byebye ba-ba & hello insulin pumping

 

Jai' has kicked the ba-ba to the curb! Since Saturday, He has not taken a bottle! I have them all cleaned and put away. yay! :) good job Jai'! Sunday we headed over to the camp again for a small celebration for Jai and Channing( since they are 2 weeks apart)

Birthday Boys!

                                                       My sweet little water bugg!

                                                             My Godson! What a cutie!

Jai' LOVES being outside, So when we are at the camp he is in HOG heaven! We had such a nice time with our family and then stayed to sleep at the camp, because the following day was the boy's dreaded endo appointment.

Doctor Stender is suggesting for Julian to consider pumping again. Despite how good his Bg's look over all his average BG was 240, and that would be okay.. IF he had gained some weight. But Julian hasn't gained a single ounce since march, which leads her to believe 240 is just to high of a average for him. The average did increase since our last visit in March.. but here's what Josh and I agreed on. We would stay shy of the pump and use injections( its the way ju likes it) as LONG as his A1C and management didn't slip. This all to me shows slip, since his average increased.... sooo.. I see pumping in our near future. Dr. Stender still cant believe how much insulin Julian needs for his carb to insulin ratio.. so instead of bumping that up more she increased his basals. Once summer has ended, and my water bugs have to take a holiday.. we will then reapply the pump In hopes to get Ju gaining some weight, and lower those levels!

1 down 4 to go..

 

Jai has been teething like crazy, just last week i think i blogged abut him cutting 5 at the same time. Well... 1 down, four left to go.

In addition to battling conjunctivitis, we've also been battling diabetes(whats new..good thing is, new vial of insulin and we're much better) and teething. Lordy, my poor Jai jai is having it rough. He officially has all four bottoms, and now cutting all four tops... Can you see them pushing through?

 

poor bubba. he's not been the all that happy lately, as he want to constanly be gnawing on something, sucking a paci.. Booo.

Brighter note.. check this out! You all have no idea how delightful it was to see this!! Finally I feel like we are winning this race. I know its never going to stay this good for long, with illness & grow spurts, activity etc. But for this moment in time.. I was overjoyed with the feeling of ' WE're WINNING!' ... Yehhhh! Go Juju! I've upped his levemir and been using dex.. that's really the only difference lately, but seems like it's making huge impact on his management! cant wait for his appointment Monday.. yes I've said it. FOR the first time ever, IM NOT dreading going to the endo! I absolutely can not wait to show off these numbers!

ReReRescheduled birthday

Soooo....after Thursday, we decided to Rerereschedule  his party back for Saturday, and whoever decided it was worth driving in rain for, would come..and those who didn't... didn't. simply put. By Friday, I had been on medicine for 24 hours, my was just about healed.. yet, what happens Saturday? You guessed it, NOT only was it WORSE then the day before.. I had it in BOTH eyes!!!

 

 Party canceled AGAIN. my heart was shattered! Because this time, there was no rescheduling again. So much money, time, preparation went into everything.. and yet no one got to enjoy it. However, the show must go on, so Josh and I did the best we could to give our Jai Jai a party just with our little family. So after lunch, we snacked on a veggie trey.. and then cut the cake..

 

 

 Not to awful being my first time using fondant, and it sitting in the freezer for 48 hours, then was taken out and it started to sweat/color smear, so I had to put it back in fridge, LOL learned ALOT by making this cake.

 Party favors, that I handed out to neighbors ha.

 Jai really enjoyed his cake... and I must admit, this was the FIRST birthday party that I actually enjoyed as well. No hectic chaos, no pleasing guest, just me in my jammies, on the back porch enjoying watching our baby enjoy his day.

 After cake.. the boys played in the rain.. daddy set up a at home water park, and they playyyyeeddd for the longest time! ( that's one way to avoid bringing the cake mess indoors haha..)

I can not begin to tell how much I adore these two boys. They are both growing far to quickly for my liking, and days like today mean the world to me. NO things didn't go as planned, but it was with out doubt one of the fondest memories we've made so far. A rainy day, spent at home, devoted to nothing but fun, and kids, eating junk, playing in the rain, lots of laughter, giggles and smiles. Life doesn't get much better than this!

Happy Birthday Party Day to the sweetest little Jai butt in the whole entire world! :)

pink eye epidemic

 
 
 

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 The pink eye epidemic continues.... and seriously I could not be more upset with the timing! Both boys have been 100% clear since Monday( it started Friday). I was feeling so thankful for the clear up, since due to the weather this weekend, we moved Jai's party up til today(fourth of july). It was conveniently a day that everyone had off& everyone seemed as to have no plans.. so why not? Yesterday(Tuesday), Josh woke up with pink eye. WTF. really? all the cleaning I did this weekend, and again Monday when the germ appeared to be gone, then out of the blue that! ....we started giving Josh drops right away, so he'd had the antibiotic for 24 hours prior to the party... and not be contagious... yeah well... Wednesday came, and everything for Josh was looking really good..PRAISE GOD.

Then the day of the party(Thursday July 4th).. I wake up like this.. REALLY????

More..from my broken hearted on independence day...

As most of you know, we rescheduled Jai's party due to the rain storms that were headed our way, so the new date fell on independence day. I went to bed around 2:30 am after setting everything up for his party the following morning. Only to wake up to the dreaded Pink eye. I was so so so broken hearted to have to cancel his party again, but I couldn't take the risk of infecting one else.

we decided we'd still give him his present since it was out on the bricks, and bout boys had already taken such interest in the big green box, and we threw everything else in the freezer until we decided if we would try to RE RE schedule.

Here are some pictures of Jai opening his present....

                                                        look how big my baby looks!

 

 

Both of my kids are such water babies! They would stay in water if they could.. no fear when it comes to water, they never get tired of it.. just completely LOVE anything that has to do with water. SO this present was prefect for Jai Jai.

                                                        lol trying to drink the water...

 Meanwhile, my other water baby was in the pool across the street... he literally swam from sun up to sun down on  July 4th.

                                                      his best friend Brian..haha

 && Jai did a little swimming too!

 

I stayed away from the crowds, and slept a crap ton. yippy happy fourth to all!