The Kids on Scrumpy Daddy

Tiddle. Toodle. TODDLE!

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:52:22 -0400

I know it has been ages since we've posted anything here, so there is plenty to talk about, but tonight, I just want to share a video. If you are reading this in an e-mail, please click on the title of the post (above) to get to the web page for this post to view the video.

Check out what this little guy can do!

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Go, Matt, go!

Matt update for March 2012

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:16:28 -0400

Hello, all! Matt has been doing very well since his last surgery in early February to open up his nasal airway. He went to one followup appointment in the OR two weeks after his surgery, and they said things looked good then and to come back to the regular ENT office (clinic) in another month. He just had that appointment earlier this week, and they said that he still appears to be completely open and clear! Yay! ENT said that as of now, Matt is officially done with their department unless something comes up to require them. Yay! Hopefully, that is the last time we will need to worry about his nasal airway!

Unexpected Sunday evening

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:37:35 -0400

We had some out of town family come visit us today to see the kids and had some fresh baked chocolate chip cookies I made earlier in the day. It was a good visit and everyone was having a great day. We realized that someone needed to head out to the store to pick up a few essentials for the next few days, and decided to make it a family trip to get everyone out of the house for a bit before dinner.

Matt is home!!! (Take two or three?)

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:47:13 -0500

Matt was in the hospital since the Saturday after Thanksgiving until last Thursday, December 15th. He successfully had the stents removed on Wednesday, the 14th, and was like a completely different kid without the stents than with the stents. He was back to the way we knew him. He was clearly happier, and was eating well right away, which amazed the PICU doctors. (I don't understand why they wouldn't trust us, the parents, after telling them the same thing every day for more than two weeks, but that is a post of it's own.)

It's been a while . . . and Matt's back in the ICU . . .

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:59:34 -0500

It's been a while since I posted last. Matt was at home and doing very well for two weeks. (After we got home from the hospital trip referenced in my last post.) He was breathing fine, eating great, and just being a pretty easy-going baby. (Unless he was mad about being hungry; then he was prone to occasionally holding his breath . . . but it wasn't too bad.)

We had a great Thanksgiving and had family over to our house on Friday after Turkey Day, which was awesome, as well. We got to visit with my brother & SIL, and the kids got to play with their cousins all day. We all had a wonderful time! Matt seemed to keep clogging up his nose that day, though; we had to keep working on him to keep him breathing OK. At Matt's midnight feeding, he was having some breathing issues and due to that, wouldn't eat much. It was bad enough that we thought we should take him into the hospital, so I got ready to go, packed him up, and headed to Children's. We checked in at 1:52AM on Saturday, November 26th. :-)

High-speed video slide show! (or "Pummelvision")

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:15:42 -0500

I ran across this neat online tool a few weeks ago called Pummelvision that will create a video of any selection of your photos from various online photo repositories and throw a simple, energetic beat soundtrack on it. It is no more than a photo slide show, but it is done at high speed, which encourages you to use more photos than you would use in a traditional photo slide show.

Wordless Wednesday

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:47:10 -0400

Just a few pics

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:14:27 -0500

I love them.