know if my kids will love it since Gerald Jay is a little bit cautious on everything and I thought that he would not enjoy it. But I said, I would like to try.

Well, here it is...they are having a lot of fun jumping! At first GJ will not stand on the trampoline but when he figured out that it was fun to bounce ... he never stop bouncing for almost two hours. When we got home they were so tired that they fell asleep quickly.
Again, I would like to thank the HOPEKIDS program for the great opportunity to try new adventure for my kids that I would never ever think that we would do for our selves. Thank you very much Hopekids!

Preschool GraduationT

Today is Gj's preschool graduation. He will be five years old soon, and he is going to full kindergarten next school year. His pre-school teacher Ms. Johnson said that Gj is ready for kinder. I am so thankful that GJ learned a lot from Ms. Johnson class. He loves his teacher and he knows their routine. I just can't believe that he is going to kinder now. Time flies so fast. Five years ago, I still remember what the doctor told me that " he is not gonna make it". I guess Gj proved them wrong. My fun and loving boy is growing so fast! I just can't believe it! Thanks be to God for saving him and for taking care of all of us!

Feeding Issues Again!

Greetings!

A couple weeks ago, I got an idea of how to wean Gerald jay off from the night drip. We normally feed him the whole night for about 80 cc an hour until 5 o'clock in the morning and then 6 am we give his medications.

We did this night feeding ever since, since he has severe acid reflex. But lately I notice that he hasn't been throwing up for quite sometimes, and he can drink his milk from a cup or a bottle ( thickened) about 7 to 8 ounces at a time. He's been doing that for quite sometimes also. So, I think his stomach been stretch enough to handle the big amount of milk.

So, I decided that to chance his feeding time. He needs 1700ml of fluid a day and 1200 Kcal. Everyday I prepared his milk in a big bottle that worth a whole day feeding and give him the rest of the milk that he didn't finish during the night through the feeding pump for couple hours.

We were successful for a week at this without feeding him the whole night. So I said, " great, I think we are heading to a good feeding schedule now". 

I think, I spoke too soon! Few days ago, my son showing less interest of drinking his milk from a cap. We ended up feeding him through the tube all the time and more and more milk left over for a night drip.

How can we move on from night feeding to totally day feeding?

It is getting a little frustrating sometimes!

My kids and I

My mother's day photo with my children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Mother's Day To All

Training Bike

When I came back home from the store this afternoon, my husband pointed to me while my son was riding a training bike. He thought that I didn't know that he can pedal the training bike now. I said he started using the training bike last week. Then he told me to write on his baby book ( which I always forget to do). But he made sure that he got few pictures and video of him riding the bike. This is one of the PT goal for this time. I guess the goal for him to ride a training bike has been met.

 I have to mention that our bike at home is a whole lot smaller that the training bike that he uses at the therapy clinic. He can reach the pedal now without any problem.

 Sometimes that rear wheel just spins when he pedals and the bike was not moving forward. Maybe its because he was riding on dirt and not on the pave road.

And here he is with Ms. Nancy with a bigger training bike. When he pedal this bike it goes backwards and locked up the wheels, it makes him really frustrated. Plus he could hardly reach the pedal too.

Well, the next time that he goes to PT with Ms. Nancy , daddy said that he is going to bring his own bike and show it to his therapist. That will make her happy :-).

Ist day of May - At the Park

I can't believe that it is month of May already. What happen to April??? LOL time flies when you are having fun.

Anyway, we took the kids to the park today. It was a good timing to be at the park today because the ticket was sold at the cheaper price in celebration of Cinco De Mayo. The price was really a cheap since the bracelet ticket was almost $20 a pop I think and today they sold it for $7. Yehey! I'd better purchase the yearly pass which is a whole lot cheaper. Anyhow, the kids enjoyed the ride today because it was unlimited. We rode the train I think 5 times and some other ride. They can only handle couple hours at the amusement center, and they are becoming grouchy. When that happen it is time to go home :)).

Kathlyn was quite excited to take a ride on a carousel. She kept saying, " are you coming?"

Here are they, waiting for the carousel to stop and get on it.

This is actually the second ride :) Gerald actually doing well riding the carousel this time. Normally he likes to sit on my lap.

This was new to me also that Gerald Jay actually get into that car with his little sister.

The airplane--- Gj has no object to ride it :-) , but KC can't she was too small :(

she was so sad that she couldn't ride with her brother, so I took her to ride the helicopter

then  later when brother was done with the plane ride , he joined with her. But he was covering his ears. Noise sensitive sometimes...just noticed it!

the last helicopter ride KC decided not to go with her brother...she was tired and being grouchy.

but she keep an eye on him :)

the last train ride

Just me 25 weeks prego :-)

Fetal Echo

Greetings!

I had a fetal echocardiogram this morning at the Eller Congenital Center ( St. Joe's). The result is great! My baby Madison have a healthy heart! Yehey!