Kaitlens ortho appt

You can click the pic to see it larger. Pretty cool huh? The verdict is... thumb sucking has not done its damage! but to work on getting her to stop. He did explain she needs to stop now because it will be very hard to stop at 13, 16, 18 yrs old. and by then she will have severe damage requiring oral surgery and breaking her upper jaw/mouth/pallet... i don't remember what he called it. So she knows what will happen if she doesn't stop. The nice thing was the DR sucked his finger till he was 8, so he knows how it goes.

So thumb sucking is really the non-issue here. What we did find out is she does not and will never have 10 of her teeth.... that is a lot to be missing. Thankfully, 4 of them are the wisdom teeth but that still leaves her with less teeth than she needs. Below the green spots are the 6 missing teeth and the red spots, those teeth, he believes are her 12 y/o molars, not her 6 y/o molars. So those have already moved one tooth space closer to making up for her 6y/o molars not being there. He does not believe that those 2 molars can move one whole other tooth over further closing in the gap and where those two black spaces are with the green dots on top, that's where she will have implants put in when shes done growing.. at 16?

around about the age of 12 she will needs braces to close up gaps, line everything up and depending on what those two top empty spaces are doing then a retainer until she gets the implants.... so for now we see the Dr in a yr. We work on the thumb sucking in the mean time.

OH, and if her primary teeth where the 2 empty spaces are... if they don't fall out then she wont need the implants... here's for hoping eh?

♥Lisa♥

Kaitlen's Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Time Line HSP

One of the frustrating things when Kaitlen had the Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (HSP) was there was no time line for me to go off of. I know all the cases can vary, but it's nice to have something more than "it's takes about a week" which we found out later it can take upto two weeks to do it's thing. So we didnt know why this happens, and day in and day out we had no idea what to except-no idea when it would end.

(Click on pic for larger view)

I made kaitlens time line in case there is someone out there looking for one. This went from Dec 14th 2009 to Dec 24th, 2009.

♥Lisa♥

waiting for her Zofran :(

Kaitlen in the car in the Walmart parking lot waiting for her Zofran Rx.

♥Lisa♥

Kaitlen update (Saturday)

(Sorry FB people you already know most of this)
She slept most of the day on Thurs, Wednesday really wore her out. So, Friday was her class party. (yay) She was so excited to go see her friends and the teachers.

Her party ran over the 1/2 hour it was suppose to be so I left her there and went to cody's class for his. After Cody's was over I went back and got sister. By the time we got home she was not walking again :( outings are officially a no-no while she has this.

Today wasn't a good day. She was in pain and her pain meds were making her vomit pretty bad. So I had Ben call the peds office to change her pain med. The meds she wanted to change them to she couldn't because it couldnt be called in over the phone it had to be a written Rx. So she is still on the Codeine, but they also added Zofran so she doesn't throw up. So finally this afternoon she got the Zofran dose and about an hour later she ate a couple bites of oatmeal and about 20 minutes after that I gave her a 1/4 does of pain meds and 30 minutes later the world was right. She didn't get sick, she actually ate dinner, and since her pain was under control she could walk. Such a relief that she is feeling better. Now I have to keep her from getting up and walking, lol. The Dr wants to see her in the office on Monday and recheck her kidneys and see how she is doing by then. It generally takes a week, but this Dr on the phone said it can sometimes take 2 weeks. Monday will be a week, we are hoping that she's better by then.

Here are some pics of her arm and stomach. Her legs look so much better. She also has a spot on her ear. If you look hard enough its that pinker spot midway down.

you can click on the belly pic to see the spots

♥Lisa♥

Kaitlen update

The abdominal part of the HSP started this afternoon at literally like 3:45. Funny how with this, things just come on all-of-a-sudden. He almost thought she wasn't going to get the abdominal pain. She, unfortunately, is vomiting. She has to stay hydrated because of how this can affect the kidneys. We have now switched to pedialyte to help her out.

She's not asking for any pain medicine right now which is good because I don't think she could hold it down. It's been 8 hours since her last dose? :( I feel so bad for her. We were going to take her to her party at school on Friday and during her last throwing up episode she said she doesn't want to go to her party. I just hope she's feeling better soon.

♥Lisa♥

Henoch-Schonlein Purpura

I went to pick kaitlen up from school as normal and on the way to the car she was limping very bad. Like when your leg falls asleep and your knee dips down when you step. I asked her if her foot had fallen asleep or if she hurt it. She said she hurt it, that there was a scratch and a bump on it................ I lifted her pant leg to this and almost died. As im leaving the school I call Ben to tell him Im headed straight to his work to call and make a Dr appt that there was something wrong with Kaitlens leg.

We get to the Dr (even debated the ER, they are right by each other) We were fitted in with in an hour.

As soon as the Dr walked in Kaitlen asked him,"Do you know what this is?" shaking her hands at her legs..... He said, yes I do. My Granddaughter had the same thing a couple months back. (Right then and there i felt SOOOO Much better)

Kaitlen has Henoch-Schonlein Purpura she was sick last week and missed tues-fri from school so it really helps explain it. Her autoimmune system has freaked out a tad bit. At the Drs her right leg had only a couple small spots and now its just like the left leg. she is getting small spots on her bum now. i wonder what tomorrow will look like??

By the time we got to the Drs she could no longer stand or walk because of the pain. :( He has given her codine for the pain. It's only going to get worse and he says by the time shes done with it she'll look like someone beat her with a rubber hose.

He tested her urine to make sure there was no blood from her kidneys and their wasn't. He says we can come back as often as we want just to ease our worry. I hope her tummy doesnt hurt to bad when that starts :(.

I have never heard of this and so far no one I know has ever seen this. Now, I'll see it all over the place, lol.


