Coincidence?

Posted on 25 April, 2008 by Boo

Just a quick thought.

One year and one day ago I admitted myself to hospital for PND. The 24th of April.

Yesterday, also the 24th of April, we found out about Jaxon’s neck.

Perhaps my next child will be born on the 24th of April 2009???

It must be in the gene's

Posted on 25 April, 2008 by Boo

No. Not the half vertebrae. Let me explain.

When I clean the bathroom, you can bet your bottom dollar that Tim will shave on that day.

If I clean the sheets on the bed I know that it’s just a matter of hours before Tim wants to get down and dirty in them.

If I do the dishes, he’ll make himself a messy snack.

And if I change Jaxon’s nappy, you can bet your bottom dollar that two minutes later he’ll be grunting and pushing out a poo!

Enough said right?

Jaxon must have got that from Tim. (LOVE YOU TIM )

It must be in the gene’s

Posted on 25 April, 2008 by Boo

No. Not the half vertebrae. Let me explain.

When I clean the bathroom, you can bet your bottom dollar that Tim will shave on that day.

If I clean the sheets on the bed I know that it’s just a matter of hours before Tim wants to get down and dirty in them.

If I do the dishes, he’ll make himself a messy snack.

And if I change Jaxon’s nappy, you can bet your bottom dollar that two minutes later he’ll be grunting and pushing out a poo!

Enough said right?

Jaxon must have got that from Tim. (LOVE YOU TIM )

Incomplete

Posted on 24 April, 2008 by Boo

On the advice from a very good friend in America, we’ve taken Jaxon to a chiropractor to try and sort out his arm and neck problems.

Our first appointment was on Tuesday. It was THE BEST. For the first time ever, someone sat and watched Jaxon play to see what he was and wasn’t doing with his arm, instead of asking me to explain it. I LOVED this. It’s so annoying to have someone ask something about Jaxon, when just a few minutes of their time and a few toys will show them what is going on. I was very impressed.

Anyway, he wanted to get x-rays done to see what is going on. They normally don’t do x-rays on such young children. But not many kids go to them with bent necks and dysfunctional arms. He needed to know what was actually wrong before he went ahead and tried to treat it.

We got the x-rays done that day and went back today to see what they could do for Jaxon. The very last thing I expected was to be told that Jaxon only has half of his cervical vertebrae C5. THAT is why his neck is on a tilt, it has next to nothing to do with his torticollis (although that does still exist) He explained that the torticollis is what prevents Jaxon from turning all the way right, while the missing chunk of his vertebrae is the cause for the tilt.

We don’t know what this means. We don’t know if this means surgery. We don’t know if this means that Jaxon will live with his head the way it is for the rest of his life. Now we have to get another appointment with the paediatrician and see what HE thinks. But being that this is in his neck, or more specifically, his spine…I can NOT see a single person who would be willing to go in and try to fix it. I’m not sure I would even want someone to fix it because the chance of something going wrong would far outweigh the choice to let Jaxon live with such a small thing.

Not that I think this is small. Don’t get me wrong. I spent a good part of my one hour trip home crying. I was not expecting to hear anything like this. In fact, I was so confident that the chiropractor would be able to work his magic on Jaxon for the next year or so and have everything under control. Before he saw the x-rays I think HE thought that as well. So I am of course upset.

Here are Jaxon’s x-rays. It was very difficult to get these done. Daddy had to hold him from the front while another nurse had to support him from the back. This was the “findings” that the x-ray man reported to the chiro. He did not pick up on the missing C5.

Posterior fusions of the cervical vertebrae and loss of disc height. Scoliosis (convex to the left side in both) the cervical and thoracic regions of the spine.

The chiropractor then wrote in his very messy doctor like writing, congenital aplasia of C5- hemivertebra

If you can make heads of tails of any of that, please leave a comment! Somewhere in that yellow circle is the missing vertebrae (or part of)

^^^ TEETH ^^^

I just have to keep reminding myself that Jaxon will be ok with this. It’s not like he wont be able to walk or talk or be the smartest boy in school. He may or may not get teased, something I don’t wish on any child. But he WILL be ok even if that happens.

Fish Feeding!

Posted on 20 April, 2008 by Boo

We went to this place called Aquarscene. At every high tide the fish come in to get fed. It’s VERY cool. We couldn’t stay too long, because Jaxon was getting cranky. But apparently the longer you stay (about 3 hours) the more kinds of fish you get to see. I have NO idea what kind of fish these were anyway, except that there were salmon cat fish, milk fish and some sting rays as well.

We held Jaxon with his feet in the water and the fish came and rubbed up against him. I don’t think he knew it was happening. The bread that they leave for us to feed the fish is old and stale. At one point a lady asked Jaxon if he was feeing the fishies…he wasn’t. He was munching on the bread himself! Yuk.

The fish nibble on your finger’s if you hold bread out for them. There are also tiny little fish at your feet nibbling on your toes! You can hear me a little bit making “OMG it’s touching me” noises at some point during the clip. What a FREAKY feeling!

CROCODILES!

Posted on 20 April, 2008 by Boo

You’ve all seen the photo’s of Jaxon holding (Mum holding, Jaxon patting) the baby crocodile. Well what you don’t know is that I got to feed one! Not by hand of course, because I wasn’t going to volunteer for THAT…the meat was on the end of a stick and rope!

