Abby's test result... scared mommy...

For those who read my last blog, remember me mentioning Abigail having test done? Well today I received the results via phone call on the way home from work. It's one of those moments when you just know they are about to tell you something you don't want to hear. You have that uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach and you want to puke. Not my favorite way to feel!
So just a review on what results were from..
Abigail has been showing signs of starting puberty. I started noticing them at age of 7. She turned 8 March 12th, and during her well check up, doctor recommended we have some test done to make sure everything is normal. In 19 months she gained a little over 20lbs, and only grew 13/4 inch. This of course would be natural for a lazy child who over eats, snacks unhealthy, and drinks soda. NONE of which Abby falls under. She is a very active child, drinks water 99% of the time, eats lot of fruits and veggies, and I keep 100 calorie snacks for our guilty pleasures. Doc worded it like this, "When you are doing right on the outside, and are still 'gaining' weight, that means something isn't working on the inside" that along with the signs and symptoms of puberty led them to recommend 12 tests to be done on her blood/urine. They drew out 6 tubes of blood, and she had to pee in a container for 24 hrs and then bring back. She also had an x-ray done to determine her bone age.

RESULTS were told to me like this. Most of her blood work came back normal, except 2 abnormalities. 1 test (fh something or another) was a little low, and another (dh something) was a little high. Her bone age came back as 10 yrs old. Her being just turned 8, this is not normal.
So they have referred us to an (i know I am spelling this wrong) Endocrinologist. From what I have googled, they specialize in growth and development, diabetes, thyroid issues, and so forth.

Of course, after scaring me to death, they proceed to tell me she might not get seen until June! I have to wait till JUNE to find out the reality of what could possibly be wrong. In my heart I don't feel like it is something horribly wrong. If you know what I mean. I have a feeling it is just precocious (sp??) puberty, and her hormone levels are off and might need to be tweaked a little. Or something along those lines.
It is just SO scary to think of the chance that there may be something wrong with your child. You know? The mention of diabetes ad thyroid make my stomach hurt.
So please PLEASE keep me and her in your thoughts and prayers. Pray nothing is seriously wrong, and if something is wrong, it is CURABLE or EASILY FIXABLE!!!
Thanks in advance! Will keep you all posted on any news.

Spring Break part 2

Day 4-
Thursday was a really fun day too! Abigail has been saving her money from her previous birthday this past March. She ended up raking in $100! So we started this day off making a trip out to Gwinnett Federal Credit Union, in Monroe, where my sister works, to open her very first savings account!! She really felt all grown up signing her forms! She may only have $100 but she felt like a million!!

After the fun at the credit union, we headed back towards home to have a picnic lunch in the park. We packed up a lunch and made our way to Alexander Park. (again the girls pick, I wanted to go to Tribble Mill!) Instead of eating at a table and playing with 100 kids running around everywhere, we walked out to the field and found a nice quiet spot for a picnic and play time!! It was beautiful! And fun! M&M enjoyed walking around and playing ball/frisbee with big girls! Eventually though we did pack it up and headed back up to playground for some swing time!! It was a fun but very exhausting day! So HOT outside!! Once home, we worked on some of our crafts we got from Hobby Lobby! Girls made Sand Art!

Day 5-
Friday was originally going to be the day we were going to Malibu! It is Michael's only day off during the week, so we thought it would be a great time to go!! BUT then Michael had to end up going to work :(
So we post-poned our Friday festivities till Saturday! Friday was a simple day. We didn't do too much other than play outside, and I cleaned up house. I went grocery shopping, and made a big dinner when Michael came home from work. We decided to put up the tent the girls had got from Santa. I figured we could set it up in the back yard and that would give them something fun to do! Well this day was just not meant to be fun. When we opened it all up, there were no poles!!! Michael packaged it all back up and took it back to the store (where we 'assumed' Santa bought it from) and got a brand new one!! But by the time they got home with it, it was too dark/late to put it up. ugh. Post-poned that for Saturday night too!

Day 6- our make up day from Friday!
Saturday was going to be another fun day!! My aunt Diane came down to my house and stayed with Maggie and Madison while Michael and I took A&A to Malibu Grand Prix! No way was I going to take them out there, in 85 deg weather to sit in a stroller the whole time and be miserable!!
Once we got there, I remembered why I wanted to go on Friday, less people! It was stupid busy! We bought tickets enough for us to do only do the boats, and the race cars. After waiting in line for a hour the girls finally got to do the bumper boats! I am sure the water felt amazing! It was SO hot that day!!
Then we did race cars! First time for me since high school! Last time we came I was prego and couldn't ride :( Not this time!!! Aaliyah rode with me, and Abby with Michael. We were first in line, and I was determined to stay that way.. SPSHHH 30 sec into it my car decided to not want to go and Michael and Abby flew right past us!! But we made it up a little! It was crazy fun!! Been a while since I felt like a kid again! Even though we didn't get to do alot of stuff, the girls still had a great time! We took then out to dinner afterwards, then went by hospital again to visit my sister!

When we got back home, this is what we found...

Aunt Diane was alot of fun, and wore the babies out!!!
I dont' have any more pictures to share for the remainder of the night. (my phone doesn't have flash, no pics turned out that were taken outside :( )
We ended up setting up tent after all! And inviting Michael's cousins over to play outside in tent, and I made a fire for them to roast marshmallows! They had TOO much fun!! It was almost midnight before we got everyone to bed!!
It was a great ending to a GREAT week!! I am so glad I started the tradition years ago, to have fun-filled Spring Breaks, with lots to do and fun to be had!!!
Here are a few pictures of M&M today, playing outside with sisters! Too cute not to share!