♥Lisa♥

Part of K's costume

Kaitlen is going to be a bumble bee for Halloween (her BFF is going to be a daisy) So this is what i have so far. Her knee high socks, and i made her a yellow tutu and instead of alternating black and yellow i did it all yellow and tied some black tulle through out it.

Here it is from underneath.

The other kids are going to be:
Abigail- Minnie Mouse
Matthew- The Hulk
Cody- Van Helsing (you'll just have to look it up)
Thomas- he's on his own this year.


♥Lisa♥

Cheer

The pics are backwards, but o'well. This was their performance to Wipe out. They are in the middle of a shimmy.

The girls took, group and individual pics. We get them at the game when they perform for our town.

Abbie was light brown, then red haired and now she is blonde.

♥Lisa♥

chipped tooth

Kaitlen chipped her left front tooth when she was swimming under water. Her eyes were closed and she hit the step. You can see it's just the inside corner and I think her teeth are so young that they still have all those bumps to smooth out so it really won't be noticeable when she is older, but still I'll have her dentist tell me that instead of me assuming, lol.

♥Lisa♥

Today at Cheer camp

Today I finally remembered to bring my camera to cheer. Today was crazy hair day so I put many ponytails in Kaitlens hair :)

Kaitlen and Jasmine

Jasmine, Kaitlen and Meme- In 10 years they will be such trouble.

BFF

J, K, B, & M

K's hair

Toward the end, the fire alarm went of at the school and we had to exit the building.

So they did some chants and fun stuff

The young ones were actually practicing.

We got to go back in. There was no fire. People were doing work in a different area of the building and they think that's what set it off.

♥Lisa♥

1st day of cheer camp

Today kaitlen and her BFF Jasmine went to cheer camp. They ran into their other BFF Meme (in the yellow shirt by the wall) They had a blast. It was too cute.



♥Lisa♥

My kids at the skate park

and thankfully no one else was there. This is obviously not their sport. Matthew took all his gear off except his helmet and we couldn't find one of K's knee pads. We have learned for our kids that skateboarding at the park is a Fall, Winter, and Spring sport, not Summer. They did have 'fun' and they learned about having quick reflexes.


♥Lisa♥

Teacher Gifts

This is what we did for the end of the year teacher gifts.

Kaitlen made Mrs. P a necklace, I helped.

Cody made Mrs. O a magnet.

on a scrabble tile.

Matthew has 5 teachers, yes 5. Matthew did the bottle cap one and I did the rest. I still have to string them, but his last day of school is Tues, so I have time.

With 7 teachers to buy for I have to go cheap. These were pretty cheap to make.


♥Lisa♥

Spaghetti Contest and Apron Giveaway!!!

Contest open to the US, Canada and the UK!!!!

This contest was thought up completely by my 6 y/o daughter. She wants me to give away a Little Mama Apron. For you to win it, you have to send me a picture that has to do with spaghetti. It can be anything as long as spaghetti is involved: Kids eating spaghetti, mom making spaghetti, a plate of spaghetti you just served up. OR if you happen to have a Matthew living in your house it could even be spaghetti noodles on your tv screen not that Matthew has ever done anything like that and definitely not last week.

Here is an example of what the apron will look like. I will be shopping for the fabric on Sunday and will make it on Monday or Tues and post pics of it. I'll be looking for a summery fabric, something that makes you want to serve dinner on the back patio. hope I find it. LOL.
What to do......

1. Find a picture you already have OR take new ones. You have plenty of time.
2. Email me your picture, please add your blogger user name in the email.
3. Leave me a comment saying you emailed me a pic.
(If you'd like you can blog and link back so others can play)

What happens next....

1. I will upload everyones picture to my spaghetti contest album in photobucket as I get them. So everyone can enjoy looking at them.
2. The day after the contest ends I will set the album to private and I will sit with Kaitlen and ask her row by row to pic her two favorite, the 3rd will be deleted. This will go until SHE has picked a winner.
3. I will announce the winner on my blog.

you can submit more than one pic, I know it's hard to decide.

CONTEST ENDS MAY 31, 2009 AT 11:59 CENTRAL TIME.

I have one huge favor!! Please no vomited spaghetti pics, lol. I just know someone has one out there.

oh, pedophiles.... don't send pics of your noodle and meatballs, my daughter doesnt open my emails and she'll never see it. (and, um, I know where you live :O )


♥Lisa♥

Great deal

I mentioned earlier that our cake maker is moving to New Zealand. She is having a garage sale and I stopped by. Just about everything was marked 25cents. So i got about 10 cake/cupcake pans and this hanging organizer. I have been wanting to get something for the kids school clothes. Every night i set out their clothes and with this i can get it ready for the whole week. tops, bottoms, underwear and socks. very cool. I can also hang Kaitlen's dresses.

♥Lisa♥

Kaitlen's first tball game in 2009

The girls FINALLY had their first game. Their first 3 games were rained out and they were excited to finally play.

Kaitlen and Jasmine

Kaitlen on first base.

Getting ready to bat.

Running home.

yea!!

Abigail playing with her boyfriend Reece.

I had planned on posting this a couple days ago, but I've had a headache coming on and it finally hit today. I had to call Ben to pick the kids up from school and then eventually asked him to stay home from work. He picked up the older kids, then realized he forgot to get Matthew which was on his way from work to the big kids school so he had to backtrack and he got me the over the counter migraine medicine and finally made it home. I took the medicine and he took the kids to Oklahoma to get a lotto ticket and he also came back with a new dog house. Which is weird because Ben doesn't shop for dog houses. I do. It even has the clear plastic flappy door on it.


♥Lisa♥