Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from the Heath Family.  

Friends and Snow

Saturday we got to meet up with some friends who live a few hours away. We meet at "Melt" a very yummy Cleveland place to eat! They make all different kinds of grilled cheese sandwiches. 

And of course had a Star Wars theme going on this weekend

Then we went to a metro park to play. 

S'mores 

Yum!

Throwing snow balls at his Mama

Snow angel

Snow angel 

Licking snow

My snow bear

Friends!!

Chesse 

It's all fun and games till someone gets whitewashed 

But we really had a fun time hanging out and playing in the snow. It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas!!!!

 

Hockey

Wednesday night we took the kids to a Lake Erie Monsters game. We really enjoyed watching hockey, the kids had a blast!

The next morning we lost our "mummy" at the Cleveland Art Museum. She was at the doctor with Kyle. 

Heading home

Kyle had a good night and is off the oxygen so we get to go home. 

Reading books

After his bed bath

Thanks for the prayers. 

Back in the hospital

This morning Kyle ended up in th ER for breathing problems, after a short stay they took us by ambulance downtown and admitted Kyle. We walked the fine line of almost ending up in the ICU, but on the trip down he started looking good enough for the peds floor. 

It ends up Kyle has pneumonia. He is doing much better but are thankful for the watchful eyes of the doctors and nurses. 

Thankful

We had a nice quiet Thanksgiving yesterday. We reminisced about past thanksgivings and we're thankful to all be together. We enjoyed time together as a family and had a neighbor over for dinner. Thankful for all we have.  

We babysat 2 neighbor dogs for the day

Kids and dogs:-)

Sparking cider 

Good to the last drop!!

He is home

They "let" Kyle escape this afternoon. He is looking like his old self again.

I'm free!!!!

Home and happy. 

Praise God he's feeling better and thanks for the prayers. 

Please Keep Praying

Well as of this morning things are looking up. We had as good of a nights rest as you can probably get in the hospital with someone coming in every 2 hours to check something. However after his blood draw this morning at 0530 he puked up all over the bed. Not sure what the doctors will make of that but it's not that unusual for him to do. For the most part it sounds like they are happy with his improvement thus far and we are just waiting on the early morning blood work to come back and for the doctor's panel to meet and talk about him this morning. They hope he will be good to go home but they are making no promises. 

Still sleeping so far. 

We are thankful to God for his improvement your continued prayers

Silly boy is awake now 

Bugga Day 3

Well we are at day three now. Kyle is looking better. They did a couple more tests today that we are waiting on results. They also did an ultrasound and chest X-ray which both came back normal for Kyle. There is a little consern with his white blood cell count and he is on a preventive antibiotic because that makes him susceptible to catching something. Katie went home for the evening to hopefully get a good nights sleep for a change. 

His wheelchair was "to small" he told us. 

Being goofy. 

Playing trains. 

He's managed to clean the nurses out of all the cups of diced peaches today 

Watching a movie before bed. 

Passed out right as the nurse was coming to give his his Meds. Tired boy. 

They are hoping we will be able to leave tomorrow but we will see in the morning. 

Bugga Monster Update

A quick update on Kyle aka Bugga Monster. He was looking much better today. They took him off of the heavy antibiotic he was on and removed all of the infectious disease protocol. His appetite was back as he devoured six of the little cups of peaches and a grilled cheese sandwich this afternoon. His energy level still isn't very high evident by his being content just sitting in bed all day.  The blood cultures should have results back tomorrow afternoon sometime and if they are good hopefully he will be able to come back home. Your continued prayers for him and his wonderful yet very tired momma are greatly appreciated. 

Ps sorry I didn't get a picture of him today but here is an old one just for fun. 

Avoiding the ICU

For those of you that don't know we ended up in the hospital again yesterday with Kyle. He woke up not looking well and after a morning just lying on the couch had a fever of 105. Which was immediately followed by a trip to the ER. Once there they pumped fluids onto him and started him on antibiotics. When I left last night he was looking much better and the fever had subsided, however they weren't sure what had caused the fever in the first place. Praise God that they got it down because they were going to admit him to the ICU he looked so bad. Your continued prayers for Kyle, Katie and the rest of us are much appreciated and needed. 

His new airplane to show his brother. 

The duck he "stole" from me that Josh got when he was admitted to San Francisco Children's 10 years ago. 

Science Day

Last Friday the kids and I got to go to a class on polymers. We had lots of fun. 

Kyle took his linking job very serious

Josh hiding in the back

Lots of fun!

Monday was a gorgeous Ohio fall day so we went hiking. 

I will post our exciting news from Sunday soon!!

Kyle update

Thank you for the prayers and phone calls. It is very comforting to hear voices we know care deeply for Kyle and our whole family. Kyle had a pretty good day. His energy level is not up to peak 3 year old status but it is better than it has been. We have had no temps for a few days so the antibiotics seem like they are working. Praying we stay on the upward swing. 

Here are some pictures from tonight. He was clinging on my leg while I was making dinner. 

Goofy boy

He had so much fun tonight on the iPad with his Nanny ( and Mommy enjoyed a break from my shadow) it was so cute to see him playing board games, hide and seek ,Ball, cars,  and lots of giggling all thru the iPad. He is a pretty creative kid who does not let little things like a few thousand miles stand in the way of having fun with Nanny. 

This was Saturday morning, he told Wade he stole his boots