The Amazing Twin Adventure

I love this picture!


Will likes watermelon!



Here I am trying to get all the boys sunscreened to go to the pool. Just one step in the 30 minute process of packing up for pooltime!




Once again, I've been slacking off in my posts, but there honestly hasn't been much happening. You know, it's summer, me and the boys have just been hanging out. It's already hot as hades, so the only comfortable thing to do outside is hang at the pool. We've been going to the pool in my mom's neighborhood a couple of times a week, and I've been trying to keep us busy the other days. I generally try to come up with two "adventures" every day. One after morning nap, and one after the afternoon nap. It's generally something super-exciting like going to Target or Walmart or Publix. I should probably try to consolidate gas and do all our errands in one trip, but that's waaay too hard. It takes a lot of effort to get all three kids cleaned up and buckled in the car, remember to pack all the necessities in the diaper bag, drive to our destination, unload the twin stroller, get all the kids out, buckle into the stroller and make it through a trip without too much screaming/whining/fighting. By the end of it, I'm exhausted and can't imagine going to more than one location at a time!! We did manage haircuts for Mason and Hays and a trip to Sam's in a single outing today and that about did me in!




The only thing that's really noteworthy, is Will's swallow study. I told y'all a while back that he's had some asthma-like attacks while eating where he's turned a frightening shade of blue and had to have emergency nebulizer treatments with Albuteral. Well, or pediatrician sent us to have a swallow study with a speech therapist to see what was causing the problem. Will did great- he drank the nasty barium junk and ate the barium coated graham cracker without complaint. After reviewing the video of the swallow test, the therapist thought she might have detected a problem. She thinks he may have a fistula, which is basically a band of scar tissue, connecting his esophagus and his trachea. This is most likely a result 0of the trach and can be easily repaired with surgery. Our doctor has referred us to a doctor at Egleston for further testing to see if he truly has this. If so, Will will have to undergo yet another surgery. Hopefully this won't happen, but if it does, we'll get through it, just like we have everything else. Compared to the procedures Will has already endured, this should be small potatoes. But y'all keep your fingers crossed that he doesn't have to go through surgery again. We're meeting with the speech therapist on Friday so she can work on feeding techniques with him to minimize the possibility of him choking on or aspirating his food. He's already doing better, but we'll welcome any suggestions she can give us.