Another packed in weekend for the Herzogs. These last weeks have gone by so fast and we've been so busy. We tried putting Trevor on regular formula again since they said kids can usually tolerate milk products by 6 months, but he got really sick and we had to put him back on soy. Now he's doing fine and even spitting up a little less now that we changed his reflux med as well. Both boys have a runny nose and have had it for about a week now. Hopefully that will get better this week! My dad came into town for the weekend, so we went to dinner Friday night with them. Then, Saturday, Zach and the kids and I went to see his family in Fort Thomas. We had a really good time. There were some of Zach's Aunts and an Uncle there who we haven't seen for quite a while. There were lots of people to chat with and it was a lot of fun. Zach's mom got us a new camera that takes better pictures than the one we have, so we were so excited about that!! Cameron got some flag toothpicks and loved them for some reason. He got to take them home and he held them the entire drive, even through his nap.

Sunday my parents came over to hang out with us and the boys. Cameron had a lot of mood swings today, but we still had a pretty good day. We filled up our little pool and Cam played for a little while. I put Trevor in and he did not like it. He's never had any problems with baths, so I think the water being so cold was a shocker to him. Plus, I didn't have a suit on, so I couldn't sit in there with him. He had a death grip on my shirt and did not want to stay in there. He was okay with me just letting him stand, but he held his grip to my shirt until we got out and then took a good nap after getting out. So, it took a lot out of him.

Our big event over the last two weeks is that Cameron is potty training. Actually, he wears underwear all day except to sleep at night and he wears a pull-up at nap (just in case). We left him in underwear on our long drives and going out places and he's done fine. He's actually to the point now where he comes and tells us he has to go. Today....NO accidents!! He's even using the big toilet most of the time. Yeah!!! Only diapers at night and on our way to no more for him at all. So exciting!!! I never thought I'd see the day!!

Great Strides 2009

Saturday was the Great Strides walk for CF. Our team has raised right at about $9000. We didn't quite reach our goal this year, but still

raised a lot for this VERY important cause! I'm hoping to still fund raise and get up to $10000 at least for this year. So, if you still haven't heard from a friend of family member, be sure to tell them it's not too late!! We were very worried about rain this year. We got lucky and it didn't rain during the walk. We had some pizza after and then the rain started, so the place pretty much cleared out. We stayed and let Wynton and Cameron play in the rain for a little bit and then headed home. Thanks to all that came out and walked with us and also to those who donated this year! We really appreciate it!

Sunday we went to the zoo in the morning, one of Cameron's favorite places. That morning we woke up to find that our bunny, Emmy, was not in her cage. We looked everywhere and couldn't find her. We decided we'd come home and start asking neighbors, but when we pulled in the driveway, she was sitting in our neighbors front yard. Hurray! We were so happy! There was a hole in her cage we had to fix, but she should be safe now! We did some yard work Sunday afternoon and the weekend was over. They just fly by too fast. I will upload some zoo pics later.

Mother's Day

This has been a really nice weekend. Saturday morning my mom came over to help with our yard sale. We didn't do great, but got rid of some stuff. We took the rest to good will. That afternoon we went to Huber's with the kids. First we went to the kids park. Cameron got to go down this huge slide. He wanted to go by himself, but he did whole turns in it and ended up on his belly and got scared. Zach took him on this bouncy thing too, but he was too scared for that as well. So, we walked around and fed the animals, which he just loves!! There was a playground that was perfect for him and he played on that quite a bit too. Trevor was just as good as could be in the stroller. Then we went to Huber's Winery and sampled their new wine. I got a few bottles since we are out here at home. Then we went to the restaurant. You just cannot beat their fried chicken, corn, mashed potatoes and biscuits!! Nothing compares! The kids were good and it was much more successful than last year (when we had to leave before the food came).

Today my mom is coming over and I am going to take her out to get a pedicure and some lunch. Then I'll spend the afternoon with my boys. We had to go to Huber's yesterday because they were all booked up on Mother's Day. It's been a nice weekend. Busy as usual! Next weekend is Great Strides. We're hoping for good weather!

I put a couple other photos on here. During the week this week Cameron helped me put flowers in my pots. He loved it and didn't want to stop! It was fun, he did a good job listening and really enjoyed himself. We were also lucky enough to get a double stroller from a parent in my class. It's a great size, folds up small and will be very useful for the zoo and travel!

