14 pounds and counting

So from the title you might have thought this blog was going to be talking about Aislin. Well you were wrong. Aislin is up in the 15 lb. mark, but at 5 months old she has only put on 7 pounds since she was born (she weighed a little over 8lbs coming home from the hospital). No this blog is about Marra. Last January Marra weighed 64 lbs and looked great, she was also in the gym 6 days a week cheering and tumbling. The picture below is from last cheer season when she was right around 64 lbs.

If you read back over my blogs, Marra was down to 54 lbs in June after all her medical problems.

Below is a picture taken on the 4th of July. She was so skinny she looked unhealthy.

The next picture was at the beach about a month and a half later, she was starting to put on weight at this time, but still was too skinny.

Tonight she just happened to put on the same swim suit to go in Mama Lou and Pappy Jim's hot tub. She looks so much healthier! She is up to 68 lbs!! That is 14 lbs in 5 months!

She has yet to put all her muscle definition back, and we are only in the gym 2 days a week this year. But she is healthy and happy. She has also grown 2 inches in the past 3 months and gone up 2.5 shoes sizes.

This is Marra at the beginning of October carving pumpkins with cousin Ethan!

Turkey Day Fun

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Kieran Update

Kieran went in for his esophageal scope and colonoscopy yesterday.

He had these tests done because he has been having blood and mucus in his stool and he has been having a lot of acid reflux again (he was on meds for this from 6 months old until 1 and a half). We did two stool analyses and a blood test before scheduling the procedures, all came up negative, which pretty much just told us that all his organs were functioning correctly and that he did not currently have any bacterial infections. The GI thought the most plausible cause of his problems was colon polyps.

So Tuesday was lots of fun. We had to do a colonoscopy prep, which consisted of shoving laxatives down Kieran's throat all day long and then cleaning liquid pooh diapers every 10 minutes. Good Fun.

The esophageal scope showed the upper part of his stomach is red, inflamed, and irritated. The colonoscopy showed that there were no polyps, which is wonderful! No cancer, no Crohns! But all the lymph nodes in his colon are swollen.

The swelling causes bleeding and mucus every time poop slides over it and irritates the lymph nodes.

The lymph nodes are swollen for one of two reasons. The first he had an intestinal bacterial infection and the lymph nodes are still swollen because of the infection, or he has food allergies that are aggravating the lymph nodes.

So we get to have him on a laxative to make his pooh soft to keep from irritating the lymph nodes until we figure out exactly what is going on. She took biopsies the entire way up and down so that she can figure out what is going on. We should have those result by the end of next week.

Busy Weekend

We kicked off the weekend with Trick or Treating on Friday night - see below for pics.

Saturday Marra had her first party with 9 friends from school and the gym over to watch movies and eat tons of junk food! The girls seemed to have a good time and they all got along wonderfully!

Marra's girlfriend Tabby spent the night and they decided to get up at 6:30 AM, thinking it was 7:30 (because that is so much better) since we had the time change.
Sunday morning we had Sunday school and church and the kids sang in church

We then went to Mama Lou and Pappy Jim's and hung out for the afternoon

Good thing Marra had off school today so we got to lay around and recover from our weekend!

Halloween

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And doesn't know where to find them.
Leave them alone, And they'll come home,
Wagging their tails behind them