Sick Jaydo

Jayden, all of us really, have had quite the year with sicknesses - colds and flus and antibiotics and antivirals and now Jayden's second bout with pneumonia.

We headed off to our doctor's office again this morning, Jayden's breathing was getting bad and his inhalers didn't seem to be helping much, and he was complaining that his heart hurt when he breathed and his ears were plugged.  He also was running a high fever and threw up last night due to being so hot.   I am so thankful there is a walk in clinic at our doctor's office on Saturdays AND that our regular doctor happened to be the doctor on call this morning.  I was the first one in line at the door this morning!  After listening to Jayden's lungs and taking his temp (103) and taking his oxygen level (92), she sent him off to get a chest x-ray.

His x-ray's showed that he has double pneumonia, really bad in his left lung, as well as the cold-induced asthma he's been struggling with this year.  Our doctor said that his lungs were bad enough to get him admitted to the hospital, but if I could keep him hydrated and if a breathing treatment made a difference with how his lungs sounded I could take him home.  So, we sat there while Jayden got to inhale some meds.

And luckily it helped enough.  Sadly, he also had to get an antibiotic shot right in the rear end...poor guy.  But at least we got to bring him home with breathing treatments every 4 hours and more antibiotics to help the infection in his lungs, and as long as he doesn't start throwing up and we can keep him hydrated and he's making a significant recovery, he'll get to stay here.

Outside for the Summer!

Our Strollers in Motion class has moved outside for the summer, which means way more running while pushing about 100 pounds down the road.   Oi...

But it also means we end our classes right next to parks, which is so much more fun for the kidlettes.

I love these swings, I totally want one in my backyard!

And just like that...

...Jayden's lost another tooth!  I guess his baby teeth like birthdays, the first he lost the day after his birthday, his second he lost on Royal's birthday.  Guess we'll see how well my theory holds up when my birthday rolls around next month!

Happy Birthday, Royal!

Happy 33rd birthday to the best guy around!!!

 

(I personally like how both kids are eyeing the pie!  And the candles are arranged in a 3 and 3 per Jayden's request - not to mention I didn't have 33 candles sitting around!)

"She had a beard....And it felt weird"

It really is true that I can pretty much knit anything!  If you thought my wig was cool, this is even better!  Maybe I'll combine the 2 for next Halloween!!!

I have this special friend Forrest who really wants me to knit him up a pair of chaps.  However, I don't really feel like knitting up an adult sized pair of pants and if you know Forrest, you know he probably wouldn't be wearing anything underneath his chaps and well I'm just not sure I can subject my knitted art (or his wife Amy) to something like that!  So, when he put in an order for a knitted beard, I knew that was something I could do for him. 

This beard, I think, is extra special because it comes with interchangeable mustaches!
Option 1 :

Option 2 :

And my personal favorite, option 3 :

Garbage Can Woes

Sometimes I hate Kansas...today is one of those days.

We are having sustained winds of 40 - 45 mph.  I am watching my fence rock back and forth, knowing one of these days the wind is going to get the best of it and knock it over - guess I need cement walls! And the noise of all that wind - I feel totally overstimulated with noise and want to walk around with ear plugs in - but I suppose my children's cry for help or food or water wouldn't be a good thing to ignore. 

I just went out in the backyard to water the flowers and the garden.  Sadly, half my garden plants are dead because the weather decided to take a turn and almost freeze at the night for the last week,  Boo.   And with the wind today, I might as well have been driving down the road with my head sticking out the windows.  Why even have hair in Kansas, it's just going to have to be in a pony tail, because with these winds, it doesn't just blow it across your face, it gets swirled around, so it pretty much just blows straight up off your head and then swirls back around to get you with just the ends in your face.   Stupid.

Then, me and my entourage ventured to the front of the house to water the flowers there.  The garbage man had come and gone and our garbage can was literally blowing down the street, so I went to retrieve it.  I reach the garbage can, grab the handle to wrench it back up on it's wheels, I can hardly see because my hair is blowing across my eyes and, unfortunately, our garbage picker upper didn't secure the lid strap back down, so while I am getting the garbage can up, the stupid wind grabs ahold of the lid and blows it up (at approx 500mph) and hits me right in the face.  I would of been dying laughing had I just watched it happen to someone else, but since it happened to me, I wasn't really laughing, but Jayden was. cracking. up.  "Oh man, mom!  That thing SMACKED you right in the face!!!"   Glad I could cheer someone up.

Today, I don't like it here.

Being 5

In Jayden's mind, turning 5 was going to be a big deal. He'd say to me, "I'll buckle my own seat belt...when I'm five", "I'll wipe my own bottom...when I'm five", "You can take the training wheels off my bike...when I'm five" (Thank goodness, he didn't stick to his rules for everything and I managed to get him to try something - like wiping his own rear-end - before then) :)

Jayden's had a couple REALLY loose teeth for awhile now and he won't let me near them for fear I'll pluck them out. He kept telling me that when his teeth were ready they would come out on their own. I guess his teeth were waiting until he was five too, because today at lunch, his sandwich took out one of his teeth!

Today was Jayden's snack day at school and since it was his birthday snack day, we carried on the dinosaur theme.
Green dinosaur rice krispy treats (which by the way, I had to buy a container of 50 cookie cutters in order to obtain these dinosaur cutters, so if anybody needs any sort of animal cookie cutter....odds are I have it now...feel free to come over and borrow)

And blue dino-pops!

(don't worry, I included apples to go with, so they get at least something healthy - however I didn't have time to figure out how to cut the apples into dinosaur shapes, so I just said it's dino-food :) )

It's pretty darn good being 5!