Sammy's Ear Tube Surgery

Yippee For us! yes we truly are very excited about this. We met with an ENT yesterday and discussed, well actually there was not much discussion, it was really just to hear what the Dr though about Sammy getting tubes in his ears. All four Dr.'s (UCLA, Ped., our specialist, and the Ent) all hands down were routing for it. Our Pediatrician actually had said that if the ENT tried to discourage the tubes to have him call her immediately. The UCLA Dr is hoping that by taking his monthly ear infections out of the equation that it will allow his body to start to build up his IGG levels. It is great to have such a great medical team behind us. So surgery is set for Sept 19. Please pray that we will be the first ones in. We will not know until the day before when surgery time will be, and Sammy cannot eat/drink after midnight the night before. I can already anticipate the fight that it will be. Thanks again to all for keeping Sammy's health in your prayers.

BigBearMarathon

Have I ever told you my husband is amazing? This past weekend Steve, his dad, and our friend Eric decided to participate in the bike tour part of the marathon. Although Steve will be the first to say it was easy peasy, it kicked their butts fairly hard. I think Steve decided that he will run it next year, not ride. He said he will leave the riding to the 100 milers and run the 26 milers... He's my hero!! Congrats to everyone else who ran/walked it. Good job!


Registration on Friday:



After; they don't look too tuckered.

Disneyland

It's now surprise that we love Disneyland. So whenever we can steal away for a couple of days we head on down to Gramma's and visit the happiest place on earth! At least for us it is. Our first day was quite crowded and very hot, but thankfully our second day was much better. We rode every ride at California Adventure a few times, and Tower of Terror somewhere around 6 times. It was crazy slow. Steve and I were talking the other day and he brought up a good point about why we love d-land so much. Taking Sammy just makes everything 100 times more magical. I think there is now better feeling then seeing his eyes light up when mickey comes by. I hope that these pictures can capture our magic, even just a little.

Sammy Waiting to ride the new Toy Story ride at California Adventure!

I'm talking Magic!

New Babies!!

We have been blessed with the presence of a new Neice and Neohew a couple weeks ago.

Hailey Lynn Cetwinski
7Lbs 7oz 21 inches

We have yet to see Hailey in person, outside of her mommy's belly, but we just cannot wait. She is just precious.

Congrats Jen and Sam!

Bryce Christopher Tulcus

6 lbs 14 oz 19 1/2 inches

Sammy and I were very lucky to get the chance to go and see this sweet one. I will post pics from our trip soon.

Congrats Jonathan and Danielle!

Big Boy Bed

I know that it has been forever since I have posted, so please forgive me. About a month ago we switch Sammy into a "big boy bed". He had been sleeping in a firetruck toddler bed and in the middle of the night we awakened by the crash-boom-banging of his head and various limbs smacking into the sides of the bed. We already have a set of bunk beds so it wasn't too much of a stretch to find a bed. I also was able to find a comforter set on Overstock for $25- crazy! We even got him a memory foam. Thank you daddy for that one. Steve loves ours so much he wanted the same amazing comfort for his boy. I was a bit leery of the height of the bed and his history of flailing in his sleep, but Sammy has done extremely well. He is growing so much each day. He has graduated from calling Amos- Abus to now Amnos. Each day my baby is slipping away into an amazing big boy.
Of course blankie needs to go to bed too.

Big Boy!!

Fishin'

Steve got back from a camping trip up near Mammoth with his Dad, Brother, and Nephews on Friday evening. Let me just give you a peek at how much he Loves Camping.... He was packed a week before they left, he woke up at 3 am on departure day even though they weren't leaving till 5, he nose was constantly stuck in camping and fishing books- He just loves it! The whole time packing he kept saying how much he wanted to take Sammy. Poor daddy, he wanted more than anything else to take his little boy and show him how great it is to camp, but this was a more advanced fishing trip and Sammy would've wanted to be in the water not sitting on the shore, so he stayed home.Steve came back with many stories and they had a blast. It has been quite a few years since he has gone camping with his dad and it was really just a great couple of days together.

Since the camping bug was still in Steve's system, we decided to go to big bear and fish. Well the boys did, I went grocery shopping. Sammy LOVES his fishing pole and caught on very fast.

San Diego Suprise!

Our Summers are always so crazy, so anytime we can getaway for even a day is just wonderful. This weekend I suprised Steve with the weekend in San Diego.

I had preprogrammed the address to a restaurant in San Diego. So when Steve got in the car he had no idea where we were going, he just knew he had to follow the GPS. Of course he figured it all out once we got passed Temecula, but he was still so surprised.

At our special dinner

We spent the day on Saturday at the Beach and in the pool. Sammy can now balance in his tubie and loves the freedom that comes with it.

Saturday evening I suprised Steve with tickets to see the Broadway production of Phantom of the Opera. We have been trying to get tickets to see it for years and always find out too late. We had a blast and it was amazing.

He is so not a morning person!