Spring Break!!!

I came out to the family room to find this yesterday afternoon. The boy has plans....

Asthma and Illness

It's been one year since Jake was first diagnosed with asthma. It's since been under pretty good control until more recently.

Lately, he has been having more flare ups. Could be the cooler weather we've been having, but it seems to be at other times as well, not related to the weather as much.

Last night he awoke with a high fever, sore throat, head ache and a horrible barky cough. The cough unrelated to the first three symptoms. The barky cough came with wheezing....not a good combo. So, to the nebulizer we went. He was so, so miserable.


The next morning, still high fever, headache and sore throat along with wheezing. More nebulizer and appt. made to the doctor. When this kid feels bad, this is pretty much the only look you'll get from him. Pure misery.



Turns out he had strep throat along with some pretty awful wheezing, so the doctor decided to have him do a breathing treatment while we were there to help open him up a bit more.




It was also decided we start more of a maintenance program for his asthma since it seems to be increasing in freaquency with asthma attacks that we don't always know the triggers, other than second hand smoke (smoking is STUPID!!), occasional pet allergies and damp/cool air. Hopefully, this will help to keep it from spiraling so quickly into bronchitis and the like since he gets it in like two seconds with his allergies and asthma when it does happen. Ugh.

Have you ever seen a....

Have you ever seen a pretend police man, super hero, dragon fighting knight before?!

Well, now you have!

TKD fun

Sparring:


He's fun to watch at class. It's rare to get a decent shot of him, but I managed to grab these two with my iPhone.

We Ride

Jake LOVED riding his bike until about two years ago when he received a scooter for his birthday. Since then, it was all about the scooter.

Well, it turns out he started wanting to ride his bike again. Problem: he outgrew it! We actually went to Acedemy for something else, and checked out bikes just to see what was out there for when he needed a new one. Well, turns out the one he tried out was almost too small and it was bigger then the one at home! So, we looked for another one that would grow with him a little more and had the one main thing on his wish list: the color GREEN!


So, he received one of his Christmas presents a smidge early. And now we ride again....without training wheels!

Jake's First TKD Tournament

We weren't quite sure if we were going to be doing this or not, but he so very, very much wanted to. So, we checked it out more and decided to sign Jake up for his first TaeKwonDo tournament. He had a blast!

Just a little story in pictures for you:



























He ended up with both a third and first place trophy. Woohoo!!!

Community Helpers Rock!

Jacob had his "community helpers" parade at school today. All the kids were so cute in their outfits.

Jacob decided he wanted to be a police officer.

Here he is in his dashing mama-made "uniform".

All the kids in his class and his Teacher. We love his teacher!

They went down the hallway and back

Here he is...he hadn't seen us yet.

Then he saw us and gave us a wink.

Then up and back down the stairs...

And then back to class. The End.