Update...and a few more updates

We spent the morning at The Children's Hospital in Denver today. It is such an amazing and beautiful facility--however, timeliness is not their strong point. (Tough when your child isn't allowed to eat anything before his procedure!) Milo was a trooper but did tell us several times "I don't want to spend the night at the hospital this time okay?" and did insist on wearing his jammies all day. You pick your battles sometimes you know?

Our surgeon opted to do a swallow study (having Milo swallow some contrast while the radiologist watches in via x-ray and shoots about 500 pictures) instead of the scope. We were glad to start with something less invasive but this will be our 3rd swallow study in the last year and they never seem to get enough information from it...so we're anticipating additional testing before the inevitable repair of the repair.

The radiologist said "yup, it's loose" and "well, you can still sort of see the point of the repair". We'll see what our surgeon says...should hear from him in the next few days.

The view looking up toward the back of Red Rocks Amphitheater just as Sheryl Crow was coming on stage.

In other, late, news Sage and I went to the Sheryl Crow/Brandi Carlisle concert this week. It was at Red Rocks--which is so beautiful and amazing! (I totally stole these pictures from her posts.) The music was great--or what I heard between the 345667 times I checked my cell phone to see if Spencer had called me. We met up with some hilarious friends that I work with and got to sit even closer that we'd thought we would. ;)

Maycee, Isabel, Milo and Porter "drying off" after a run through the fountains.

In our effort to keep life a little normal (ha!!), we met several of our friends at Oak Street Plaza in Old Town on Tuesday for Noontime Notes on the Plaza. The city puts on a free outdoor concert every Tuesday during the lunch hour. This week it was Western/Americana music. Honestly, the kids hardly listened--they were too busy running through the fountains and being hilarious. (Except Milo, who was still feeling under the weather and wanted to "dry off" and watch the other kids.)

And finally, last week I Ran the Rockies with some friends (Erika, Brady, Tiffany, and Tara). Actually, I nearly died in the Rockies. The Rockies worked me. Chewed me up and spit me out. Hardest. Race. Course. Ever.


Straight down hill for 6ish miles and then hideously steep up-down-up-down-up-down the rest of the way. Never do I have to walk. This course, I walked several times. Combine the course with the altitude (I think we started around 11,000 feet) and you have what feels like a near death experience. I finished in 2:03ish. Pretty crappy time considering how fast I was running while I trained. But, still fast enough to get me 8th place in my age division. That says a lot about the difficulty of the course--if a pace that slow gets you in 8th place in your division!! ;)

Tara's post has a way cute picture of all of us. I'm having serious picture posting issues today. Otherwise I would post the way cute picture of us. Go to her blog instead to check it out.