Saturday, November 22, 2014

Cosmic Bowling. Whistons and McNamaras 11-22-2014
















Sunday, November 9, 2014

Sunday Funday

November 9, 2014.  Sunday Funday brings us to Ju Rin for some scallops. 

We also worked on some school art projects.



Saturday, November 8, 2014

School Pictures 2014

This week I received William's and Juliet's school pictures. School pictures are always a fun surprise.  You get your child all ready for picture day and wait for the results...

When I opened William's school picture packet I was overwhelmed with happy tears and a memory of a conversation that we had one of William's NICU doctors came rushing back to me.

As any parent would be, we were full of questions in the beginning and were terrified for what the future may hold for our son.  We expressed that we were worried that our son would not be in "the class" - I think were the words we used. We were trying to discuss Williams's short life expectancy. The doctor began to assure us that what we were looking at does not affect his mental capacity and did not engage in the life expectancy discussion. We did not have a diagnosis, so life expectancy was something that was unknown and extremely frightening,

I recently had dinner with some MTM mothers and the same topic came up during our conversations. Most had similar stories of doctors telling them the best we could do was to "enjoy your baby". As I sat and listened, I thanked God for our NICU/PICU doctors and nurses and our amazing pediatrician who never gave up on William or our family. One day shortly after we received William's diagnosis I was in his pediatrician's office and again brought up the topic of life expectancy. She stopped me mid-sentence and said that we were going to be proactive and aggressively attack even the slightest cold. She gave me her cell phone and told me I could call her anytime.

Thanks to all of these wonderful, caring physicians, I have school pictures of William. They collectively saved his life and gave him and us a chance. I will forever be grateful.


William's 3 year preschool picture 2014-2015


William's Preschool Class 2014-2015

Juliet's Kindergarten Picture 2014-2015 

Friday, November 7, 2014

Halloween 2014


Halloween 2014!

This year our kids started discussing Halloween costumes in September. Juliet wanted to be Elsa from Frozen and William picked out Buzz Lightyear with RC!


For those of you not familiar with Toy Story. RC is the Race Car, probably most know from the scene in the first movie when Buzz and Woody are chasing the moving truck. (see pictures below.)



On one of William's sick days in September, William and his nurse sat down and did a internet search for a cool wheelchair Halloween costume. And they found it! They found a little boy whose parents made him a RC.  http://ideas.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/2012/11/04/coolest-homemade-buzz-lightyear-rc-wheelchair-costume/

William was so excited when he showed me the costume he picked out. I on the other hand was a little intimidated, but how could I say no an excited little boy.  So I said why not! I can make RC for William!!

Included are some pictures of my progress. I used foam board to make RC; it comes in huge sheets in the insulation section of Home Depot, a hot glue gun with foam glue, my carving tool of choice was an electric knife (for family reading this blog...I could use a new electric knife for Christmas) and pool noodles for the grill!






Here are some picture of William in his Halloween costume at his preschool! They had a parade outside and William was the line leader! I think he was excited and proud of his cool costume, which makes all the hard work worth it! (Who am I kidding, I loved making RC for him!)