Great Days!

Here are some long awaited school pictures. Today is his 4th day at school but 1st day to ride the bus. We also went to Iowa this last weekend for a visit and a wedding...great pics with the bride and some new four generation pictures.

Bye Bye Momma and Daddy Loves you!
That is Carson in the 3rd window.
Oh Boy, what is this thing?
Fun ride up with David.
Here we go to the bus.
Waiting for the bus.
Mom and me on my 2nd day at school.
My Para, Angie at school.
What a big school!
Dad and me on my first day of school.
My teacher Joanna.
On my way to school for the first day.
Here we go to school on the first day.
The Bowman boys in front of the Bowman Farms semi.
Four generations!
Us with Grandpa Bowman.
The beautiful Bride, Amy and me!
Bowman family all dressed up!
I sure love my frozen paci! I am chewing on so my lip is popping out!
If feels so good on my teeth!

Update 8-23

Hello All!!!

We are all good news. Carson is doing great, he had an awesome birthday and enjoyed the cup cakes! (I will have pics up soon) Carson was not able to start school last week because of incomplete paperwork. However, he will start tomorrow...Jeff will take him to school and pick him up this week. (The bus is not ready yet) Our boy is so big! We of course will take pictures of this also! Carson is still enjoying the hot tub it has helped relax him and loosen tense muscles. (Pictures below) We are looking forward to the cooler weather coming. Hope all of you are well also. We will have another update in a soon with more pictures. Aunt Kari is coming in to visit this weekend and Aunt Becky is coming in for Labor Day weekend....oh how they have missed their big boy! They will be so surprised to see how big he actually is!

Happy # 3 bud!

We celebrated Carson's 3 year birthday today! What a big boy. We did not do anything special, just hung out and snuggled a lot. We did share some frozen yogurt with him tonight, he really liked the blueberry and mango flavors. We will update soon with picts from the party as well as others.

Our big news is that Carson got a hot tub from Make-A-Wish Foundation and Recreation Wholesale for water therapy. We have had it up for a little over a week, but has really been too hot to get Carson in it. He did take a dip with Dad one night. The outside heat is just keeping the water too hot!

We hope to see you all on Saturday for the big party!

Love The Bowman's

Carson's Third Birthday!

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Carson’s turning the big 3 on August 11! We will celebrate in our usual big way on August 14 at 5:00 pm. Place is in the Bowman’s backyard. Dinner and games will be provided, bring your own drinks.

Please, in lieu of gifts consider (but not necessary) a monetary donation for diapers for Carson. Thank you again and hope to see you soon!

Please RSVP to Sarah at 913-707-7395 or sarahn.bowman@yahoo.com

Happy almost August!!

Hello All-

Carson is doing well, he got over his cold/allergies. After his extra secretions were gone he had a slight asthma attack and needed some prednisone to get over it. All is great.

Carson has been gaining one pound every two weeks for the last two months. With a little twisting of Carson's Doctors' arms, they prescribed Lasix for one week. This was going to tell us if his weight gain was from water retention or too many calories. With in the one week of being on the diuretic, Carson lost a few ounces as well as cm from his feet and ankles! It was working, so he is now on Lasix twice a day. We will see were we go from here.

We are also getting ready for school, yes that is right, school. Carson will be going to Harmony Early Childhood Center starting in the middle of August. As Carson is getting close to becoming 3 his current therapy services he will age out off, they stop at 3 years old. Carson will be in a classroom with other kids and will get all of his therapies at school. His nurse, David, from here at home, will go with him to take care of him. They will go on the bus to and from school, hours are Mon thru Thurs, 820 to 1120. We feel we owe Carson and the school district the chance to see if this works for all parties. If it does not, the therapists from the school will come to the home to work with him. I am very nervous about letting Carson out of the house and sending him to school, but we have to give him a chance....

We will be updating this blog again this week with Carson's birthday party details!!! FYI Sat, August 14 at 500 pm. More to come.

Happy Fourth of July!

We had a great weekend. The Bowman's were in town and we all went to the T-bones baseball game on Saturday night and had a blast. Carson was very awake with his eyes wide open, he also loved the fireworks are the end. What a great outing, it was well worth it. Although now we are paying for it, Carson is very cruddy and wheezing. On Sunday night we did some sparklers in the back yard until the rain finally pushed us inside.

Carson has been good the last month, holding is own, he has been back on top of the roller coaster. We hope to get over this cold/allergies soon and be back on top.

Enjoy the pictures and videos.

Happy Memorial day, too many pictures and an update...

Thank you to all those out there who have and still are fighting for our freedom.

We are all enjoying an extra day at home and just relaxing.

Carson has been well lately. We have seen a few extra seizures with this last full moon, but seem to be back to normal now. Last week we had several tests run on his blood to check all kinds of things. We were mainly worried about his extra water retention, edema. Carson had gained another pound in 2 weeks and seemed to be more puffy. Checking his blood was able to tell us if he needed a diuretic (to make him pee more) or to add more protein (sometimes if the body doesn't have enough protein the water does not move like it should). While we were taking some blood we decided to run all the tests we could. CBC, BMP, Chem 7, liver and kidney function. So any way, to our surprise all his tests came back normal! His bilirubin was a little low, but nothing to be concerned with right now. No meds are needed for his extra fluid, to help get rid of it we are going to do more movement and massaging. We are so happy to hear this great news!!

Just me and my dad.
These kids wear me out!
But I love them.

Cool dinosaur, thanks for sharing with me.

Matthew helping brush my teeth.
Look how big I am!
Me and my new shoes.
I am catching up to my mom.
So cute.
These are my new Crocs...
Look out, they may bite!
Wow, look at these rolls.
Big yawn.
Hair cut with Aunt Jen.
First time using the buzzer, no too sure of this.
But all is good when all said and done.
I was telling Aunt Jen all about it.

Me and my cousins.
Yea, that is the spot.