Pro-Club Fun

We went to a Type 1 event this afternoon at the Pro-Club in Bellevue - Josh and I walked away wishing we had the funds to be a member of this place...way cool!  Anyway, since we don't, we'll just take advantage of a free event there instead!

Zane played a TON of basketball, that's all he wanted to do.  We kept trying to get him to go play something else, but he always reverted back to the court.  He didn't do too bad for his first time ever touching a basketball :)

Landon thought he could play basketball, but really, he just missed getting trampled on by other people most of the time and the other part of the time he was trying to hoard all of the basketballs!

This is Landon finally realizing that he doesn't have game...yet anyway!  

We finally drug Zane out of the court for a little bit to play a little ping-pong - maybe he should just stick to basketball :)

Landon had a great time playing with these cardboard bricks - really, cardboard?? Someone tell me why spend money on toys for this kid!

I'm so happy that these events are put on - our whole family has a great time and I know in the long run, Zane will really appreciate it as well!

Car Show

We went to our first car show of the season this morning - Zane was looking at a car and the owner came over and asked him if wanted inside of it; Zane of course said yes!  It was pretty neat of the guy to do that, I know its something Zane will remember for awhile (or maybe forever since I have pictures to help his memory)!

Although the car experience was cool, the only thing Zane really wanted to see was this old bus, he could hardly keep his patience in check when were getting to it fast enough.  Crazy kid!

Salt Water St. Park

We made an impromptu visit to Salt Water State Park today - we'll take any little piece of sunshine we can get!  Zane improvised with drift wood for sand toys!

He's come a long way baby...

So I thought Zane's last week of swim lessons was next week, but apparently it was yesterday!  Anyway, he did GREAT.  I am just amazed at how far he has come the last few weeks - he never would've even thought about doing the things he is doing now when he was in lessons last time at the old pool!  His coaches have worked with him so well.  I'm bummed that I didn't get him signed up in time for the next session before it filled up, but I'll make sure he's in the one following - I don't want these skills lost at all!

Practicing his front floats...

He has absolutely no problem going under water now!!!

His first "solo" backfloat - the coach let go of him for a few seconds; he was so proud!

Getting a pep talk from his coach...

pep talk worked, he "jumped" into the big pool.

Collecting the rings from the bottom of the pool.

Standing proudly with his certificate and sucker - he passed the first level!!!

I'll take that A1c

Zane had his regular follow up appointment with his Endocrinologist (Dr. Ness) this morning.  I always say that I'm a little nervous for these appointments, but this time there was no foolin' around, I was downright dreading this appointment!  Zane has had many illness' over the past couple of months and those illness' have wreaked havoc on his blood sugars.  We had our first ever "HI" reading on his meter this month - for those who don't know, HI isn't the meter telling you "hello", its telling you that your blood sugar is too high to register, so at least 600 (he wasn't even that high at diagnosis)!!  We haven't seen many lows which is good of course, but in my opinion we haven't seen many #'s under 200 the last couple of months - so needless to say I was dreading this A1c.  My brain knows that I have very little control over this number with Zane right now, I do everything I can to make sure his diabetes stays in the best control possible, but in the end its his body that makes the final call.  But my heart takes this number very personally, to me its my "grade" telling me if I have passed or failed my child or not.  I did something I have never done before; before this appointment I took his meter and averaged the last 30 days readings to give myself a little idea of what A1c we were looking at, I was trying to prepare myself for the worst.  I know that an A1c is a # reflecting the last 3 mos, but I also know that it weighs the most heavily on the last 30 days - the average I was getting from the meter wasn't a good one.  Josh and I were making a little bet while waiting to be seen today on what his # would be, my guess was 8.4, Josh's was 7.9, well...we were both wrong.  Zane's A1c at his last appointment (end of January) was 7.2, not bad at all (remember, his doctor loves anything under 8 for his age, but anything under 9 is somewhat acceptable for his age) - today, I am happy to report that Zane's A1c was a glorious 7.4!!  I'll take that!   When the nurse came in and told us his "score", I blurted out "shut up, it is not" and she assured me it was.  I was very shocked and so she offered to go double check it for me to make sure - sure enough, that is his #!  I won't lie, I'm very happy with that number, but I'm also very perplexed because we haven't had many lows at all to off-set the highs we've had, so I am a little nervous that he has had some lows that we have missed somehow - I hope that is not the case, so for now I won't dwell on that, I'll just be happy with the score "we" got!  No adjustments were made by Dr. Ness and we were left with these parting words from her "you guys have this stuff down, great job"!  I am a little less confident in us than she is, but I appreciate the compliment!

Killing time before our appointment...you know, with coloring and running wild!  I'm pretty sure they love having us there!

Zane getting his good ol' vitals done!  He is in the 90th percentile for height and 86th for weight - perfect!  I asked the MA if I was the only parent who took pictures of their kid getting their vitals taken and she said "that would have to be a no!!", haha!  Glad I'm not the only paparazzi parent out there!

My favorite man and 2 favorite boys hanging out in the exam room!

A Honda Family

We finally outgrew Josh's little Subaru!  Anytime we went anywhere as a family of 4 we had to take the CRV because we just couldn't fit into the Subaru comfortably at all - or at least the boys weren't comfortable.  The Subaru was a good car to Josh and he had a lot of fun driving it and was a little sad to see it go, but it was time to move on.

We are welcoming another Honda into our family...a 2005 Honda Element!  We were able to negotiate a pretty sweet deal and even went down on our monthly payments - can't beat that!  BUT the best part is...the boys have ample leg room in the back!!

Here the boys are cramped into the backseat on the way to the dealership:

Bye-bye Subi!

Hello Honda!

Don't mind Landon - he really does like the new car, he was just really hungry and hadn't had a nap all day!  The boys did so well while cooped up at the dealership.

Airplanes

After dinner tonight we headed to Dairy Queen for a little ice cream treat!  After getting our treats, Josh drove us over to a parking lot overlooking the little airport in Auburn to watch some plans land and take off.  The boys loved it!  I can see us having a picnic at this little park this summer!