Oaks

We had an extremely busy week. I had something every evening this week. Then, Friday was Oaks day at the track. I've never been to Oaks or Derby. We were lucky enough for Zach's mom to come to watch the kids so we could have the day together. Zach and I haven't been out together since...I don't even know when. We need to do it more often! We had a lot of fun! We decided we want to try to go to Oaks every year if we can. We had grandstand tickets, although they were not that good, but we think we are more of infield people. We liked walking around and watching everyone! We got to sneak into the Infield Club, which was where we wanted to get tickets, so we saw the winners of the last two "Top Chef" making up some food. It was a really fun day. The time flew by!

Then, Saturday, we went to one of our friends houses for Derby. We all have babies, it is so funny! There were 3 toddlers and 3 babies, and one pregnant mommy. We can only imagine how out get-togethers will be in a few years! It's so nice to get together with everyone though!

We have no plans today. I need to do my potted plants, but I'm exhausted, so I think we will just relax and spend time with the boys today. Trevor is feeling much better and Cam's doing fine.

Noah's Ark

We spent the day Saturday making a hutch for our new bunny rabbit. Then, we went to Noah's Ark with the Rose family and fed animals. Wynton and Cameron are so cute and excited about everything. We went over to their house for dinner and had a good time letting the boys play together and catching up. We ended up leaving later than we expected. It was already Cam's bedtime and we still had to pick up the bunny. By the time we got home it was almost 9 and Zach still had to make the door to the hutch. The bunny was so cute when she got in, sniffing around at her new home. We need to redo the roof though, so that is Zach's project today. Cameron is so excited about her and just loves petting her. He says she is "so cute." It's funny! I'll try to get some pics today and post.

Easter

We had a really nice Easter. We didn't go anywhere, just spent the day together. We hid eggs in the backyard for Cameron. We had so many because I brought home the extra from work. I thought he'd get sick of hunting and we'd have to find them, but he was loving every minute of it asking where more eggs where. He wanted to play with his eggs all day and was expecting to find more stuff in them each time he opened them up. It was pretty fun! Trevor slept through the hunt, but woke up after Cam opened his eggs. So, we let Trevor hold them. He put them in his mouth (of course).

Both boys are healthy again, which I am so thankful for! Spring is hard and especially with this weather changing back and forth so much! Trevor is spitting up way more than he had been. We called about his medicine and he's getting the max dose. He had spit up so much that papa had to take a shower and rinse off today and Trevor went through a couple outfits. I wish we could do something. It's hard when we take him somewhere or are trying to get out the door and he makes a mess all over!

Erin and Geof are in Europe for 6 weeks. They have a travel blog if anyone does not have it that reads this....

http://egeurope.travellerspoint.com/

There is lots of good pictures of the places they have been. We're so jealous, it looks like so much fun!

Trevor Rolls Over

Trevor started rolling over from his back to his tummy yesterday. Most of the time, he won't stay on his back longer than 5 seconds before he's on his belly. Then, he looks like he's flying because he puts his arms behind him and lifts his legs up. He's gotten himself confused about how to get from his belly to back now (which he has been doing for a month or so). Anyway, he's quick...no more leaving him on the couch while we grab a diaper or whatever! We went to the cabin today to finish mulching the front of the house and Zach mowed the property. Cameron loves it there! Tomorrow we are going to do an Easter egg hunt for Cameron in the back yard. We still have to make the eggs. I think he will have fun with that though, we'll have to video if we can.

Spring Break

Spring break is over. :( I didn't really have lots of time for the blog like I thought I might. The kids kept me pretty busy. The weather was rainy, but warm most days, so we were able to go on walks and play in the yard. Both boys ended up getting ear infections, Trevor is finishing up his antibiotics the next couple days. Trevor found his feet a couple weeks ago and has a field day eating his right foot. He will sometimes have all 5 toes in his mouth. Funny! Cameron surprises us each day with the things he says. He talks in complete sentences sometimes and it's amazing how much her remembers that we say. He understands so much more and can talk with you so much more. It just amazes me daily! We spend the last weekend landscaping. We went to the cabin and put in some bushes for my parents and then took weeds out of our flower beds and put mulch down. It took all day Sunday for our house and we're still not done. We hope to finish this coming weekend and then things will look nice. I love once all the flowers come out. I'm hoping my Iris' bloom okay this year with the freeze we've been having this week. Well, that's all for now. We're still not getting any sleep with Trevor, he's getting up a ton lately. Hopefully that will get better soon!

