Joshua just had a birthday on June 14th. He turned 16!!! He is currently on vacation up in New Jersey and loving it! He is working with his great Uncle, and loving having his first official job. He is already telling me that he will save enough money so that when he comes back he can get his permit... being that he is coming back next week, I am not sure I am ready for the whole driving thing, but ready or not... he is that age. Also, Josh has a new girlfriend, Ashley, (who he started dating up there and apparently was "in love" with in under a week lol). He's always been a hit with the girls, but he is telling me he LOVES this girl, and how he will be so HEART BROKEN when he has to come home because he doesn't want to leave Ashley in New Jersey... it's cute and all, but I am so not ready for my son to tell me he's in love at 16. It wasn't so long ago that I was a teen, so I remember how dramatic they can be, but still... lol.... On the plus side, they have decided that they will not "date other people" this year and will instead focus on school etc, so YAY for that idea because I can totally support the whole focusing on school thing... even if I don't think that agreement will last very long. We'll see I guess. I have been having some long text conversations with him, and he really cracks me up with some of the things he says... a lot of it I can remember saying something similar to my own parents... he actually told me that this was a NEW ERA and A LOT has changed since I was his age.... yeah because it was soooo long ago.... right? The nerve of these kids lol. Anyway, he wasn't to happy when I told him despite what he and his peers think they are NOT blazing a brand new trail, but just rediscovering a path our generation (and the generation before us for that matter) had created. He also pulled the old "I am more mature and responsible than most kids my age" thing with both me and his father... Both of us laughed, and I think I was closed to tears, because I can vividly remember telling my parents the same thing about myself. Raising teens is fun huh? I am convinced, this is our own parents revenge. lol....Still, I can't wait for my boy to come home... three weeks without him is a long time, precocious or not :)
Josh and his new girlfriend Ashley
Kaitlyn is still fighting pseudomonas, and not yet back to her best. She does have some days that are better than others, but she seems to pay for it later. I don't know if it's just the pseudomonas or what, but she is tired a lot. I really don't get how her pft's are so "high" and yet she has NO energy. At her last appointment {(6/8/11) which was truly her LAST appointment with DR. F as he moved his practice to Orlando,} she had dropped weight again, so they added a nutritional supplement to her diet. I had asked what percentile she was in as we have been struggling to get to that ever elusive 50%, but she had dropped back down to the 10% range... she is closer to the 50% for height, but they want her at 50% for both. Hopefully the supplements will help, because I really am tired of seeing her so tired and not feeling well... Last week on one particular day I picked her up after I got out of school and all of a sudden she started not feeling well... she went straight to sleep on the couch as soon as we got home not even taking the time to kick off her shoes. Just a couple hours later she woke up and without warning threw up all over the living room floor. Poor kid didn't even have time to get to a trash can let alone the bathroom. Afterwards, her stomach felt better but she had a migraine that lasted her until the next day, no medicine would help. I thought it could be the anti-acid meds but not sure... thankfully she sees the NEW pulmonologist this week on July 6th, then the NEW neurologist on the 14th... and Both Kaitlyn and Gabby see the gastroenterologist on July 12th, so it'll be a busy couple of weeks for us. Kaitlyn did get to have a sleepover last week, with her friend Seonaide, but was so exhausted when she left that she crashed for a six hour nap afterwards. She is supposed to go on a sleepover today, which will be her first in months, but i am affraid she will overdo it and be exhausted again. This is also the first sleepover she is going on where her friends mom isn't a nurse, which makes it harder for me to let her go, because I feel that sending her on a sleepover is kind of tough with all the breathing treatments etc. I just feel bad putting that responsibility on anyone else. I know Kaitlyn knows what she is supposed to do and how to do it, but we learned the hard way that she still needs to be supervised or she will sometimes rush through it or not do it at all. Either way, she is a kid, and it is summer, and she has a rough enough time without denying her some of the simple joys of being a kid, such as a sleepover with her best friend, so every now and then we gotta let go.... on a more cheerful note, Kaitlyn will be starting middle school when summer ends!!! She is really excited, and I am even more excited for, as she should be in the advanced program that they have. The program starts in middle school, and basically those in it graduate high school with a diploma AND an Associates Degree!!!!! Hopefully she doesn't miss as much school this year, last year she missed something like 30 full and 15 half days due to her health issues and doctors appointments. If she does miss school I hope she can keep up with the accelerated program. She managed to keep mostly A's and B's last year despite all her missed school, so thankfully she is a smart kid and her illness didn't hold her back in school. We did put her on intermittent homebound later in the year, and that helped, so we will be doing it right away this year. :)
Kate and Gabby cuddling to sleep
Gabriella is getting big fast! Although she is still skinny and tiny that way (at 11 months she was only 17 lbs) she is sooooo tall/long! She is going to turn 1 on July 16th, and the year has just flown by so fast!!! I can hardly believe it! She is still trying to walk, but not quite there yet... she is VERY independent and likes to do things herself instead of having us do them for her... she will actually try to slap our hands away to do it herself, its very cute... She is also a very skilled mimic lol. She hears someone say something and even if she can't say it she gets the sound so you know she's repeating you. Her doctor says she is advanced, and at the least I can say she is too smart for her own good, she is very headstrong and unfortunately got her Mommy's temper lol. She also apparently got my fear of bugs, as the other night when she saw a moth Steve was trying to get in our room she freaked out... it was too funny. She is very healthy, the only on-going issue she has is lactose intolerance, so that's a blessing. She's also turned nursing into an extreme sport as she tries to stand while she nurses... its pretty funny to see as she just ends up bent over waving her butt around lol. We are just happy we've made it this long...She is getting really sick and tired of the baby foods, and pretty much spits them out after just a couple bites, so we are moving on to toddler foods and letting her have small portions of what the rest of us eat at dinner if possible... she has always been very picky, she NEVER took to eating the baby food meats, and thankfully we had someone we could give them to, or a lot would have gone to waste... she does however love actual meat, well at least chicken... I still feel a little hesitant giving her red meats yet...We did finally give in and let her try peanut butter, thankfully no allergy issues, and she LOVED it! We also let her try eggs, and again no issues and she enjoyed it... until she got a bite with ketchup on it and then not so much lol.We can't believe that almost a year has passed already. We are looking forward to her 1st birthday in just a couple weeks, but I think we are going to keep it to a small family celebration. I'd like to have a party for her, but with Steve being the only one working, it's not really feasible, and Steve has to be in a wedding on her birthday, so it is what it is... we're going to have a small family party for her on Sunday and let her have her smash cake and stuff... we'll post pics :)
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