Why We Have Been MIA

So we have been MIA for about a week now... We traveled down to Little Rock on Monday, the 8th for an appointment with a pediatric GI specialist and during our visit the doctor decided she wanted to admit Cohen to Arkansas Children's Hospital for what turned out to be an 18 hour fast to figure out what has been causing all of Cohen's diaherra! There is no nice way to describe his poop but that. Basically, Cohen has never had a real poop, just water stools. Yuck... The GI doctor decided to do the fasting because Cohen is weighing in under 15 pounds and is 7 months old so they consider this a failure to thrive and this is of concern and the cause of his failure to put on weight is his cronic pooping. After two days in the hospital and lots of test they determined that Cohen has a very unique protein difficieny called Sucrase Isomaltase Dificiency. Basically he was born without the enzyme to be able to digest table sugar and sucrose which we all know is in everything.


It will be challenging but he will probably be heathier than most kids because of this. For me it is sad to think that he cannot have the guilty pleasures in life like birthday cake, Halloween candy, Christmas cookies or ice cream on a hot summer day. I am sure as I do research and meet with nutrionists we will all learn how to get around some things but Jeremy and I have both decided that we will alter our life style too to make sure he is not the only one going without the guilty pleasures and some of just the regular day-to-day foods that we all consume.


The important thing is that he is putting on weight, and he is happy and healthy. We are happy to be home!

Overall Cute!

Look at him in his big guy overalls! I just want to kiss him when he is wearing them. Not sure if you can picture this cause he looks so big holding onto his toy box solo but this baby is not quite seven months old and might weigh 14lbs 8oz and that is with a soggy diaper! He looks so cute doing big things because he is so little. 

Snow Cute!

This morning we woke up to snow. So I bundled Cohen up for a few quick shots in the snow. You know, first snow, crazy mom with a camera! Needless to say he wasn't a huge fan. He started out okay but one touch of that cold white stuff and he lost it. He might be more like me than he looks... cold natured, loves warm weather and would rather be naked than clothed. I think I just revealed entirely too much! We are grabbing our flip flops as we speak and heading for Mexico! Don't come looking for us. We will blog to let you know we are okay. Burrrrr!

Thanksgiving Weekend

Above: Cohen (Just shy of 7 months)

Above: Gunnar, Jill, and Cohen

Above: Gunnar (8 months), Cohen (6 months and 3 weeks)

Above: Alicia, Jeremy and Cohen on the ATV

What a long week! We arrived home last night from quite a week in Little Rock. It started out with Cohen's visit to Children's Hospital, and then it was onto three total Thanksgiving dinners. First we went to Jill's dad's for an early turkey day meal, then we went to Justin's parents house for dinner. Justin's family has over 100 acres just outside Little Rock so we took Cohen on his very first ATV ride to check out the land. Call it redneck but it is so fun. Justin's family is so neat and the feast... to die for. They even had Sushi (Justin's mom is Japanese) which I went back for three separate times. On Friday we went to Jill's mom's for another dinner. There Cohen hung out with Gunnar, Jill's nephew. He wasn't so sure of him at first, since he is always around adults but he warmed up quickly. We are now looking into parent's day out to give Cohen some same age interaction and me a break. We made it home yesterday and did laundry all night and this morning we woke up to a little treat... SNOW!

He Is In The Clear

Thanksgiving and thank goodness. Cohen had his Cystic Fibrosis test in ittle Rock yesterday at Children's Hospital and the results came back normal so he is in the clear! We drove down to Little Rock on Tuesday night, Cohen had his sweat test yesterday and today we are spending the holiday with Jill and her family. I will post more photos later but the above are from the sweat test where they make his arms sweat and collect data from the sweat to test for cystic Fibrosis. He was happy the entire time. What great little guy!

My Favorite!

Okay, I think this might just be my favorite from the day! It screams greeting card, but I love it!

Soon To Be Mrs. Fiser!

One of my very best friends came into town this weekend for a visit with her new fiance', Mr. Justin Fiser. They are getting married in March and I cannot wait so I decided to let them, let me take some engagement photos. Have I mentioned they are beautiful people? Not only on the inside but out. Below are a few of my favorite photos from the day. I am sure I will post more as I edit. They made it hard for me to just pick a few to share!