A family's journey though type 1 diabetes filled with love, laughter and most importantly, hope. "Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love."
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Top "From the mouth of babes" - 2007
It all started when I took Chase for this 4 year photos and Leah for her 3 month photos back in October. I told Chase that we would go look at Halloween decorations after we were done if he was good. Well, let's just say that he didn't hold up to his end of the bargain. As I was strapping him into his car seat, he asked, "Can we go look at Halloween decorations now?" I told him, "No, you didn't behave so we are going home and then I'm going to beat you." (I was kidding - seriously). A couple minutes later I heard, "Mom, when you're done beating me, can we go look at decorations?".
And, then there was just this weekend when I was scrubbing off a tattoo on Chase's arm with a bath mit of my mom's. Chase said, you have one of these. To which I replied that I didn't. Then we went back and forth with "Yes you do" and "No I don't" for a while. I then asked him where it was if I had one. His reply was, "It's under the tree. Grandma bought you one. Wasn't that nice of her?"! Moral of the story - don't take Chase Christmas shopping with you.
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
7.3 - Wee hee!
After the age of 7 we will need to get his number closer to 6 (blood average of 135). Hopefully by then BlueCross BlueShield of ND will finally approve continuous glucose monitors. (I'm extremely jealous of a mom in Minnesota that has 2 of her children on the monitor.) Or even better yet - a cure.
Once there is a cure I'm going to rent a steam roller and let Chase drive over all of his diabetes "stuff". Oh, how much fun it will be to see the pump, Humalog bottle, glucometer, lancet, test strips, and pump supplies smashed to smithereens. And afterwards, we'll go out for the biggest Dairy Queen Blizzard they make. Now, I just need to know where I can get my hands on a steam roller...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Brotherly love - Part 2
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
2 years and half a life time
Monday, November 26, 2007
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Single parenting
Chase has come down with a cold, so he's been sleeping much of the day. The poor kid even "looks sick". He has dark circles under his eyes and has a lot less spunk. Luckily, we all have tomorrow off to sleep in and relax. We may just have to take in the SpongeBob Squarepants marathon on Nickelodeon.
Last weekend, Chase's friend, Brett, joined us for supper. The boys had a lot of fun in Chase's Spiderman costumes (Chase is in the black one). This was the best photo I could get because that little guy Brett moves fast!
And Leah...I was finally able to lay her down in her crib. She really likes to be held, which is fine for about 5 minutes but, after that, 16 1/2 pounds gets mighty heavy.
Chase took this photo of her today. I think we were preparing for outfit change #2 of the day. One look into those blue eyes and a little poop here and there (some times it feels like everywhere) isn't so bad.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Halloween 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Bram
Thursday, October 18, 2007
More Halloween Preparations
Leah turned 3 months old on Monday. She's a very easy going baby. A little too easy going...poor thing.
De-motivators
We use to quote the one above to Chase, "Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else."
He proved us wrong. There's no one like Chase!
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Halloween can't come soon enough
Birthday boy(s)!
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Monday, October 01, 2007
Two is company, three is exhausting...
A guilt trip to Fargo
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Memory Lane
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Welcome back Ma and Pa!
It was strange not to be able to call them on a whim to tell them a Chase"ism"...like, me asking Chase why he was taking his sweet time going down our basement steps. His reply, "I move slow because I'm getting old. That's what Grandma says." Or when he named all the people in a photo at Leah's baptism and he referred to Pastor Jamie as God...I guess we need to work on some BIG topics in our house.
Welcome back Mom and Dad. We missed you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chase helped Boppa celebrate his birthday...one day late.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Fun in Fargo
Chase and Bailey (Karla's daughter) after a late night swim
My friend Tracy from Page brought her 3 kids, Sydney, Olivia and Brody to play with Chase. Here they are enjoying some Cheerios (after a dip in the pool, of course)!
And here are the cousins from Iowa...Ben and Brianna (before a dip in the pool). Their dad celebrated his 40th birthday on Sunday. Happy birthday, John!!!! I won't tell the readers that I ONLY turned 34 on the 13th ;-).
Wow. What a fun trip!
We arrived back in time to partake in the opening day of Papa's Pumpkin Patch. Gary's folks joined us. It was their first time out at the patch. We took them on a hay ride and enjoyed some pumkin pie.
We traditionally take a picture of Chase on the tractor at the pumpkin patch. We thought he struck a pose similar to the very first time he was there...