Lee's Day

So my story starts out Monday afternoon of last week. Lee came home not acting like his self and I asked him if his ear hurt. He said yes (surprise!) and I went and took Lee's temperature and sure enough he hit 100' while at school. (I told Frank at least a week before this that he would catch a cold and it would settle in his chest and ears...and it did...3 days before he was scheduled to have his surgery...that's SO us!) So I gave him some Motrin and some ear drops I refer to as 'liquid gold' and that seemed to have helped cause he started bouncing off the walls.

Well dinner came and went and it was bedtime and that went fine (I should have known cause they were all quiet all at the same time). I finally am able to lay Eli down in his bed and while I'm doing that Lee wakes up to go potty and so I tap on the door and check to see how he's doing (he's been up off and on coughing). He tells me he's not doing so well and his ear REALLY hurts. So I take his temperature and I couldn't believe it...103.6!!! I just looked at him and said why didn't you come get me and tell me you weren't feeling good!?! I can give you stuff that will make you feel a little bit better! So I give him Motrin and Robitussin and with in secs of giving him that I got to see 'artwork'. He managed to spew all over the bathroom and get just a few drops in the toilet...oh what a long night it was turning out to be...cause on top of ALL that Eli of course woke up. I had to put him on my bed with his dad while I cleaned....YUK!

So I left the medicine bit alone and let Lee go back to bed and hoped his temp. would go down. Well at some point during the spewing and going to bed his ear started draining...again...tinged with blood...again...sigh! So I get Ian off to school and have left a message for the ENT as to what I should do cause by golly he's going to have this surgery on Wed!! He needs this surgery!! So they call back and have us come in and check his ear and actually do something I think sounds like it would feel good. They suctioned out the pus out of his ear...I could see his eyes roll to the back of his head...so they got Lee squared away and when she was done I asked her if she wouldn't mind looking at Eli's ears for giggles since we were there (he'd been a pill for a day or two again after being sick a few days ago...and been tugging at an ear) sure enough he needed meds too. It wasn't bad but enough for me to look at her with those mom eyes and she said you want a prescription for him too?? Yes please! So I got meds for Eli and another prescription for the 'liquid gold'. So that gal goes out and consults with the ENT and they decided that instead of getting an antibiotic at the pharmacy, Lee really needs to get it at the office.....in the butt. I have 2 other children there and they want him to get a shot in the butt.

I was not sure how I was going to do that...and since I had Eli and I tried to sit him down with Dru...yeah...that didn't work so well. So for the first time in my life, one person had to hold Lee down and the other gave the shot...he was very upset with the situation! I felt so bad and for that whole day his butt hurt and I know it did! But the shot worked and by the end of the day he was doing much better! And so was Eli...for 2 days that kid slept for what seemed like all day...I was afraid he was getting his days/nights mixed up!

So here is Eli on Tuesday AFTER he got his double dose of medicine...O-U-T!Lee...his butt still hurt.My two sick fellas...Lee on Wednesday. We had to get up SO early! I of course had stayed up way too late the night before...when will I learn? He has his lovey his Oma made him when he was a baby and he's got Buckey...Buckey used to me mine so he's well loved (I still miss Buckey but don't have the heart to ask for him back...sigh...). We had to be at the hospital at 6:45 AM...oh how our butts were dragging! So we get admitted and get in our hospital issued pj's...a bit drafty we noticed. He was for the most part happy go lucky.All cuddled up with his lovey. Pretty much all the ladies went gaga over it. I guess the ladies down in the OR are quilters and they loved the quilt mom!
Lee and nurse Lynn going over his important info...age...marriage status...history of anemia? You know the important stuff 5 year olds need to answer...We have now been transported to the OR. This tickled Lee cause they moved the whole bed and put it in the elevator!!!! So we are waiting for our turn, a little 16 month old boy went ahead of us...not much younger than when Lee went in for his first set of tubes (this was his 4Th set of tubes).So everything went OK up until it was time for him to get up off the bed and walk into the surgery room. That's when he broke down and started bawling, and as you know I'm the mom and it's never a good idea to break down and cry with your child. Darn it all I WANTED to cry with him!!! I hate that he's had to do this 4 times!!! That's my baby they keep messing with! They had to pick him up and walk him back there as he was crying and yelling for me...worst feeling in the world!

This is me waiting...waiting..waiting..waiting...anytime now...waiting...waiting...some texting...and waiting...and then they came to get me! WHEW!

Here is my baby! Don't you just want to rip everything off him and take him and RUN!?! I do every time! I refrained and just rubbed his shoulder and kissed his cheek. It took him a long time to come out of it...he and Buckey just snoozed away while I sat and waited and had to make idle chit chat with the nurses...so not what I wanted to be doing...wanted to be at home with my baby and not see him all hooked up to those things!

