Our little present

  The week didn't start off so great. Tyce woke us up tuesday morning around 2:00 am with this horrible noise we had never heard before.  TJ and I bolted out of bed because he literally sounded like he was suffocating.  I vicksed him up and blasted the humidifier on.  I really was nervous, I thought his throat was closing, he had a horrible cough. I, like I usually do when I am in a panic WEB MD'd his symptoms and it read like croup.  It said you can usually remedy it at home, so I decided I'd wait it out.  So  I held him the rest of the night closely, praying he'd be ok.   And I decided to take  him into the ER the next day because nothing seemed to get better.  They did diagnose him with croup (which by the way is a super scary noise) and baby bronchitis. He was placed on a nebulizer and inhaler with some meds.  This is what he looked like two hours after we came home from the hospital.

He looves his puppys! Our Pit Bull and him are best buds (were here to change all kinds of stereotypes).  

He loves his toy puppy too :)

  So he ended up trooping it out and not complaining a whole lot :)  He just wanted to keep playing and having fun.

  Next day we went to Grandma Matchinsky's house and Tyce got to ride his dad's walker from when he was a baby!

                                                          He loves his daddy's walker

  And the rest of these are moments of our life, the life we choose to fully live and enjoy!                       Because, how can you not enjoy this smile? 

                             He's such a happy baby and loves bath time, even with bronchitis. 

  Tyce wishes you a very merry christmas.  He has made our Christmas ten times better.  He makes me so high on him sometimes :).  Keep givin it to me baby!

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future.  I live now.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Merry Christmas!

Flips and flops

  It was a super tough week.  One of those weeks where I looked at the calender and wanted to just take a nap.  It was my last week of school.  I still can not believe I did it, I can't believe I went back to school just three months after having Tyce and finding out about his diagnoses.  Going back to school seemed like too much work, too hard and over all too much.  But, I did it! No, it was not easy but I had great help.  My father and mother in law would come over every Monday and do shift changes until TJ got home and then I would be home by 10 at night.  So Big thanks to them and to my sister Evelyn for picking up Ty when I needed to write a paper.  When people have such a big heart to come to your house and pick up your little boy and love him for you for a few hours to re-coop and be a better wife, mama, and student mean so much to me!

  Any how, someday down the road when I graduate and I think how did I do that? I want to remember those people that helped me do it. So I will look back at this little post and once again say thanks :)  Oh and need I not forget the man that pushed me to continue, he wanted me to not stop and not give up on my dreams, oh the man he has become makes me fall in love with him over and over again! I love you husband :)

  Ok, so that was Monday and now Tuesday ty got his six month shots I put him down on the the table to get ready for the nurse and he turned him self over from back to belly, what happened, where did my little infant go???  I freaked out and ran back to him, I hadn't seen him do that before.  I guess the days of just leaving him on the couch or bed for a few seconds are OVER he rolls, flips and flops :) Oh  and he ran a fever with his shots, is that normal? Ughhh :/ poor baby I had to hold him all night long!

I love to watch you sleep little bug!

Can you catch me?

And I love the way his grandma LOVES him, no doubt about it :)

  And man he loves her too :)

And his big cousin Cam came over to watch him, feed him and photograph him like always :)

And he sits so BIG :)


  Lastly the sweet nurse from the Down syndrome association of West Michigan came for his first home visit and she thought Tyce was great, cause dude he is, not just cause he's my kid but so far he's been such a good baby!  She fed him and played with him and was sooooo helpful.  Seriously any other mamas out there that have babies with the extra piece of love, living in W. Michigan need to have this lady come over.  She is sheer genius about babies :). We love Miss Mary, she spent one whole afternoon with us and we learned soooo much thanks dsawm!

Until next time :)  Looking forward to our babes first Christmas!!!  Many pictures to come im sure!

We got more bounce!

 We had the opportunity to go out and have some adult time while Ty stayed home with Grandma and Grandpa.  We were invited to a new friends house for a Christmas party.  It was wonderful, i got to meet a few new moms of baby's with Down syndrome and they all happen to be in their 20's when they had their child with the DS. They are strong, beautiful, empowered women and being in  their presence I was able to soak in so much, learn so much about our baby's extra little chromosome.  I just want those women to know that I truly cherish their friendship, love and support on our journey in raising our beautiful babies.  I just feel lucky to have met down right some of the most genuine women in this world!  Shout out cause you know who you are! woot woot!

