Owen update

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Since my last post (2 and a half weeks ago), Owen has completed 2 straight weeks of swim lesson boot camp. He's getting to be a stronger swimmer every year. This year, he worked on the butterfly stroke and thinks that it is his fave.

He did his first ALL DAY soccer camp at Lemoyne college in Syracuse for a week. And, while I missed him (and worried about him) he had an absolute blast. After lunchtime, they were allowed to swim in Lemoyne's indoor pool for a break and one of my biggest fears was that he would forget to reapply sunscreen after swimming. See how fair he is??? He would have burned to a crisp. But, I didn't have to worry about that. Turns out, instead of swimming they could play soccer w/ the coaches. He, of course, did that. In fact, his exact words were, "MOM! Why would I swim when I could be playing soccer???" Good point.

He also played in a local Syracuse Soccer Tournament and did awesome. His team played in a U10 league and won 3/4 games despite only having 2 "true" U10 players (Owen is a U8). Owen had a goal in every game.

He's still playing lacrosse, too. And, even though he's a good player (he's scored at least one goal in every single game), he doesn't love it. He just wants to play soccer, he says. Sigh....

His CNY team is officially on it's one month break, so no more practices or games for one whole month. He's still playing w/ a different team on Sunday and Mondays, though. And, this is the last week for lacrosse. Should make things a little less CRAZY!

He also visited the cardiologist about his low heart rate during his sleep study. And, I was expecting him to disregard it and say he was fine. Unfortunately, that wasn't 100% of the case. He said that active/athletic children can have low heart rates the same as active/athletic adults (and certainly if any child qualifies for that, it's Owen), and he did a EKG that was normal. But, when he listened to his heart he heard a "click" that he said wasn't normal. He said it could be a mitral valve prolapse, but that's extremely unusual in young boys. So...he's not sure if it's from a valve or from something else, but we have to follow up w/ him in a year. He doesn't think Owen is in any imminent danger because he had cardiac monitoring during the 12 hours of his sleep study and (other then the bradycardia) was normal. But, in one year he wants to listen to it again and have him wear a halter monitor that monitors his heart for 24 hours. OMG!

Now I can add to his list of doctors that we have to follow up w/ on a semi-regular basis:

Pediatrician
Opthamologist
Dermatologist
Asthma/Allergy Doc
ENT
Dentist
Orthodontist (yes...he will grow into those teeth before long, they promise me ...about $3000 later).
CARDIOLOGIST

In the past year he's also visited the:
Nephrologist
Urologist

Fun times.

I took this photo of Owen because I was trying to capture the freckles exploding all over his face. I love them. And, they seem to multiply every season. The summer also turns him into quite a blondie. My mutant - blond haired, blue eyed boy.