It's been over a year!!

Amazed that Dylan has now made it a whole year with no HSP (Henoch-Schönlein Purpura) event! You know that thing we were told it was rare that he got it twice(we were told this the second year) - that he ended up getting 5 years in a row! Well we have now been an HSP free house for over a year & I couldn't be more excited. We were informed that the more times he had symtoms of it the more likely he was to develop kidney issues later in life - so needless to say I'm one happy Mommy that he seems to have finally outgrown it!

• Year one he got it was when Ryan was born and we were told he just had hives due to stress of having a new sibling. Really?? Kids get hives from the birth of siblings??? Okay...
• Year two he got it we were down in Southeaster OK for my Grandmothers funeral and he got it BAD. He just cried because he hurt so bad from the swelling around his joints. So we loaded him up and took him to the ER. There we ran into a Dr. who knew exactly what it was because he had seen it while working at a children's hospital in Texas.
• Year three we went to his friends birthday party about 2 1/2 hours from our home. Shortly after leaving the party Dyan started crying in his car-seat saying his ankles hurt. So we pulled over and sure enough the hives and swelling where back..again. I had noticed him getting little spots on his legs during the party, but thought they were just mosquito bites which most of the kids had a few each of. Of course that was NOT what his were.
• Year four Dylan got in Pre-k. He had gotten the flu and they started him on Relenza (the inhaler kind) after the second dose his HSP broke out FAST!! This was the year we realized his trigger was upper respiratory stress. This includes colds(year 1), allergens(years 2, 3 & 5), AND medications! (year 4) Luckily we realized very quickly the Relenza had done it so we stopped and he sadly just had to ride out the Flu symptoms.
• Year five took place in late summer/early fall when local farmers began cutting hay. It was his lightest one yet with very minimal swelling and joint pain.

Luckily he hasn't had another event since. Hopefully he wont!

Dylan getting so big! It's hard to believe he's 7 already!
He is doing AWESOME in school so far this year. He's begun having spelling tests for the first time and has gotten 100% on all 5 he's taken so far(17 words on each test)! He's doing really well in reading and math also! He's not a book worm, but does enjoy reading. Right now he's into Nate the Great, Scooby Doo & anything exciting that is chapter-ish. In math he's learning the first steps to algebra and is pretty far into multiplication. He just got done with a couple weeks of lessons on balancing and measuring which he had a blast with!
His favorite things to do these days are look for insects of course (he's getting ready to start learning how to pin them!), and LEGO's!! The child loves Lego's! A couple weeks ago together as a family we all went through and re-organized his Lego's back into sets because he had just a few pieces missing. He now has over 5000 Lego's. He does come by the Lego love naturally though because J.D. & I both have a large number of them as well. It has become a fun family activity for us.

I think there is a reason I was given a house full of boys! Lego's are just more fun than barbie dolls! :P