Friday, February 17, 2012

A year in the life of a 2 year old

So I thought it would be fun to post some of the funny things Ty said or did when he was 2. Starting on the day of his second birthday, going through until the day of his third birthday, here are some of the things i wrote down.


  1. I was peeling Ty an orange this morning and he points at the peelings and says "trash dear
  2. Ty must have really liked breakfast this morning. He said "thank thank thank you. It yummmmmmy!"
  3. Ty brought me his cup and asked for "more sips" so I go downstairs, refill his cup and come back up and he says "oh there you is!!!"
  4. Ty: "oh mommy come here" Me:"yes buddy" Ty:"oh no what happened?" Me:"you pooped that's what happened, Geeze kid" Ty:"haha yea I stink"
  5. Ty woke me up at 2am to pick his nose, Wth?!! Today should be an interesting day.
  6. Ty seems to think farting on the toilet deserves a piece of candy, which has now made me late for work :/
  7. Ty: "oh no, what happened?" Me: "you know what happened" Ty: " TY spilled it!" Me: "well tell Ty to pick it up"  Ty: "TY PICK IT UP" as he runs in the opposite direction
  8. Watching dancing with the stars and Ty is telling me that they are doing the hot dog dance lol!
  9. Ty: mommy where'd the ball go? Me: I don't know go find it Ty: ball where are you? Oh I can't find it, you go find it mommy. He didn't even look for it! He just called out for it, haha
  10. Me: Ty what do you want for breakfast? Ty: ummm chocolate milk chicken.
  11. Ty: mommy more chocolate milk please. Me: you'll get more at bed time. So he brings me his sippy cup, the chocolate syrup, and a milk carton. I guess that means he wants some now huh? Lol
  12. Ty: mommy put brother on the bicycle? Me: no brother is to little, let's put him in his bed.  So he puts the bicycle in the pack n play
    Ty: there you go brother, there's your bicycle
  13. Me: Ty do you want to go with mommy to her work and play or do you want to go to memes and swim? Ty: umm no, I go to Reagan and reed.
  14. Ty: I did it! I cleaned the bicycle! So I walk over there... He "cleaned" his bicycle by peeing on it. Ugh, I hate potty training!
  15. Me: Ty Preston you can either go to sleep right now or get a spanking! Ty: ummm a spanking. 
  16. me: i love you bugger ty: i love you too me: i know i love you more ty: love you most mommy:)
  17. ty hit me in the head with a toy airplane, and when i said "ow" he said "your ok mommy, dust off" geeze thanks kid
  18. ty "hey what do you think your doing" me "cleaning, what do you think your doing" ty "making a mess"
  19. Me: I love you Ty. Ty: love you too. Me: I love you more. Ty: I love you most daddy. 
  20. Me: Ty is almost time for nap time, then mommy going to go get her toes done. Ty: I don't care I no want the toes done. I no want night night.
  21. Me: Ty what's daddy doing? Ty: um he's down stairs. Me: go tell him to start dinner. Ty: (stand at the top of the stairs and yells down) hey babe daddy, you cook that dinner now!
  22. Me: ty what do you want for Christmas? Ty: um how about an incredibles Christmas tree. 
  23. Me: Ty say asta maƱana (sp). Ty: I'm all done!
  24. Watching the ama's. Ty: mommy I no want to watch music. Its Ty's turn. Me: well mommy wants to watch music. What should we do?
    Ty: um... How about the fresh beat band? 
  25. Coooold! 630 this morning Ty comes into my room "mommy I get in your bed it's cold. Let's watch tv" we stay in bed watching tv. 745 caleb wakes up an Ty says "brother you stay in your bed. It's cold and I'm in mommys bed"
  26. Ty just learned how to pick a locked door with a screw driver... :/
  27. me: ty it's almost time for nap time. ty: no i dont want to go nighty nighty! i want pancakes!


Thursday, February 9, 2012

A Diagnosis!

Yes, you read that right. We finally got a diagnosis for Ty! You have no idea how much of a weight this is lifted off of our shoulders, to finally have a name for what has been going on for the past year.

 For those of you who are on the wth is she talking about wagon; Last February Ty woke middle of the night screaming for me. When I got into his room he way laying on his floor unable to get up and calling out "mommy". When I would try to move him into a vertical position, sitting up or standing, he would immediately, begin jerky movements throughout his body and lose control of his muscles. So we headed to Texas Children's Hospital. In the ER no one seemed to know what was going on with him. So they told us to keep him laying down, since he seemed find as long as he stayed that way, until they could consult with more doctors. We finally saw a neurologist who diagnosed him with Acute Cerebellar Ataxia. It made sense at the time, he was doing what the description of it said. They only thing that didn't make sense was nothing had happened to have caused him to have this. No recently illness, no head trauma, ect, but we went with it. They did a CT scan, and it came back normal. He continued to do this constantly each time he went into a vertical position for days. Then all of a sudden he was completely normal. We were discharged from the hospital, and told its not something that would repeat. And all was fine and dandy, until this past November, when he had another attack. Again in the middle of the night, same thing all over again. Except this time I just called the E.R. to see if they wanted us to bring him in, and by the time they called us back 4 hrs later he was back to his normal self and asleep. His episode only lasted about 20-30 min and all seemed fine, so we chose not to take him in, and just call his pedi in the morning.  So, we went into her office the next business day and she set us up with a referral to a neurologist. I called to make an appt with the neuro and got one for March 26th, 2012. Yes 4 months away! But it was the soonest they had an opening so we took it. Ty's pedi wasn't took pleased that it was so far away, so she talked with the neuro, and they agreed that as long as he didn't have any more episodes between now and then, that they were comfortable waiting that long. So during the wait time, we had test after test run. MRI, EEG, blood work, ect ect ect, all coming back normal. Well all was going well until the end of January 2012. Yup you guessed it, he had another attack. Same thing again, lasting 20-30 min, and this time loosing control of his bladder and bowels. We called the pedi and she talked to the neuro and they agreed an emergency appt was needed. So I call to make an appointment, and they had no openings between then and when his appt in march was, so they put us on a wait list for a cancellation. Luckily someone cancelled and we got in on Feb 7th.

So now to the diagnosis. The neuro saw him, asked questions, evaluated him, and then went to talk with another Dr. 3 Dr's came back into the room to talk to us. They diagnosed him with a form of nocturnal epilepsy. It's a rare diagnosis, but 60%-70% of kids who have this, outgrow it. They said they believe the reason that all his tests were coming back normal is because his is not a centralized seizure like most, instead it is just on one side of his brain. So unless they are doing a test while he is having one, or within an hour after him having had one, then all the tests will continue to come back normal. They put him on some seizure preventative medication, Trileptal, to help control his seizures. They started him off with a low dose, and if he continues to have them, then they will up his dosage. So lets hope and pray that this medication helps him, and he never has another episode again!


And on another good note, i found an app for blogger on my phone :)

Friday, February 3, 2012

8 months

Caleb is 8 months old today! It doesn't even seem like it. Because he was a preemie, the Dr. said he might tend to fall behind as far as development goes, but he seems to be keeping up with the best of em' :). He's sitting up, jabbering, rolling all around, and even attempting to crawl! When he's not scooting himself around backwards, he tucks his arms and knees under him, and pushes himself around on his forehead. It's actually pretty funny, and i need to get a video of it. If he would just pop himself up on his hands and move them then he'd be all over the place!! Enjoy some pictures taken over the last month :)

fell asleep in the middle of eating.
Ty helping Caleb play with his toys.

and a comparison of the boys at about the same age:
        pretend you don't see a bow on ty's head ;)