Olympic Torch

Mr Bo Man Carrying the torch!

My proud mother with her nephew

The Hedges/MacMillan Clan with the Olympian

Ah yes the flame came our way and what a housefull it created! My cousin Bo, who I bragged about in the last post, came up and carried the torch in Hixon. It was such a special time...unexpectedly it gave me a lump in my throat to see Bo carrying the torch and as I looked about I saw a few other shinny eyeballs. It really was a wonderful site. Him carrying it in Hixon proved to be a bonus as the whole famdamily got to run along side the whole time he carried it. The security had their eyes on us all the way though insuring we didn't get to darn close. Can you imagine if someone jumped Bo while my whole family was there?? Just look at the pics...I would recommend anyone else but Bo to jump!!! LOL Anyhow it was great.

My Bro with Bo

My brother George surprised us and turned up the night before along with 8 other family members from Ft St John. So our house was jam packed once again with 13 people laying their heads down for a snooze. That night we had some more fun playing Rumoli and "The Construction Game" until midnight. Good times O if you want to see more pics of the event George posted them at this link http://picasaweb.google.com/ghedges/RobertsTorchRelay#

As for the cloth diapers YES we are still happily doing the cloth diapering. The fuzzibunz are the choice brand for me even though they are pricey. Even when my kids diaper is heavy his skin is dry. Absolutely no rash issues with them. So yep I'm pretty happy with my self to bid the disposables goodbye.

We had our neurology appointment and we not changing anything. Just a bit more blood work and a MRI for 2 yrs of age. The doc figured what I saw since Dec was "extra movement" and not seizure activity. Not sure how she figures that one when he was contracting significantly to the side for 3-4 sec three times in a row but hey I'm not going to argue when he seems to be progressing in the right direction. At least the activity he is having is less than before. Just an interesting position to be in as a parent and not feel that you are being validated for what you know, see, and feel as a parent. Alistair may as well have gone in on his own in that appointment.....ya enough on that subject.

Alistair is a munchin man!! We went in and got his 4 needles the other day for H1N1, flu shot, high risk pneumoccocal, and the typical combo needle for whooping cough, tetanus etc... He had a good cry for 20 sec and finito the fist was in his mouth and he contently drooled away. I gave him some tylenol a couple times more for me than him as when I had the H1n1 i felt like crap and complained about my shoulder pain so tylenol he got. But it really was uneventful to my relief. One interesting tidbit though was looking into the H1N1 and the adjuvant. I asked about getting the nonadjuvant version of the vaccine and found out they don't give nonadjuvant H1N1 for under 3 yr olds. Adjuvant is often included in vaccines to enhance the recipients immune response to a supplied antigen while keeping the infected foreign material at a minimum. I just wanted to look into the options as there is so much hype out there about going for the nonadjuvant vaccine. Well when the public health nurse and i looked into it the nonadjuvanted vaccine had more thiomersal, a mecury containing compound, in it then the adjuvant vaccine. the thiomersal is placed in the vaccine as a perservative. But interesting really when people are so concerned with the mecury side of things.....Anyhow I decided to go with all four needles as I figure the risks of having an adverse reaction to the vaccines outway the risk of acquiring one of the conditions itself. So needles he did get.....and he remains to be a happy camper.

Actually my kid is in the "Oooo thats my voice" stage!! For the past 4 days or so he wakes up around 4 or 5am for a feed (another growth spurt I think) and then precedes to chat quite loudly till mama decides she can't sleep through it anymore. Yes at this stage in the game Mr Alistair would acquire his own room if we had our own home but for now we are one happy family sleeping together within the same four walls! : )

Ooo one more tidbit...Alistair has reached 13 lbs. Yep he is a growen up a storm and nicely tracking along on the the percentile chart. This is just a little chart the medical world likes to track you on to ensure that you are growing appropriately. They measure the head size, length, and weight and plot your kid on a graph and if your kid is making any drastic changes in the wrong direction they refer you to a specialist and down the specialist road you go....Anyhow we are tracking along it well. So yippeee. It must be all the chicken Alistair is consuming...Here is a little video of him using a utensil! Yessiery the little man grabbed the spoon from my hand the other day and promptly stuck it in his mouth. So now we need two spoons when eatting...Good times!

K toodallooo folks ~ Juels