The special treat he found yesterday...
I have no idea what is in his mouth,
but he's going back for seconds!
Monday, April 28, 2008
My little dumpster diver!
I was going to blog about this (I HATE the word blog, by the way) about a month ago, but it got lost in the shuffle of all of our other April activities. Noah loves going through our garbage can. We do have a lid on it, but he knows how to open it. He is a huge mess maker too. He has no problem being filthy, dirty. At least every other day I catch him getting into our kitchen garbage. This might gross you out, but yes, I have seen him eating out of it too. Come on little dude, I feed you all the time, I don't get it!? The real reason I remembered I was going to post on this topic is because yesterday he got a particularly tasty treat out of the trash and smeared it all over himself and the carpet-and that is a brand new shirt he's wearing. Thanks Noah! Like I don't have enough messes to clean up!
The special treat he found yesterday...
I have no idea what is in his mouth,
but he's going back for seconds!
The special treat he found yesterday...
I have no idea what is in his mouth,
but he's going back for seconds!
Friday, April 25, 2008
A week overdue!
So I have this friend and she calls me up one day and says "what are my worst qualities-be honest?" What the heck am I supposed to say?! "Well your personal hygiene could use some improvement" or "you're just a witch overall, we're only friends because of your money" Yeah right! Both of these couldn't be farther from the truth. She's creative, happy, thoughtful, funny, kind and I could go on. It was her birthday exactly a week ago and I promised her a picture from back in the day, however certain events (see post below) prevented me from posting. I actually have one that's even older than this but I was afraid of ruining it as it's permanently glued in my scrapbook. So Happy belated Birthday Becca Bird! How can I think of bad qualities after all this...
You getting surprised by the camera, Summer camp 1992 Remember how those shirts turned our bras florescent pink?!
Look what a difference 4 years can make! Youth conference 1996
Fast forward 5 years
FF another 5 years...We only ever dreamed of our own kids playing together, but here they are!
LOVE YOU (I'm glad you had a good birthday) For the big 3-0 I decided I'm coming to SLC so you can "take care of me" ;)
You getting surprised by the camera, Summer camp 1992 Remember how those shirts turned our bras florescent pink?!
Look what a difference 4 years can make! Youth conference 1996
Fast forward 5 years
FF another 5 years...We only ever dreamed of our own kids playing together, but here they are!
LOVE YOU (I'm glad you had a good birthday) For the big 3-0 I decided I'm coming to SLC so you can "take care of me" ;)
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
2 kids, 2 ambulance rides, 2 ER's in 24 hours...
So last Thursday, I had one of the most frightening experiences ever since becoming a mother. Noah, who had just finished breakfast and was playing peacefully in our play room, started whining. I was doing dishes and after about 30 seconds of this continuous odd whine I turned around. I saw him lying flat on his back, looking very strange. I went to pick him up and he flopped backward like he had no spine. Then his eyes started rolling back in his head and he was a scary gray color. I didn't know what was going on, so I ran and called 911. I was holding him the whole time thinking he was dying and the dispatcher was telling be to be calm. I know that's their job, but really I couldn't be calm, I had never dealt with anything like this before. He then threw up all over me and continued to breathe very sporadically and still had the worst color I have ever seen on a child. The firefighters arrived and I handed them my barf covered baby. They stripped him down and gave him oxygen. Then the paramedics walked in, assessed him and said it looked like he was recovering from a seizure!!!!!!!!!! What? My head was spinning and then Aaron walked in! I hadn't been able to call him because I was on with the 911 operator 'til the paramedics arrived and then I had to fill them in, so how on earth did Aaron know to come home? Turns out he was coming home to get some cable and it was just a complete coincidence. His color was still such a sickening gray Aaron couldn't believe it. So they loaded Noah in the ambulance and Aaron hopped in and they were off to the hospital while I ran in to change myself and Kai.
The ER doctor was a complete moron. He ordered Noah's blood to be drawn, and then didn't do ANY tests. He also passed the whole thing off as a choking episode which I knew with every ounce of mother's intuition it was not, but he just brushed me off. Mia had a choking a episode and this was NOTHING like that, in fact there wasn't a single similarity. Another reason I know it wasn't a choking thing is because he threw up and there was no out of the ordinary choking hazard in there and they also did a chest x-ray at the ER and there wasn't anything there either. There's quite a few other reasons I know it wasn't him choking, but there's still a lot left of this story. So we were out of the ER by 1pm and we went home. Aaron was really shaken up and he was so appreciative of the firefighters service and the camaraderie they offered. They called Aaron's boss and let him know what happened and they also offered to drive the city truck back for Aaron since that's what he drove home in, but left in the ambulance. We decided to take the firefighters a pizza dinner because we were so grateful. When we got home we felt pretty wiped, but Aaron still went off to work at the airport.
