I've been gone to long

Jason is again mad at his "mama" for not blogging about all his accomplishments. So here we are! Jason is changing and growing by leaps and bounds! And this boy found his voice! He is most proud of his counting 1-13 then saying "rero" ( zero) and his abc's all the way through. We are talking more that we can understand too and he loves to give kisses hugs and say I wuv u.

His eyes are still a issue and infact today we are dialating his eyes for days to see if his prescription is right and then change his bifocals, oh yes let me update. Jason got bifocals in August and it seems to be helping him a lot.

Jason is eating a little better too, our good buddy got Jason to eat PIZZA! That is thrilling..

In August and Sept. Jason and mommy and daddy went to Hawaii with his Mimi and PapaO for a week and Jason is actually just a big ol water and sand baby. He could not get enough. Jason flew GREAT the whole way there and back. I was so proud!

Jason has also grown out of his nursery and just today got to move into his new big boy bedroom. All Thomas all over. We have had a blast decorating it painting it and showing it to him for the first time. It is a work in progress and lots to still do BUT he LOVES it! Jason says Choo choo over and over for Jason.

well that is about all for now. Jason and I are taking a week trip to Colorado to see his Mimi and PapaO for a week. I am excited to see them and I know Jason is!!!

You can't catch this...............

So it has been brought to my attention that people whisper about Jason, and I have heard, I don't want to my kids to play with him, they may "catch" what he has. What he has is a wonderful, sunny, loving, addicted to hugs, loves to kiss, and play personality. Like any toddler he has his "quirks" he does things that are not "normal" all the time to all kids. BUT YOU CAN NOT COMPARE KIDS, THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT!!! So if you do not want a loving wonderful, giggle box child who loves to call you out loudly, give you hugs and kisses, then by all means, do not play with my child, do not associate with my child. It means more love hugs and kisses for Jason's daddy and I! If you do not want those wonderful attributes for your child, then stay away. I was talking to a friend tonight and said this, I love the fact Jason is still in the "baby" stages at almost 2. Since we can not have anymore children, I get to have a extended baby time. It is the way we look at Jason behind or slower at some things.
We truly see progress in Jason. He has a new fun thing to do, GET NAKED, anywhere he can as fast as he can! He has learned how to undo a zipper in a flash. We found Jason in his crib with NOTHING on and trust me we did not put him to bed that way. He was looking at us with the biggest smile like LOOK WHAT I CAN DO. He was sooooo proud! We were not so proud of what we found in his crib that was not in his diaper...... But he is learning and hey who can fault him for that. He is not potty trained and at 23 months(YIKES!) not may kids are yet............ It is times like those that we will look back on and laugh.
So my child screams loud, lots of kids do, my child does not talk much, so what, my child does not wave bye bye, hey he never wants you to leave, but my child loves and loves and loves. He is here to love us, kiss us and hug us, the rest will come along in time.... Hug your children, THEY LOVE IT AND GIVE IT BACK 10 FOLD

We are not alone!

So this last weekend we went to a meet up to meet a local author named Harley. She lives close to us and her oldest child Gabriel has SPD. I am telling you I feel like I poured it all out on the table with her, she understands, she knows SO MUCH about SPD and she was so very helpful as well as the owner of Sensory Planet, Carrie Fannin. They gave me LOTS of information to read and help to learn about Jason's SPD issues. I really almost burst a little, when I introduced myself, Sacha and Jason, to 0Harley, who has read my blog recognized Jason and his cute little glasses, but she also knew so much detail. She really paid attention to our blog and I almost cried a little. ( Emotional day!) I wanted to cry a few times hearing how we are not alone, we are not the only one's dealing with the screams, the biting ourselves (new thing!) our freak outs at animals ( Jason HATES THE ZOO!) freak outs about new smells or foods. I felt a inner peace knowing that I have people I can turn to and say HELP ME. I really need to and will be getting more involved with the website Sensory Planet and getting to know other SPD mom's. I just feel it in my bones that this is where I need to be headed for all the help we can get!

