Blessings abound

After a very long almost 2 weeks and damn near stalking the Dr since she was almost a week late giving me Princess Bear's (PB's) test results life is grand.  The number that would definitely indicate PB had a Pituitary tumor was in normal range.  We still have to go back in October so they can redo all the blood tests to make sure everything is still in normal ranges.  The Dr.  is still nervous that she's shot up so much height wise this year.  They did say that her bone age scan has her at a 13 year old level so she's 2 years ahead of that since she turned 11 on Wednesday.  There is still some following up we need to do with a geneticist but luckily we can do that here in Peoria.

As I mentioned PB turned 11 the other day. I did the cover the door in streamers routine.  I stayed up until 2am to make sure she wouldn't get up again before starting the door.  It was awesome when she opened her door in the morning.  I told her Happy Birthday and told her to come in to my room.  She just stood there half asleep and a bit dazed saying she couldn't get out.  I told her to rip it and she had a ball!   It was quite the Polish birthday as it was an all day free for all of whatever she wanted.  For breakfast she asked for hash browns which are her favorite.  Then she opened her gifts from me.  (why oh why do I purchase gifts that wind up requiring me to work on them??? LOL!).  We played for awhile and then went shopping with my mom.  She scored some new stuff at Target and then we went to lunch with my mom, sister & nephews.  PB has become a big fan of musicals and she wanted the Hugh Jackman version of Oklahoma and the Julie Andrews version of The Sound of Music and her Aunt gave her those as well as some money for her Disney trip.  After lunch we came home and watched Oklahoma.  After that it was time to go to the Riverplex for a workout and then dinner.  My uncles partner is the manager at Olive Garden and Kiernan adores her Uncle Gerald.  So it was off to pick up the birthday cake at DQ and take it to Olive Garden.  Her uncles gave her a Disney Princess Visa gift card to take to Disney with her.  She thinks she's pretty hot stuff!  As part of her birthday gift I ordered a Cinderella costume for her to wear on our trip to Disney.  She'll probably wear it when she goes to Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique followed by lunch at Cinderella's Castle.  She's also going to a very special tea party so I don't know if she'll wear the Cinderella costume again or a different one. 

Birthday Door Surprise
 
Birthday Lunch PB's Cinderella Costume  I can't wait for it to arrive so she can try it on!

 

In shock

We've known for awhile that Princess Bear (PB) is growing quickly.  She's 10 years old and over 5'5" tall.  Today we had an appointment with her endocrinologist.  I started getting concerned when the resident kept on poking and prodding PB asking if it hurt.  The Dr. came in and quickly let me know that something is pretty wrong with PB.  She sent PB for blood work and a bone age scan x-ray.  She kept on mentioning a pituitary tumor.  How in the hell can my baby possibly have a tumor in her head??!!!???  And when in the hell is my child ever going to catch a break??? 

The Dr.  said she should have the results by the end of the week and I'd most likely hear from her Friday.  Then we'll have a better idea of what the next step will be.  She had me make a follow up appointment for 4 months from now but cautioned me that we'd probably be back much sooner.  That's a far cry from having appointments once every year or 18 months. 

So, I'm sitting here crying because PB is sleeping and its my time to be weak.  We're not telling her anything until I've talked to the Dr. again and have a better idea of what we're dealing with here.  Until then it will be life as normal.  How do you do normal when you feel like your world is spinning out of control? 

Go Hawks!

Hanging with my nephews yesterday!




I think Luke is going to be ready for a mohawk & some Docs in no time at all!!!

King Weddings

The hand is still in a cast & I really hate doing the one handed pecking thing so not much blogging lately. I did wake up to am email asking me if I was aware Bitty had been married over the weekend (I was!).  I was  also sent a source for pics of Tim & Maggie's wedding. Also lets not forget to share Joe's February wedding.  So here is a slideshow to hold over the Farm Kings fans. As always big thanks to those who sent in pics!

This digital slideshow made with Smilebox

ugh!

This is my new accessory…and I’m less than thrilled about it. I go back in 2 weeks for x-rays to check on new bone growth & a new cast. Repeat at 4 weeks and hopefully it comes off in 6. So not much posting for the next 6 weeks. Ugh!

