November 2010 to February 2011

Well, it’s been too  long since I was able to sit down and write about anything, as strange as this might be, the only time I have to sit is when I am at the hospital with Hudson for something.  I guess it’s because I only have Hudson to deal with and not two other kids plus a house to take care of and when Hudson sleeps I have a bit of time to just sit, which is nice, but I still rather be at home and even though it’s busy at home I would take that anytime.

Well it’s certainly has been an eventufull past 9months.  Hudson is 9months today I can hardly believe how big he is getting and that we are getting closer to being one years old, yet I still think of him as my little newborn, even though I realize how big he’s getting when he falls asleep on my chest and his legs are dangling down to my waist intead of the fetal position babies like to sleep in, still love to cuddle up with my little guy, he sure loves to cuddle lots and it’s totally ok with me, out of the three kids, I think Hudson is the one that allows to be cuddled the most.

I am going to try and go back and talk about the day after his Dedication since it seems like that was the last post.

Well the day of his dedication he was actually admitted in hospital but we were able to take him to church on a few hours pass and come back to hospital.  It was a good day, it was so nice to see so many people come to church and show their support, it was awesome.  I am thankful for amazing family and friends.  Back in hospital, we were told he might be discharge the next day, but unfortunatly his little heart was still not behaving so we ended being in hospital for another week an half, so I think it turned out to be 3week stay or something like that, I have lost track because of all the times we are in and out of there.

Anyhow, we came home and so happy to be home with my other two kids and Chris, Hudson was doing great being home and started thriving with his development.  Goes to show being hospital sets them back a bit, but he started to almost sit and his hand coordination was great, I was very impressed with his progress in such a short time being back home, I think that having the other two kids helps him so much, because he just feeds off them and you can tell he wants to just run after them.

We had a couple of times where he gave us a few scares.  He was completly asleep and for some reason I decided to put on his sat monitor to check his heartrate and sat percent.  Well as soon as I put it on I stared at it for a while to make sure it was working properly and I kept staring and the numbers for his heartrate kept jumping up and down ranging from 40 to 170, I immedicatly call Chris and asked him to listen through the stethescope and sure enough you can hear his irregular beats very clearly.  Well we did what we usually do which is call the cardiology team at BC Childrens and explain to them what is happening.  Of course they were concerned knowing his history or fast rhythm.  They told us to  keep an eye on for the next hour or so to see if it improves and of course if it doesn’t we would need to come in.  Chris and I stared at the monitor for 2hrs and actually fell asleep on the couch with Hudson in the middle just watching the silly monitor.  When we woke up, his heart was back to normal, so we made the executive decision to not take him and continue to monitor.  Anyhow I think it might have been a week later or two that it happened again and it just happen to be the day of Chris company Christmas party.  I was looking forward to going out and dressing up and get into the spirit of Christmas but we ended up not going because we both knew we would be too worried and not enjoy ourselves.  Well that only lasted a couple of hrs and he was back to normal.  Oh well, we felt better safe than sorry I guess, I’ll just wait until next year to get dressed up and go out HE!!!

So Christmas is just around the corner and I am getting excited and just happy that all my kids are with me.  We spend Christmas eve at my parents which all 3 kids stayed up until midnight to open presents, can’t beleive that they stayed up so late and could do it. It was awesome, Christmas day we all woke up and came downstairs and just watched the kids open presents and even Hudson was excited to just look at the other kids and he got to open his first stocking, it was such a blessing to have them all together like that, I couldnt’ have asked for a better present really.  New years we spent at home and the kids stayed up late once again and welcomed the new year with us and again all together to welcome the new year was an amazing blessing, I am so grateful for my family  and Chris mom that have been there for both Chris and I through everything, we just couldn’t even imagine being able to do it alone, we wont’ ever be able to tell them how grateful we are, I dont’ think words can express it enough.  It has been very challenging time for Chris and I but my parents, my sister and Chris mom have taken it as their challenge as well without us asking, they are just there for us, I am so blessed, soooo, sooo blessed.

