January was a rough start to our year but we are hoping to turn our luck around! Kade started the month off on a GREAT note after about a year of trying he figured out how to pedal his tricycle on his own!! He rode his tricycle past three houses and it was such a great thing to see, not for the fact that he conquered a goal, but to see the happiness and pride in his face! What a feeling as a parent to see!
On January 23rd Kade turned 4, we can't believe it 4 ALREADY! We did a small party at the train park, with family and few friends it was great to see Kade involved with his friends. The kids had a blast pushing him around in his wheelchair. I am always waiting for the questions from kids to ask why won't he get down and play but the best part was when a friend came to me and said "Can I play with him?, can't you put him in his wheelchair and let me push him around?" and so I did the cutest thing I have seen was a little friend who couldn't see over the handle pushing Kade all over the grass and both kids had a huge smile on their face!
Two days later Kade was sent home from school with a fever, a couple hours later we ended up in the hospital. Kade had spiked a 104.4 fever and we couldn't figure out why, he had a cough and the doctors ran some tests. They treated him for pneumonia in the hospital and we unable to come home until he could keep his temperature down and drink some liquids. Kade kept a temperature at around 102 for almost 3 days. Finally by the end of the week were able to come home and now are still on the mends of healing.
We still have not received any results on our blood work that we took in December looking for new possibilities of what is causing Kade's delays. We will keep you posted!
We don't want to leave our prima ballerina out of this blog as most of you following us know we have two kids! Kaela has had a great month as well. She has become so involved in her dance studio this year that it has been great to see her find her "thing". Although I think she would like to move in to the studio, she would go every day if I would let her! We are very proud of her success in dance but mostly proud of the book worm she has become. She is in the middle of 2nd grade and loves school, she is does extremely well and was so excited that they retested her reading level and found out she is reading at a 5th grade level.. We are so proud! She is looking forward to next month as February is "her" month, she turns 8 :),
Thank you all for following us this month we hope everybody has had a great and healthy start to 2012!!
Love Kevin, Kelly, Kaela and Kade
