July 23, 2010 Tuckers 3rd Birthday

Tucker sure had fun this year , he was so excited to turn 3! he kept talking about it for weeks, it was so cute, he kept asking for a candy thing (pinata) I didn't have time to make one, so I bought a soccer ball one, and he loved it. So did all the boys. Luca ,Kaden , Brock , Hunter and even Parker got a chance to take a little whack. Hopefully next year Parker can do it all by himself.

He Really enjoyed opening all his presents. His favorite was his new strider bike. Its a bike with no petals . Its suppose to help learn balance 1st, and he was great at it, he would barely get off it to eat his cake!

I Sure do love my little boy so much. He is so happy all of the time.

T Talkative (never stops)

U Unpredictable

C Caring

K Kind

E Energetic

R Roaringly loud

Suveyors Lake Camping July 12, 2010

The boys and I had the wonderful opportunity to go camping at Suveyors Lake B.C with my parents. We had so much fun. the lake is awesome and nice and warm too, and the campground is very nice as well. I use to go camping there as a child, and it was always a blast. I hope we can go as a family every year. It was to bad that Grant had to stay home and work. Hopefully next year he can come and enjoy too.

One day it was raining off and on, so we all packed up and went in to Fairmont Hot Springs. It was so warm and the kids loved it. Luca really enjoys roasting marshmellows. But it can be such a sticky mess!

July 1st

On July 1st this year my mom decided to make a pirate ship for all the grandsons to be on. She is such a wonder woman!! the float turned out amazing, and all the boys had a ton of fun being pirates! We won 1st price in the Hill Spring parade.

June 21st Luca graduates Preschool

I can't believe that Luca is old enough to go to kindergarten. Its crazy how time flys. I'm so proud of him for all his accomplishments!! he is so smart and so willing to learn. I loved his teachers at Kids & Kapers, they were really great. they even made him a memory book that is so cute. His class had a little graduation ceramony ,but I didn't get any good pictures of it. Oh well, I did get some of before and after. He did so well singing all the songs and doing all the actions, even with a cast on. What a little trooper. Now he's off to kindergarten in september.

Luca's Surgery at the Childrens Hospital

Luca had his surgery on May 21 , this is him in the pre op hold area, he was so brave and all the nurses and his Doctor were great.

This is his foot right after he came out all swollen.

He was in an extreme amount of pain from the surgery so they started him on a continuous morphine infusion, at the max dose. After screaming for an hour the morphine finally kicked in and he was able get some sleep. His nurses were also so helpful , they were so fun and kept him so happy. He is such a trooper. His surgery took 3 hours and the Doctor had to do a few more things. He has 4 incisions and she was able to do all the tendon transfer. He will be in a lot of pain for a while. but the outcome will be great.

Grant go the pleasure of staying overnight with him, in the nice recliner. Luca is pretty attached to his dad so it was nice that I got a break .

we got to go home later that evening, when they weined him off the morphine and on to liquid codeine. I'm glad eveything went so smoothly and that he is home.

Luca's golf lessons

For Luca's 5th birthday, his grandma Berkhoff's gift was golf lessons. He sure does love them, and asks all the time to go golfing with his dad.

I love that he can be great at a sport even if his feet are not perfect !! I"m glad he got the opportunity to learn something new.

Luca's Surgery

So a few weeks ago we went to the children's Hospital in Calgary for a surgical consult for Luca, and we had good and bad news. The good news was that he only has to have surgery on his right foot, and that his left foot was doing great, and we only needed to continue doing stretching on it.
So his surgery is called a Right Tibialis tendon transfer and lengthening, its really hard to explain, but it doesn't involve breaking his bones only moving and reattaching tendons, and lengthening them as well. It will be a very painful surgery for him with 4-6 weeks of casts, and after wards a new brace to help keep the tendons in place. He wont be allowed and jumping or running for at least 3 months or more. So we will see how his recovery will go. I'm a little stressed , I don't want my baby to be in pain, but I know its whats best for him to have a better life in the long run. I sure do love him. He's one brave little boy

We also had an appt at the Health Unit for his prekindergarten shots. He screamed the whole way there while we were there, and I couldn't even hold him on my lap he was thrashing so much! there was no way in his mind that he was getting a needle. So the Health nurse helped me get a hold of him and she put the first needle in and he stopped crying and said. "oh that didn't hurt" . oh what a little turd he can be sometimes. but he sure does make me laugh!! he got the bear in the picture from the nurse for being so brave, and named him poky.