Wednesday, November 19, 2008

All Kyler, all the time

I have forgotten what it is like to have a toddler! Re-learning has NOT been fun! Here are a few of our MIS-adventures.

This was quite a duel with a roll of toilet paper.

Take that! And that!

Toilet paper looses!


We left the piece of cake alone with Kyler for just a minute!

CAKE LOOSES!



This gate was SUPPOSED to keep him out of the front room, but he figured out how to pull it down!

He's also quite the climber! Mt. Everest, here we come!

I wanna play!

If I close my eyes, you can't see me!


I had a bag of apples on the ground and Kyler decided he needed one!








And now he is walking (running) so I have put on my running shoes and am DESPERATELY to keep up! Let me tell you, it was hard when Tracen was a baby, and it's definitely no easier since I have gained a few years (not to mention pounds!)

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

BLOW, NOT SNIFF

I can't believe I forgot to add this story to my gaggle of posts! I may have been trying to block it out! So Monday after the funeral (Oct. 27) around 4:3o p.m., Colby comes up to me and says that Jacob shoved something up his nose...I pause here cause that's what I did when he told me. So many things were going through my mind I didn't know what to say!
'what did he shove up there?'; 'why did you let him so close to your nose?'; 'if it would have been me, I would have fought and screamed bloody murder to NOT let him close to my nose, why didn't you?'; and 'WHAT WERE YOU BOTH THINKING?' Definitely top the list!

I ask Jacob to come over and he vehemently denies doing it (of course), Colby denies doing it (of course) and I'm thinking, it must have flown up there of it's own accord! Either that or we have a poltergeist! Who ya gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!
To make a long story short (too late!), after about 45 min., Colby fesses up and tells me he did it and it's from Justin's wreath. Another pause on my part as I was wondering how he got to the wreath. We hung it on the wall above our stairs, and it's a good 16 foot drop from the wreath to the basement!
Come to find out, there are small semi-soft foam ball on the wreath that have fallen off and he thought it was be 'good times' to see if one would fit up his nose. So, I think, an easy solution would be to blow his nose since I can see where it is. I get a tissue and say 'blow real hard', and suddenly SNIFF! Another pause here for the news to sink in that he has just SNIFFED IT UP EVEN FARTHER! I get him to blow this time and the stupid thing won't budge! I try
DESPERATELY not to panic (yeah, right) and text Dallas to let him know what shenanigans his 6 yr old has been up to. It is pretty close to the time he will be home so he says he will take a look when he gets there. After he tried to get it BLOWN out (not sniffed back up), he gets his coat on and says 'to the clinic we go!', as I get to wait at home and bite my nails! Actually, I thought they would be home quickly (minus the waiting time in the waiting room) since I know the urgent care doctors quite well (with 4 boys it's kinda hard to stay out of the place for long!) and thought they would take care of it. Also, luckily, my sister and mom were on there way with dinner for us so I wouldn't be alone for long, either. So I sit and wait...and wait...and wait! The minutes seemed to tick by, turning into hours. I thought, 'surely they haven't had to wait this long to see a doctor?' Finally I text him and asked him what was up and he comes back with, 'we may have to go to Pocatello to the hospital so they can call an ear, nose and throat specialist to get it out!' Another pause here...BECAUSE I HAVE FAINTED TO THE FLOOR!Not really, but not for lack of wanting to! To make a long(er) story short (far too late) it has taken Dallas, 2 doctors (one was our family doctor) and two nurses trying to hold down a 6 yr old to extract a bead from his nose, to no avail! It is as stuck as...I would say 'it was at first', but have to say...it was since HE SNIFFED NOT BLEW! Finally Dallas calls me and tells me they are headed to the pharmacist to get some nasal saline and would be home shortly. He comes home with saline that we have to squirt up his nose while he sniffed (he had that part down!). He had to do it 3 diff. times a half an hour apart. The theory was it would shrink the nostril or bead or something, so he could BLOW it out. If he couldn't blow it out, I would have to take him BACK to the clinic in the morning so they could put an I.V. in his arm to put him out so they could get the bead out...an I.V. ...just to get a BEAD OUT OF HIS NOSE! Leave it to one of my kids to go to the extreme! When they do something, they go ALL out! By the last dose we knew I would be back in the morning. So after we get the other boys off to school, us ready and Kyler dropped at my friend Kim's house, we went back to the clinic. I am fretting (yes, fretting) the whole way thinking, 'If they can't get a bead out of his nose, how are they going to put an I.V. in his arm?' I get to the clinic and let them know we're there and they get us quickly in. In march our family doctor, the other doctor from the night before, and the nurse The nurse brings out an assortment of (torture devices) medical tools and says they want to try one more thing before they schedule the I.V. They begin with a syringe that, if it would have had the needle in it, would have made an elephant faint. They use it to try and suck it out and then to push the air through the other nostril in the hopes it would pop it out. Of course that doesn't work, but don't worry they have many more (torture devices) medical tools to try. So they go on to a small tweezers, nope, still there. Then he pulls out this 10 in. scissor-looking device, but at the end there is a quarter inch alligator clamp. The other doc gets the nose light and nose spreader (that was a fun one!) and they all try again, but Colby keeps flinching and the doctor has to pull it out quickly before he gives him a bloody nose. They decide to use some numbing stuff for his nose, so the doctor squeezes this runny glue-like substance up his nose. He tells Colby it will be cold, but I wasn't prepared for the BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAM that comes out of his mouth! It was worse than when they were trying to pull the stupid thing out! They need to wait for the numbing stuff to work, so everyone else files out and the doctor hands me a cotton swab with more of the numbing stuff on it and tells me to rub more on the inside of his nose...I had seen what happened when that stuff was put up his nose and he wanted ME to put MORE up there! Sounds like fun! After calming down some and about 10 min. Colby finally lets me put more on, then 10 min. after that my doc comes back in and says lets try again. I wait for more people to come in then realize he means just the two of us! We give Colby a little (scare) pep-talk before we try saying, 'They will have to put a needle in your arm to make you go to sleep so we can get it out!' I (try to) hold the nose light and spreaders, while the doctor tries a couple more times which of course don't work! Finally, about 10:40, our doctor goes to get the other doc and two nurses to try ONE MORE TIME before we do the whole I.V. thing. At this time we have an appointment set up for 11:00 and I am getting myself ready to do the whole I.V. thing. Just before they all come back in I give another (scare) pep-talk to Colby. When the other doctor comes in, he brings YET ANOTHER type of tweezers, this one 12 inches, but has a full tweezer-like head on it. Our doc goes on the left with the light and spreaders, two nurses are holding down his shoulders and I LAY on his legs and hold his hands. We do a 1..2..3..and suddenly I hear 'IT'S OUT! IT'S OUT! WE FINALLY GOT IT!' You never saw a room full of such relief! Colby sits up with a big smile on his face and through now drying tears says 'I did it mom!' There was the congratulatory pats on the back all around and we are given the bead to take home as a victory prize!

