Summer Swimmin

Well, Everything has been going really great lately. My new job is fantastic! I am an accountant at Integra LifeSciences which has it's Corporate headquarters in Plainsboro, New Jersey. I work on Intercompany reconciliations. Other than my new job, it has been a pretty quiet summer so far. It has been nice and relaxing just like summer is meant to be. We have actually speant quite a bit of time swimming in the pool at our apartment complex. We are definitely going to miss that if we ever move out of Ravens Crest. The crazy thing is that there is hardly ever anyone there. We go there about 3 - 4 times a week at least. It has been a lot of fun. Cody has taken to it like a fish. I'm sure he'll be swimming in no time. We put those floaty things on his arms and he just swims around the whole pool by himself. He is kind of hyperactive in the pool, kicking his feet like a maniac to get around.

Jade is more of a chiller. She just lays in her little yellow floaty tube and chills. (She must take after Becs, because Cody and I are never that calm.) I hope you enjoy some of the pictures. I intentionally didn't put any swimming pictures of me up because I didn't want you all to go blind from Awesomeness and Attractiveness! (Actually I didn't want you to go blind from the glare off of my white body. I guess that's what I get for having a desk job where I am inside all day.)

Let's see what else has gone on since I last posted. Rebecca had her birthday on June 6. She turned 6. Well, at least that is how many candles I put on her cake. I am sure putting the right number of candles on the cake would have violated some sort of fire safety code. Besides it probably would have melted the cake. (It was a Chocolate Resses Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cake). We actually had a great time on Becca's birthday and hopefully she enjoyed it too.

How about a little Cody and Jade update:

Lets start with Cody. For those of you who didn't know Cody is very short and skinny. (Not that Becs and I are Shaquille O'Neal or anything.) Anyway, we have been taking him to specialists for a while now. We finally found out this last week why he is so small. His body doesn't produce enough growth hormone. The next step is to rule out any abnormal causes of this such as tumors. They are going to do an MRI on him in July. If everything turns out ok, then they will start giving him growth hormone to help his growth.

Jade continues to progress. Ironically, the doctors don't think she needs growth hormone yet because her growth is doing well. She is eating some solid foods now, so we are pleased with that. She is also starting to roll over a little bit. Her main problem is that she doesn't have enough support of her neck. So when she rolls over it is just the rest of her body, while her head stays still. Her physical therapists and other doctors are pleased with her progression though. In October she goes to a Physiatrist. There are only four of these in the state of New Jersey. They are going to hook her up to some special equipment to help start teaching her how to stand and how to walk. In other news we were finally able to get all of her blood drawn after only going to four different hospitals to get it drawn. She did well though, a lot better then I would've. (I nearly passed out when I gave blood as a freshman in college, but that is a story for another time)

Let me see, what else have we done since I last posted? I've been kayaking a few times. Yesterday I headed over to the Delaware River. I kayaked up the canal starting from the Scudder's Falls Bridge up to Washington's crossing, and then kayaked back down the Deleware river. At the Scudder's Falls Bridge area there is a great play wave that I was able to playboat in for a while also. It was awesome. I didn't get any pictures of me doing it, but my parting shot below is someone else doing some playboating on the same wave at Scudder's Falls that I play at.