The Strasser's

Well I have finally jumped on the bandwagon again. I have worked out two times this week so far. I can't getting up early that is why it has been so hard for me to workout in the morning. So I have been trying to get on a better schedule of going to bed at a better time and get up at 6:30, I am hoping to eventually get up at 5:30 ok maybe about 5:45.  I am hoping to lose some weight soon. I have been starting to keep my measurements of and weight to see how I am doing each week. Another goal I am trying to accomplish Flylady . I was doing it for a while, well I guess I was trying to do it. Lately I have been going through stuff like crazy and trying to get rid of stuff so there is less stuff to have to take care of. Another goal we trying is to have consistent FHE each week. And the last goal I am working on right now is planning meals better each week.

I have been going through pictures and I have found some from this summer. I guess I have more to blog about. But I will blog some more sometime this week. I am have some things I need to accomplish and I need to decorate for Halloween/ Fall.

Well a lot has been going on as usual in our house. So after a while I  finally got Evan back into the physical therapist. His physical therapist was actually out of the country for a while working, so that is why it took a little while to get back into physical therapy. So the plan for Evan now, is to have his hearing checked, since he doesn't make a whole lot of variety noises, she was thinking that having it checked would be good to see if there is a problem.  I am waiting for a referral from the doctor so I can a make an appointment for that. 2. the Early Intervention. Which I was told is FREE. I also have to get a doctor referral that. 3.  Speech therapist that deals with feeding, he has a problem with some thicker textured foods. So she was thinking that they could help with that. 4. Seeing the Genetics doctors,  he actually saw them when he was younger but sometimes it is harder to tell with an infant. So maybe they can piece things together to see if ...

Well we have been pretty busy in our house. Well here is a catch up on how everyone is doing. Basically the usual stuff. Cory- He is still looking for a job. He has been pretty busy with the books. Owen- Is a busy boy. I had gotten caramel sundae's for the kids and I and we went back to the strasser's and we were eating outside and the yellow jackets  decided to bother us. Alyssa and I got up with our sundae's and Owen just sat there and he was swatting them in the air, I was a afraid that he was going to get stung. One of them finally landed on the edge of his cup and he hit it and it fell in the ice cream he was so proud of himself he kept saying "mom i hit it". Alyssa- Our little kindergartener, she is loving school. She has been riding the bus home and has met a few kids. This morning she said " Oh I am going to be late for school we better hurry". I had to explain there were two days there was not school. Evan- He is doing better. He has lost a ...

The surgery went well. But It has been kind of a rough day for me. It is very hard to change Evan's diaper because he is in two different diapers. He is wearing a size 4 and a size 5 right now. He is very wiggly and tries to grab at the gaze and has grabbed the catheter once.  I have kind of figured out a quick way to change him, so I am hoping it will go smoother tonight and tomorrow.

Well I got home last night. I was worried that it was going to be over night since the surgery went later. I am glad we didn't have to stay the night. Right before we headed home he was given some main reliever. He was suppose to get some more at about 12 or 1. Well we all slept through that and about 5:30 this morning he woke up crying. So now he has been given some medicine and had his diapers changed, Which is kind of a two person job. And than Owen woke up. I think I am going to head back to bed for a little bit.

Well they called with another update. It will not be a 1 stage surgery. He will have another surgery somewhere around January-February time. So 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours left.

Evan being silly in his Bumbo chair, This was taken a couple of weeks ago.

 Alyssa started Kindergarten on Tuesday. She is loving school so far!

They called from the operating room with an update while I was writing the entry. The nurse said they started about 40 minutes ago and everything is going good. They were still in the process of dropping his testicles. They will call in an hour and half with another update.

