Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Here we go...



Well, another week, just as scheduled, right. :-)
We had a good weekend. The train night at the library was neat. The kids really liked it. Got to make their own train out of shapes and eat a snack.
Friday it rained, so we stayed a home and did all kind of playing. Saturday morning we went to the library and hung with dad before work. Then Hannah and I made little banana loafs and a purse out of a cereal box. Nathan wanted to play trains instead.
Sunday was a children's meeting, so we were there from 8am-1pm. We did some shopping afterwards. Milk, peanut butter, you know, the necessities in a child home.
Went to bed early.
Monday was our day to KC. WE headed out around 10:30 in order to gas up. We were going to meet my mom at Crown Center at the train restaurant. From there we headed to Mercy. We got there a little early because we wanted to make sure we could find it and get around some construction in the area. We arrived about 1:45. We were in the room by 2. They gave her some apple juice and some teddy grahams and we waited for her to pee.
After she did, it was about 15 minutes before Dr. Blowey came into the room. He visited with Hannah a little, asked us some questions, reviewed what Dr. Castle had sent and then examined Hannah. He left to look at her x-rays and her urine sample and would be back in to talk.
After evaluating everything, he determined that her problem was a combination of two things. One, her intestines were pushing against her bladder, causing it to be off shape due to the largeness of her stool. He suggested putting her on a natural stool softener daily to see if we could change her regularity to a daily thing. He also said that because of her kidney infection when she was first potty training, she had trained her bladder to be inconsistant. He said what that means is she trained it to respond to her only when it was extremely full and it was almost too late for her. He said that for that, we needed to get into a regimine of re-training her bladder to function more on a routine.
We were glad to hear it was not something major. Little things we can work on that will require discipline and time, but nothing like surgery or the likes. We are supposed to call him in a month to see. during the next month, we are supposed to chart her progress.
The above picture of her is in the room. She and pinkie pie were enjoying the pampering.
Afterwards, we met Nathan and my mom at a park and filled her in while the kids played. It began to rain, so mom headed home and we headed to Independence to see baby Nathan.
Above is a picture of both Nathan's. Our Nathan thought he was the coolest after holding him once. He kept whispering, "can I hold him again?". He was a sweet baby. On the next post, I am going to include more picts, since Chris Coker (thank you man!!!) taught me how to do it.
We brought them pizza and visited until 8:30. By then, Cindy was about to fall over and the kids were getting sleepy.
We are so glad he (baby Nathan) is doing so well and is such a cutie!!
Well, am going to post some more picts and then will write again tomorrow, because I haven't even gotten into today which was Nathan's kindergarten open house when he rode a school bus for the first time and met his teacher.
Until then, enjoy the pictures. And Coker family, I am snail mailing you copies of all this too for baby Nathan's scrapbook.
All our love

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