We got some great news, Jason is "graduating" from eating therapy, and there is a space for him very close to our home for Sensory Integration therapy! YEAH!!! Jason has gained weight is eating a little better, he has his days, like today when all he wanted is milk and 2 bites from a fruit bar, but for the most part he is eating. He LOVES chicken teriyaki but really loves it from chop sticks! He still loves his french fries, but also loves crunchy things. He is not a big one on fruits and veggies but we have found ways to "hide" them in food or smoothies! Ahhh calories!

So here we are, we have learned a lot, have so much more to learn but one day at a time one step at a time one mistake at a time. Jason has progressed very well with his glasses, they are on about 90% of the time! Funny story, Jason and I were at a play date, he was happily playing on the jungle gym walking all over I see him going back and forth on the bridge to the slide, smiling and glasses on, the next trip across the bridge, NO GLASSES! I go running over ( They were expensive!) and a little boy had taken Jason's glasses off his face and was trying to put them on his own face! Jason was pulling at them like Hey those are mine!!! I was able to rescue the stolen glasses, clean them a bit and put them back on the correct child's face, Jason actually smiled when I put them back on like these are mine dude, back off! It was funny!

Pictures will be next time, it has been a long week, Sacha was on a business trip, and while i have taken pictures I have not edited or even downloaded them!
Happy reading and thanks again for the support, again my mantra, One Day at a time, One Step at a time, One Mistake at a time and we will be fine!!!

Playing

Jason has changed by leaps and bounds since he got his dreaded glasses! He has started to talk SO MUCH MORE! In the 2 weeks since we got the spec's he has started to say All Done, Good Job and Uh-Oh! He also now just says deedle deedle deedle over and over. He also has started to say Baby and Hi a lot more. The glasses are a big part of things! So now we make a BIG game out of putting them on, 1! 2! 3! gooooooooooo and on they go!

Jason has tried to get rid of them once or twice too! He threw them at the grocery store and we had to backtrack to find them under a shelf where he tossed them! But the sleuth in mommy remembered when she heard a plunk, thinking she kicked a coin, nope it was the glasses being tossed! ahhhhh Jason's plot was foiled again!

Jason is now wearing them to the park, on play dates, and all over the house. In about 2 weeks we went from HECK NO I am not wearing those to hey ok let me try to put them on! Upside down and backwards but he is trying!

Jason is also learning to put his pants on ( and off) he loves it!

The only issue with this is he can take his pants off when we do not want him to and has done so once, while he was supposed to be sleeping, he removed his pants, his diaper and well I will let your imagination go to what he did with no diaper on, lets just say mommy and daddy had to clean his WHOLE CRIB!

So now Jason is getting more confident in things, he climbs the steps to the slide now, walks around the play area and goes down the slide all by himself! Sorry no pictures of this as I am having to catch him at the bottom of the slide! But he is helping in other ways we can take pictures of, he learned he can help daddy drive! See the comparison pictures of Jason helping Daddy drive right at 6 months to now at 22 months!

