A Busy Day!

Michael left for choir tour this morning. I missed getting to see him off this year, but yesterday we decided that I should go ahead and take Grant to the pediatrician and since they are "first come, first serve" on Saturdays we wanted to get there pretty early. Grant has had a little bit of cough and a tad bit of wheezing for a little over a week now. The cough wasn't a big deal, but I was worried about the wheezing and the rattling. Anyway, the pediatrician that was in today said he did have a bit of chest congestion and had a little bit of wheezing going on so she sent us with a prescription for an inhaler and a tube to use with it and we are hopeing it clears up within the week. Grant was so cute! I think he grinned at everyone he came across! We had a short wait in the room and we just laughed and played and had a good 'ole time! He goes back in a week and hopefully that will be cleared up. After the doctor we got our prescription, hurried home to pick up Ethan, feed both boys, unload the car (we found a baby food sale while waiting on our prescription!) and head back up the road to White Hall to visit with Michael's family. Somehow, after all that, I still had energy at the end of the day (while I was eating my 10:00 supper).

Now, to follow up on the previous post, Ethan has been released from the care of the ACH GI Clinic. Yay, Ethan!! His last tests showed that he is anemic, but his liver function tests are good enough that they are comfortable with the pediatrician monitoring them now. He is on an iron prescription now, which was a little worrisome at first when he's taking that, the multivitamin with iron, and the formula (which he refuses to take, anyway) has iron. Now he has started cereal, and that, too, is enriched with iron! The worrisome part comes in when you read the labels on the vitamin and the iron talking about the risk of overdose! So I have checked and double-checked that he wasn't getting too much. Now I'm just wondering how to keep the iron from staining his clothes!!

Boy, that energy I had faded quickly and I had to call it quits last night! It is now Sunday night and we've had a pretty good day. I haven't heard Grant wheezing any today, but I did have to pull the swaddle blankets back out so he won't startle himself awake so much on this medicine. I think it's just a cold (and I think he has shared it with Ethan, too!)
This is my brother, Alan, with his youngest, Carson, and with Ethan. This was a few weeks ago when our family was camping at Maumelle. Please be in prayer for Alan and his family. He started radiation Friday and has 4 more treatments scheduled. Monday and Wednesday's treatments are at 11:00 and Friday's is at 8:00 so that, hopefully, he and his wife will be able to go home and see thier kids for the weekend. Then he'll return for a 3:00 treatment the following Monday. We would really appreciate extra prayers for him at those times.
I have more pictures to upload, but it is taking too long tonight... maybe tomorrow.