We realized when we got home from the firehouse that Kai was having some trouble breathing, so I got out his nebulizer for a breathing treatment. Before I put him to bed he had two more treatments. Aaron then walked in the door from the airport and said after the ordeal with Noah he couldn't concentrate and work sent him home. So I told him about Kai. We went to bed early by our standards, 10:30. Well at midnight I hear a little body walk into our room and it's Kai asking for medicine (a breathing treatment). He's struggling to breathe so I give him two treatments in a row and put him back to bed. He's back up 45 minutes later asking for medicine. I give him ANOTHER breathing treatment and he's asking for another one immediately. At this point he's had six and I don't know if he can have another. I call the advice nurse and give her all the info and she says we need to take him to the ER. So off Aaron goes back to the ER at 2:30 am with Kai this time. By 7am they are still in the ER and the medicine and treatment he's receiving there isn't working either. So they decide to send him by ambulance to be hospitalized at a children's hospital in San Francisco. Meanwhile, I had to take Noah to the pediatrician for the episode he had just 24 hours earlier, which now seems a little overshadowed. The pediatrician absolutely believes it was a seizure and is also frustrated with the ER doctor for not doing any tests on the blood he had taken the trouble of drawing anyway. She ordered an EEG for Noah and then had me fill her in on Kai. From there I rushed off to the ER just in time to see them loading Kai into the ambulance, who was saying "I don't like it, I don't like it!" During all this we had help from Aaron's parents who were driving us around, watching which ever child was left behind or picking Mia up from school. And I have to mention what a champ Mia is through all this. She even said "I wish I was sick so Noah and Kai didn't have to be." What a sweetheart<3
It's Friday afternoon now and I don't know how much more our brains and our hearts can handle. My parents decide they are going to drive up to see the kids and help out-they're 6 hours away. I walk into Kai's hospital room with Mia and it's all I can do to hold myself together. He looks so small in his big hospital bed and little hospital gown. He seemed okay, but still breathing pretty hard. Aaron said he had already seen like 5 doctors and they know for sure Kai needs to stay the night. They have him on the maximum amount of meds at the minimum amount of time they can be spaced. The next step is taking him to the ICU and putting him in an oxygen tent-thank goodness it never got to that point though. I didn't realize how serious asthma can be. I thought an inhaler could just fix it all. After about four hours Aaron and I take Mia home and Aaron's mom and sister stay there with Kai. We get dinner, shower, pack and wait for my parents to arrive. We then take them up to visit Kai who is not getting any worse, but not improving much either. They leave after an hour so we can all go to sleep, which anyone who's ever been to a hospital knows, there's never any "good" sleep going on. Around noon the next day we find out Kai needs to be there at least one more night which is discouraging because he seemed to be getting better, but we knew he was in the best place. They had to wait until he could breathe comfortably between treatments spaced four hours apart. So too many hospital meals and one more bad nights sleep later they decide he's in the clear enough to be discharged. So we get home Sunday afternoon to a sparkling clean house and prepared dinner thanks to my parents. Kai is on 4 medications now which will taper down to two by this weekend. Aaron and I feel we need to be on some kind of medication after all this, but are supremely grateful to have wonderful family and health care providers all around us. So we want to say a big thank you to firefighters McCullough, Sitton & Henderson. Dr. Tan, Dr. Do, Dr. Hardy & Dr. Stepani, More thank yous to nurses Linda, Heather, Pam, Rachel and two more whose names I can't remember, also to the respiratory therapist who saw Kai every day of his visit and I still can't remember her name! We also want to thank everyone who were sending thoughts and prayers our way. And a most enormous thank you to our parents who dropped everything and helped make this hard weekend a little more bearable. Of course we didn't think to bring a camera, but these are from Aaron's phone. Our poor little boys :(
The ER doctor was a complete moron. He ordered Noah's blood to be drawn, and then didn't do ANY tests. He also passed the whole thing off as a choking episode which I knew with every ounce of mother's intuition it was not, but he just brushed me off. Mia had a choking a episode and this was NOTHING like that, in fact there wasn't a single similarity. Another reason I know it wasn't a choking thing is because he threw up and there was no out of the ordinary choking hazard in there and they also did a chest x-ray at the ER and there wasn't anything there either. There's quite a few other reasons I know it wasn't him choking, but there's still a lot left of this story. So we were out of the ER by 1pm and we went home. Aaron was really shaken up and he was so appreciative of the firefighters service and the camaraderie they offered. They called Aaron's boss and let him know what happened and they also offered to drive the city truck back for Aaron since that's what he drove home in, but left in the ambulance. We decided to take the firefighters a pizza dinner because we were so grateful. When we got home we felt pretty wiped, but Aaron still went off to work at the airport.
