Happy Birthday and Frosty the Snowman

Here we go Honey...

Well its official Tony and I have a 3 year old... And the weekend couldn't have gone any better... It definatly made alot of memories for the years to come...

We started it out with a trip to Build-a-Bear with one of his friends and missed the one who couldn't come... As we were walking down the hall of Fashion Place Mall I notice a Stormtrooper and Darth Vader from Star Wars (being that was his party theme I was in total disbelief) and so were the rest of the crew that were there with us... We couldn't even believe it... Call it fate, call it coincidence call it whatever but we had NO CLUE they were going to be there... And the reason they were there you ask??? To roll out some Star Wars outfits for the bears... Crazy huh...
Anyways... Hayden, who was dressed up in his cute Star Wars tee-shirt bonded immediately with the Star Wars crew... Darth Vader then took Hayden's hand and helped him make his bear... It was the best time... I'll admit that I cried a time or two only because I was so happy for my little man... After Build-a-Bear we headed home for a small group of friends and family too help us celebrate... On such a cold pre-snowy day our soup and sandwich lunch hit the spot... We did presents then cake...

Now the cute story about cake time... As we all gathered around Hayden and his Darth Vader, lightsaber cake I asked him if he was ready for us to sing... He then told all of us "No you and you and you not sing, Hayden sings" I then asked him "You're going to sing to yourself???" He said "yes" so I light the candle and we all stood around and listened to Hayden sing Happy Birthday to himself... We all laughed so hard... It really was an incredible weekend...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAYDEN !!!!







Frosty the Snowman:

Hayden's birthday weekend ended with a snow storm... And when we got home from a birthday dinner with some great friends Sunday night Daddy got Hayden and I with a snow ball... Hayden was laughing so hard you couldn't help but laugh yourself... The snowball fight was Hayden and I v.s. Daddy and it was a pretty good fight... After we were done we decided to make our very first family snowman... I love my little family!!!

Primary Childrens (and my miracle) and Halloween...

HALLOWEEN:
Halloween was fun this year... As I posted earlier Hayden loves Star Wars so Halloween just wouldn't be Halloween without him being someone from Star Wars
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He had so much fun trick or treating... And it is just so much fun being his mom!!!


PRIMARY CHILDRENS (and my miracle):
We had our yearly check up at Primary's last week... Now for those of you who don't know why we would be going to Primary's for a check up here is my little miracle's story...

Our lives changed forever on July 13,2006... It was our first ultrasound... The tech was showing us our little boy, his hands, feet, his cute little face and we were just in awe of the whole thing... She said she was going to get a doctor to come and look at everything with us, we thought things were fine... Until that doctor came in... The very first thing out of her mouth was "do either of you have birth defects in your family?" still excited about what we had just seen we say "no not at all" with her reply "well we are dealing with one now"... We then find out that Hayden has an encephalocele, (a defect in the closing of the skull (the brain then begins to grow on the outside of the skull)... If you google the images you'll realize just how lucky we are)... Anyways the same doctor then asked us when we wanted to schedule the abortion (NO JOKE) without even thinking Tony and I said "no, no abortion" she then continued in telling us that depending on the severity of the encephalocele our son may not walk, talk, hear, see or even be born alive... He was still our little boy... The next four months leading up to delivery was filled with countless doctors appointments, Neurosurgeon Conferences discussing our monthly ultrasounds, NICU meetings discussing the possible surgery and what would happen... On Nov 20, 2006 I had an amniocentesis to see if he was ready to come into the world... On Nov 22, 2006 we had our little boy with a golfball sized encephalocele (pretty little considering)... Thanksgiving was just that an amazing day of Thanks, Hayden had an MRI to see the encephalocele... Only scar tissue, fluid and minimal amount of actual brain tissue was inside... He had brain surgery the next day (2 days old) and only stayed in the hospital for a week, (when we were told he may be in for months) and he was only in a WEEK!!! As he's about to turn 3 I look at him and just can't believe I have this amazing little boy... He is your typical boy too, playing with cars, Superman, dirt... And to think they wanted us to terminate the whole thing... Now he does still has a soft spot that we deal with and thats why we go every year to Primarys to see how its doing... Our Doctor was hopefull that the hole would close on its own. Unfortunatly with the location of the hole the blood flow makes it pulsate to badly to have the bone regenerate on its own... So last week at our appt our great Doctor has decided that it is time to close the hole before Hayden gets any older... On Januray 11, 2010 Hayden will be going into surgery... We have 2 possibilites of closure for his type of defect... Option 1 (recommended by our Doctor) They will put a piece of plastic under the hole then fill the hole with a bone paste that as he gets older and bigger will turn into actual bone... Option 2 is a prosthetic plastic that will fill the hole as well... We had a CAT Scan to see which option will work best for Hayden though his Doctor is hoping for option 1 and so are we... Doc says surgery will be about an hour and his stay will be 1 to 2 days depending...

I'll keep everyone posted!!!!