Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays! I know its been a while since I've added pictures or given any updates. Well, I am happy to say, it has been 2 months since Luke's diabetes diagnosis and he is finally in range of where he should be with his blood glucose levels. It has been a crazy 2 months! I've been on the phone with his doctors and nurse educators about 2 to 3 times a week trying to get his numbers down.  It has been a slow process because we don't want to give him too much insulin too fast, so we've been making slight adjustments daily. I am happy to say that I haven't spoken with a doctor or nurse educator in about 2 weeks, yey! He has been within his target range and I have seen quite a difference in his personality as well. When his numbers were high he was not the same kid, he was having terrible tantrums and unable to reason with. I am so happy to see him back to his old self and to see his husky body back too. 

Aside from all of that, we have been very busy with the holidays. Below are some pictures of an outting we took with my friend Kristi and her 2 girls Parker and Quinn to the duck pond and nature walk back in November.

And I also had my sonogram where we found out we are having another boy in November. Yes, another boy! Just look at the picture, he totally looks like a boy.

Here are some pictures from the night we decorated the tree. The boys had such a great time.

Lukas ran out of ornaments and started putting their boxes in the tree, such a nut.

We also did our annual visit to see Santa Claus. This time Daddy came with us. The boys were very excited to show him their lists.

That brings us to Christmas Day!

Santa was very good to the boys this year, they got everything they wanted and then some.

Charlie got his skateboard, legos and nerf gun. Lukas got his Cars 2 toys, Toy Story playset, and his dinosaurs. They were very happy.

And last but not least, Charlie lost his first tooth yesterday! Coincidentally it was the first tooth he got as a baby.

We are all ready for a new year, a fresh start and forget about all the craziness that happened this year.

We are looking forward to the new baby this spring, another visit from Nana and Papa for Easter (hopefully Jimmy and Adam will come too), a trip to Cancun with Omma and Oppa and the rest of the family in July, a much needed trip to see family in Hawaii in August, and Bobby and Danielle's wedding in September.  Its going to be a great year. 

Happy New Year!

Catching up and filling everyone in

September and October flew by with a blink of and eye! We had a lot going on. Charlie started Kindergarten, Luke started pre-school.Will had his surgery on his neck on his birthday in September,which put him home for a little while and doing light duty thereafter. That wasn't fun, but then we celebrated Luke's birthday which was great! In October Nana and Papa came to visit which was so much fun, the boys had a blast with them. Then unfortunately, on October 24th Lukas and I were in the hospital. He has Type 1 diabetes. It all happened so quickly. He went for his well visit on October 13th, where he was almost 40 pounds and in the 95th percentile for weight. He was perfectly fine then! Within 10 days he started drinking and urinating like crazy and stopped eatting.  I took him to the Pediatrician on the 24th, they sent us straight to the ER at Schneider's Children's Hospital, at this point he had lost 6 pounds in 10 days ( a lot when you are only 40 to begin with). He was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. We were completely shocked because it is genetic, yet we have no one in our family on either sides with diabetes. So we spent some time in the hospital, Will and I learned how to test his blood by pricking his finger and how to give him his insulin shots. It was extrememly overwhelming, and emotional for us. But we are very lucky that Lukas is such an angel and has been so good through all of this.  We are grateful that it isn't something worse and is completely manageable. He will have a completely normal life and play sports and do whatever he wants to do. Of course, Halloween was very rough for him... being diagnosed with diabetes a week before the holiday, yey! The good thing is that Lukas can eat whatever he wants in moderation, we just have to cover for it with insulin. So that is where we are at right now, just taking it by day by day. Hope you all had a great Halloween!

Halloween

Here is a mixture of pictures from Luke's school, Charlie's school parade, and Halloween night.

Nana and Papa visit

We had a great trip with Nana and Papa. The boys had their once a year week of being spoiled. The weather was so nice, we were able to do fun things like go to the Long Island Game Farm and Pumpkin Picking.

This last picture is of Charlie with the "class pet" Clifford. Each Child gets to take him home for the weekend and take care of him. That same weekend, we had Charlie's school Square dance fundraiser which is where he got his had and bandana from (which he wore all weekend).

Lukas' 3rd Birthday