The Blame Game

This post is not from Jason's point of view, it is a break from the posts about Jason. While Jason is the center of Sacha's and my life, he is very important to every one in our family and I would hope to some of our friends. We are all busy with our own lives and it is hard to "deal" with a child who does not "fit the norm" and many people either choose not to deal with it, meaning friendships lost, which is sad, or know everything about it and decide that they know best and it is nothing to worry about, or lastly they take the blame for Jason's issues on themselves. Please do not blame yourself, ANYONE, this could not have been prevented. Every child has his or her quirks, and yes every child goes through phases where they freak out over horses, chickens, goats, wind, or anything for that matter. It is when that freak out changes the way that child lives his or her life there is a issue.
Sensory Processing Disorder is a real thing, it is not something to be "ignored", it makes children as young as Jason make the terrible 2's look like the world is ending over simple touch, smell, feel. Then add in the eye issues and it is all very confusing to a young person. Sacha and I are working on this as much as we can, it is a hard thing, it is hurtful to us both that our child is suffering from things he can not understand. Yes he displays simple toddler behaviour, and yes I run to him when he starts a melt down because we have seen first hand if they are not stopped what it can turn into. To most that see Jason "melt down" they think toddler or parenting issue or hey let that kid out of the bubble, let him fall, let him get hurt, let him get dirty. Trust me when I say we do all those things in the comfort of our own home where he knows where he is and all the things around him but in public when he starts to clinch his fist, turn bright red, and scream bloody murder, it is anything but pleasant and it ends up with Jason shaking all over and his mommy crying and begging for him to calm down. Crying is not the answer, it freaks him out more, but at times I can not stop the tears! I know I need to try harder at that but hey, we are all learning together about this.
Jason was a miracle from the start, we struggled to have him, many of you know this some of you do not, Jason should have had 6 siblings. Yes you read right, 6 pregnancies that failed for horrible reason's I will not go into now because frankly this blog is about Jason not the "what could have been", but I bring it up because of this. I can say Sacha and I are angry! We are angry that we struggled, we lost so much, we fought so hard when so many told us, just stop trying, adopt, there are so many children who need a good home. I was told I should understand that being adopted myself, and we, Sacha and I agree with that and had always planned on adopting once we had our own child. We still think about it now since we can not have any more children of our own. Then along came our Washington baby. Wow, what a surprise, and he was great! Growing like he should, no problems with Downs Syndrome like had been feared from past history, he was great. He came early, to early, and we were warned there may be issues! That is why we are angry, we thought we had suffered enough, we thought, hey maybe just maybe we will have a easy baby just cause of all the past issues. Nope just the opposite, sick a lot, late to roll over, late to crawl, late to walk, and now at 22 months and not talking well, you know, late to talking. We both wonder WHY??? WHY is this happening? How do we deal with it? What help can we get Jason? and WHY? It seems so unfair, so upsetting, so wrong!!! But we love this child, so very much, we love him when at 22 months he still does not sleep through the night all the time, when at 22 months he can not always feed himself or eat at all. When at 22 months he would rather crawl around the house then walk, when at 22 months he can not talk to us and even say hi mommy. We love him, not because we have to, but because in this world there was not a more wanted baby, a more needed child, and not a more prayed for child to come into our lives.
So no blame is given with this disorder! None what so ever to anyone, it is what it is. Sacha and I ask you all to love Jason for who he is, love him the way he is and to support us as we learn about this disorder. SPD comes in many forms, some are milder then others, some are more severe, and some is related to Autism. Our child so far is not related to Autism, praise the Lord, could it go there? Yes we are told it could, will it? No way of knowing yet, Jason is to young to know for sure. Does it matter? In some way's yes, for Jason's sake, but in the eye's of those who care for Jason no it should not, he is still the beautiful boy from Bothell Washington that everyone oooooh'd and ahhhhh'd over. We hope even though he is not the cute baby stage anymore you all still ooooooh and ahhhh over him like his parents do!
Thanks,
a heartbroken set of adoring parents

Darn I am cute............ or so I keep being told

Soooo, Jason and his glasses are getting to be friends. He wears them more and more, today we had success in the car, at a play date, at lunch, at the grocery store and at home. We are on day 3 of glasses and yippee he seems to be wearing them about 80% of the time! Mommy decided we needed to show the guy that first put the glasses on Jason what a big boy he was and we went in to see him. Glenn the glasses guy, adjusted Jason's glasses and Jason even helped put them back on!
Jason also ventured out with his mommy to a play date today with 6 other kids from infant to toddler to beyond preschool. Jason is not the best "sharer" in the world but he is getting better! Where we went was great, nice safe play room in someones house with every toy known to man and the best thing of all, HORSES! I have not seen Jason light up like that in a LONG LONG time! He kept squealing Dooogies, no honey not doggies, horsie! But he was squirming in my arms, and reaching out to them. It was suggested that we look into therapy sessions with horses, it really helps little people with some sensory issues and developmental delays. I had heard that in the past but I was a) in denial that my son had "issues" and developmental delays ( yes his mommy is a little nutty at times) and b) thought it may be to much for him at such a young age, ( mommy fear he may get hurt, got to burst the bubble he lives in sometime!) so we are going to look into it! I mean he was excited to see the horses run and play!
Now my wonder boy is sleeping off all the afternoon excitement. While mommy blogs and does other around the house things.
Slowly we as a family are starting to come around and understand just what Sensory Processing Disorder is, how to deal with it and understand it is OK for us to say we have a "special" child. Every child is special, every person has special qualities but not every child is as special as ours is. So if one day you see us in a restaurant, and our wonder boy is screaming a blood curdling scream while clinching his fists and turning red, please know it is not bad parenting, or lack of discipline, it is "special needs" showing through. We are working hard on the screams, the fist pumping, and the frustration Jason is having. We are getting better at making him watch us and watch the simple sign language we are using to help Jason communicate. So if you see us, hey. stop by, say hi, tell Jason how cute he is in his glasses, he can never seem to get enough flirting or attention and know that as parents we are doing the best that we can. We need the love, we need the support and we know the screams are loud! TRUST US! We are a lot closer to them then you are when they go off! Any suggestions are taken and applied if we can!
Thank you for continuing to read about Jason and his cuteness, his challenges he is facing and letting his parents get their hurt, confusion and frustrations out via this blog! It really does help the one who is behind the keyboard which for the most part is his Mommy but Daddy helps too!
Happy weekend to you all and remember once again you may hear a screaming child no matter where you are, the parents for the most part are more frustrated and mortified with the screams then you are or you think they are, if they are decent parents at all!

