Just a little more.....

Just a few more pictures I found from our 4th of July fun.  This was from Sunday night before watching the big fireworks we set off a few of our own.  Here is Ammon wearing the backpack filled with fireworks.

*I LOVE the 4th*

The 4th definitely feels like Christmas to me!  It is one of my favorite holidays!  It's all about traditions and family and fun, & celebrating something really important!  I love it! Of course as always we did the fun at Bunkerville.  I'll always be a bunkerville girl u know =). Adlers race was the first race.  I'm glad they put a blanket down...usually all the babies hate to crawl on the grass.  I wasn't sure what Adler would do, he hasn't been crawling that long, but he sure is getting fast.  But, I couldn't get him to come to me...haha.  "You want me to do what?"

Now Ammon's turn.  Ammon won his race!  Good Job Buddy!

Wow!  A silver Dollar Medal.

Ashlyn's Race....Ashlyn did good, she took 2nd.

Alley's turn, Go AlleyQuit looking at the other girls and just Run!  LOL  The girl to the right won and Alley took 2nd.

We had fun getting ready for the 4th painting and making our shirts and festive hair bows for the girls.  The girls did good on their shirts, I taped them and they colored in the red stripes and stars....so fun!  We used the Cricut and fabric on the rest of the shirt stuff, I thought they turned out cute!  We might make that a new tradition and make shirts every year! So Fun!  Rocki gave me the idea to put "Shaner" on the back, I loved it!

I LOVE this picture!Mmmm...you make that look good!

My view of the kids from up here! =)

Reinacting the races

How 'bout a SnoCone?Now that's talent! LOL

The Fam

Then of course the kids stripped down to their swimming suits and got sprayed by the fire truck and played in the Splash Pad for a while.  We then headed home for some rest and later that night went back for fireworks and the video of the morning activities.  It was good, even though Adler had pretty much had it by then and all the Loudness of the fireworks....he cried the whole fireworks show....

That morning in the car on the way back home all of a sudden Alley said, "I miss Grandma Leavitt." Then, Ashlyn & Ammon said, "Me too!"  Here is Grandma and Ammon last year on the 4th.  We miss you so much Grandma!  I still can't believe you are gone!

All the Bunkerville activities were on Saturday, the 3rd. The 4th we went to church and later on walked to the ball fields by our house and hung out with the Andersons (Trav, Nat & family).  We had a fun time and watched the Mesquite fireworks & lit a few of our own. 

It was like a fun 4th weekend.  Today we headed to the Rec Center for some swimming! 

What a fun weekend!

Adler at 8 months

Here is our cute little Adler Bug.  He is so fun!  I can't believe he is 8 months old.  He just started crawling about a week ago. 

During his 7th month he got his 2nd tooth on the bottom, started getting up on his hands and knees and able to go from his hands and knees to sitting on his butt.  He laughs so cute and is such a happy boy.  He is hardly fussy unless he is hungry or tired, so if he is fussy othewise you know something is wrong.  Now that he is crawling he is a little monster and is into everything.  Sometimes he gets up on his hands and feet with his legs straight.  He has tried to pull himself up to the couch.  I know it won't be long until he's doing that and then walking.  Crazy!  I can't believe it! 

Ammon's Test Results

We went to Vegas & got the results of Ammon's test today. The Right (Pelvic) Kidney is only functioning 21%. The Left Kidney still has a little bit of Hydronephrosis, which means its holding onto too much liquid. This could be the right kidney causing the problem for the left. But, there is no real blockage yet, so no surgery is needed at the moment, because it could cause too much scar tissue to cause even more problems right now. Over the next 3 months if it gets worse, then it will mean surgery. He has to be closely monitored, any fever, pain after drinking too much liquid, etc. and ultrasounds every 3 months now instead of every year because things can change fast.  We'll just continue to keep a close eye on him as always and wait for what changes show on the next Ultrasound in October. 

Ammon was so stressing today at the Doctor.  Thank goodness it was only results and nothing more.  He suddenly remembered his recent experience with doctors and he was very scared.  He didn't want to be there and kept asking if we could go home.  Poor little guy.  It makes me sad to just think about our next Doctor experience and if it may be surgery or what.  We are just taking it one thing at a time and hoping for the best! 

