Weekend Distractions and Andrew Update

Swim lessons were a total success.  They LOVED them.  And we were pretty impressed with how they were done.  We alternated between circle time with songs in the pool and "exercises" on the side.  We worked on kicking, floating on their backs, splashing and falling into our arms from sitting and standing on the side.  They were two of the most cooperative babies in the class and the only ones that were comfortable enough to really splash, laugh and enjoy themselves.  We were pretty proud of them:)

Saturday night, we celebrated their Uncle Josh's birthday and went to Outback for dinner.  I'm not going to lie - I was a little nervous about how this was going to go.  We had to wait 45 minutes for a table and were then there almost an hour and a half.  They were on their very best behavior though and ate and played happily the whole time.  It was a small miracle:)

Paige dancing while she waited to leave for dinner:)

Andrew with Uncle Josh and Daddy at dinner

Happy birthday, Uncle Josh!

Sunday, was their very first birthday party!  It was for my co-workers son's 3rd birthday and it was at JW Tumbles - a kids indoor play arena.  They had a blast and it was so fun to watch them explore everything.

We climbed!

Went down LOTS of slides!

Rode on "space shuttles":)

Drove on race tracks!

Made new friends!

And made silly faces in the mirror;)

We ate yummy pizza and cake

And wished Kannon a very happy birthday! (Too bad its dark and you can't really see his awesome cake...)

Unfortunately, this week was back to reality and Andrew started his battery of testing to try to figure out his weight loss and abnormal stooling.  Today, he did a sweat chloride test to look for Cystic Fibrosis, blood work to test for Celiac Disease, and abdominal xray to look at his stool burden.  We also got a collection container to start a 72 hour stool test.  Yes, you read that correctly.  We have to gather up all his poop for 3 DAYS.  And this is the container they gave us:

Its about the size of a gallon of milk!!!

Poor guy had to sit with these bags to collect sweat (after some tortuous "sweat stimulation") for 30 minutes. He was not a fan!

But he found ways to drink despite not having his hands;)

In the xray suite - he was hating life at this point since we just finished his blood draw.

Good news is that the sweat test already came back negative - we are very relieved by that. Now we just wait on the other results and start crossing things off our differential list one by one.  We're just hoping that we find an answer quickly without too much torture and that he starts packing on those pounds!