Maybe it's a Twin thing...

I have no idea where my two have come up with this but they have both said to me at different times and not around each other....

"Mom, I wonder what it would be like to be (the other one)"!!!

They have me puzzled. Does it mean something? Are they asking because they are away from each other during school hours and are doing the same type of things but obviously different due to teaching styles. I would hope that I am equal with them at home. We all go together and do the same things. I try and punish the same (yes the sweet boys do get in trouble). I have to say, I am puzzled by them saying it. I do answer the question with positive re-enforcement......but I'm still scratching my head. And they say it at weird times...like when we are eating dinner. So that doesn't give me any clues. I asked if they miss each other during the day and I get the annoyed look with a "NO". :)

For now I am just going to chalk it up to a "twin moment".

The things they say...

Some of the things my boys come up with just crack me up. Seriously they are the best entertainment ever! So last night as Brett and I were talking about the "football pool" that we enter at work.....Dylan comes over and says "we are going to win a football pool". We started to explain how it works when he said "you mean, we are going to get a pool that is shaped like a football".....................ha,ha,ha.........if it was just that easy.

Tonight as the boys were just super crazy. Not sure if they had to much sugar or what but Wow.... so Cody says he is wild because of the "fluid shot" they gave him. Brett and I looked at each other sort of puzzled when it clicked....the "fluid shot" is the "flu shot". He got that last week but whatever.

Pumpkin/Apple picking

It seems I have gotten a few days behind in the blog. Maybe that's a good thing as there isn't much to report about. Just normal crazy life stuff that we all have day-to-day.

To start our weekend off I was afraid that we would have a trip to Syracuse for the dentist. Thankfully that wasn't needed. As I was putting Cody to sleep Friday night, he says to me "mom, I think I have a potato chip caught in my appliance"......Ok, but he said he got it. Then he asks me what color are his teeth....."um, white"....so he hands me a little piece of something hard. I look at it and is trying to figure out what exactly is it....so yah, I had to put it between my teeth and bite for a quick second - yah, it's not a chip! It came from behind his top tooth, the one that has the nerve almost showing. It isn't bothering him at all and I have the piece saved so hopefully we keep our normal appointment and we'll see what Dr. Scott has to say about it.

Saturday we had another fun day of soccer. Next Sat. is our last day. After that we had high hopes of going to get our pumpkins but this darn NY weather was not going to allow that. It had misted and was so cool out most of the day. Instead we did other stuff and had dinner at my sister's.

Sunday we got to go to the apple farm. We had a lot of fun. It was still cool but when that sun came out it was nice. The kids picked lots and lots of apples. Went on a hayride, enjoyed the petting zoo, found their "great" pumpkin and had some good treats too!

And I must say I love their shirts. It appears we have the entire team spoken for....Offense/Defense/and of course the little Captain!

Tyler's post op

Tyler had his post-op appointment today. Brett took him as I got afternoon duty with running them around for appointments. All is great. His tubes look great. Brett got to look at them and said they are green. His frenulum is healing nicely and basically that was it. The appointment was at 8am and Brett was calling me at 8:20. So it was quick. He goes back in 6 months for a re-check and a hearing test.

To finish our afternoon the boys got their flu shots. They were real troopers. Tyler wanted to go first. He cried a second and that scared his brothers. Dylan went and did great. Cody went last and that probably wasn't so good. His anxiety kicked in over-drive. I am hoping that the flu bug will stay away from our house this year.

With these 2 appointments today also wraps up our month of doctor visits. Awesome, huh? It's only the 6th and we are done. I for one and am very excited about that. September was a hellish month of running to this appointment and that appointment. UGH!

Not much else happening with us. The boys love school. They wake up on the weekends and want to go. I think they are challenged every day and they love it. Tyler loves it to. Watching them grow up is so awesome! Soccer is going good. There are only 7 kids so that is a little disappointing but the boys are all having fun. Brett has been busy with football games. Running all weekend long but enjoying it.

Till next time....

Surgery Pics

Tyler before surgery....with his new favorites! Pj's and his Moose that we'll just call "Mr. Moose" All ready to go. We've had the happy juice and gotten our cool head ware. Mr. Moose did too!

