4 Years Old!!

Will I cannot believe you are now 4 years old.  You are quite the handsome big boy.  You are getting so big and you make me proud to be your mommy everyday.  You just got over having your tonsils removed and my how things have changed.  You are sleeping so much better which makes me a happy mommy.  You love to play with just about anything but right now you really like to play with your new Fiddlesticks (the ones we grew up with) and build any creation you can think of.  You are a wonderful big brother you and Emma play really well together most of the time.  Instead of reading books at night right now you love to have Daddy read you Comic Books and stories he has downloaded onto his Iphone.  Mommy loves you so much and your are turning into such a big boy.  I love watching every minute of you growing up.

 

I have seen this done by some other people and thought it was a great idea and something I hope to do in the coming years to see how Will's answers change.  I gave no prompting at all and these are all straight from the mouth of a 4 year old boy.

 1. What is your favorite color? Green & Yellow

 2. What is your favorite toy?  Pirate Ship & Castle

 3. What is your favorite fruit? Peaches & Apples

 4. What is your favorite TV Show?  Shrek & Tangled

 5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  Grilled Cheese

 6. What is your favorite outfit? Pajamas

 7. What is your favorite game? Blocks

 8. What is your favorite snack? Fruit Chews

 9. What is your favorite animal? Crocodile

10. Who is your best friend? Jaden

11. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play with bubbles

12. What is your favorite drink? Apple juice

13.  What is your favorite holiday?  Halloween

14. What do you take to bed with you every night? My Animals

15. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Grilled Cheese

16.  What do you want to be when you grow up?  Policeman

17. What are you good at? Games @ Chucky Cheese

18.  What do you and Mommy like to do together? Play outside

19. What do you and Daddy like to do together? Play guns

20. What is your favorite thing to do?  Play

Memorial Day Vacation

We went on The Horn Family Vacation over Memorial Day weekend. We headed to Osceola, MO to our family cabin where we did lots of fishing, atv'ing and lots of other fun stuff with the kids.

Here are all the fishermen and women!!

Fun with glowsticks!!

My boys!!

Roasting marshmallows in the fire ring Mike made my dad.

Silly Emma!!

Bye Bye Tonsils

On Wednesday May 30th Will had his tonsils and adenoids removed.  It has been a rough several days for him but I think we are rounding the corner.  It is actually a 14 day recovery period before he can return to  normal activity and eating.  We are watching a lot of movies, playing board games and eating lots of ice cream and popsicles. 

They don't normally remove tonsils in a 3 year old but they had to go.  What led to this we may never know exactly but I hope this solves some of his issues.  Will is almost 4 and I can count with my fingers the number of nights he has actually slept an entire night straight through.  We have what I thought to be night terrors, nightmares, bed wetting and many other issues at night.  There have been many times I have wondered what I am doing wrong and what I can do differently.  We have tried everything from being mean (thinking it's a behavioral issue), lights on, lights off, sleeping with us, his own room to using melatonin.....nothing has worked. 

I saw an ENT at the beginning of the year asking if he could possibly have sleep apnea and it was ruled out at the time.  I was kinda left thinking that this is just my son and I just have to find a way to deal with it.

Fast forward a couple months and Mike and I notice that Will's tonsils are extremely large.  He never complained about a sore throat, never had a fever and tonsils are not something you look at every day so we don't know exactly when it started.  We were into the pediatrician several times and he never tested positive for strep.  His tonsils were the size of ping pong balls and we finally ended up back at the ENT.  Over those couple weeks I swear they continued to get bigger and Will started losing weight because he wasn't eating.  His sleeping was worsening too and he was snoring like a freight train. The ENT took one look and said they had to go along with his adenoids. 

After the surgery I was somewhat relieved but also didn't like to hear the news that not only did he have sleep apnea but he is also a breath holder. I guess during surgery and coming out of the anesthesia his O2 levels kept dropping into the 80's. What does this mean? Well, hopefully the sleep apnea will be cured by this but the breath holding is a separate issue and we will just see where we end up.

Here is Will getting his ride to the OR, playing in the pre-op room and in the recovery room.

Nana & stuffed animals make it all better!!