It may be time for another update!

Where has time gone? How life changes with the curve balls we are thrown!!

We are still here and alive since we have added little Harper to our home. We can now say that she is the happiest and funnest new addition to our home. Harper had cowlick for the first 6 weeks of her life. It was by far the hardest thing I have had to do yet in my life!! She would literally SCREAM from 5 o'clock in the evening till 10 or 11. It was not a fussy time, it was full blown screaming for the whole time. It was so hard, she was a full time job, and then there were her brothers that were another job. Oh and yes I was still supposed to be making dinner, cleaning the house, and washing clothes?? We pulled through with much help from family. Thank you all very much! She is such a sweet little girl now and we still love her to pieces! However, she has learned that life is so much more fun when you are held, so the girl is held ALL day unless she is sleeping. She has us all wrapped around her little finger!!

Then there was Kannon! On September 10th we were at my sisters house. Derek and the boys were outside playing kickball. Derek came rushing in the house completely freaked out and Kannon was in some obvious pain and screaming. Derek told me to get in the car we were headed to the hospital, Kannon had broke his arm!! I told him that he really needed to calm down, we didn't even know that Kannon had really broke his arm. (Derek is always telling me that I am always over reacting and telling me that I need to calm down!) So I thought I would take the opportunity to rub it back in his face a little and help him calm down, however, I was really unsucessfull and he ended up being the calm one! Derek then informed me that Kannon's arm was broke in half, and when he picked him up off the ground he had to pick up his arm because it was laying on the ground bent completely in half the wrong way!! It was BROKE! I immediately freaked out, and headed for the car! That was one of the longest 5 minute rides to the ER. We ran him in and told them what had happened and told them we needed some pain medication asap. They tried giving the poor kid an IV 5 times before they were successfull. He was in so much pain for an hour and a half before he was givin anything to help him. When they went to do the last IV he said he was just so tired and he just wanted to go home. After we got him some pain medication they took an x-ray of his arm and said that he would have to have surgery. They planned on doing it the next morning since he had just eaten and they didn't dare put him out in those conditions. The specialist came in and found that his little arm didn't have a pulse so he said he would need surgery right away. He was taken back and it took about an hour and a half and they were able to bring him out around midnight. We were so scared of all the things that could go wrong and we just wanted to hold our little boy once again. The doctor brought him out and told us that all was well. He had put three pins in his little arm and told us how bad of a break it was once again. He had to stay in the hospital over night and was released the next day around noon. We had to take him in the next week to have more x-rays done because it was such a bad break. The bones had shifted and the doctor was nervous that surgery was going to need to be corrected. Another week went by and we had to do x-rays once again to find out if things were still shifting. This time the doctor felt good about it and he only had to keep his cast on for two more weeks at this point. This last Monday we were able to get his cast taken off and his pins removed. It was only a total of 4 weeks from the day he broke it. These little kids heel so fast. Kannon is trying to figure out how to get his arm to work. it doesn't bend or move like it used to, and his fingers hardly work. It was a horrible break and will take much time to get him back to where he is supposed to be. Two days later Kannon had an appointment with his pediatrician for his immunizations and what not. So on Wednesday (10.12.11) I took Kannon over to his pediatrician. The doctor came in and took a look at him and did his little routine and asked if I had any questions. I told him nope he was great, the only reason we were here was to get his immunizations and a flu shot. The doctor was on his way and Kannon got his flu shot. No big deal. Then the thought came to me that maybe I should have the doctor look at the bump on Kannon's head. (A year ago we found a bump on Kannon's head, we didn't think much of it, but took him to the doctor to get his opinion. The doctor told us that he wasn't really worried about it now, but if it hadn't changed or gone away in 6 months then we were to let him know.) I got the doctor back in the room and told him that Kannon's bump hadn't gone away, if anything maybe it had gotten a little bigger. The doctor showed some concern and went and got the other doctor to take a look at it. They both decided that it would be best if we just had a cat scan done just for the record. I came home and told Derek that Kannon had a CT in a few hours at the hospital. He asked me why I didn't really seemed concerned about the situation. I told him that Kannon was completely fine, he acts fine and is smart and there were no worries. He is just a little boy and all little boys have bumps and bruises! We took him up to the hospital and had the CT done. A couple of hours later we got the results! We learned that our sweet little boy has a brain tumor!! Oh how I have taken things for granted! The doctor informed us that Kannon would need to have a sedated MRI done so we could get a better idea of what this was. To make this very long story as short as possible, Kannon has an MRI scheduled for this Thursday. Regardless of if this tumor is cancerous or not it will have to be removed. Kannon has an appointment on November 7th at Primary Children's Hospital. We want to get him in sooner if possible but we are dealing with one of the largest children's hospital's around! After the results of the MRI we will have even more details and the doctors will have more leverage of whether he needs to be in the hospital NOW or if we are ok to wait till our appointment. Those who have looked at Kannon's CT really believe that the tumor is not cancerous, but harmful and needs to be removed. We are hoping and praying that we will be able to deal with our little boy just having to have this removed and not having to take it to the next level of cancer. It has made me realize how fragile life is and that I cannot always escape the hard things in life. How grateful we are to have this little man in our home! We have some pretty crazy pictures of his x-ray and other pictures that I will post hopefully soon. We are living life in the fast lane right now! I wanted to post this for my journaling for the future.