Quite a Weekend

So Grayson puked all over Bret on Friday night while we were at my mom's house playing games. By the time we got him home he had a fever and chills. We spent the rest of that night waking up every 2 hours to clean up more vomit. By Saturday the vomitting had subsided but the fever persisted. Medicine would rarely bring it down and he just laid around all day (needless to say we watched A LOT of Cars). Saturday evening he was acting fine and playing with the neighbor kids. But that night he was back to being miserable and constantly up. Sunday went much the same way, but that night the puking started again. At around 10:30 Sunday night we decided to take Gray into the ER at Gilbert Hospital. His breathing had changed and he seemed in far too much discomfort. Bret took him in while I stayed home in case Mabel woke up and wanted to eat. They ran a few tests on him and it came back that he had Pneumonia!! I was thinking strep throat, ear infection...something along those lines, but no, it was pneumonia. I am truly grateful that we decided to take him in! They put him on some antibiotics and he's back to the old Gray again...fighting with his brother.

Funny side note- John, Todd, Kendra, Jay, and I took my mom out to dinner Monday night for her's and Dad's anniversary. Kendra had called to see if we were going and I told her Gray had pneumonia, but was doing better so I thought we could make it (we ended up thinking better of that idea so I went alone). Kendra e-mailed John, Todd and Kristin about it but said Grayson had ammonia. Todd replied, "Grayson has ammonia?" And Kendra replied, "That's what I said!" To her credit, she said she typed it right the first time but it looked wrong so she changed it. But I still can't figure out why she got sassy when Todd (in his usual loving mocking way) called her on it??? Good times, good times. Love ya Kenj!

A Boy and his Dog

When no one was watching...

Pillows, Corners, and Camera piggies.

First of all, as I download these pictures I have to ask, what is the deal with my kids?! They are such camera hogs! I try to take a candid picture of them and they immediately start posing...and it's not good posing either. Exhibit A:

They stand up, stick straight, with their fake grins. I get one shot and one shot only at a picture of them doing something...sometimes not even that. I'll go for the camera and I turn around, and there are my posers! This is not good for someone like me who is not so good with a camera. Well, at least Aiden is mixing it up a bit with his poses now. He will at least point to the object intended to be photographed, but he's gotta be in it (as seen in the Valentine's decoration picture previously posted, otherwise known as Exhibit B).

Second of all, my intention for taking these pictures. I wanted to show you in Gray's picture what I deal with by having a pillow back couch. If ever you are tempted to buy a pillow-back couch, I say DO NOT DO IT!! For some reason (Bret) my kids think it's great to pull all the cushions off of the couch and put them on the ground to lay on whilst watching TV. Heaven forbid they actually lay on the couch! I have picked these pillows up more times than I care to share.

And this picture was titled: "Noboby puts Baby in a corner." (Is it sad that that's the first thing that came to mind as I was snapping this? Do you even know what that's from? Of course you do, who doesn't?)

Any time I leave Miss Mabel laying on the ground, she eventually ends up in the corner. I like to think it's on purpose because that's where the toys are. Isn't she smart?!

And here's Exhibit C of CAMERA HOGS:

Aiden just had to be in the shot. "What?! is there a picture being taken that I'm not in????!!! Mommy, take my picture!" And so I tell him, "I did, Aiden." And he says, "Let me see it!" And I say, "Blast! Caught in my own web of lies." And I have to snap that one extra picture. Gotta love digital cameras. And I know what you're thinking...hey she got 2 shots without him in it. Oh, no, no. I took the first, he bolted over there to get in the picture, so I got some with his feet and legs and such, and then I waited. Like the master mind that I am, I waited. And when all was forgotten about picture snapping, I snapped again! Thank goodness Mae can't get out of the corner once she's gotten in.

Happy February to all you Lovers!

I had a request from Aiden to take a picture of our Valentine's Day decorations and put them on his blog. He thinks that because his cousins have blogs he should too. Thanks a bunch Maddy, Karli, and Logan! And no, he is not getting a blog, so I will post them on my blog and that's just going to have to be good enough.