After he woke up and things were looking good they moved us back up to the room we were at when we started all this. Thank goodness! Since Lee was starving before he went into surgery they asked him if he wanted anything when he got back. He wanted toast and applesauce with some apple juice. Now if he were truly mine he'd put the applesauce on TOP of his toast...but he didn't. He didn't eat anything now that I remember. I ate the toast..figured I better leave the applesauce for him just in case.

So a few more blood pressure reads and we were outta there!

The more time that goes by the better his ears get. He said to me the next day, 'mom...everything is SO loud!?!' I thought that was funny...his ears were so bad and he really needed the tubes. They will check his hearing when we have his post-op appointment. The hope is he won't have a hearing loss like he's been having. He's had a 25% hearing loss in both ears for a long time...

So that was our big day...he's all better and was bouncing off the walls as we walked into the house coming back home from surgery. Made Frank and I both tired...all we wanted to do was watch movies all day and take care of a child who just had surgery and was going to be 'down' for the day. HA! Joke was on us!

Sorry this was so long but I hope you enjoyed the retelling of our day.

Jeeffffaaaaaa

Tomorrow evening a very good friend of mine and myself are going to see this man, Jeff Dunham. He's a comedian and is a ventriloquist. On top of ALL that he's hysterical! This is one of his puppets, I guess is what you would call them for lack of a better word, that is in his comedy routine. The puppets name is Achmed (sp?)...I have no idea if that's how it is spelled. Tomorrow my friend is coming to my house and we are going to treat ourselves to a wonderful dinner at the Olive Garden! Bring the bread sticks and salad on baby!!! I do plan on eating enough food to make my eyeballs hurt...I'm sure I'll let you know how that all goes.

Then after dinner we are headed to the Tacoma Dome and are going to laugh our butts off! I can already tell my gut is going to hurt...thankfully this time we won't be so close to the comedian that he could point me out like Beeiiilll did (that's Bill Engval for those of you who don't know). Anyway, it's gonna be a great night!

Update: Lee is doing well and has recovered fully. He was actually bouncing off the walls as we were walking through the door into the house. I wish I could have a tenth of that kids energy! It's amazing! After he had surgery I could whisper to him and he could hear me...the last few days I have been having to yell at the top of my lungs just for him to hear me...SO annoying! Eli is doing well. I think the antibiotics are working. He seems to be better, still a crank pot big time. We are slowly getting back to the old routine though...he's finally starting to willingly sleep in his own bed for a few hours so that I can reclaim my bed back for a few hours. An hour can do amazing things for my mind and sanity!

Take care everyone!

Meet and Greet

Because everyone loves Toy Story and my son Dru is no different, he does love the characters. Dru i s 3 and so is still learning...he can say that this is Woody.This on the other hand is Eyebulls...not to be confused with Bullseye. It gets funnier!Lastly, meet Buzz Light Beer...yes you read that right the first time...I can not stop laughing!!
That was my giggle I thought I'd share for the day, courtesy of Dru.

Been Laughing All Day

I came across an article today on MSN's home page called 'Surprising Uses for Your Dishwasher. It sounded interesting enough that I clicked on it to read more. It goes on to tell of how you can wash some toys, baseball caps...things like this. It does get weird though and here is where it gets weird.

They are talking about washing your hat in the dishwasher, which is all fine and dandy until I read further along and it mentions that when doing this, you need to not wash your hat in with dirty dishes cause the food particles MIGHT collect on the cloth of the hat!

Are you serious!?!? The fact they had to mention that at all is beyond me but you know someone out there did it...I been laughing over that one.

An FYI, crocs (as in the shoes) are not dishwasher safe...I wouldn't have guessed that one.

Here's another one in case on a whim you wash your garden tools because they do come into contact with chemicals and animals...don't wash those with your dishes either because of the chemicals...DUH!

In case you ever need another way to clean and cook potatoes for people just throw them on in the dishwasher...fast and easy. Anyone willing to try this out and let us know how it turns out?

Another thing people have washed in the dishwasher...computer keyboards (I'm not brave enough for that one).

Last of all, the grand finale, people are cooking salmon in the dishwasher. WHY!?!?!?!?!? The smell alone!!! Pretty much what happens is they put the salmon in tinfoil and seal it up and put it on the top rack and it goes through a cycle and it's cooked and probably moist it says...Weird people! OH! And don't forget to serve your salmon with lemon wedges..

I'm still trying to figure out the scenario that unfolded in which a person decided that for giggles they'd see just exactly what their dishwasher was really made of? And how did they fall upon that Salmon could be cooked? What did they try first and find out didn't work? How upset are they that this hasn't become the next big thing?

