Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: Whale Cake please....

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Whale Cake please....

Chloe wanted to give her father a whale cake for his birthday. I didn't have much time to prepare since she told me the day before his birthday. So I just used what I had on hand at the house. We made two circles and a rectangle of dark chocolate cake with mint icing. We ended up using the rectangle and one circle and used white chocolate chips to outline it. It's not the greatest, but Chloe really wanted to give her father a whale cake!!! (I don't know where she gets these ideas from???) Then I made Michael Jordan's steak recipe. It was rated number 4 out of the top 10 steak recipes. I used filet mignon and it turned out to be really good. Benji was surprised how good it was:) I also sauted shrimp in a lemon garlic sauce, made sweet potatoe fries flavored with rosemary and Gran and Chloe helped make string beans (see pic below). Chloe always has very specific directions on the types of cake she would like. For her birthday she wanted a strawberrry cake with marshmellows with strawberries on top of that! Her Daddy made it for her... see link below. Then for her second birthday she wanted elmo cupcakes, so we stayed up late to make them for her... see second link below. I just wonder what she is going to say for next year????

http://wyattjameskoger.blogspot.com/2009/08/happy-3rd-birthday-chloe.html, http://wyattjameskoger.blogspot.com/2008/08/shh-dont-tell-chloe.html

For Benji's present I gave him a book about Sesame Street. You may laugh but it's such a great show. It's really the only TV show we watch as a family and we love it!! The book shows many behind the scenes footage.... I caught Benji on the chair studying hard:)

Wyatt is sick... he got what Chloe had and woke up at 5am with a fever and high heart rate. It was around 170 when his normal sleeping heart rate is close to 100. I gave him Motrin and pushed pediltye through him and he rested for a couple more hours. Today I made sure he stayed hydrated (we went through almost a big bottle of pediltye) and tomorrow we will probably make a trip to the doctor.

My Whale Cake...

Benji's Present...

3 comments:

Cindy said...: That's an awesome whale cake!

I hope Wyatt feels better soon.; January 18, 2010 at 9:47 AM
Anonymous said...: BTW, buy GSM jammer to disable all spy transmitters in your home or office.; January 21, 2010 at 8:51 PM
*super dude and super dog* said...: Wow! You did an incredible job on that cake. Happy Birthday to Benji!; January 22, 2010 at 3:43 AM

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Hurdles that I faced and achieved!

After birth, I was placed on ECMO at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 13 days. On day 13, I had a surgery to repair my hernia and was removed from ECMO, but my organs would not fit in my abdomen. I had a silo for a week and then surgery to place the organs back in the abdomen. Then, part of my intestines re-herniated into my chest cavity two months later and I had another surgery to repair that. After my first surgery, I experienced an intraventricular hemorrhage in my brain and at four months old I received a VP shunt. After I was extubated, I learned that I have right vocal cord paralysis. Then I had g-tube surgery and after I finally got to go home after 5 longs months at Johns Hopkins and Mt. Washington Hospital! Only for a few weeks, though. In mid-April my intestines reherniated again and sent me into surgery. I came home, and had a long run before my THIRD reherniation in the beginning of September on Labor Day weekend in 2008. Then I was hospitalized for twice during the winter 2009 for two respiratory infections. Well, I almost lasted a year until my next surgery! Just this past June, in 2009, I had surgery to wrap my stomach around the esophagus, a nissen. This has helped with my reflux and my hiatal hernia. I will be 2 in October, I love scooting around but refuse to stand up and walk. I am a little miracle and thank God, my doctors, my nurses, family, and friends for my strength, my fight and a happy life.