tramatic day for Jason and his Parents

The day I have been dreading for a week was here today. My precious one got his glasses and true to my fears Jason was very upset with the glasses on his face. Not only did it change his eyesight to something he is not used to it caused issues with his sensory processing disorder. Jason is very sensitive to touch and things on his face. This caused a landslide of issues from freaking out in the bath tub when the bath scrubby touched him to just getting his clothes on. It is a hard thing to watch your child scream from something he does not understand. He kept trying and succeeding at taking or more like ripping his glasses off his face.

His glasses are quite thick and a very strong prescription, both Sacha and I looked through them and while I need and wear glasses I was very suprised at the strength of his glasses. I would have freaked out too if I was Jason. He has gotten used to seeing things fuzzy and we thing at times in double vision and to see them "correctly" for the first time scared him. Poor baby is sleeping now but it is a restless sleep, and he is crying in his sleep quite a bit. Quite tramatic for him to say the least!

Keep Jason in your prayers, he does not talk yet, and can not tell us he is scared, that you can see from his reaction. While Jason understands so much of what we say to him and responds by doing the things we ask him to do, he can not say NO MOMMY he just violently shakes his head and grabs at his face. We are having to hold his hands down away from his face which is also very upsetting to our precious child, because he is a self soother via thumb sucking. I am terrified he will not trust his mommy and daddy much more due to all the appointments we are taking him to. He does not understand that this is all for his own good and he will thank us later in life when he can see and his eye's are strong!

Glasses???!!!

Yes you read correctly, we are starting to get to the bottom of some of Jason's developmental delays and piece of the puzzle could be our wonderful, beautiful, rambunctious toddlers eyes! Poor baby boy is having a issue with his left eye actually crossing. His right eye may be next and we have been told that this will last through puberty and if we can get him to wear his glasses it very well may correct itself. There is a surgical procedure he can have at some point that will correct it if it does not correct it's self but we have to let things do what they are going to for now, Jason is to little for the surgical procedure and with his eyes just starting to cross it would be a mute point they may keep crossing..... so or precious little guy will have glasses next week when they are ready. The hard part is getting him to wear them! He hates anything on or near his face, he will not wear sun glasses, or hats. They have said they may have to use arm restraints on his little arms to keep the glasses on if he keeps taking them off. It will teach him that he needs them on, the issue with that is he is a major thumb sucker and that is how he calms himself down............. we shall see. I was told that once he understands they will help him see he may leave them alone! So..... another piece of the mystery of Jason is understood and we are on the path of getting him all the help we can! We are thankful for the wonderful insurance Sacha gets with Microsoft and I am praising God that we have been successful in finding some of the pieces of the puzzle that are upsetting my precious gift from God! We pray that we continue on the path of getting Jason to eating,and talking! He really is a wonderful happy little guy and the absolute apple of mommy and daddy's eye!

Happy Easter to you all, we are excited to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ this weekend at our Church then off to a wonderful Brunch on Sunday for Easter and my birthday, one year closer to 40!!!!!!!!!!!!

We got in!

