Sunday, September 28, 2008

Asthma...

Having a child with asthma is scary... Especially in the Ohio Valley. Every season brings some sort of pesky allergen that causes most of us to sniffle, itch and run from our eyes and nose but for my Drew, it can mean much more than a nuisance.

You can do things to prevent it but in effort to save his teeth (the ones that he has left) and his future fertility; I don't like to "over do" the steroids so I usually have to play my cards exactly right to keep him from having a full blown attack. He gets a daily dose of singulair in his applesauce no matter what and when he is wheezing I try to give him an in hailed dose of pulmacort along with a decongestant every 12 hours. If I feel that he is struggling in between; the albuterol usually knocks it back down but I don't like to give the albuterol unless the other stuff is obviously not working. Once it was so bad that Dr. Corba prescribe an oral steroid but Drew hated it and threw it up in our kitchen so I just made it work with the nebulizer.

All week long, I have seen it coming. So needless to say we've spent the weekend indoors administering meds as needed. He also sleeps with me when he is like this because I have a fear of him going into respiratory distress and I won't hear him... He seems much better today so we have only given the daily dose of singulair and the decongestant. Hopefully we won't need any of the other stuff! All of these meds are hard on a little boy.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Drew's teeth


My oldest baby lost his teeth when I was about 8 months pregnant. I have some extra time on my hands so I thought that I could post the pics. In the moment I was so upset. I wondered how he would feel about not having front teeth... I even took the next day off because I thought that he would feel bad - he didn't care! He asked for doritos! I still don't think that Drew really knows that he has no front teeth...

Kids are just so resiliant!

Sammy's first day at Lisa's....


Here is a of my baby on his first day at Lisa's. I missed him soooo much but she said that he had a wonderful day!

The Damage.

The windstorm that we experienced a couple of weeks ago literaly rocked our world. It was total chaos for three hours all the while we were in our truck with both of our children. We left because a power line very close to our house and we felt that it was unsafe for them to be here. We made it all the way down hwy 150 but once we got to Greenville we were stuck. After "almost" getting to the end of several country roads only to realize that a tree had fallen; we finally made it to Brents. It felt nice to get the boys into someones house. Once it was over we made our way home and this is what I found...

Front Yard


More front yard...


Back Yard



More of the back yard...



There are several from the side yard and very back yard but honestly to you guys they will all look the same. The roof was ripped off of our deck as well as the whole roof to our house is damaged. We had several windows to crack and I lost my birdbath in the front yard. Out of the 50 mature pines that we had in our yard; we now only have 23. This is very sad as we love our yard because of those trees but we will put something else there! Maybe strawberrys!!!

Although that week was less than routine (it was only my second week back to work); we did learn one thing... We are a family and we are lucky that no one was injured. We sat on the porch until there was no more light outside TOGETHER. There was no tv or computer to separate us. I really hope that others took advantage of the power outage!





Sunday, September 21, 2008

Where do I start....

The past couple of weeks have been crazy... So crazy that I can' t even begin to give details. Lets just say that I left my job with 13 open positions and I came back to over 50... What a horrible feeling... I refuse to work later than 4:30 as I have two little boys who wait for me in the afternoons.

I'm tired and cranky and I miss my kids.

The good news is that Sammy is still breastfeeding like a champ. If I could sell breastmilk I swear I wouldn't have to work. I'm pumping about 36 ounces while at work.... Sammy only drinks 12 of that while I'm away from him! I've stopped pumping at night as I obviously have no need to!

Saturday, September 6, 2008

I feel like.....

Scrapbooking! Tonight, I am going to stay up late after Drew goes to sleep and I am going to scrapbook! For him.... I stopped right before his first birthday so I have a whole year to catch up! I'm not going to be so anal about making sure that everything is in chronological order (thanks deanna).... I do have to brag though; I have every event for his first year documented nicely with pics and journaling!!!

For Sammy, I am purchasing a file box (today when I go into town) for pictures and my index cards so that I can scrapbook as much as possibles (thanks deanna for the index cards) I know that I don't have as much time and not to mention that I lost my humble little scrapbooking studio because he needs a place to sleep (lol)...

I really wish that I could commit to a layout a day---- it just won't fit into my life!

The "second" time around...


Omigosh... The second child is so much different than the first. Poor Drew was rushed - I admit it. He was off the breast waaaayyy early, I ditched the bottle at 14 months, he was potty trained at exactly 2 years old (regressed and then trained for good at 25.5 months) and now we are left with only one of his "baby" needs----- THE PACIFIER. There must be some repressed guilt within me that won't let me take it from him. I've tried and to my regret, we've actually made it for DAYS AND DAYS without it. He doesn't even take it at daycare for his nap so why do I do this? I was so anxious to rid him of everything that made him a "baby" and now I cling to his paci to remind me that he is still young. I really need to talk to myself because he is too old for his paci. Luckily he doesn't have front teeth anymore!

My point is - Sammy will not be rushed but I haven't been as quick to stick the paci in his mouth this time either....