(NEXT BLOG, STATUS ON ABBY'S TEST RESULTS! KEEP US IN YOUR PRAYERS!!)

SPRING BREAK part 1!

To say that we had an awesome Spring Break, would be a HUGE under statement! It was fabulous!! Great weather, and a week full of fun stuff to do! So anyone who is interested, here is what we did...

To start the week off we spent some time at my moms house over the weekend, playing in the back yard! M&M (now at 18 months) are really enjoying getting to run around outside! (BTW you will notice in pictures, Abigail no longer likes having her picture taken, and avoids me as much as possible, and I can never get M&M in a shot together!! errr)

Day 1-
Monday was a simple day, my mom works out in Clarkston and wanted me and girls to come have lunch with her and her friend Amanda. M&M decided to wake up a hour earlier than normal, so they were pretty exhausted. I was worried about them being ill the whole time, but they ended up not being too bad! Originally we had planned on going to Chick-fil-a. Easy place to eat with kiddos! BUT when we pulled into parking lot, we realized this chick-fil-a was not normal. It didn't have a dining room, it was built like a Checkers! So we last resorted to McDonald's! It was close by and girls were hungry!! It was nice getting to visit their Nana (even though I failed to get a picture with her :( ) On the way back home we stopped in Bruster's for a yummy treat!!  but M&M didn't make it! They were asleep 1/2 way home!! The rest of the day we stayed home, low-key! Played outside a little, did some laundry, stayed cool!

Day 2-
Tuesday we didn't have a whole lot planned. Abigail had a doc appt that morning. Which went kind of scary!! It was a well check up, but they were also doing a follow up to my concerns of her starting puberty too early. She has had a lot of symptoms and signs of starting, but is only 8! Also she had gained a bit of weight, but did not grow tall enough for it to make sense. Considering that Abigail is a very active girl, who drinks water 99% of the time, and is eating pretty healthy, there isn't much reason for her to be gaining weight and not growing taller to make up for it. They ordered 12 blood tests, 2 urine analysis, and a bone age x-ray! Talk about scaring Mommy!! Her doc said hopefully it is just puberty, and if all her levels are ok, we will just let nature take its course. But they are testing for everything imaginable, just to rule out anything being wrong. We should get results by the end of the week!! Mommy's scared to death! But Abby was a champ!

After the doctor visit we went out for breakfast and by the hospital to visit Bebe! (my sister who is back in hospital AGAIN! Keep her in your prayers please!) THEN we went home and gathered up the rest of the crew and  hit up Hobby Lobby! Always a favorite! Girls picked out a craft each, and we picked up some goodies we needed for hair bow making! Then we headed over to my Aunt Diane's house for some snacks, and a visit! (She recently was in AZ for 2 weeks, so girls hadn't seen her since she'd been home!!) Again I did not get a picture :(  (My camera isn't working, so I am taking pics on my phone, and I fail to remember!! Oops! Tuesday night was movie night! We had a camp out in the living room! FUN!

Day 3- The best day EVER!
Wednesday was the day the girls had been looking forward to! It was our shopping day +BONUS surprise to Dave and Busters!! This day we left Maggie and Madison at home! Too difficult to shop with little ones needing naps! We went to Discover Mills (their mall of choice!) Before shopping I broke the news to them that we would not be going to Chuck-E-Cheese that week. :( I hate that place :) Instead we were going to Dave and Busters at the mall! No complaints!! They were super ecstatic! And just my luck, Wednesdays are 1/2 price game days!! Woo hoo! We did a pkg deal and ended up with something like $50 on cards for games! It took almost 2 hours and 385,798 games played to finally use up all the money on the cards! I had 10 buckets filled with tickets! We had like 10 points left, so we went to the famous Spin the Wheel game to win tickets, Abby went first and won 150! Then the last 5 points on the card, the LAST game to be played, Aaliyah spinned the wheel. I turned around talking to Abby and I hear a siren going off "JACK POT, WINNER WINNER" She hit the 1,000 ticket jackpot!! That was just pure luck!! We waited there for at least 10 min waiting for them to all print out!! She was so excited, and felt so special! They ended up with 3.704 tickets to gets prizes with! They ended up with night vision goggles, D&B basketball, stickers, candy, stuffed animals, and flashlight lollipop thingies! Good deal =o)

After the arcade fun, we hit up the eatery for the girls lunch pick Hibachi Grill, they call it Chinese, but in fact it is Japanese! Then they wanted to go on the merry go round! I don't think they ever get too old enough for it! And it seems like yesterday when I had to ride it with Aaliyah b/c she was too little! They grow SO fast!!

After lunch and the fun it was time to get down to business shopping! JUSTICE here we come.
And we were there 2hrs and 15 min! IN ONE STORE! They didn't want to go to ANY other store to shop, it had to be Justice, and THEN they HAD to try on everything they picked out. I was ready for the tallest Margarita in the world by the time I was done shopping with them! I promised 2 outifts each, ended up buying 3 each b/c no one could decide between their choices! But it worked out great b/c after what I spent I got 4 $25 off $50 purchase coupons! Needless to say we will be back soon!
This day, April 6th, also marked a BIG stepping stone for Maggie and Madison! It was their 18 month birthday! We enjoyed the beautiful weather outside, and taught them how to play/draw with chalk! It was by far the most amazingly fun day with all my girls!!

Too many pictures and stories to share for one blog... next post = the remainder of the week