March Madness

We had a rare nice day so Mike took the older kids

out to play while Nick napped.

Apparently we are going to have a couple soccer

players on our hands!

Sorry about the lack of Kinzie pics, she was

too fast for Mike to catch her on film.

And for the Nick fans, more next time!

Charlie learned to draw the letter A,

upper and lowercase!

You trace the top row, then

freehand the bottom. He

did a pretty good job I think!

And the number 1!

Playin the Wii, and watching!

Sorry this are kind of loud! Charlie got a

new Wii game, its interactive and the

kids loved it!

Just another day for the Munsons

Pretty self explanatory!! He HATES them!

Kinzie wanted to send a shout out to her Papa!


And then of course, Charlie to his Nana


My lil piano man!


Ok, so I hate that I am in this, but had to show

his new skills!

playdates, doctor appointments and Bucky Convington!?!?

The kids enjoyed a playdate last week, their friends Hannah, Addison, and Sydney came over to play for awhile! (And of course Mommies April and Tiffanie came over to socialize with ME!) At one point the kids were all being VERY quiet, when I went to check on them, this is what I found!

Nick really hates green beans!
And he's my 1st child to actually LIKE wearing hats!

My friend Sheila talked me into going to the local Kazabra club (little bar on base) for a USO performance. Bucky Covingtong was a contestant on American Idol a few years ago. I wasn't too thrilled about the artist, but was excited to get out of the house! Turns out, he's actually not so bad!

Medical updates: We've had quite the collection of doctor appointments lately. I was waiting for them all to be over to update the blog about them. Will start with Nick and work our way up!

Nicholas has been struggling to gain weight, and had 2 weight checks in the last week. His 1st was on Tuesday and it was exactly 2 wks after his last weight check. He gained a whopping 1 pound 6 ounces in 2 wks! Finally over 15 lbs! He has to go back in a month (March 30) just to check back and make sure he's still improving. The 2nd weight check went as expected. After he gained weight the 1st time I knew it would be good news and it was. Sadly I DID end up giving up nursing. He is fully on bottles and jar food (plus fruit and veggies puffs, and as much table food as he can get!) He is simply thriving now. Crawling, rolling, trying to pull himself up! Such a happy little thing as well! Always laughing.

Kinzie had a cardiology check-up. For those that don't know, or don't remember. When she was born she had a small hole between her upper chambers of her heart (which created a heart murmur), and what we were told was an underdeveloped artery going to her left lung. She had a check-up last when she was 4 months old and already by then, the hole was starting to close up, the cardiologist was pretty optimistic that it would completely close up on its own. We took her in just to make sure everything really was healing on it's own. The new cardiologist confirmed that the hole did indeed close up, and the artery was allowing the proper amount of blood flow to her lung. She is officially no longer referred to, or considered a cardiology patient! YAY!

Charlie had a normal 4 year old well child appointment. At that visit, he basically failed his vision test. He was seeing 20/40 (he could see at 20 what most people see at 40), and I wanted to have his lazy eye checked out because in MY opinion it appeared to be getting worse. The peds dr referred us back over to opthalmology. At that appointment, Charlie had to do a repeat vision test and it was very apparent to me that he would indeed be needing glasses. When the tech was testing his left eye, he couldn't name any of the letters, but with the right he got almost all of them. The dr confirmed that yes he would be getting a prescription for glasses, he can see 20/40 in his right eye, and 21/50 in the left (we ordered the glasses, could take up to 2 weeks to get, he looks so cute, and was sooo excited about them the day we picked them out!). As far as his lazy eye, it went from being very intermittent, to very obvious. She is hoping that wearing the glasses will help him get it refocused and allow him to gain control over it again. If not, we will have to start patching his eye. She also told me that he has really bad astygmatisms in both eyes. Poor kid, he inherited his father and I's poor eyesight.

As for me, I went into endocrinology and basically got no answers. The dr needs to see my old records just to see what we COULD be dealing with. I have to get an ultrasound done on my neck. The dr wants to see if there is anything 'foreign' in there and if so, if it will be big enough to biopsy. I also had to do a bunch of lab work that she had sent off to the states for more in depth testing. She said she was looking for tumor markers, which is apparently what showed up in the labs that the 1st dr did. She is wanting to make sure it's not a fluke, or bad testing or something. She did emphasize to me, that she wants me to be seen by an endocrinologist for the rest of my life.

Oh and Mike is healthy and fine! Ha ha. He is hating ALS, but he's halfway done. His graduation is March 31st. I am not really sure if he's learning anything from the classes, but it gives us something to talk about at night!