So bummed

ok So I am BUMMED. Jackson rolled completely over tonight and we both missed it. He was playing on the floor while i was reading emails and Adrian was watching TV. And over he went.. he was flat on his stomach when we looked up.

SO check this out. This is a really cool RAK and all you have to do is check out her blog.
Pamela's.

HOpe you like what you find. She has some pretty sweet Sketches for scrapping too.

So last weekend we started our summer project. Our goal was we were going to redo the landscaping in the back our our home for a cheaply as possible. Who would have thought OUR friends would be digging theirs up the same weekend and have a backyard full of perenials. So this is what we did.
Pretty Sweet huh? the best part is it was FREE! and some of it alreay
started to flower. it is gorgeous. I just pray that i don't kill it.
that would make it so free didn't really mean much.
then I got to purchase two beautiful Hanging baskets. I have wanted these for three years now. Can you believe this coming weekend we have lived in our house for three years. It is crazy to look back and think about how we were only going to stay for 5 years and how long that seemed to us. What a big commitment we were making :).

Prison Area Don't pick up hitchhikers

So Everytime we go down to Indy we pass this sign by Grissom Air Force Base that says Prison area do not pick up hitchhikers. SO they warn you but in the same mile there are three gas stations and a car dealership. What are they thinking? here is the proof:

so are we setting our prison escapee's up to be successful or were we just not thinking when we placed our bussinesses so close? What do you all think?

I gotta say I have always vowed never to stop at any of these gas stations and the othere week when we were headed down to Riley, it wasn't even Jackson that made me stop, I had to go to the bathroom so bad and there was no way I could even hold it 20 more minutes to get to Kokomo. isn't it sad that I could tell you how many rest stops, bathrooms, gas stations and minutes it would take you from one to the other almost the whole way to Indy. I gotta tell you I can't wait until Jackson turns three and all of our trips are down to once a year. Won't that be the day.

EYES On the Road when driving, dude.

ok so we headed to RILEY last friday and we got some good and some bad news. We found out that there isn't a chance for reoccurance if we have another child...Praise the LORD. however as you can see in the pics we had many stops on our way home...Jackson got fussy I think about every 1/2 hour. It made for a fun trip home let me tell you.
the odd (ironic) part was he was happy the minute he was out of his carseat...i think he just has dad wrapped around his little finger. but oh well...it only took us and hour to get through Kokomo. Earlier this week we *Adrian and I* got the chance for a date night...JW called us with extra tickets to the WHite SOx TWIns game. it was awesome just to get out and have fun even though the TWINKIES lost. oh well. it was a very quick game.. good thing too because we still got home at 1:30 in the morning and Jackson woke up at 4:30. God was good though he let me sleep as a mother's day gift on Saturday.

For an update on Jackson, we are back in the hospital due to not gaining weight. WE have gotten some interesting news, not good. but we are waiting until tomorrow for a test to confirm our suspicions before we explain it all. they are looking at the speed at which things move through him. they are suspecting that his intestines are not working as fast as they need to to process his food. we will wait, pray and see what we find.

it is sooo nice to have a happy baby

it is so nice to have a happy baby and it is so amazing how the littlest things amuse him. like daddy making funny faces or the look of his own face in the mirror. it is so funny to me that he doesn't know he is looking at himself. thought i would share this with all of you today...

enjoy our happy baby:

we are home!!!

we are home and life is looking good so far. we have managed to hold down 18 ounces of food a day only 6 shy of what the doc's want. so we will work our way up. but we have had some spit up that we would expect with a kid with reflux. the waterfall's of puke are gone. yipppeee.

he still is getting use to the poop on his but so we get really fussy when he has a poopy diaper, but other than that he is incredibly happy and laughs. right now would not be one of those moments. hehe:):)

we are headed to the hospital here in Elkhart today to have blood draw. we are doing it to follow up. wish us luck

Jackson & Daddy

Today it was just Jackson & Dad. Nichole went home yesterday with a bad case of the flu. Luckily I was just getting over my bout with the flu so I was able to take over. 24 hours later she is feeling much better. Not a whole lot happened today. Up until 2:30 we just sat around trying to get him the food he needs and not choose to give it back in a violent fit of throwing up. Mission accomplished until 3:30 at least. At 2:30 Dr. Clem stopped by and asked us how the study went. Interesting question considering we had not done anything or seen anyone up to that point. So she checked Jackson's chart and what do you know, a retrospective colon study scheduled for 3:30. Jackson quick took a nap to get rested up for his test. Once down in the radiology room he threw up within 10 minutes. Oh well, what are you going to do. They injected contrast fluid into his ostomy so that they could see the upper portion of his colon and determine whether there were any obstructions. The Doc said that his colon looked a little swollen but other than that no blockages. The one thing he did see is that where the colon actually comes out through the skin the it is being constricted to only a centimeter in diameter. I know that doesn't mean a lot to you as it didn't to me but basically what it looked like was a funnel. The intestines up to that point were pretty big and then where it came down to his colostomy it shrunk down to a little hole. Maybe this will be the information we need to get everything moving through correctly. We'll see what Dr. Bilmire has to say about it. Not sure when she will be up to talk to us. Other than that it is pretty much business as usual for the Schrock family.

On another note, Jackson got some balloons from his Grandpa and Grandma Tims yesterday which he enjoyed thoroughly.

Then today he got the post card that was to come with the balloons. He spent a little time reading it but then it went straight to his mouth.

As you can see Jackson is doing well and has been happier in the last couple of days than we have seen him before. I think it's all of the attention he gets from the nurses around here.