Vacation was a lot of fun

I was really bad at taking pictures on vacation. I am hoping that some of my family members that took pictures will email them to me so I can post more pictures for you all to see. One of Garets favorite things to do on vacation was take a bath. The bath tubs in the condos were very large and like a pool to him. He wanted to take them even if he was not messy. Lucky for him we did a lot of stuff outside so most evening he needed a bath.

We were able to go to the beach a couple times. At first Garet was not to sure of the sand and water but it only took a little while for him to warm up to it all. Below is a picture of Garet and Grandma Rose looking for shells.

We had lots of fun looking for shark teeth. Matt is one of the best for finding them. We were out in the ocean floating around and a guy near us found one down in the sand that was as big as my hand. I am just glad that he found the tooth and not the shark it belonged to. It was huge.

Beach time does wear you out. So what better place to take a nap than under the umbrella with the sound of the ocean all around. I wish I could just fall asleep anywhere and get some good rest this way.

The final picture I wanted to post is not from our vacation. Matt, Garet and I have some big news. We are going to be welcoming a new member to our family in late January early February. We are now expecting Baby Howard #2. Below is the first glimpse that we were able to get of baby Howard. We are very excited and nervous all at once. I saw the dr the other day and he said that they were going to do everything they can to get us to the correct doctors to make sure everything looks right with Baby #2 heart. We feel very blessed and thankful that we will have this addition to our family. We are now and have been praying for the health of the baby and all the doctors that will be with us on this venture to the next chapter of our lives.

Its finaly summer

Garet has always loved music. Even before he was born we would go and listen to a country band that we know the members of. He is now getting quite a collection on musical instruments. he now has a recorder, maracas, electric drums, and a banjo. His Great Uncle Paul gave him an electric drum set.(Shown in the picture below) Oh my goodness goes he like to play with it. It is to funny he will only hit it with the sticks. Even though he knows it will make the noise if you use your hands he will only use the sticks.

We went to listen to the country band I mentioned above and Garet was helping them set up. He is going to be so spoiled by the band. The drummer was getting all his stuff ready and Garet walked up and started to watch him play a little. Well before I knew it I looked up on the stage and Garet was sitting on the drummer lap and playing with him. He thought he was to cool. Uncle Bryce is a drummer so we may have another drummer on our hands.
Memorial day outfit. We had a cook out and Grannies house for Memorial day and she had star beads that Garet decided he was going to wear most of the day. I just thought you should all see this picture.

Packing for vacation is one of Garets speciality. He normally helps me put stuff in the suit case but yesterday he thought he should be what went in the suit case. He could not figure out why he could not get it to shut. I wish I would have took video instead of still frames. It was so funny.

Sorry So Long since Last post

Good afternoon to all

I meant to get on here a while ago and update on Garets dr visit. We have been going threw a time of ear infections. It started a couple months ago with an ear infection in the left ear. Antibiotics took care of that one. Then about a month later or 3 weeks ago he got an ear infection in the right ear. At the end of the antibiotics for that one he some how got an ear infection in his right ear. So this time they gave him an antibiotic shot and then another 10 days of antibiotics. We are now on day 4 of those. We will see what the next week or so brings with the ears.

Garets dr appointment with his cardiologists went really well. I was concerned that when we went in because he has not been sleeping as well. After his heart appointment I am sure the sleeping issues are having to do with teething and ear infections. Anyway he saw the main hear doctor this time and they did an ECO and EKG and also a chest x-ray just to make sure his heart was not pushing on his lungs causing sleeping issues. When all that was done everything looks to be the same as it has been. About 1/2 strength. He did ask that we come back every month for a while so we can try to adjust some of the meds to try to get the function to increase more. We will be going back on the 24th of June. At that time he will have to have blood drawn to see what his level of different stuff is doing. And then I am sure they will do another EKG and ECO to see if the increase in meds is doing anything.

I have had a couple changes to our Garet Page. I still want to keep everyone up to date on what is going on with Garet and his health. I would also like to start to add all the fun things we are doing as a family. So I have changed the title of this page to The Howard Family Blog page now. Maybe this will keep me updating it more often. Well that is what is going on with us right now. We have a vacation coming up and can not wait to just relax and have fun with all of our family.