The New year is here and Hudson continues to grow and everyday he seems to learn something new, I love watching him get to the milestones, I am so proud of him of what he has overcome, he’s my little trooper, fighter.   He is now sitting on his own and has great hand coordination, passes things from one hand to another, holds his bottle with one hand and tries to feed himself with spoon and can grasp little fluff with just two fingers, he still a bit weak from upper body, but loves to do situps with daddy and that’s help tremendously.  The two other kids get excited now that he’s able to sit on his own without tumbling over and can entertian himself. Hayden loves, just loves playing with his brother, it is so funny to see how Hayden and Hayley fight all the time, but Hayden is so amazing with Hudson and so is Hayley but Hayden understands a lot more.  Hayley tries to be so motherly with him, yet Hayden just can’t wait for his brother to play roughly with him and run around the house and chase eachother.  I love my boys and my little princess, I am so blessed, my Husband isn’t so bad either HE!! he’s great dad and we both can’t wait to get more rest and be able to do more fun stuff with the kids. We would love to take the kids hiking, we have missed hiking sooo very much, can’t wait to introduce that to the kids.  Chris and I use to go hiking all the time and would do the “grouse grind: after work at least twice a week. This is when we had energy and actually got some sleep and werent so tired all the time, but we have been so inactive which might explain why we get sick a lot and  are tired, but than again sleep would help us out with all of that. Soon, once Hudson gets into a better sleeping routine, we will too and be able to start exercising and exploring the outdoors.

Ok, so I rambled on about stuff.  So now we are mid-january and Hudson is 9months and is curently in hospital getting  a G-tube put into his tummy because he was still gaining weight, but the NG Tube through his nose was affecting his breathing and his throught and was making him throw up a lot and just overall he just had enough of the NG Tube on his nose and so have we, I hated having to tape it on his face and seeing how red his little cheek would get after he would pull it out, it was very frustrating to say the least.   Well now he’s got a hole on his tummy instead, not much better, but at least is out of his way and reach for the most part, since he’s covered.  They have told us that once he does get it removed that the hole will close within hours, so it won’t be a very big scar,  not that it matters, since his chest is full of scars.

Well after a 3 days stay getting his G-tube put in, which is the shortest time we have ever spent in hospital ever, it was very nice.  We got discharged from ICU and never did end up going to the ward, so that was nice.  Having him home now almost 1 full month after his G-tube he has grown quite a bit and is just thriving more and more, we are  now introducing more solids but hes still gagging on foods, so not sure what that’s all about, still investigating.  overall he’s doing amazing, he just had a recent checkup with cardiology team and they were pretty happy with him and dont’ want to see us for another 2months, which is awesome news.  Right now we have all come down with  a bad cold and for Hudson it’s a bit of a problem because since he can’t blow his nose, he gets a lot of mucus on back of throught which causes him to throw up a lot, so hopefully we will get over this bump and have a healthy house again.  We are sooo l ooking forward to spring and already thinking about what to do about Hudsons 1st birthday in April. amazing how a year has passed almost.

I am thankful, because even though we have made a few trips to appointments and we have been sick with colds, we are all together and the kids are now getting back to their fun activities and Hayden is now in a new preschool which he seems to be enjoying lots. He goes 3 days a week and he is now in swimming and gymnastics and has started a program at our church called Cubbies and seems to love it lots.  Hayley is now in swimming, gymnastics and dance class and she loves all her new activities. We now have a full Calendar for everyweek and it’s tiring bringing them to such and such things, but I love seeing their faces how much they enjoy them and look forwards to those days of fun stuff they get to do instead of being home.  Hudson enjoys going to all these events to watch his brother and sister and I am sure he can’t wait until it gets to be his turn.

For now, focus is to stay healthy and start exercising and keeping organized and start planning a 1year olds Birthday YIKES!! exciting, yet almost sad cause I can’t believe the time has passed so quickly.