Sunday, April 29, 2012

When life hands you lemons....



 Tyler, Harper, Georgia & Lexy
The girls had their first lemonade stand a few weekends ago with best friends Georgia and Lexy. Let's just say these 2 are pretty obsessed with the idea now and I think there will be many of these in our future! 

 Harper on lemonade duty!

 Playing with Lexy

 Then we had a house call by Aunt Jacquelyn to cut off Courty's long locks! Sniff sniff. His days of being a long haired surfer kid are now a distant memory and preppy Court is back in action. More importantly he can actually see again.

 95% healed up! Its pretty unreal how quickly this kid has healed. We are all in shock and so thankful.

 Court was feeling so good he decided to be bartender at Uncle Brandon's 30th birthday.
3 generations of JBW (Daddy, Court & Pop).... TROUBLE!!!!

 Tyler & her Daddy. She is pretty smitten with him these days.

Happy 3-0 Uncle Brandon!!!

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The zoo

Ok, back to life as usual....
A post that was supposed to go up last week.

While we were in Florida we spent a day at the zoo. Lots of fun & lots of animals to see up close and personal.

Armed & ready with the map.... ready for adventure!

Feeding the giraffes!!!

 Court

 Tyler

Harper

 Mr. Penguin Court

Train ride with Mommy

 Feeding the goats

 Tyler

Dad getting attacked.

 Flying bananas

Their first solo ride, they loved it!

 Honey & Court with the alligators

 Tyler & Mommy with the bear

Daddy & Harper with the flamingos

 Holding on tight on their first rollercoaster!

 Icee treats!

Think we need to buy stock in OxyClean because of this kid!!!

Monday, April 23, 2012

The day our world stopped...

*Warning, this is a very graphic post. I have debated back and forth about if I should post this but in the end this is all of our kids baby book of sorts and as the doctor put it... "This little boy made your heart stop. It is a miracle that he is ok and when he starts giving you trouble in his teenage years you need to remind him what he put you through" So here it goes...

Time 4:15pm Wednesday April 18th
Text picture sent from the back of the ambulance to his dad who was traveling....

And instead of trying to type out all of the horrific details I am just going to copy the email updates that were sent to friends and family...
Time 11:30pm
Dear.... Thank you all for everything.
Court is one very lucky boy! We are ok, he will be ok.
He is very badly hurt right now and we are all still on a complete roller coaster of emotions.
Basic story is I was folding laundry in my room and the 3 were playing in the girls room on the top bunk. I heard a thud, screaming from the girls etc and ran in to see blood coming out of every possible place you can imagine on courty's face. His eyes, nose, mouth & head all had enormous amounts of thick clotted blood coming out so fast it looked like a murder scene. He had either fallen or jumped and fell from the top bunk unfortunately onto a pile of toys below that included a pink wooden jewelry box and some other non soft toys. The box corner cut his eye lid (I actually thought there was a toy part in his eye bc it swelled up so fast that I thought something had gone through it. I immediately called 911 and we arrived by ambulance at cmc. Something I never want to do again.
After a cat scan they determined that his left eye clavicle is broken (the part that supports your eye ball) and he has air bubbles in his throat. The air was the most concern bc it should not be there. A chest X-ray came back clear so his lungs were ok and after another exam they saw a puncture in the right side of his neck. We just had another ct scan where he was semi conscious swallowing and thankfully that just came back ok. It was a puncture that went all the way through which is what caused the air but luckily missed all major nerves, etc.
So he has a severe concussion. He will be fine. He has a broken left eye socket/clavicle that the plastic surgeon is coming to discuss options in the morning regarding surgery, etc. He is in a neck brace and they are watching for torn ligaments etc. They will dilate his eye in the morning to look behind to see if there is any nerve, vision issues. There is no blood on the front of his eye when the ophthalmologist looked earlier but the concern is behind the eye. He looks like he was in a very bad accident. Very bruised, very swollen, very bloody. But goodness it could be so much worse. His brain is fine! That was the scariest part. He can move everything so no spinal damage. We are all traumatized but ok and so thankful tonight. We are here for a while. Ian is here finally and court is sleeping soundly beside us. I'm sure there is too much info in here on some parts and not enough on others but just wanted to get this out.
I'll keep you all posted & appreciate all the prayers today. They certainly kept us strong & kept our little boy safe.

I'll send more info tomorrow after bloodwork & doctor rounds if I am still functioning at that point.

xxoo
Elizabeth



Thursday, April 19th
Finally saw the plastic surgeon.... No surgery needed. Time will heal & his swelling should go down on its own.

They have decided to release us this afternoon & we will see the opthamologist in the morning to check his vision once the swelling goes down more.

Thank you all for your calls, texts, prayers etc. we are so thankful.
Heading home to REST!!!!

We did find out that the puncture from his neck came from one of the stakes in his canvas toy bin. The long 18" metal ones. I just cannot imagine what could have happened had the fall happened just slightly different than it did with that metal stake at that height. We certainly had someone looking out for this little boy!

Will keep you all posted as we hear more but he is very lucky & we are on the mend!


Friday, April 20th
Court's eye & vision are FINE!
The bones around his eye broke the fall & nothing went into his actual eye ball. The swelling has come down & he just has a very black & blue eye but he is totally Ok! The break will heal, the bruising & swelling will continue to look better. He is sore and is not able to eat anything besides liquid but our tough guy was more concerned about the bruise on his arm from the IV than he was about seeing his big boo boo on his face this morning. 

Thank you all for everything! We are on the mend. This little boy has been through A LOT in his short 2 years and we are hoping for some uneventful years ahead. We appreciate all of your love + support!

xxoo
Elizabeth & Ian



And this is Court last night, just 4 days after the above events unfolded. Its pretty unbelievable. We are so thankful and are working on trying to move forward. The guilt and what-ifs are still fresh but luckily Court will not remember any of this. I have always had a deep bond with this precious child but lets just say that now... well I can't exactly put it into words.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Merry Go Round!

Round and round and round and round we go!





Sunday, April 15, 2012

Disney!

For Christmas we gave the girls a trip to Disney. They were excited but did not really get it at the time. All they knew was that it was important to eat everything on their plates so they would grow big & strong so they would be big enough to ride all of the rides. A great bribe that worked for 3 solid months! Finally the time had come.... their first trip to Disney World. We decided to just spend one day there and pack in as much as we could. Lets just say that the girls outlasted their tired parents by miles. It was a wonderful day and such a special time together with just the 4 of us (Sorry Court you will be included on round 2 in a few years!).


They can hardly contain their excitement upon seeing Cinderella's castle!
Tip: Tyler in green shoes & Harper in pink shoes

First ride "Its a small world"

Waiting in line to ride Winnie the Pooh.
An hour plus wait for a 90 second ride...hmmm.

Teacups with Mom

Harper spinning her heart out!

Tyler & Daddy shooting aliens on Buzz's ride

Hanging with the monsters

Riding the magic carpet ride
Or as the girls called it "Flying Gabets"
(They call all blankets "gaybet"- weird twin thing!)

A long wait to meet Tinkerbell... but wait we were tricked and it was just a regular fairy.
Tyler was not happy. She brought her Tinkerbell doll in to meet her favorite character and was not pleased when she it was an imposter. Nothing a little ice cream could not fix~

Mom & Harper on the Jungle Boat Cruise

Tyler loved all the animals

Dumbo with Daddy

1st trip to Disney

Survived 11+ hours!