As Promised

Pictures finally! These come courtesy of Colby and Kristy Holt who were nice enough to not only let me borrow their camera but to also download and email the pictures to me! Thanks....

Much better

Not to chance fate or jinxs myself, today has been accident free so far!!! We are on the mends so with any luck at all we will be completely functional starting Monday. Now is the weather would cooperate than I would be completely happy. Thanks for all your help and concerns. There will be pictures of Austin's fall shortly, I had Colby (next door neighbor) come over and take some pictures of his head so as soon as I get them I will share! Thanks again!

are you freakin kidding me?

I know that my last few posts haven't exactly been the most cheery and this one won't either. Last night or I guess I should say this morning at 3am Austin had another one of his coughing fits. He's been sleeping in my bed since Nathan is gone and also because he sleeps better there when he's sick. Well he was sort of sleeping between hideous coughing fits that always lead to choking. He at this time (3am) had been up 4 times and had actually turned blue 3 times (just his lips but still), when I hear..... Thud.... Thud..... CRASH! I immediately know what has happened. There are instant screams followed by the WONDERFUL coughing fit and of course the choking. Can't forget the choking, have I mentioned how much I love the choking???? Anyways, Austin had fallen off my bed. I have a log pine bed that sits 4 feet off the floor. And as if that weren't bad enough we also have log pine night stands that are up against the top of the bed. So naturally he hit the nightstand noggin first and truly just to add insult to injury, the drawer on Nathan's night stand was opened just a enough to expose the sharp unforgiving corner that impaled itself through my son's forehead at 3am! I honestly couldn't make this stuff up. He then hit the huge knot that protrudes out of the side rail and finally came to his crashing halt on the floor. The poor kid has the largest goose egg that he has ever had (hard to do trust me ) as well as a chunk of hyde missing from the forehead area. He also looks like someone took a bat to his cheek. Amidst all the screaming and choking I hear a little girls voice who decided that there was simply too much action for one to sleep through and she joins into my mix of fun. She decides to take matters into her own hands and attempts to find her own exit strategy out of her crib. I run and catch her as she is climbing over the top rail to get out then we both return to the scene of the crash. It took me one bottle (for Paityn) and one blankey(for Austin) to get things under control. 1 hour later we were all back to bed with the exception of Daisy who decided to start barking (which she never does) at what I can only assume was a home invader that heard the commotion and didn't want any part of it because she finally stopped and we never had an intruder thank goodness. So that was my night and I'm at the point now that this is all very funny because there is really only a few things left that could top all of this. I do have to say that if I have to go to Insta-Care one more time I'm pretty positive that CPS will get involved!!!

The verdict is in.

Tonight Austin spiked a fever of 104.oo degrees. At this point I called the pharmacy to make sure that with all the stuff I had given him that I could still give him some Tylenol for the fever. After doing that there was still no improvement so I did the only other thing I thought would be best; I called my parents and asked my Dad to come over and give him a blessing. My wonderful parents dropped everything and rushed right over. My dad gave him a blessing but Austin had gone from bad to worse. He was at this point completely incoherent. It was down right scary. My parents offered to stay home with Paityn so that I could (at 9:30pm) take Austin to Insta-Care. The Dr.s looked him over and found that his throat was red so they did a Strep test on him that luckily came back negative.!!! Then they probed further and found that Austin's prescription for Augmentin (for a previous infection) was either to strong of a dose or simply too strong of an antibiotic. While his body was fighting the medicine he caught Paityn's RSV and Croup germs. So the impossible has happened that my nearly three year old has RSV. I'm glad to know what finally wrong with him but I'm still upset because there's really nothing that I can do for him.

Ramblings

I really don't have a whole lot to report. We are still doing our best to recover from various illnesses at our house that have exhausted all of my nerves and what little patience I had. Pai has a double ear infection (again or should I say still) as well as Croup. Bubba has a strange allergy to ALL sunscreens. I have honestly tried 4 different brands and types of sunscreen in the last 4 days and all have the same dread full result. I hate the red bumpy rash that is covering his entire body and this morning when he woke up and told me that his entire body was itchy I had finally had enough. I drugged the poor kid with Benedryll and now I'm just waiting to see. Nathan always seems to pick the best time to be gone. I think that Dad's know when it would be the most inconvenient time to leave and plan a trip for that time. We will live, but my sanity may never return.

We survived!