Ammon's Tests: Mag 3 Renal Scan

We had the most recent test done on Ammon yesterday at Summerlin Hospital in Las Vegas.  I really liked Summerlin a lot better than Sunrise, maybe just because the horrible experience we had there before with this same test.  Anyway, The nurses: Nurse Wyly, doctors: Dr. Vovan & Radiologists were all great! We tried to get the test as early as possible because Ammon couldn't have anything to eat or drink for 8 hours before.  I knew it would be sooo hard to not let him have anything.  Artie, Shannon & Randon gave him a blessing the night before and I know it really helped especially for the not eating or drinking.  He didn't ask about it one time, I was shocked.  He usually has something right when he wakes up and he drinks liquid like no other.  He didn't say one word.  Thank goodness for that part!  I didn't want him to start crying about that....that's not even the hardest part.  Anyway, so we got there and checked in and they took us to his hospital room where he got into his hospital gown and right away they had this childlife specialist come in, her name was Jody.  She was great.  She brought books, bubbles, cool toys that light up and spin.  She is there to help make the process a little easier.  It definietly helped.  She tried to distract him while the other nurses were playing with his arms prodding his veins, and I was hugging him tight trying to get him not to look that way.  The nurses had to try both arms...they coudn't find a good vein it seemed.  But, then they tried again in the left hand and it worked....It's always hard when he's screaming at the top of his lungs and I'm hugging him and trying to make it okay.  But, there is nothing I can do to make it okay.  Anyway, I'm soooo glad they got the IV in okay.  That was one of my worst fears...again, because of our experience LAST TIME when they poked him 8 different times, 2 in each arm, 2 in each leg and about to go to his head....ARGGHHHH.  I'm so glad it worked THIS TIME! But, he did not like that thing in his arm and then they wrapped it all up and taped his arm to this little pillow thing so he couldn't get it off.  He kept saying, "Can we go home now....pleeeaaasse." =(  We then had to wait to be taken down to Radiology.  He got to ride down on his bed and then they transfered him over under this big machine scanner thing.  He was nervous and scared and he didn't want to lay there.  It was sad because he doesn't understand why the heck we are doing all of this and why he has to lay there while they poke and prod him.  The doctor didn't want to have to Sedate him if they didn't have to, but they ended up sedating him pretty good because he was crying and there is no way he would have laid there for 30 minutes for the Scan.  It's sorta scary watching them inject the medicine and then seeing his eyes roll back, not a fun part!  They then put the cathider in and proceeded with the Scan.  He is under this big machine and it shows his kidneys on the screen.  We just watched him lay there for 30 minutes and watched his kidneys on the screen while they did the Scan.  Half way through they gave him Lasix, not really sure what that does.  And they had to give him quite a bit of liquid through the IV because during the Scan his Blood pressure was dropping.  We don't know anything yet, we go back down to Vegas July 1st for the results of the test (*crossing fingers*). This scan shows exactly how good the kidneys are working and if there are any problems.  So, I hope we get all the answers next week.  The Pediatric Urologist said that if the Right (pelvic) kidney is causing problems for the left it will have to be removed.  After the scan was over, they stopped the Sedation (Propythal) and Ammon came out of it pretty fast.  We then moved to recovery and finally they took out everything on him..IV's and such and he got a popcicle.  After we left the hospital he seemed to bounce back so fast.  I know it's because of the blessing he had and it's almost like he forgot everything that just happened.  He didn't say one thing about it until this afternoon he looked at his hand and saw the bruise from the IV.

I took a few pictures from the Hospital on my phone but can't seem to get them onto my computer...oh well.  But,  I want Ammon to see what a brave strong boy he has already been in his life!

The Zoo

I had to go up to Orem this last weekend for a "Let's Play Music" Training and so we did some fun things while we were up there.  Actually, Art, Mary, Rocki, Shannon & fam ended up coming up as well, which made it a lot of fun!  We stopped at a little park in Nephi for a rest.  They stuck Adler in this swing..he was liking it, but he really wasn't quite sure, I couldn't get him to smile at all....haha.Hogle Zoo was a lot of fun.  Last time we were there Alley was almost 2 and I was about ready to pop with Ashlyn....so this time was a lot better.  But, it was Super Crowded.  The kids had a lot of fun!  Alley loved being the leader with the map, Ashlyn liked the giraffes the best, Ammon really liked the Alligators, Adler was just a good little boy enjoying the ride most of the Time.  Seeing the Alligators...too bad I didn't get them in the picture.A Deer Rabbit...not sure if that's really it's name...but it's a deer and rabbit mixed.The Bird Show was really cool!

The Elephants and the new baby Elephant...can you see it in the picture?The train ride