Well I hope you guys had at least a chuckle over this...

Here is where I saw the article, it's on the slide show that is on the very top. www.msn.com . Take a look, overall it was enlightening...sorta.

Keep Up

These are a commodity in my house...and they are ALWAYS missing. And this is why...Eli walks around the house and leaves them places and he also bites and then pulls them out and tosses them...like a grenade. It's funny at the time until I have to find them. I have bought more of these for this child than any of the other boys. The longest anyone has had plugs is MAYBE 3 months. At 2 months Eli could operate his plug and he didn't care which way it went in as long as it did it's job. Eli has been sick the last few days, not as sick as he was in this photo below. This was after Easter, so 5 months, and he had Pneumonia. Thankfully it wasn't too bad...as bad as pneumonia goes. We caught it pretty early. This time around he had a fever but nothing terribly high...I really think he caught a cold and it bothered his sinus and ears...his ears are bothering him (does that surprise anyone? Two children with tubes in their ears and Lee is going in for his 4Th set of tubes on the 11Th...good times!) Thankfully the fever has broke and he now has slept a good portion of the day away and is NOW all fired up and not in the least bit tired...I'm thrilled to pieces!

A few things I've been thinking about

• I have become addicted to a new salad...it's got raspberries, walnuts, raspberry dressing and feta cheese...YUM!!
• My floor is NASTY! It now has soda spilled all over it and wiped up but still sticky...guess I'll be mopping my floor tomorrow
• It has been MANY years but I am tentatively excited for Christmas...tentively...it's still early!
• Eli will be 1 on the 21st and I might just boycott that day...I can't stand the thought that he's going to be 1...I never imagined the last one would be so hard.
• Breastfeeding with a child that has teeth is painful, I'm still looking for the chunk of nipple he took a few months ago.
• Shopping for pads is overwhelming...it's been THAT long since I've had to shop for them...my body betrayed me and I went and had to go be a girl all over again..I loved going 12+ before having to deal with that...again!
• I miss my nephew terribly! Auntie loves you Samuel!
• I want to get married again and have an outrageously expensive dress (thanks to the show Say Yes To The Dress) and have the reception I always wanted
• I am amazed that in 10 days Frank and I will have been married for 9 years...we have been through so much in such a small amount of time...I feel tired just thinking about it...there's more to come.

OK I think that might be it. Have a great week people!

Review

Alrighty...here we go. I haven't reviewed this movie yet of course because it's not out in theaters yet. It comes out tomorrow and I want to see this. But here is the catch...it's before Christmas, more than a month!!! I am hoping that this movie will be in theaters AFTER Thanksgiving...
In my house THAT is when it's OK to start thinking and talking Christmas. To sing the songs and all that hooey. Anything before that is forbidden!!! Seriously!!! I don't tolerate it! I think this will be a good movie though! Next, is this book I read called Escape by Carolyn Jessop. She is a woman that fled the FDLS (Warren Jeffs, if that rings a bell for any of you) by the Arizona/Utah border with her 8 children (unheard of). It's an amazing book and it tells of the abuse and violence she suffered and her amazing story of how she survived and is now living a life free of that. The first chapter had me sweating, heart beating fast, tense and almost in tears...it kept me on my toes and enthralled! Worth the read!

If you haven't seen this movie yet...it's worth the time. Now I'm biased though! I liked the first two movies and was worried that by the third one it would be a dud. Not so! It had me laughing (and the kids of course) the whole time. It was a cute movie and at the end of it I didn't feel like I wanted my time back!

Well folks that's all from me. I have baked way to much this week and finally called it quits today...3 batches of Pumpkin Bread and 7 batches of Zucchini Bread and all the meals in between...I'm done. I still have 24 cups of Zucchini to use... The kids have no school tomorrow (anyone surprised??? Yeah didn't think so) so it should be EXTRA loud at my house...Yeah me! I've been spoiled with 2 in school and 2 at home.

And just a THANKFUL thought today...Frank's cousin is stationed at Ft. Hood today and my heart stopped today. I was so worried and thankfully he was off base today and was out parachuting instead...I'm so thankful that he's fine (I'm sure his mother is finally able to breath!). I know when I found out I exhaled and then kept myself together or I was gonna lose it!!! Glad you are safe and sound Mark!!! We Love You!!! My thoughts are with the families of those lost and those injured!

Halloween's Past

This is one of my Eeyore costumes...This is Lee in it but it's the one I put Sparky in and didn't get a picture of. SO CUTE! Here is Baby Jaguar (Go Diego Go), Eeyore, and my Sugar Pumpkin! This was a lifetime ago! They look so little here...where did 3 years go?

Enjoy!