Life is good

Reiko is break free now 10 weeks! HOW FREAKING COOL IS THAT??! he is happier than ever! and doing so wonderful! I am so happy with how well he has been doing. Life has been so good lately, I can't complain at all. I know it has been 13 days since my last post, but life has been busy. Reiko had his 3rd port surgery last week, everything went so smooth, thank goodness! I was so scared that his break-free streak was going to end from getting an IV, but for the first time ever they were able to get an IV in him in 1 stick! They thankfully agreed that they would put Reiko to sleep with the mask first before inserting the IV incase there was any breaks. He came out of surgery wonderfully and he hasn't complained at all since it either. Now we just have to pray and hope that this port will not come through the skin like the other ones did.

I start school this week, on thursday I will start my medical wordperfect/excel course,then next week I start my online course for basic human anatomy, of course it starts the day Reiko and I go to Montreal, so now I have to bring along my huge book and laptop lol, fun! I cannot wait to start these courses though and at least then I can get an idea of what to expect from school.

Today Reiko and I went to a grade 8 class to talk about his OI, a girl in his class did her project on his disease and asked that we come to her class and talk to them. I was quite nervous honestly, my knees were even shaking when it was time to talk to them, and hopefully I didn't ramble on to them, but it is so nervewrecking to talk in front of 20 grade 8 students lol. Glad its over, but so glad we were able to get the word out and people got to meet him.

Kai has been doing wonderfully, he has been fully potty trained for a few months now and has not had an accidents at night yet, he has been getting smarter and smarter everyday and is super funny! This morning we were talking about how Roger is a boy cat and is white and Daisy is black and is a girl cat, then Derek says, "what am I Kai?" and Kai says " daddy your a boy, and your white" then Derek's friend Jay is black and he goes "and Jay is brown" lol we were cracking up so hard, the things they say at 3 years old! This saturday we have a birthday party to go to for his friend Nick, but I am not telling him about it until the day of, because he would drive me batty asking about it constantly. Last weekend was Easter and we had a fairly busy weekend, with Kai playing with kids everyday, he was in heaven! He enjoyed his easter egg hunts as well, and was really in the zone at the square's egg hunt, when the horn blew, he was a madman picking them up, he was going so fast though he was missing the basket until I held it for him lol. We left with a heck of a lot of chocolate eggs lol. And we now have more chocolate than anyone should need in one house lol.

Derek is thinking about doing an Ironman this september, or maybe starting in a smaller triathalon first lol, my sisters husband is thinking of it and asked derek to join him and he is really excited about it. Derek bought a new bike yesturday and loves it, and we are going to save up for me to buy a bike as well so we can go for bikes as a family with the boys! I think it would be amazing if he did do the triathalon or Ironman, he is such a motivating person and I know he would do amazing at it.

Ok that is the update for now! Take care,

Jessica