Hanging with my boys

I spent most of this past weekend babysitting my nephews.  It was a very nice time.  We successfully navigated 2 bedtimes without any problems- go me! LOL!  Actually, all in all, there were very few mishaps which was nice.  The only real problem was Luke trying to "tickle" Tyler's cheek and giving him a nice scratch instead.  Of course this was the day before his piano recital and I was sure my sister was going to $hi& bricks sideways.  She didn't!  WooHoo!!!!  The boys declared Aunt Sarah does the best Scooby Doo voice since each nights bedtime story was a Scooby Doo story.  It was a fun time with the boys.  Something I don't get much of anymore and I appreciate all the more because of that. 

Now the bad part is that I was beyond tired.  My sisters house kind of creeps me out since there are some windows without shades or blinds.  I hate that!  Also it was uber windy and the wind whipping around the house was unsettling.  Makes me feel very on edge.  I was also supposed to spend the night Saturday night because my sister didn't think they'd be home until 1am at the earliest.  My mom assured me that she was fine watching Princess Bear for the night and that I should just come home in the morning.  Yeah, in retrospect I should have probably stuck with that plan!  My sister got home about 12:45am and we chatted for awhile.  I then decided that I wanted to go home and sleep.  So there I am at 1:20am wearing my flannel pj bottoms & sweatshirt heading home.  There is a ton of construction on 74 between Morton and Peoria.  Crazy Train by Ozzy came on the radio.  I have a MAJOR problem driving anything near the speed limit whenever I hear that song.  Let alone a lone stretch of highway in the middle of the night.  I realized that I was doing WELL over the 45 mph allowed in construction zones.  I reigned it in and considered myself lucky.  I continued on my way just looking forward to getting home.  I switched lanes to get ready for the exit I needed.  Next thing I know I see cherries and berries flashing behind me.  I pull over and a State trooper asks if I know why he stopped me.  Hmmm- nope!  Not really.  Just exhausted and trying to get home.  He tells me that I didn't use my turn signal when switching lanes.  Seriously!  I apologized and mentioned that I was pretty tired and just trying to get home.  He gave me a written warning and let me go on my way.  I'm so thankful for a couple of things.  First of all that the cop wasn't around when I was channeling my inner Mario Andretti while Crazy Train was on.  Second that he let me off with a written warning.  My moms reaction was to ask if he was bored and my brother in law thought that he was looking for a DUI stop since I wasn't far from downtown.  Whatever the case is I'm just glad that he was cool about it.  So that's the story of my weekend!

Kids are cute!

It seems as though lately Princess Bear (PB) and my nephews are letting loose the one liners that are just too cute!  Nothing seems to brighten a day more!  The aide in PB's classroom had twin grandsons born earlier in the week.  PB had been looking forward to this event all year!  One of the twins had been having some problems and was sent to NICU earlier in the week until his lungs cleared.  I asked PB yesterday on the way home from school how the kids were.  She said Baby A is great but Baby B is still in NCIS.  Ummm- think it's a bit earlier to be picking out a career!   I'm sure it's just me but I thought it was cute!

Tonight I was babysitting my nephews.  I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned my addiction to doing my nails.  Mani's and pedi's are a must in my world.  Gardening destroys it but that's ok.  When I got there this evening I had on Sally Hansen nail strips in a zebra pattern.  My youngest nephew noticed it right away and wanted to know how I did it.  I told him it was a sticker (close enough for a 3 year old, right?).  I then said that after I put them to bed I was going to redo my nails so the zebra would be gone when they see me tomorrow.  Luke quickly looked at me and said "We don't have any of that stuff! We're boys! No girly stuff here!".  I showed him the bag I brought complete with stuff to do a mani.  "OOOOOOOOHHHH! It travels?"   I'm not quite sure why that blew his little mind but it was cute.  He and his brother are definitely all boy and constantly remind us of this. 

Now I'm off to watch an episode of Bones on netflix.  More likely I'll fall asleep to it but you'll have that.  Tomorrow is my friends middle daughters First Communion so if PB is up and moving we'll be going to that and then it's back to take care of my nephews.  I'm spending the night.  It's a very odd thing for me to spend the night away from PB.  She's 10 years old and I can count on one hand how many times this as happened and still have a few fingers left.  It also seems like when it does happen it's never really a fun event for me.  I think I'm going to have to change that!