Bad Blogger...

So it's been almost 2 months since I posted last...yikes!  Jadon has gone down to 1 nap a day for only an hour and a half normally, so I have little time to work with! I don't have any pics uploaded from my camera yet from the holidays...but I figured I better update even without!

J is already 14 months old!  I'm loving this age so much.  He is learning new words and understands so much.  His latest thing is saying on and off when looking at lights or fans.  Smart little guy!  He has an AMAZING appetite!  Last week he ate dinner for an hour and ten minutes!  I keep going back to the fridge as he finishes and signs "more"! 

Christmas was great.  We took him light looking around town and it was so fun to see it through his eyes.  All he kept saying was "Ohhh Wowwwww!" Fifteen minutes in he was out like a light.  We learned to hit the big displays first next year!
He did great with the tree, not touching it.  He feel into it once and started crying cause we think he thought he was in trouble!  He loves it when we pick him up and point out the orniments to him. 

We had a busy Christmas driving here and there, but got to see a lot of family which was a blessing!  He wasn't into opening gifts too much, but that's ok!  Sure beat last yr when he was asleep through it all!

Then this last weekend we had a big scare.  First Jadon woke up on Sunday from a nap with a fever (his first).  Then Dave mentioned to me that the last couple days he's noticed a bulge in J's groin.  We googled it (of coarse!) and found it could be a hernia.  With the fever and this, my momma instinct kicked in and I said we need to go to urgent care...yes, it was the 4th quarter of the packers/vikings game and it was close...but I got Dave out the door.  We went to urgent care where we were told it was serious and was referred to the ER.  At the ER we were told it was serious and they didn't have a peds surgeon to fix it, so they had to contact the other hospital in town to see if anyone was comfortable doing it or we had to be lifeflighted down to another hospital.  It's dumb, i know, but all I could think of was, I'm afraid of heights! but I knew I wanted a surgeon who was VERY comfortable operating on my baby, so I made that known.  Thankfully a local surgeon was found and we were transfered to their ER....seriously.  Atleast a room was held for us there, but moving my burning up baby (103.6 fever) from site to site was rough!  There an amazing surgeon met with us and told us she recommended surgery now and didnt' thing the blood supply was being cut off yet.  If it was, they have 6 hours before tissue and other things start dying off. 

So, at 10:30pm i was wheeled up to surgery with my baby in my lap where the anestesiaologists had to take him from me into surgery...you could say I completley lost it!  Even the trasport lady got teared up!  Dave and I went into the waiting room in a daze...what is happening??  My parents came with some food at 11pm (didnt' have time for dinner) and sat with us which was so nice.  The staff was so nice to keep updating us on how he was doing and the surgeon came in and said it went great and the hernia was repaired and they didn't find any other "issues" that had to be fixed, praise God!  Dave and I went up to his room and waited till he got out of recovery, which was hard cause we could hear him at the end of the hall...about an hour later he came in and was a little upset you could say, but my mom picked up his bear from home and that gave him some quick comfort right away.  That night was rough...he wouldn't let me go (understandable) I held him all night (minus whenever Dave would take over for a potty break) while nurses came in every half hour then hour to check vitals...he was burning up too and they wern't sure why...The next day they ran more tests and found it wasn't bacterial and was probably viral, so he could be coming down with something.  That morning was rough...dave got 30 minutes of sleep all night and I got about 10 minutes...and Jadon was not happy.  I will say though that I tried to take in all the cuddle time.  He just slept on my chest allll night and the next day and wrapped his little arms around me tight.  Poor guy, so tramitized.  He really didn't like any of the nurses for fear they might take him away. 
Then after a short nap, he just popped back to normal self!  He was up running around the room and playing.  We were soooooo thankful to see this!  He started grabbing his jacket like, lets go mom, I'm ready!  We were released around 3:30pm and Dave and I were like zombies!  We ordered pizza and were anticipating a rough night ahead of us.  We all went to bed early (J's fever was up again) and we all slept in till 9:30am!!!  I got up to check on him once in the early morning to see how his fever was, but thankfully that didnt' wake him! 
So, a couple days later his fever breaks and a rash comes on.  We think we know what it is, rosieola, but have to go in cause it could be related to his surgery.  I was worried he would freak out at the doctors, but he did good.  It was rosieola and that explained blood work at the hospital.  SOOO thankful it wasn't the flu!  Our doctor was like, I don't put anything past Jadon anymore.  He had both the roseiola and hernia at the same time, I could do a case study on him (and all the "issues" we've had since birth that are not very common)!  We laughed.  Yep...the surgeon said only a .5-2.5% chance of another hernia, so that's less than the normal person....ha, you don't know my son...he tends to run in the low percentile of things happening....but that's also what makes him a miracle! 

If you finished reading alllll this post, I'm sorry for the rambleing, I just needed to document some things for us. Thankful that through all the storms of life,  God is always there and never leaves!