Nathan and I were asked to speak in Sacrament meeting last week. I'm so glad it's over and to say that we survived. I did turn to Nathan during the intermediate hymn and say " wow, I didn't know this meeting could go by so fast" He thought that I was nuts and asked me what I meant. I told him that it goes by so much faster when you aren't wrestling your kids and doing your best to keep them quiet! It always seems like an eternity to me when I'm doing that so this week was nice for that reason but that reason only. This does however absolve me from having to speak again for a while (I hope).
So we got a new swing set and yes, no pictures again because the camera is still broken. Anyways, the swing set is a blast. Austin loves it so I love it too. He spends all day outside, the only draw back being that he wants me to spend all day outside with him and Paityn has Croup so I really can't do that. We need more friends to come and play with him so that I don't have to try and entertain him. Any volunteers?

Oh Crap!

We are hosting a dinner group at our house tonight and so I've been making the main course. We are having Cafe Rio shredded pork salads. I got all the dressing made and had put it in a container so that I could put it in the fridge when I dropped it on the kitchen floor. The container had a full quart of dressing in it so just imagine all of that dressing ALL OVER my kitchen. It got on the cabinets, the bar stools, the dinning table and chairs, it even made it's was into the pantry with the door shut!!! I couldn't help but laugh as I cleaned up the mess. Luckily I had enough stuff to make more dressing or I'd really be in trouble! Once again no pictures because the camera is still broke! But trust me, it was a sight to see. Now my house smells like tomatillo dressing and cilantro.

Easter....Blah blah blah

I love Easter, in fact it may be one of my favorite holidays, however I'm sooooooo happy that it's over. This year Nathan's birthday fell on the Saturday before Easter so we were able to spend time with our friends to celebrate his birthday. We had a great time and it was so nice to be away from our kids for a night.
I am completely exhausted from all the egg hunts that we did this weekend. I think we did a grand total of 6! I have more candy than Walmart at this very moment and I only have two kids. Saturday nearly broke me. From the time we woke up to the time that we finally made it home for the night was at least 13 hours. That is a lot when your oldest child is 2 1/2. We came home between our three parties and I still think that our total time home was 1 hour. The only naps that my kids got were the ones they took while I was driving. I put over 50 miles on my car and the farthest I drove was Riverton. I was finally victorious this year however, both Nathan's parents and my parents hide money in the eggs so that it's fun for the adults. I finally found money at both the hunts. Yeah for me!
As for pictures, my camera is in need of some repairs I'm sure due to a child's love of photography, thank goodness there's a Nixon repair shop in Salt lake. I promise that I do have some pictures of Austin's bruises and of our Easter fun but they are stuck for the time being. I hope you all had as much fun as we did.

Dodge ball

I have to laugh at or with whoever it was that thought Dodge ball would be a good game for the YW to play. My YW girls find it to be a great opportunity for them to throw a ball at someone else as hard as they can (which I know is the point of the game). They all tell me that this is a "great way to relieve stress". I think they just like to hit other people because my team did rank as the team with the most fouls during basketball season. In fact they really want to start up a flag football team. I've decided there is a lot of aggression in there little bodies! It's truly makes me laugh. If your ever looking for some serious entertainment you should come watch the games, they are Thursday nights at 7pm at the stake center. I'll post pictures of our next game I promise!
PS. An update on Bubba- he's fine. his bumps and bruises are gone all he has left is the cut above his eye. Sorry i didn't get pictures but I was very stressed that day. As for my carpet, it looks and feels great!!!!!! I love it.

My AHHHHHHHH moment

instead of an Aha moment I had an AHHHHH (picture me screaming) moment today when while I was on the phone with my sis-in-law. Bubba was playing in the backyard and I was making his lunch. I went outside (while on the phone) to tell him that lunch was ready. He started to walk up the deck stairs, he made up about half way so like 8 stairs when he decided to throw something over the railing towards the grass. Well in this small motion of throwing, he lost his balance and fell down 8 trex deck stairs and landed head first on the concrete patio below. I freaked out and hung up the phone (sorry sis), ran down the stairs and grabbed him and carried him in the house. At this very moment Little miss is in her high chair screaming to get out and the door bell rings (naturally) with the guy that is to be installing my new carpet. I could have seriously just screamed at that moment but the guy came in and he and I checked out Bubba who actually seemed to be better off than I had first dreaded. After a few serious bumps and bruises, one cut, a possible black eye and a very smashed finger I think he's going to make it. He spent the rest of the day riding his bike so no permanent damage done. I truly picked a crappy day to quite drinking Dr. Pepper (again).

Easter Dress

I finally finished Little Miss Pai's Easter dress. I have to say that this is my best work yet so I'm showing it off.