Ok so we got to doernbecher's at about 9:15.  They were suppose to take him back at about 10:50. Which was not the case. I guess the doctor was in surgery with a patient with the same thing as Evan. But they were able to do the other boy's surgery in one, that surgery was 5 hours long. They usually say it could be two surgeries because they actually don't know until they get in the operating room.  I am crossing my finger's that it will be one! So we were sitting for about 3 1/2 hours. Evan was pretty frustrated because he isn't able to eat, and all he wanted to do was eat and go back to bed. He finally went to sleep after a lot of pacing the floor and rocking him, My arms were a little sore. So a little after 1:00 the doctor's (there are two doctor's doing the surgery) and the anesthesiologist came out introduced themselves. So about 1:30 they were ready to come and get him. I was able to walk all the way to were the doors are that no one can go past.  He ...

Lots to talk about. We are trying to fix the laptop. So hopefully It will be ready by Friday, So I have something to do while I am waiting during surgery. So I will trying getting more updated later this week.

Next Friday is Evan's Surgery. He will being have surgery on his penis and testicles. Today was his Pre-Operation appointment. So Evan's doctor, Dr Bayne. He talked about what he is going do first during the surgery. First he wanted to drop Evan's Testicle's down. He said for each one it will take about an hour and half for both. Expect for the right one. He said he couldn't really find it this time, but last time it was a little more easier.  And Evan's other doctor, hormone doctor, felt the right one in June. So Dr. Bayne wasn't to concerned but if he had to he would insert a small camera through Evan's belly button.   So that is going to be about maybe three hours for his testicles, unless it takes more time to drop them down. Than the next part of the surgery is to reconstruct his penis. Dr Bayne said that he hopes they could do all of this in one surgery but that maybe not the case. So it might end up being two surgeries. So after this one the s...

Well I was out in the garage this morning working and I came in and Owen was naked, when I saw that he was naked I told him to put underwear on. I could smell something not right. I changed Evan and he it wasn't him. I looked at Owen and he had one hand in his mouth and another going towards his bottom. He brought his back up and he had poop all over his hand. I went closer and there was poop on my shoe and a bunch of clean clothes, he got the couch some and on the floor in a good amount of area. I was not a happy person. 

Shawn after getting home from the airport, getting ready to eat some pizza and ice-cream Uncle Bryan swimming with the kids, he was making waves in the pool Owen Having Fun Mike celebrating his birthday before taking Shawn to be released. Happy Birthday Mike!!! Shawn Owen and Porter playing dress up before leaving for the airport. Waiting at the airport Heather, Michael , and Bryan

Camp Rock was a camp for the kids in the stake ages ranging from 5-11. Alyssa and her cousin Siosi were able to be in this program together in the same group. They had lot's of fun. They learned acting, performance, leading, singing and I think there were a couple of other things.

I have been having some goals running through my head for days and I have been feeling a little overwhelmed. Some of them include exercising, keep up with laundry (along with putting it away right after it is dry), I would like to go through things and get rid of some stuff,  etc. I am hoping my week is VERY productive.

Well I checked over this post a couple of times and I think I added everything I can possibly remember I was up at 4:30 in the morning and went to bed about 9:30 that night. So after a year they decided to close his PDA . They did a  Cardiac Catheterization on him. We were surprised that it didn't take that long because we were told 2-3 hours. Before they got started doing everything they had to get iv line in him. So they gave him a sedative, they gave half the dose. The first guy couldn't get it in and they only like to poke twice and he had done that. He was using a light held directly up against the skin. So he told them to call the panda team, they specialize in the pediatrics and have more special/ expensive light that works better with kids. So after he left the nurse ended up calling them and we were thinking that his sedative was wearing off so we told her and she gave the other half of sedative to him. By the time the panda team came he was not happy. It took Co...

We are getting ready to leave for the hospital.

Ugh I haven't been on the bandwagon for exercising for a little while. While we were traveling we tried not to eat as much. I was going to bring my running shoes and run in the morning because of the heat. But I forgot to grab them. So hopefully this week I can go run at least once or twice. Thursday onto the weekend  are not going to be great because of Evan's heart procedure on Friday. Not sure if it will be an overnight stay or not. But I will update on friday afternoon.