Surgery is all done. After some resting he was finally ready to eat his blue popsicle. It tasted great and he was done with it in seconds.

Tyler's surgery

Tyler made out very well with his 3rd surgery. He had new tubes placed, his frenulum cut and they scoped out his adenoids to check for re-growth. Our day started at 8am. He was happy-go-lucky walking into the hospital sporting his new fireman pj's and his new moose. Got to his room, the tv to himself and he was good. He weighed in at 40lbs and is 3ft.2" tall. I told him it was time to change into the gown and he wasn't interested. But he did it eventually and he looked cute might I add. As it got closer to his time they came in with his "happy juice" and OMG was he funny. By the time he went into surgery he looked like he had just came out of the bar. He was giving everybody 'the eyebrow' and it was hysterical. The doctor commented on it in our talk.

Dr. King removed his old tubes that had fallen out and replaced them with long term tubes. These should stay in for a couple of years and serve there purpose with the fluid. He had a lot of fluid. So much so that it had started to turn into a glue like substance and compress the ear drum. He had his adenoids scoped for re-growth. There was some that had grown back so that was removed. He also had his frenulum cut (piece of skin from the lip to the gums). Tyler's was very pronounced and has caused a nice space in his front teeth. This should allow his adult teeth to come in with nice spacing. He has his follow up on the 6th and a hearing test down the road.

After surgery he woke up NOT HAPPY! When I thought he was in pain and discomfort (which he was) was from surgery - I think it was because he didn't want that gown on. We put him back in his fireman jammies and life was good. Till he got sick! That's why you wear those hospital gowns but try telling a 4 year old that. They ended up giving him the anti-nausea medicine and within no time his coloring came back. He rested and watched TV. Got up and had to pee. Wanted that IV out like no tomorrow. Then he felt like a popsicle and devoured it down.

After he got home he was ready to go. I had to remind him that the doctor said no and that he had just had surgery. Kids really do bounce back quick!

Ortho Update

Cody and I ventured to Syracuse for another ortho check-up. Dr. Scott was very proud of his clean teeth and the fact that he worse his special t-shirt so he got 2 more raffle tickets and got to pick a prize from the "big" prize table. So that was a big deal!!!!

The appliance is doing it's job. He said he can almost clench down and hit teeth to teeth. Yeah. But...with good there is bad and we have a few issues to watch. His top right tooth has been worn down so much from the cross bite that he is now exposing nerve. I don't think a lot of nerve as Cody has not complained and I imagine he would. However, we had our last visit 4 weeks ago so all of this stuff has happened in that amount of time. So we need to watch it unless I call and say we have an issue. If the nerve becomes more exposed then they will need to pull it. He took a few new x-rays to send to Dr. Tatum. It appears that he is missing 2 top adult teeth. I was hoping for only one - at the site of the cleft where his gum was split as a baby. But both adult teeth - one on either side of his front teeth is missing. So down the road we will be talking options for adult teeth. Implants, teeth on a retainer, moving back teeth forward and re-shaping......

Then the most hard to swallow news was that he has a fistula. For those outside the craniofacial world - that is an opening in the palate. Right now his is like a pin-hole size. It's not huge as I could only see it as his head was tilted back with a bright light shining on it. Dr. Scott sprayed some air up there and it really bothered Cody as it was going right into his nasal cavity and tickled horribly. I was extremely sad to hear that news. We need to watch it to see if it gets bigger. Of course with the hole comes the possibility of speech issues and food/drink coming out of his nose. So we wait and see what we are up for.

I hate to admit it but I did have my little pity party in the car for like 5 minutes. I'm entitled right? I think so. I hate that at the age of 5 we have to think about "adult" teeth and the lack of them. I hate that his palate is opening back up. We've been so lucky that ours hasn't. I know that there are many kids that do and are much bigger - but this is my child, our situation and I only know that. Not to mention I am taking Tyler to the hospital tomorrow for another surgery and it just plain ole sucks! We see Dr. Scott back in 6 weeks.

A very funny story though.............as Dr. Scott had Cody in his chair he asked Cody how old he was? Cody said 5. Dr. Scott said "when will you turn 6"? Cody replied "on my next birthday"!!! We all laughed. Dr. Scott realized he walked into that.