OK so we finally got the call that we are in with a very highly regarded speech therapist here! Yippee, we went yesterday to see her bright and early! She played with Jason, listened to him, got him to interact very well and taught us some new games! I was thrilled when we were sitting there playing and Jason looked in the mirror at his eye level, smiled at the reflection, then turned and smiled at me, turned back to his reflection and said BABY! My heart melted on the spot! Jason had a great time, wandering, playing and even jumping on her trampoline! We can only get in once every other week at this point, she is very busy and that is all her schedule can fit for now but we are hopeful that as time goes on we can get in more often, every little bit helps. She did notice, and so have we, that Jason's left eye really seems to be sagging and turning in a lot more. She was concerned about it. We have seen a children eye Dr for it and we were given the all clear, that his bridge of his nose was not as pronounced yet to make it look like his eye was "lazy". Well............... found out that the Dr we saw is not "the best" in the words of the 2 therapists we saw yesterday, so we are seeing a specialist on Thursday. His eye really sags when he is tired and turns in towards the middle. I have been told that something like this can effect so many aspects of a toddlers life and could be a reason for some of his delays. Not sure where we go from here but we will leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom of things. I can imagine that sight issues could be a major issue, over compensating for bad eyesight I could see would slow his other reflexes. We also saw Jason's feeding therapist yesterday and while he ate very little at the appointment, like 3 bites he said another new word in the correct context, when he was finished eating and wanted up he both signed " all done" and kind-of said "all done" came out more all-da, but it was understandable. He is picking up more signs, he knows "more" well, and "milk", he is learning "help" and for please he rubs mommy's chest and not his own. His best is shaking his head no, he does not do the "sign" for no just shakes his head very hard to the point sometimes he gets a little dizzy and falls, it is kinda funny and cute as long as he does not hurt himself.

On a interesting note we are thinking Jason is ready to start potty training, he is very interested in watching himself go to the bathroom of late. So we are getting him a "big boy" potty to start this new phase of life, this could be INTERESTING! Jason will be the ripe old age of 22 months on Friday, I know many boys are late bloomers in talking, potty training, and motor skills, we will have to see where this takes us!

Feeding therapy..... or playing??

So we had another appointment with the feeding therapist. Jason thought it was more play time then eating time. Oh well, I offered him a sandwich, a banana, a go-gert, all a BIG no! He had more fun playing in the high chair she had there and all the toys. Ahhhhhh fun! But we are keeping at it. We are thinking of changing PT's for 2 reasons, we are also waiting to get into more PT/OT and the list is 1-4 months long and the drive to this person's house is over a hour at times! So she recomended someone closer to us that she has worked with for a long time and thinks is good and works with Jason's "issue". Sooooo we shall see what comes of that.

On another note, Jason and his mommy and daddy had some great company come to Seattle from Houston. Mommy's very good friend Stephanie and her son Aidan came to play for a few days! Man what a time was had! We visited the Space Needle, Pikes Market, Ivar's, the resturant that they filmed Sleepless in Seattle, took a ferry ride to Bremmerton, and played at a winery with a picnic, and Jason and his mommy took them to play at MicroSoft! AWESOME! Jason and Aidan had a blast together, Aidan was showing off his tikwondo moves and Jason was immitating him!

Since no pictures of therapy I am going to add some pictures of their trip here! It was so sad to see them leave, and Jason ( and the dogs I might add) were looking for them all day Sunday since they left before Jason woke up that day! Looking forward to the next visit! The first picture is Aidan at Pikes Market, Then Steph and Aidan on the Ferry, then Jason on the Ferry then Steph and Aidan on The Space Needle, then Mere, Aidan, Jason on the Ferry and last, Steph, Aidan, Mere, Sacha, Jason and our neighbor at the winery!

