Cole

Our family's streak of random-but-not-very-serious medical issues continues. We don't get colds or the flu. No, we have things like cyclic vomiting, mastoiditis, and childhood regurgitation. A couple of weeks ago Cole was jumping & diving in the pool when we noticed something bulging out of the side of his belly every time he jumped. After a quick call to the pediatrician we determined that it was a hernia & had an appointment with the pediatric surgeon scheduled for the following week (the same one who repaired Jacob & Cole's hernias as infants). Of course the hernia refused to show itself at the appointment, so we were on a mission to capture a picture so we could get the surgery scheduled before school starts.

He will be having it removed on July 31st, and he should be fully recovered just in time to start Kindergarten. The surgeon believes it is a very rare type of hernia (sorry, I can't remember the name and I refuse to Google it), but we're expecting the surgery to be pretty routine. It's an outpatient procedure, and I'm expecting the activity restrictions will be the toughest part of the whole experience for Cole. Thankfully he'll have the Summer Olympics to keep him entertained!

And because I know people will be curious, we do expect that Jacob will present with this at some point in the near future. They are identical, after all, and since Cole's isn't due to an injury we'll be keeping a close eye on Jacob, per doctor's orders.

Since this is a "Cole" post, I just have to share these adorable pictures he took. A week or so ago he & Jacob spent at least an hour making their bed & rearranging their pillows & stuffed animals. I later found Cole with his camera having a little photo shoot with his animals. He had posed & photographed them, and when I walked in he was working hard to get a picture of himself with them all.

 His little lion family.

I took the last one for him. 

Today, out of the blue, he asked me to order prints of these so he could put them in frames. We uploaded them to the 1-hour photo lab at Wal Mart, and he was thrilled until he pointed to a 20x30 portrait in our bedroom and told me he wanted them all to be that size. Not gonna happen, buddy. He agreed to choose a favorite after he sees the small prints & we'll order a poster print of that one next time I see a sale somewhere.