A matter of perspective

Brody and I were outside on Saturday enjoying the last day of warmth before the snow hit again. We were playing on the playground, and I started pulling weeds. Brody was being a big helper and making a pile of weeds at the edge of the playground. He was getting a little bored of walking ALL the way to the pile so he started throwing the weeds. There are rocks in the playground too, so of course he was picking up both weeds and rocks. After a couple of rocks had hit the fence I told Brody not to throw the rocks, just take them to the pile. He replied, "I'm not throwing rocks mommy, they're crashing." Silly mommy, what was I thinking?!!

Update on Seth

Seth did really well during his exam. The doctor said everything looks good and that he believes his original diagnoses of Coloboma was correct, and that the Coloboma would not impair his vision. He does want to check Seth again in a year, just to make sure everything has stayed the same, but it will only be an office visit, not another exam under anesthesia.

I'm so relieved. I really didn't think anything was going to be wrong with his eyes, but I was so worried about how he would do with the anesthesia. He came out of it really quickly though. The discharge nurse couldn't believe how well he was doing.

Thanks for all the support and prayers for Seth!

Seth's eyes

One night shortly after Seth was born, I was at my friend's house. She mentioned to me that one of Seth's eyes had a dark spot in it. I hadn't noticed it before, at least if I had noticed it, I didn't think it was anything to worry about. At one of Seth's well child check-ups I mentioned it to the pediatrician and she sent us to see a pediatric ophthalmologist.

The doctor at Primary Children's Hospital checked Seth's eyes, and said that it looked like the problem was only with the iris, but he does have a Coloboma. (If you don't want to look at the link, coloboma is where part of the eye didn't form properly.) The doctor thought it would be prudent of him to further exam Seth under anesthesia to make sure that his initial diagnosis was correct.

So, this Wednesday we will be taking Seth to Primary Children's to have the surgery done. I'll update as soon as we know more, but I'm hoping there won't be any more problems.

Another sucker

Brody woke up early last Sunday morning and I was still tired so I told him he could watch a show and I would hold him (hoping I could fall back to sleep). When I turned the TV on there was an infomercial for the Monster 1200. I admit, although I have never bought anything off of the infomercials, I have definitely been tempted--and I almost always get sucked in and watch them all the way through. We started watching this one, and I decided to be a nice mom and change the channel to something a Brody might be a little more interested in. A few minutes later Brody said, "Mom, I need my own monster." After talking to him, he really did want the steam cleaner, and was paying attention. Guess they did a good job selling that thing!

And the search continues...

I know it has been a very long time since I have updated, and since it is the last day of the month I decided I better hurry and write a post so I can say I at least posted in the month of February!

As many of you have heard, our house hunting saga continues. The real estate agent called us the end of January and said the Mortgage Insurance company didn't feel like the sellers of the home were in enough financial distress, so they wouldn't pay the claim that the lender had submitted. The lender is asking for $40,000 more, and we aren't willing to pay that. There is still a slight chance that we could get the house. We have submitted another offer to the bank, with a slightly higher offer than our previous one, in hopes that the bank will look at it again and change their mind, but I'm not really getting my hopes up since we first started the process on this house in November.