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This is not the clip of the crocodile I fed. The crocodile sitting in the pen next to the one that you see getting fed is the one I did. But Mum, in all of her technological ignorance, thought she was taking photo’s and stopped filming right when he started to jump up so we missed it!

That noise you hear as she closes her mouth. The lady doing the tour said it was “caused by one tonne per square inch pressure, slammed shut at the speed of lightening”

Scary stuff, I’ll stick to my chihuahua’s and kitties!!!

Playing up a storm!

Posted on 20 April, 2008 by Boo

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This is obvisouly Jaxon playing Great Grandma’s piano. She is the best player I have ever seen, but Jaxon come’s a close second!

The barrage begins…

Posted on 20 April, 2008 by Boo

VIDEO’s!!

This is at Howard Springs and these are barramundi. They were HUGE. The video I’m putting up doesn’t show how big they really are! We couldn’t at the time for reason’s I don’t understand, but this is a swimming place through some parts of the year.

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My Uncle Bruce

Posted on 18 April, 2008 by Boo

This is my Uncle Joe, or Bruce as he is known to the rest of the world. He is not only a health center manager in the middle of Australia (great view’s I am told) but he is also a Tai Chi master!!

Posted on 17 April, 2008 by Boo

I know, I am inundating you with photo’s before I even get home. but wait until I start on the video clips!

Channel Island

We went swimming again

Four generations, Me, Jaxon, GREAT Grandma and Grandma

Sunset at “The Warf”

Great Grandma

Drinking Lemon Lime and Bitter’s…YUM

Heaven! I didn’t swim here but I wish I had!

Playing Great Grandma’s Piano

More Photo's

Posted on 16 April, 2008 by Boo

Fish Feeding

Dinner at “The Warf”

Casaurina Beach

Lake Alexandra

This last one seems out of place until you hear the story. I thought it said “Left Turn on red permitted after shopping” and wondered how people would know if you’d just been shopping??

More Photo’s

Posted on 16 April, 2008 by Boo

Fish Feeding

Dinner at “The Warf”

Casaurina Beach

Lake Alexandra

This last one seems out of place until you hear the story. I thought it said “Left Turn on red permitted after shopping” and wondered how people would know if you’d just been shopping??

Darwin, a preview!

Posted on 14 April, 2008 by Boo

Oh Dude!

Posted on 10 April, 2008 by Boo

As I’ve said in quite a few of my posts here, Dude just LOVES Jaxon. He follow’s him everywhere. Especially if take Jaxon in to his room for a bum change. He’s good about going in to the room but he’s bad about coming out of it. When I call him to leave (if I don’t shut Jaxon’s door he goes in there and keeps slamming it) he come’s to play with the carpet that moves as the door shuts.

So sometime’s Dude get’s locked in Jaxon’s room for a while. This happened yesterday. Because we’re really busy at the moment we forgot about him for 4 hours!! Tim, Jaxon and I were sitting here minding our own business when we hear some really odd noises coming from in Jaxon’s room. It sounded like someone emptying a big bag of plastic bottles.

We looked back at Jaxon’s room and there is Dude, climbing the door up to the little opening ABOVE it to tell us he’s in there!

That’s me holding Jaxon up above my head to say G’Day, he’s not THAT tall!

The FLYING baby!!

Posted on 8 April, 2008 by Boo

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Making Men Cry!

Posted on 8 April, 2008 by Boo

This first photo is just some background information….we stand up to the table, nothing to see here!

This second photo is before the tears in our household come along. It’s not so bad. Daddy can do this too…

But Daddy CAN NOT do this!!!

Jaxon is incredibly flexible. He can do the splits, as well as lay with his head and body flat on the ground while he’s in the split position. Another thing he does that makes men cry, is when he is sitting down with his leg’s spread like any normal kid, he then spreads them right out and crawls forward on his hands. He just brings his legs all the way around without ever even lifting off the ground.

I will try to get this on video, but as he gets older and has learnt to move around in other ways he does this less and less. But you can rest assured. he’ll be in gymnastics’s classes when he turns two!

Mummy hates my new trick!

Posted on 6 April, 2008 by Boo

Yes Jaxon, that’s right. Mummy does NOT like you climbing on the couch. Oh wait, I don’t mind the climbing bit. It’s the way you chose to get down that worries me. Your risk assessment is not quite to MY standards yet. The way you FLING yourself off is a concern. And the way you threaten to do it off the “tall” end, the end that doesn’t have a pillow or bean bag for you to land softly on…is my main concern.

Despite the fact that you giggle entertainingly (is that a word?) while you throw yourself off head first on to cushions, does not make this any easier to watch!

And now that Jaxon can get up on the couch, it has brought a whole new level of baby proofing to my life. Last night he got up and took mine and a friends glasses (drinking) off the coffee table and was clinky those together while giggling. He tipped the content’s of one of those all over himself.

He’s yanked the phone off the wall, the battery charger too.

These photo’s below show the item’s that he decided made perfect toys. That’s a bottle of perfume, the battery charger and a set of nail clipper’s. All have been safely sitting on that out of nowhere little ledge there for years now. But not any more. They have new homes.

Look how freaking proud he is of himself!

The perfume, charger right at the bottom, and nail clipper’s, which he was clinking on the bottle! Note the hole’s in his socks, they’re for us to see the circulation in his feet when he has his boot’s on.