We realized when we got home from the firehouse that Kai was having some trouble breathing, so I got out his nebulizer for a breathing treatment. Before I put him to bed he had two more treatments. Aaron then walked in the door from the airport and said after the ordeal with Noah he couldn't concentrate and work sent him home. So I told him about Kai. We went to bed early by our standards, 10:30. Well at midnight I hear a little body walk into our room and it's Kai asking for medicine (a breathing treatment). He's struggling to breathe so I give him two treatments in a row and put him back to bed. He's back up 45 minutes later asking for medicine. I give him ANOTHER breathing treatment and he's asking for another one immediately. At this point he's had six and I don't know if he can have another. I call the advice nurse and give her all the info and she says we need to take him to the ER. So off Aaron goes back to the ER at 2:30 am with Kai this time. By 7am they are still in the ER and the medicine and treatment he's receiving there isn't working either. So they decide to send him by ambulance to be hospitalized at a children's hospital in San Francisco. Meanwhile, I had to take Noah to the pediatrician for the episode he had just 24 hours earlier, which now seems a little overshadowed. The pediatrician absolutely believes it was a seizure and is also frustrated with the ER doctor for not doing any tests on the blood he had taken the trouble of drawing anyway. She ordered an EEG for Noah and then had me fill her in on Kai. From there I rushed off to the ER just in time to see them loading Kai into the ambulance, who was saying "I don't like it, I don't like it!" During all this we had help from Aaron's parents who were driving us around, watching which ever child was left behind or picking Mia up from school. And I have to mention what a champ Mia is through all this. She even said "I wish I was sick so Noah and Kai didn't have to be." What a sweetheart<3
It's Friday afternoon now and I don't know how much more our brains and our hearts can handle. My parents decide they are going to drive up to see the kids and help out-they're 6 hours away. I walk into Kai's hospital room with Mia and it's all I can do to hold myself together. He looks so small in his big hospital bed and little hospital gown. He seemed okay, but still breathing pretty hard. Aaron said he had already seen like 5 doctors and they know for sure Kai needs to stay the night. They have him on the maximum amount of meds at the minimum amount of time they can be spaced. The next step is taking him to the ICU and putting him in an oxygen tent-thank goodness it never got to that point though. I didn't realize how serious asthma can be. I thought an inhaler could just fix it all. After about four hours Aaron and I take Mia home and Aaron's mom and sister stay there with Kai. We get dinner, shower, pack and wait for my parents to arrive. We then take them up to visit Kai who is not getting any worse, but not improving much either. They leave after an hour so we can all go to sleep, which anyone who's ever been to a hospital knows, there's never any "good" sleep going on. Around noon the next day we find out Kai needs to be there at least one more night which is discouraging because he seemed to be getting better, but we knew he was in the best place. They had to wait until he could breathe comfortably between treatments spaced four hours apart. So too many hospital meals and one more bad nights sleep later they decide he's in the clear enough to be discharged. So we get home Sunday afternoon to a sparkling clean house and prepared dinner thanks to my parents. Kai is on 4 medications now which will taper down to two by this weekend. Aaron and I feel we need to be on some kind of medication after all this, but are supremely grateful to have wonderful family and health care providers all around us. So we want to say a big thank you to firefighters McCullough, Sitton & Henderson. Dr. Tan, Dr. Do, Dr. Hardy & Dr. Stepani, More thank yous to nurses Linda, Heather, Pam, Rachel and two more whose names I can't remember, also to the respiratory therapist who saw Kai every day of his visit and I still can't remember her name! We also want to thank everyone who were sending thoughts and prayers our way. And a most enormous thank you to our parents who dropped everything and helped make this hard weekend a little more bearable. Of course we didn't think to bring a camera, but these are from Aaron's phone. Our poor little boys :(
Monday, April 14, 2008
Mia is now 6!
Wow, so much has changed in one year!
She's in "real" school, she has new friends, she's learning to read and ride a bike. She actually likes wearing jeans now. Her hair is getting really long and is almost completely brown. The only traces of blond left are at the ends of her hair. She's graduated to the big girls section in the clothing dept. (which I don't like because the clothes seem too grown up). Oh, and most importantly she wants to be a marine biologist instead of a cowgirl.
