October 5, 2013 - 2nd Swim Meet

We had our second swim meet today in Cocoa.  It was super hot and super long.  It started with us picking Kaylyn up from her lock-in at the school at 7:00 am.  Apparently they did not get to bed until 4:00 am and she hadn't had her medicine yet.  I gave her medicine to her and packed up all her stuff and we headed off to the meet.  We had to be there at 7:45 to setup the tent for the kids.  We let Kaylyn eat before the meet even though it hadn't been quite an hour since she had taken her medicine.  Given that she only had three hours of sleep, she did pretty well at the meet.  Ashlyn did awesome except with her back stroke.  Her goggles started leaking and she kept trying to fix them as she was swimming. Her breaststroke however was awesome!  She kept up with most of the kids and almost tied with three other kids at the end.  She beat her last time by more than 25 seconds!  Jesse did good at this meet also.  He got a few second places again!  After the meet with went to lunch at Coconuts on the Beach with Annie and Allison and their parents. 

A rainbow to start our morning

September 27, 2013 - Jason Update

So, Jason is still on anticoagulant medication (Coumadin), baby aspirin, and beta blocker.  He is still in pain and hates the pounding of his chest.  He's been having more pain lately and his scab is still not healing (falls off and scabs up again, constantly).  I finally forced him into going back up to Shand's today while we were on the field trip.  The doctor thought his scab looked infected so he prescribed him a very strong antibiotic (2000 mg/day) along with some antibiotic cream to put on it.  He also switched his beta blocker to a more potent brand to try and ease the pounding.  He said that everything else looked fine and his mechanical valve was working beautifully.  Low and behold, 24 hours later, Jason started feeling much better.  I have a feeling that the pain stemmed from an infection.  His scab is finally healed and everything is getting better.  There's still some pounding, but it's better than what it was.  The doctor also told him his INR could go lower now since it has been four months since the surgery.  He can regulate at 1.5-2.5 now.

September 27, 2013 - Brevard Museum Field Trip

Kaylyn's 6th grade class got to take a field trip to the Brevard Museum.  Since it fell on one of my off Fridays, I got to drive and chaperone.  It was a lot of fun!  I forgot my camera, so I used my phone and the lighting was horrible in the museum, so the pictures aren't that great.  The last picture is of Kaylyn attending a spreecast (live talk) with her favorite actress, G. Hannelius, who plays Avery on the Disney show Dog with a Blog.  She was so excited!

September 21, 2013 - 1st Swim Meet

CCS had their first swim meet today.  Whenever Ashlyn was swimming, Mrs. Pickard and Lynette would cheer her on even though she is not swimming for CCA.  It was so awesome.  She has come so far with her swimming and is improving slightly on her times.  Jesse did really well too for swimming for his first season!  He got a few second places even.  Kaylyn missed this first meet since she was playing a volleyball game.  This was the only volleyball game that interfered with the swim meets for the season.

Almost a false start :-)

September 18, 2013 - Beautiful Rainbow

Driving in to work today, I saw the most beautiful rainbow.  It spanned the entire sky and went from one side to the other.  It brightened my day and reminded me of God's glory and promise.  On September 21, we took two random pictures.  One of me with the animals and one of Jesse trying on cousin Taylor's karate uniform.

September 14, 2013 - Kaylyn's 1st Volleyball Game at CCS

So, the very first day of school for Kaylyn at CCS she broke out in a 103 fever for almost 9 days.  Turns out that it was her 12 year molars coming in!  My 11 year old baby still gets a high fever for teeth coming in!  Amazing!  Anyways, she missed the first and second volleyball game because of this.  So, this was the first volleyball game that she got to attend.  The other two kids, Ashlyn & Jesse, were at swim practice during the game.  CCS's swim team has many coaches whom have all been trained on how to teach kids to swim the different strokes.  They get in the pool with the kids, swim beside them underneath the water to see their form and correct.  They have actually taught Ashlyn how to do the backstroke!  It brought tears to our eyes when we saw this!  This is the first time Jesse has swam and he is learning to do the strokes very well.  Kaylyn is being corrected on her strokes since she has never been taught how to do them properly even though this is her fourth swim season.  It's very hard to learn to do something different when you've been doing it the same way for so long, but they are working with her and she is learning and doing very well.