Day one Feeding Therapy

Well lets just say that the first appointment was not the best! Lots and lots of questions and medical back-ground on Jason. The Therapist almost seemed argumentative! We had to drive about a hour and 20 minutes to get to her so I think we were all in a "mood" by the time we got there. Jason had a great time, he played, he ate about 3 bites of pancakes, and "stunk up the room". So we will see where we go from here, we are waiting to see when we see her next, her schedule is very hectic!!! But we are making progress, Jason was HUNGRY last night! He seems to LOVE sweet and sour chicken! We gave him a big fork and he went to work. YIPPEE! We may get sick of sweet and sour but oh well!!!
Today he is showing signs of either a cold coming on or allergies, needless to say his nose is running!
BUT we have finished his play room ( well about 95%) I need to change the valance and put his pictures up. We are taking pictures of his favorite things and putting them down low so since he is not talking he can show us what he wants or we can show him Callie or Hana for "doggie", or Mommy or Daddy, or chair, sippy cup, etc. Any suggestions on what to put pi cures up of?

my favorite picture of my "boys"

Not much to say other then these are the loves of my life and I want to share the pictures with you! There is nothing like a daddy and a son napping together to warm your heart!

it has been a while but here we are again

So it has been a while since we "blogged" but I see it about to take off as a way to verbalize our fears of things. Let me back up about 6 months!

Jason has had lots of "issues in his short life". As a first time mom I really watch every thing. We had noticed that unlike so many children Jason was not picking up on simple things like talking, waiving bye bye, sign language, or eating to name a few.

So after pushing and pushing we finally got answers in the last few weeks! We had started speech therapy since Jason has 6 words at 21 months, was not really repeating much or talking, pointing or verbalizing other then ear piercing screams and a hissing noise similar to a cat's. Last week we had to have Jason scoped, low and behold he has/had sever cobblestones in his throat..... GERD also known as sever acid reflux. Hey I would not eat either if I had that that bad!!! We did this to see if there was any long term damage from him eating glass in January ( won't eat food but glass is OK???)

So we got back into Children's Hospital Seattle eating program! We went just yesterday and while we were there we kind of switched gears a little after talking to the PT specialist and watching Jason. They tested his neurological development. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, light bulbs were going off left right and center!

After 2 hours of talking playing and yes even Jason eating we had a answer, a name of what was going on and information on how to help our little prince!

Sensory Processing Disorder, ( kind of funny it is also called SPD, and those are Sacha's initials!) When I started to read the information they gave us, and research on line I was staring at my child's daily life and was amazed. Everything was there made sense down to Jason mainly walking on his tippy toes to covering his ears so often and freaking out in the sun light! We have a name we have a diagnosis we know where to get help!

While it is scary the long term effects that SPD can have, we have caught it fairly early, can get him into long term therapy and help him learn to live with what he can't "deal with" right now.



So........... this blog is now changed from The Dawes in Seattle to Jason's battle with SPD.

You can look it up, there is so much information on it out there, the more they are learning the more help we can get. Sacha and I will be in some wonderful support groups for parents of SPD kids, lots of reading and working one on one with our miracle child.

It is never easy to learn your child has needs that are not "normal" on a day to day basis. I honestly feel like it is not fair, but hey when is life fair. With all the problems we has in previous pregnancies and then having Jason, him being so early, and his illnesses the first 21 months, but hey, that is the life of a parent, no life is a bed of roses! As the therapist told us yesterday we have the Disney World of medical insurance, lets just skip it's a small world and get on the biggest and fastest roller coaster ride out there and hang on for dear life! What a ride this will be BUT the main thing, we are getting Jason the best of the best care!

So watch for Posts about or progress, our failures, our fears and our joys and mountains we have climbed! It will be a great learning experience and we are up for the challenge! Ya with us???

Life in March

I am going to yell at my mommy! I do all these fun things and Mommy does not post about them! How will you all ever know what is going on in my life if she does not post more often??? Bad bad mommy!!!


March was and still is fun! It has been very weird in the weather department though! We have had sun and warm days, then snow then rain and hail then more sun then more snow and well you get it! Here is a picture of the snow one day! Mommy and I were at lunch with my good buddy Jake and Mommy's friend Cristina and it started to snow a little, when we left the house it was raining but she knew the snow was coming but not like this!

See Callie in the snow? She loved it, Mommy said it was to cold for me to play in it this time since I was still getting over the croup! AAAWWWW man!

I am chilling on a sunny day with my cool buddy shades! I am rockin in them!

I am not sure what a birthday means but I know it is important and my friend Jake ( the same buddy I had lunch with in the snow) had one! He turned 1 and everyone made a big deal about it! I liked his party cause I guess we all get one and he got LOTS of good presents, from books to toys to a wagon that Mommy and Daddy and I got him! Then he got cake, I know he liked cake! I had fun playing at his house that day and I will tell you a secret mommy let me taste cake, it was GOOD!!!