She's in "real" school, she has new friends, she's learning to read and ride a bike. She actually likes wearing jeans now. Her hair is getting really long and is almost completely brown. The only traces of blond left are at the ends of her hair. She's graduated to the big girls section in the clothing dept. (which I don't like because the clothes seem too grown up). Oh, and most importantly she wants to be a marine biologist instead of a cowgirl.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Favorite photos of '07
I was skimming through my photo albums and thinking about my favorite pictures from last year. I bought a frame with 3 openings and wanted to fill it with a photo of each child. Now this was really hard narrowing down, but I was finally able to pick out 2 for each child, the black and white are what I actually used in the frame. I also had to put up my all time favorite photo from '07. Now these aren't National Geographic caliber, just something about these photos, either the story behind or the way they make me feel when I see them makes them my personal faves.
Mia being so good on a car ride, she's the little backseat mommy to the boys.
The thrill of a lifetime!! I laugh every time I see this photo, I love Mia's expression, and flyaway hair.
I've never gotten a better shot of Kai's true personality. It was pure luck that the shutter went off at that exact moment.
Kai was so surprised to open his bday gift and see the Backyardigans staring up at him. His joyful, awe is so endearing.
Noah just laid back and content...as always.
It's like he knew I was coming to photograph him sleeping that afternoon.
And my all time favorite of last year, taken on Mother's Day '07.
Mia being so good on a car ride, she's the little backseat mommy to the boys.
The thrill of a lifetime!! I laugh every time I see this photo, I love Mia's expression, and flyaway hair.
I've never gotten a better shot of Kai's true personality. It was pure luck that the shutter went off at that exact moment.
Kai was so surprised to open his bday gift and see the Backyardigans staring up at him. His joyful, awe is so endearing.
Noah just laid back and content...as always.
It's like he knew I was coming to photograph him sleeping that afternoon.
And my all time favorite of last year, taken on Mother's Day '07.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Pop go the Wiggles
We got to see the Wiggles in concert and had really great seats next to the stage! Kai couldn't believe that the Wiggles were actually dancing in front of him, he was in awe. We brought our sign so we could get a shout out from the Wiggles and of course Mia had to bring roses for Dorothy the dinosaur. As a parent you end up in places you never thought you'd be, but it's not as bad as you thought it would be when you see your kids faces light up and having a great time.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Movie review
So I've been renting a ton of movies lately and got caught up with all the 'new releases'. Some good, some bad, but anyway, this is my point of view
Death at a Funeral: You MUST, I repeat MUST see this movie. I only rented it because I like Matthew McFayden (Mr. Darcy in the latest Pride & Prejudice movie) and I was in for the surprise of a lifetime. I laughed so hard tears were coming down my face. Aaron and I liked it so much we watched it twice in a row! It's only and hour and 25 minutes which is another reason we could stand to do it. Why is it that cussing doesn't sound as vulgar in English movies?? Anyway, this movie is a crack up, Aaron and I have to buy it.
August Rush: I liked it. I thought the little kid in it was really good. I actually thought the whole cast did a great job even Robin Williams who was a creepy child abuser of sorts. Everyone was very passionate in the movie. I fell in love with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, I'm a sucker for accents.
Atonement: A let down. Not that it wasn't a good movie for some people. I was just dying to see when it was in the theater, but didn't get to, now I'm glad I didn't spend the $10 for a ticket. I was expecting a sweeping romance and that's not really how it turned out. Kind of slow and choppy for me.
Nancy Drew: STOOPID, I want that 90 minutes of my life back!
Jane Austen Book Club: Two thumbs up! I enjoyed all the different stories that were intertwined. Just like a Jane Austen novel there is pain, but things work out one way or another in the end. I love JA and this movie really made me want to read Persuasion, one of her novels I've never picked up.
I am Legend: Eh? Another let down for me. The visual effects made me feel like I was watching a video game not a movie. Just not my cup of tea.
Dan in Real life: So cute and fun! I loved the family, the games they played and the camaraderie between them. Steve Carrell was awesome, this is another one I'd like to buy. "You are a murderer of love!!"
I forgot one...Enchanted: Cute and creative. I loved Disney making fun of itself and it's typical princess romances, pretty funny.
Anyway there it is and I'm really looking forward to Juno coming out!