Posts Deleted

In an attempt to clear out some of the older posts on this blog, the most recent posts were also deleted. So, about 3 months of posts have been deleted. I decided to put a couple pics from recently, but I will just update once a week as usual. I am on spring break this week, so maybe I will have more time to update than usual and may be able to catch the kids doing some cute things! Too bad the weather is supposed to be rainy all week, that means no outside time. Too bad!! Grandpa Hoeptner is here for a couple days....Cameron likes spending time with him. As soon as he saw him he gave him a hug and wanted to play with him, even though he hasn't seen him since Christmas. He seems to remember everyone better now that he's getting older. Cameron has a runny nose and a little cough, I'm hoping it goes away. He woke up crying several times last night, just screaming and we didn't know why. Hopefully he doesn't get sick. Today at 2 is the Louisville game. Can't wait. Go Cards!!

We had two big first's for the boys this weekend. Trevor's chord fell off, so we were finally able to give him his

first bath. He did calm down eventually and there were many cute pictures, but I just loved this pic of him. He looks like a little frog. He's also getting much stronger. He can hold his head up for a much longer time now. He is eating well and doing pretty well at night. He gets up every 3 hours, so he's up twice at night. He is still throwing up some though, so we may have to get him on the reflex meds. Turns out both the boys inherited my bad reflux! Too bad!!

Cameron went pee pee in the potty for the very first time yesterday!! We were so proud of him. I know this is going to be a long road, but at least he's done it once now.

Amnio

Sorry I didn't post anything about the amnio yesterday. I stayed on the couch after I got back from the appointment and then tried to scan the pics of the baby, but it wouldn't work. I didn't want to post without a pic. Then, I went to bed pretty early since I hadn't had much sleep the couple nights before. Anyway...the procedure went well. We spent about 35 minutes doing an ultrasound, watching our baby BOY move around. (Yes...another boy. I told Zach, the next dog is going to be a girl, I'm a bit outnumbered in this house! But, Cameron will be glad to have a brother and it definitely makes life easy for us with clothes and hand-me-downs.) We also got to see 4D pics of him. It was pretty neat. Then, the doc came in and did the amnio. He couldn't get anything with the first stick, so he had to do it again. That part was not very comfortable, I felt like he was jabbing so far, but I knew he wasn't. He got tons of fluid, but only about half of what the lab wanted. Apparently they want a ridiculous amount to test for CF and he didn't think it was a safe amount. So, he did what he thought was safe and thinks it will be fine. We checked the baby afterwards and his heart rate was unaffected and he seemed to be fine. I'm still a little sore there this morning, but I think we'll both be fine. I let Cameron go to the sitters today so I could take it easy another day, get the house cleaned a bit, not lift anything too heavy. Now, it's a waiting game! The results will come in about two weeks. They will be checking CF specifically, but the results will also reflect any kind of chromosome issues (like Downs, etc.). I just hope they will have the cells they need for the test, I do worry about that part a little. Once we get results, I'll be sure to post them. We will probably get them when we are in San Diego on vacation. Thanks to all of you that were thinking of us yesterday and concerned.

Hope you like the pics of the new little guy. I didn't post the one of his "boy parts" because that's about all you see in the pic. I didn't think it was necessary, but trust me, he's definitely a boy!

The one makes him look like a little alien, but the 4D is so different, I thought I'd post it.

Cam's Appt.

Cam and I spent the day at home. We played outside and he went swimming in his baby pool. We played games inside and did puzzles. Cameron has also picked up a few new words. He loves balls and can finally say 'ball.' He also learned how to say bike and baby. They all sound pretty much like the word itself except ball kind of sounds like bow, but it's close and we can tell what he's saying.

