News

I know it's been a while since I've checked in. We've been busy lately and any extra time I have I usually spend sleeping. For those that may not know, we're pregnant again! This week I'm 12 weeks along, and Camden should have a sibling by November 9ish. Sex is unknown, we should find out in about 6 weeks.
We had a great weekend...Went out to the beach to see the sandcastle competition. We would have posted pics, but upon getting to the beach realized our camera's batteries were zapped. Arrrrgh!!!
Keep us in your prayers. Camden has his IEP Planning meeting on Tuesday next week. (That's Individualized Education Plan). This will determine what setting he will be appropriate for next year when he starts public school!

Introducing my 2nd niece! (1st on the Kimble side)

This is my new niece, Elsie Rose, born today to Betsy. Isn't she pretty? I love this shot of Betsy and her.

It's a zoo around here!

We took some time out this weekend to have some fun at the zoo. Since it was Camden and Daddy's first time, there were many pics...enjoy!

Special Needing!

The guy we're working for!

And on to the more important stuff...
Today Kevin and I skipped work to go to a "Tools for Success" all-day presentation for families with disability. We went to 3 workshops and heard a fabulous key-note speaker, Shelby Nurse, who is a Sr. in a fully included high school, has CP and will be beginning college in the fall.
We got some great info about the MOVE program and special needs trust planning. We were so inspired after we left the workshops, we went by the Social Security office to make an appt. for Camden to apply for SSI Disability! We're going to make it our goal to do start doing one thing a day for Camden during Lent...either making a phone call, setting an appt, taking him to an appt, researching assistance, whatever! We want to start doing more for our guy.

The other piece of news is that Camden had his Ear, Nost & Throat (ENT) appt. yesterday. The ENT Dr. himself was not remarkable. Though a nice guy, he didn't really tell us anything we didn't know about Camden, only not to speculate that he's in any kind of pain when he swallows. He just chalks that up to a developmental delay as well: learning to swallow and breathe at the same time is a difficult thing to master for kids. What he did do that was great is have us speak to his speech pathologist. When we told her we're about 1 month away from placing a feeding tube in Camden, she shook her head and said "No! No tube!" From her perspective, once kids get the G-Tube, oral learning really declines so she's not the biggest proponent for the tubes. She works with other CP kids who are on the verge of getting G-tubes with "Vital Stim" therapy. Camden is considered a dysphagia patient because of his problems with chewing and swallowing. Vital Stim involves putting tiny electrode stickers on dysphagia patients necks and giving a small amount of electricity to wake up the swallowing muscles and produce swallowing. She says it will not harm Camden in any way, the worst part of it will be wires hanging off his neck, which he'll want to take off. This would require a big committment from us, because she wants him to come in every day for 3 weeks to have a meal there at Nemours. Either breakfast or lunch, whichever is most convenient for us. It will be teaching Camden to swallow and we may be able to dodge a feeding tube if this works. How exciting!
So we've got some stuff to think about and things to do to prepare for all of this. I'll try to keep you posted...in all this free time I've got! LOL! :)

Fun Stuff

Hey guys, I know it's been forever since we've posted. To call us busy would be seriously understating it! We've...
1. Been to Tallahassee for date night on Valentines Day. Camden got to hook up with Nana, Gramps, cousin Sharon, Great Grandma and Aunt Karen and Uncle Richard
2. Kevin and I went to La Napolera and to see Slumdog Millionaire the Saturday before his birthday to celebrate him. It's a great movie!
3. The Oscars were spent at home, sipping on wine and folding laundry (not to mention beating Kevin again at the Oscar Pool!)
4. Fat Tuesday I made red beans and rice and sausage and Kevin claimed it was the best he's ever had...go me!!
That's just the fun stuff---see our next post for more about Camden's progress, etc.