End of July update

So it is the last day of July and I just realized that it is my brother's 33rd birthday so I thought I would wish him a Happy Birthday! I doubt he'll read this, but hopefully his wife will tell him! :) And I think Ryan's brother reads the blog so I will wish him a belated birthday! It's probably a good thing that I don't know his age cause he probably wouldn't want me posting it cause he is pretty old...somewhere in the 40's, 45?

Anywho...Ryan had an endoscopy scope a week ago, where they put him to sleep and checked his esophagus. We have pictures somewhere that I was going to scan in but I can't find them at the moment. Things looked great! He has been on prescription prilosec for the past month which has done wonders! No more nasty attacks and no more reminding him to take the over the counter medicine and getting mad when he has these attacks because he wasn't taking it. This new stuff has been great and the doctor told him he should stay on it for awhile, at least a good year and then we can see about cutting back. He took a biopsy to check for allergies and was wondering if that was causing his esophagus spasms but we haven't heard back those results. He also thought he'd have to stretch his esophagus out to help his food go down better but he said it looked fine and the prilosec should take care of all his problems. So that was really good news and so glad that he had this done!

Sheree finished teaching summer school! This year it was 7 weeks instead of 6 but it was still just 3 days of week. It was harder this year and it's probably cause there are now 3 kids at home and the youngest still isn't on a schedule and didn't exactly sleep through the night. She is now looking forward to 2 weeks and 2 days off before she heads back for the new school year. She is thankful to have a job still and is hoping to not get too burned out this year. This will be her 11th year of teaching! Yep, she is getting pretty old too!

Brock is growing up fast. We bought him a bumbo which he loves! Well for the first hour he is in it and then he's done with it for the day. Here are some pictures of that fun toy. He loves cell phones...maybe it has something to do with Sheree always FBing while nursing! Now she can't do that cause it distracts him.



Then we got out the door jumping thing figuring he'd like to jump while mom tried to organize a room but he didn't seem to care for it too much. We'll have to keep trying it out! Just look at that cute face!

Tyler is doing better at potty training. Now that Sheree is home full time, she'll put him in underwear and hope that this does the trick. He does pretty good going potty but not poop. We ask him all the time to go and help him sit there but it's just not the same as disappearing outside or sitting in a corner...we have until Aug 26 to get this mastered in order to save $50 a month on daycare costs because he is now a non-diapered child instead of diapered.
Riley has had so much fun at school and still wants to go which has been a huge relief and blessing!