More Random Occurrences

Well Bryce is almost done with his in-class portion of his Paramedic program, so yay! Next he's got his hospital hours and then last he has his internship on an ambulance. He's hoping to be done this October! I have been very busy getting our home ready to be inspected by the child care licensing people, which I am proud to say is pretty much there and my application has been accepted. Now I just have to get Bryce fingerprinted and get inspected, which will hopefully happen within the next month and a half or so. Life is pretty good! I love having my home neat and organized! I have also been really trying to exercise and go walking with Jace every day, which we both really enjoy. I love my sweet little dude! He's so funny, because he's got this little stubborn streak so he refuses to even try crawling, so instead he just rolls across the floor to get where he wants and when it doesn't work he accusses me of being at fault. He's also talking alot now and it just cracks me up to see his multitude of expressions and silly sounds that he uses while conversing with you. Babies are so funny! He's also discovered that he really likes exploring different textures. He is so fast during meals that I have to be careful to at least get most of the food into his mouth before he dumps it over very sneakily and smears it all over. here he is playing in dried beans (don't worry I was right there to make sure he didn't put them in his mouth, which he didn't even try to by the way) and also dry baby cereal.

Here's a little video of Jace doing crunchies, he really goes all out trying to get those abs in shape!

Where does the time fly to?

Well, I guess I've got a lot of summing up to do. Let's see... Jace got his ear tubes surgically placed on March 30 and had a hearing test directly after. We had to leave our house by 5am in order to get to the hospital by 6am and Jace hadn't had anything to eat or drink since 10pm the night before, so I was sure that he was going to be a bear. But I was very pleasantly surprised! Jace was just as happy as could be all morning!The results were not as positive as I had hoped. Jace has very tiny ear drums and canals, so we'll just have to wait and see if that is a problem or not. Also he had a lot of granulation in his ears that the doctor could not remove during surgery, so Jace had to have special ear drops that were supposed to break it down and hopefully clear it out...we'll see. The hearing test did not show us any new results because of the complications with Jace's ears, so we'll have to repeat it later. Jace has also been having difficulties eating foods that are thicker or that have lumps, so on May 5th he will go back to the hospital to have an endoscopy of his esophogus and if they find that it has narrowed, they will dilate it, which is not a very scary or long procedure. While he's still under, his ENT doctor will also recheck his ears and his hearing test will be repeated...yay! A very busy day! I think that I can tell a difference in his hearing already though. He responds to sounds that he never used to and his baby talk has been different ever since the surgery. He says mama sounds even if he doesn't know that he's saying mama, which is exciting to me. Overall Jace is doing great, he was almost 17 lbs last week and his top two front teeth are coming in, which is not fun at all!Look at how gnarly his poor little gums are!We had a nice Easter Weekend with family. My mom, my stepdad, Jace and I visited my Nana in Los Gatos, CA and had a lovely time with her on Friday, then Mom & Robert watched Jace on Sat. so Bryce and I could see Clash of the Titans, which was pretty good except that the action scenes were so actiony that I think they could possibly cause seisures...haha, no but really I had to look away from time to time to save my eyes. Then on Sunday my stepmom Catherine came over and we all watched our church's General Conference, which we lovingly call Jammie Church and we eat yummy food and enjoyed being entertained/distracted by the cute baby in the room.