Spencer has been having some health issues over the last few years- resulting in some major ups and downs with his weight. Mid February he was admitted to the hospital for a NG Tube- a feeding tube that goes down your nose into your tummy and you get fed a nutrition formula from a pump.
He was in the hospital 4 days and it felt like 40! We were so glad to have him home with us. The tube was pretty uncomfortable, but we wanted to see if it would work before doing the permanent tube- called a G-tube.
After a month it seemed to be helping so we went ahead and did the g-tube surgery on March 16th- his 13th birthday- and also the first day of spring break. He had to have 2 surgeries- one for his ingrown eyelashes and one for the g-tube so we were kind of at the mercy of the doctor’s schedules. Needless to say he was not feeling up to celebrating his big day in the hospital so we waited until he was home and feeling better. Grandpa Burnett came down yesterday so it was the perfect time to have Brian and Laura and Meghan and James over too to celebrate our first teenager! 
We had breakfast for dinner- a meal he can eat pretty well right now. It was quite a spread with 2 kinds of pancakes- chocolate cake batter and regular, strawberries, orange slices, hash browns, bacon, ham, and baked oatmeal! Plus this amazing ice cream cake. I don’t know if the best part of this picture is the huge candles or dad’s face, but it was the only picture I could sneak of my camera shy son with his cake so it’s making the blog. Sorry dad!
We asked family and friends who wanted to get Spencer something for his birthday to send money to go toward a kindle fire for him. We have one rule with this Kindle. If the other kids (or adults) want to play with it they have to do it with Spencer. Here’s the result of that last night. So cute.
They were all excited to get it and I think they were playing about their 10th round of angry birds in this picture.
Gifts not seen in a picture include- the movie Ice Age, a HUGE bag of Reese’s peanut butter eggs, chocolate covered peeps, PEZ, and very generous money gifts to go toward the kindle fire.
We love the baby step progress Spencer is having. He likes to sit with me while I blog because he likes to look at all of the pictures. He’s on his 5th chocolate egg! I think he’ll have to stop or get a stomach ache, but it is so good to see him eating.
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