Here is a picture

As you can see, it is less than half the size of a dime. Talk about a lot of fuss (not to mention 2 doctors, 3 nurses, a frazzles mom & dad, and four plus hours) over such a small thing!

What a nightmare!

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Colby B-Day

We are now back to Colby's Birthday, and my last 'update' post (for now).
He was so excited to turn 6! The night before his birthday my boys slept a my sisters house, and they woke him up with a 'Birthday Donut'! (Thanks Teri for always doing something special for the kids!)



For all my boys, I have done a 6th Birthday friend party and he couldn't wait to be with all his friends. His theme was 'Pirates at Sea' (Tracens was pirates & Jacobs was Spongebob/sea, so I combined them & saved a TON of money on decorations!)

(trying to keep the sword from poking me in the eye!)


(Tracen popped into every picture he could!)



They played musical chairs (for like, an hour!)...



And duck, duck goose!


(Yes, even I played!)
(No, I don't run well!)


I opted to BUY his friend cake


But made his family cake.

It's a race car track



Jacob being jealous of all the 'good' presents Colby was getting!

Justin's Pumpkin

When we picked out Justins burial plot, we saw a painted pumpkin on one of Dallas' relatives graves (his cousins lost a 9 year old son). Family members signed the back, and we thought it was a real sweet thing to do, so here is the pictures. (Yes, believe it or not, I painted it myself!)


(We Love you Justin!)

Kyler's Pumpkin

I had to give Kyler his own pumpkin post because he would NOT leave his pumpkins head on!It was so funny!

Mmmmm...what's this?


Anything in there?


There's GOT to be something in here!

I CAN'T FIND ANYTHING!

Maybe it's underneath!

Ah! Here it is!

(I snapped the picture right before he put the chunk of raw pumpkin in his mouth!
And promply threw the camera down to grab it from him before he could eat it!)

Halloween Pumpkins

I also LOVE to carve pumpkins! Here are the ones we did this year

Pumpkins (and kids) go from left to right
(Tracen's, Jacob's, Colby's, Kyler's, and we did one for Justin)

Pumpkins going mad-crazy and attacking the kids!

After the attack!




Tracen

Jacob


Colby

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Halloween Costumes

Oh how I LOVE Halloween! I love to dress up and hope I NEVER get too old to do it!

Thought I would share some pictures

The whole gang




Cute boys!



Little Miss Muffit & her Spider




Kyler as Itsy Bitsy (cutesy) Spider!




No, this isn't the real Harry Potter, it's my oldest son, Tracen! ;-)



'I vant to suck your bloood! Ah-haha!'
(but if you give me candy corn, I will leave you alone!)

Frank N. Stein




This is Sophi, my sisters dog as the Wicked Witch of the East!



Here's Sophie thinking my sister is the Wicked Witch of the West!



Last, but not least, here's Dallas going as the lead guitarist in a band!

(he plays a mean LEG guitar!)


(Love you dear, don't kill me for this one!)

HOPE YOU ALL HAD A FUN AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN!