Goodbye September

I can't believe it is already the end of September.  Even though it means it is going to start getting colder, I'm ready to say goodbye to September.  It has been a stressful month on every front.  Here's hoping October is easy and calm!

We have been busy every weekend with football.  Drew's team is doing very well.  They are 3-0 and so far no team has been competitive with them (I hope I didn't just jinx them).  Most be that awesome coaching they are are getting!

Here are some videos from Drew's game two weeks ago.  The first one is of him at running back.  They have 22 players on their team so they mainly play offense or defense.  Drew is an outside line backer on defense so he doesn't play much offense, but when he is in I try to get a little video.

Here is one of him on defense.  This is not his best play, but he does end up getting the tackle.  He is #22.  The quality isn't very good when you upload to blogger so it is hard to know which one he is.  He starts on the outside, runs to the inside, slips, runs back out toward the sideline and gets the tackle.

I think when September is over, Kayley will have been to the pediatrician, ENT, eye doctor, surgery center for a blood draw and the dentist.  Busy month for this girl!  Kayley has been having a lot of bloody noses.  And often when she is doing nothing - like sleeping or reading a book.  Her ENT doctor (he removed her tonsils and adenoids when she was 3) looked at her nose and said she has 2 blood vessels in each nostril that are very close to the surface.  Kayley is having a procedure on Monday, October 5 to hopefully help.  He will cauterize her blood vessels  My understanding is that this is a very simple procedure.  However, because of her age, they have to put her under general anesthesia for it.  Ugh.

While she is under, the ENT is going to look at adenoids and if they have started to grow back (yuck, right?), he will remove them again.  Kayley has had roughly 6 bouts of strep throat this year, which is incredibly odd given the fact that she has no tonsils and adenoids.  Poor girl!  I'm hoping they don't have to do anything with the adenoids, but I certainly don't want her to keep getting strep throat either.  

Ice cream after a traumatic blood draw
(just a few nurses required to hold her down)

Kayley also had to go to the eye doctor because she failed the eye screening at the pediatrician earlier this summer.  However, she did fine at the eye doctor and doesn't need glasses yet.  He wants her back in two years to check them again though.