And our saturday started with some Ty morning fun! 

Mommy I just LOVE to BOUNCE!

Good Morning!

My dad reading to me :)

 And Ty and I got to get a picture together before we left for our night out. Baby I could just hold you all the time, I love you!

   And so it's early Sunday morning and I get a call from my second oldest sister Evelyn, she says: " I have to ask you something and you can't say no" I say Ok, so yes.... She says "Im coming over in an hour and Im dressing Ty up for the Virgen de Gudalupe celebration mass today at church.   Obviously I already said yes, so along she came an hour later and this is our Little Juan Dieguito :)
Oh and Feliz Cumpleanos Madrecita!

Diego out!

So fun and so pooped we all are. And tomorrow is my last class of the semester, I can't believe I made it thru!  I'm out too to hit the books while my little Diego is napping! Much love!

-D

Mmmm....

   Funny I insist he is telling me when he is hungry he always says mmmmm.... mmmm.  And I caught him on his bumbo reaching for his very empty bottle, he snatched it right up and was disappointed at it's emptiness.  Now everything is so new to me, I mean I am a first time momma and I have little or no expectations. I am completely going with this whole parenting thing as I go, meaning I have no idea what to expect. And of course I am parenting a baby with special needs which is also out of my element and lets be honest I don't know what I am doing.   Truthfully I threw out all those milestone books because afterall I don't know what he will or won't do and when he will do them because I truly feel he will do most anything cause he is STUBBORN.  I figure he will do what he needs to do at his time and if their is anything I can do to help him by golly I will!  So I am a Rookie...   But I do know one thing I have a rockin momma that raised six girls and has helped raise 11 grand kids.  So, when Ty got sick a few weeks ago and wouldn't eat for a few days I didn't know what to do but call the one lady who I swear has the cure   for just about anything.  She home made my baby rice water and helped hydrate him right up to health, and Im not jokin when I say he wouldn't eat and if you have seen Ty he is, well stocky!  She is an amazing grandma and momma and her little remedies even if filled with sugar cured Ty right up :)

 So I added a picture of Grandma Chelo  the reason why your middle name is Coronado, let me tell you, my mother is an entrepreneur she is the American dream :) She is in this picture with her number 1 grandson and her number 12 grandson :) (Ricks a cutie huh?)

And on that note... I just had a to take a few pics of Ty's morning feeding's, his little mmmmm's...

And Im done...

Cute Huh?

Oh and Momma had to get a picture of Tyce in a basket because I had to get cloths ready for his six month pictures.

Get me out of this thing

 So on with not exactly knowing what I am doing, and like I said I do know one thing I have great people in my life that make this scary, exciting, sometimes overwhelming journey what it is.  You are to bloom where you are planted, even if you are placed in the most scariest, driest desserts you find water or the sun and you make it shine on you!  So shine on :)

Designer Genes

 Seriously this guy is a stud.  After all the appointments we had to go to last week he always maintains his limitless attitude, its like he is telling us "you know what guys they want me to ware an eye patch, I will, and I will own it".  Heeeyahhhhh....

We went for his six month eye check up and he has a small lazy eye and has to wear an eye patch every day half an hour for a month :) Other than that things are looking good, he pulled out all his eye sight tricks for the optometrists.


ENT went well too, he has a little fluid in one ear that will hopefully drain on its own.  If it doesn't  drain then possibly tubes, so all in all not bad.  They said he hears great! And my goodness Tyce is a hit with all the nurses at the ENT office, they get so excited when he comes in, next time I will take my camera :)

And today he flirted with Miss Sondra his OT, he loooves her!  He saves all his new stunts for her.  She said he is doing very well.  He is reaching, sitting, holding toys with two hands and smilling like crazy!  He got a visit from his beautiful cousin Cami today and every time she took a picture of him he just smiled at her :)  Ty is her lifetime model.

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Musician like Grandpa perhaps?