Cam's CF clinic visit went well today. It was a bit long and he got tired of being there, even threw a fit because I wouldn't leave, but we got a good report. He's gained a half a pound in the last three months, which is good. He's in the 20th percentile for weight and his weight/height combo is between the 25th and 50th percentile, so we are very pleased with that. He is able to stop his Reglan, so I will decrease the dose and have it eliminated in the next week. Also, once we complete the pulmacort we have here in the house, he can go to a different one and only do a breathing treatment once a day. He'll still need CPT twice, but anything we can combine or minimize helps!! There were some other meds we talked about, but it's probably nothing most of you will know about, so I'll wait to explain when he actually starts, we just discussed some things we'll be doing in the next year with Cam. Overall, good report. We don't have to go back for 3 months unless he gets sick. Tomorrow is the amnio. Wish us luck that the procedure will go smoothly with no complications. Hopefully we'll find out the sex of the baby. I'm nervous. I can't wait until tomorrow afternoon when this is over with! I'm sure we'll update more either tomorrow or the following day.

Daddy's Birthday Weekend

Saturday was daddy's birthday. We went to stay with his family in Fort Thomas, KY for the weekend. Cameron got to spend a lot of time with his grandparents and his cousin Sam all day Saturday. Sunday he also spent time with them because they all came to watch Zach's bike race (which he got 2nd overall and 1st in his age group, go Zach!!). Cameron was able to swim in a kid pool on Saturday and we even walked the boys up to the fire station on the corner. They were able to sit in the drivers seat of the fire engine and pretend to drive and were each given a hat. We enjoyed the weekend and it seemed to fly by. Zach and I went out to eat Saturday night for his birthday (his parents were so nice to treat us). It was maybe the best meal I have ever had. I was able to see a couple of my friends there on Friday night and Saturday morning. I am very tired from the weekend. Cameron slept the whole way home and still seems tired, so I'm sure we will all get some much needed rest this weekend.

School's Out

I had my last day of work Wednesday. Yesterday, Cameron and I went to the zoo in the morning. Cam did really good until he got tired. He wanted to walk around some and did a pretty good job staying right next to me. He was so cute running around. I took him on the carousel for the first time. He didn't like it. He wouldn't sit on an animal, so we sat on the bench, but he kept saying off. Then we came back, went on a wagon ride, and played inside the rest of the afternoon. It was so hot and we were both tired after the zoo. Cameron has a clinic appointment Tuesday. I'm hoping for a good report and good weight gain. Then, my amnio is the next day. Today we leave for Northern Kentucky to spend the weekend with Zach's family. We will probably hang out by the pool tomorrow and then Zach and I will go out to eat for his birthday. Zach has a bike race up there on Sunday, so we'll do that and then come home late that afternoon. I've been trying to pack all morning and I know I will forget something. Last time I forgot one of Cam's meds and since we will be there a few days this time, I just can't forget something like that. We're taking the small Civic to try to save on gas and because it has the bike rack on it, but it's going to be a tight squeeze in there. I'm wondering how Cam will do on the drive. We usually drive during his nap, but Zach has to work, so we are leaving right after he's had a nap. I'm sure he will be tired to sitting, I just hope he doesn't scream a lot, my head can't take that. I will update Sunday night and probably have cute pictures from the weekend. I posted a pic of Cam on the couch. His Aunt and Uncle got him this DVD of this lady he loves and he watches it 3-4 times a day. He loves it! He's also been obsessed with wearing his daddy's hat.

Hot Weekend!!

It has been a very hot weekend (actually a hot week) here in Louisville. We have spent a lot of time outside. We have the baby pool for Cam in the backyard which he finally likes again and we've been going to the neighborhood pool. Zach had a bike race today at Fort Duffield.

Cam and I weren't going to go because of all the bugs there and the heat, but we decided to surprise him (I've never missed a bike race).Cam did so much better at this race, but he got a nap on the way there and we weren't there that long because Zach's race had started by the time we got there. We hiked up and down the big hill there so we could see Zach at a couple places. Then, we sat at the finish line and cheered people on. We had fun and Zach was surprised and happy to see us, it was good motivation for his last lap. I have felt better for the most part this weekend. The last 4 days of work were horrible. I was so sick each morning I could hardly make it to work. One day I had such a big headache, I couldn't do much. I was feeling so much better, so I'm not sure why I feel bad all of a sudden. Probably just exhaustion. I'm ready for summer break!! Only 3 more days to go!!