Death at a Funeral: You MUST, I repeat MUST see this movie. I only rented it because I like Matthew McFayden (Mr. Darcy in the latest Pride & Prejudice movie) and I was in for the surprise of a lifetime. I laughed so hard tears were coming down my face. Aaron and I liked it so much we watched it twice in a row! It's only and hour and 25 minutes which is another reason we could stand to do it. Why is it that cussing doesn't sound as vulgar in English movies?? Anyway, this movie is a crack up, Aaron and I have to buy it.
August Rush: I liked it. I thought the little kid in it was really good. I actually thought the whole cast did a great job even Robin Williams who was a creepy child abuser of sorts. Everyone was very passionate in the movie. I fell in love with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, I'm a sucker for accents.
Atonement: A let down. Not that it wasn't a good movie for some people. I was just dying to see when it was in the theater, but didn't get to, now I'm glad I didn't spend the $10 for a ticket. I was expecting a sweeping romance and that's not really how it turned out. Kind of slow and choppy for me.
Nancy Drew: STOOPID, I want that 90 minutes of my life back!
Jane Austen Book Club: Two thumbs up! I enjoyed all the different stories that were intertwined. Just like a Jane Austen novel there is pain, but things work out one way or another in the end. I love JA and this movie really made me want to read Persuasion, one of her novels I've never picked up.
I am Legend: Eh? Another let down for me. The visual effects made me feel like I was watching a video game not a movie. Just not my cup of tea.
Dan in Real life: So cute and fun! I loved the family, the games they played and the camaraderie between them. Steve Carrell was awesome, this is another one I'd like to buy. "You are a murderer of love!!"
I forgot one...Enchanted: Cute and creative. I loved Disney making fun of itself and it's typical princess romances, pretty funny.
Anyway there it is and I'm really looking forward to Juno coming out!
Auto part thieves
Okay, so I was really mad when I wrote that letter to the thieves, it's not like we're in dire straits and can't afford groceries now, just a bummer, pain in the butt type of deal.
Haha! So I took Rebecca's suggestion and emailed the letter to the thieves to our local paper and they actually want to do a story! I was shocked, I really didn't think it would go anywhere, but it is just the county paper not like the San Francisco or New York Times. Anyway, a photographer just came out today and took pictures of Aaron, Mia and me standing out by his truck. He told us we shouldn't smile, so I felt like such a doofus standing there trying not to smile all the while I'm thinking of the conversation Rebecca and I had about not wanting the photo to come out looking like we suffered some catastrophic tragedy, which made me want to smile even more. At least he didn't ask us to actually frown or put my head on Aaron's shoulder because that would have been too much!
Anyway, to update the situation a little more, we know the thieves drove a Ford Explorer because our neighbor saw them! He just thought it was Aaron and his friend working on his truck. I don't know why he thought anyone would be working on their car that late, but that's what he said. He also didn't get a plate # or physical description because again he just thought it was Aaron.
We also got a good deal on a new part through Aaron's work buddy. So we're only out $250 instead of $500, but still not really the way we would like to spend $250, ya know?! We joked with Aaron's co-worker and said that his connection was probably the thief and he was just installing the stolen parts back on. NOOOO, really it's shiny and new.
Also the new part gets welded on, they can't just come and take it off like they did last time. So that's a relief. If the story does get published, I'll post a link.
Haha! So I took Rebecca's suggestion and emailed the letter to the thieves to our local paper and they actually want to do a story! I was shocked, I really didn't think it would go anywhere, but it is just the county paper not like the San Francisco or New York Times. Anyway, a photographer just came out today and took pictures of Aaron, Mia and me standing out by his truck. He told us we shouldn't smile, so I felt like such a doofus standing there trying not to smile all the while I'm thinking of the conversation Rebecca and I had about not wanting the photo to come out looking like we suffered some catastrophic tragedy, which made me want to smile even more. At least he didn't ask us to actually frown or put my head on Aaron's shoulder because that would have been too much!
Anyway, to update the situation a little more, we know the thieves drove a Ford Explorer because our neighbor saw them! He just thought it was Aaron and his friend working on his truck. I don't know why he thought anyone would be working on their car that late, but that's what he said. He also didn't get a plate # or physical description because again he just thought it was Aaron.
We also got a good deal on a new part through Aaron's work buddy. So we're only out $250 instead of $500, but still not really the way we would like to spend $250, ya know?! We joked with Aaron's co-worker and said that his connection was probably the thief and he was just installing the stolen parts back on. NOOOO, really it's shiny and new.
Also the new part gets welded on, they can't just come and take it off like they did last time. So that's a relief. If the story does get published, I'll post a link.
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