Almost 16 months

We have had a crazy past couple of weeks. We have had some vehicle issues that we are working on getting under control. Then on the 17th we got the very unexpected news that Matts step dad at that age of 50 had suddenly passed away from a major heart attach. His step Dad has been heavily involved with raising Matt, his Brother and sister. He has been active in there family for about 20 or so year. Death is hard no matter when it happens, but to have someone take at a younger age with no warning is so scary. The services were this past Friday and they were very nice and I am sure we will never forget him and all he has helped our family with over the years. Please let this be a lesson to anyone that thinks they do not need to go in for regular check ups. The Medical examiner said that he would have gone into the Dr for any reason, even just a wellness check up, they might have been able to catch this ahead of time and he might still be with us. You need to treat your heart good and thing about what you are doing and how it might effect your life.

Onto the next subject. Garets Heart. Last Wed the 21st we went over to Gainesville for out monthly meeting with Dr Fricker and his group great people. The past couple of months we have had to go once a month. Since Garet has started to walk and run and be a crazy 1 year old, his heart function has gone down a little bit. Because this was happening they wanted to monitor him a little closer. Well it looks like things are starting to even themselves out a little again. They did there normal ECO and EKG. (These went a lot smoother this time since we brought one of Garets favorite moves with for his to watch) When Dr Fricker came in to see us Garet was running around and trying to tell him what was going on. It was to funny. Dr Fricker said that everything looks about the same as last times we had been over there. This was good news. It had not got worse. We can deal with that. He is still at about 30% function (70% is normal function) Before Garet started to walk he was almost up to 40%. We are hoping to climb back up there but will be ok with 30 right now. They did not adjust his meds or anything since he has not gained a lot of weight since the last visit. He is now up to 22 lbs and 30 inches tall. This was the first time that they used the big person scale and height checker with him. He thought it was so cool to get to stand up and get weighted and measures. We are now back to only having to go every other month. Yeah!

Onto baby #2. I have now almost reached the 12 week milestone in this pregnancy. I am hoping that the sicky feeling with start to leave me soon. I had this same feeling with Garet up till about now. At my last dr appointment they did another ultra sound since it was to early to hear the heart beat from the outside. It was very cool to see the little one. We did not get to see Garet when we was that small. My dr said that everything looked good. We were able to see the heart beating and the baby moving all over. They have me going in every month right now and then starting in September I will be going to a high risk dr as well. This way they will able to make sure everything with the babies heart looks good. It is amazing what they can do before the baby is even born. They said they will be able to do a ECO on the babies heart in September to make sure the function looks good. As long as everything continues to look normal I will be able to stay with my normal Dr and deliver at the same hospital as I did with Garet. It they see anything weird then I will have to be transferred to the high risk dr full time and then I would have to deliver at a different hospital. I really like my normal dr, he did a great job with Garet and he made me feel so comfortable about the hospital experience.

So for me I will be back to the dr next month and Garet will be back to Gainesville in September.

Sorry no pictures I have been majorly slacking in this area.