Here I am playing at Jake's! I was having a good time with all my friends!

See Jake's pile of presents? YIPPEE for Jake!

Jake got this cool train whistle and train hat and bandanna and train too! The whistle made some cool sounds and he was sharing with daddy to make the noise from it! Way to go Jake!

Jake is looking at a BIG box, I watched mommy and daddy wrap it so I know what it is and I am getting excited to see Jake open in!

A WAGON! Yippee!!! Oh how much fun can Jake have in that? Maybe I can ride to if he wants to share!

Look at Jake's cake!

Cake face!!!

All that cake and playing wore me out!

I am 9 months old!

Monday March 2nd I turned 9 months old!!! So how to celebrate? Mommy took me to the Doctors and they gave me a shot! that is not nice!!!

Here is my information!

Because I was sick I lost a lot of weight and now weigh 18 pounds 9.5 oz ( I was at 20 pounds last week before I got sick!)

I am 27 and 1/4 inch's long
my head is 44.5 cm around!

I am small they said in the 28th Percentile! I need to eat more! So mommy got to feed me some new things! I got to try Macaroni and Cheese and a Wheat Pita bread! YUMMY! See??

this is the "neat picture!" just wait!

Getting messier!Messy!!!

then there are Popsicles!

These things are COLD

Nope to cold I do not like it..........or am I crying cause it is slow being delivered to me?

Yep I like them! I just had to get used to them being cold!

So now you are up to date on me and my life with my mommy and daddy! I love them very much and I know they love me!!!

Hope you like my blog...........please feel free to leave me a comment or a message! I love to hear from my family and friends who read about me!

Kisses!

Jason

Daddy had a birthday!

My daddy had his birthday! He turned 36!!!

Mommy's friend made him a cake! He is blowing out the candles!

Blow daddy! that is a lot of candles!

Then daddy got to open his presents! I love to help!

Then we had some of Daddy's friends over to help us celebrate!

Well that is just mommy and daddy but there were friends there too!

See there is Jake and his mommy and daddy! They all played a video game after I went to bed!

Daddy showing a present from mommy, he is so silly!

Happy birthday daddy! next year I want a piece of cake!

I love you!

I got sick!!!

So many of you know I got sick again! I had a cold and it turned into the croup! I did not feel good! Sooooo I decided to stop eating and I had a bad bad cough! Mommy took me to the Doctors office and I got a yucky medicine to make me better! But it made me worse! The next day mommy and daddy were worried about me and they called a nurse, she "talked" to me on the phone and listened to me breath and then told mommy to call 911 ( the 999 in England for my English family). I had lots of activity then! All these people came to my house to see me! I decided then I felt better! I laughed and tried to play with them, but they did not want to play they were worried about me! There were 9 people in the house and 2 big truck things mommy called ambulances in my street that had loud sirens and these bright flashy lights that I liked to look at! They did all sorts of things to me, they played with my toes and listened to my heart with this cold thing that someone shoved into his ears and held my wrist and felt my heart beat that way. They told mommy and daddy all sorts of things to help me feel better! Mommy did not take any pictures of this but I know she will always remember it! I got to sleep with mommy in a recliner chair all night that night as she held me tight and upright so I could breath! I know mommy and daddy were worried! I started to cough a lot and that hurt my throat and I had yucky stuff draining from my nose to my tummy, that made me gag and throw up on daddy a few times. I don't like to throw up, it scares me and I cried a lot!

Mommy took a photo of me sleeping when I was sick! I am much better now though!

friends I have made

I have been able to play a little this month with friends
Here are a few playdates!

Friends!

My friend Lilly and her mommy

all smiles!

I love my bouncer!

Friends!

My buddy Evan trying to walk already!

Abby and her mommy

My friend Natalie and her mommy! we do not see her often but it is fun when we do!

Yeah yeah I was napping!

Girls every where!!!

then I had a play date with mommy, daddy and Mrs Christina and Mr Jimmy and my buddy Jake, we went to Pikes Market on a Sunday it was FUN!

Mrs Christina getting ready to go!

Daddy and I with a cool sunset!

Jake and his mommy and daddy!