I scheduled a doctor's appointment for Jeffery this morning for 8:45am. While I was in the shower, Jeffery decided to eats lots of vitamin C's (the orange chewable kind). I found him with the entire bottle emptied out on the chair. I didn't think anything of it until I was changing his diaper in preparation for the doctor's visit. As he was lying on the changing table orange liquid starts coming out of his mouth. Then he sits up and vomits some more. So now he has no diaper on sitting in throw up. The only thing to do at this point is get him and all the soiled clothes and little table cover to the tub to clean everything. Now I know I'm going to be late.
We finally get out the door clean with clean clothes and just as we come within a half mile of the doctor's office, Jeffery throws up 2 more times. I have a little trash can in the van, but I am unable to catch anything because I AM DRIVING! I only find a onesie in the diaper bag which Jeffery quickly gets throw up on. Luckily, there is another one buried in the bottom. I take the trash can in with a half naked baby and just wish this day was over already! It is only 9:20am!
Once we get in a room, I tell the nurse that he ate lots of vitamin C's and has been throwing up and that becomes the most important thing to the nurse and Dr. Lytle. They ask me all kinds of questions I don't have the answers to and so I have to call Jason to see if he has any idea how many pills were in the bottle to start with. He thought there were about 100. Kim is not home so she can't run over to count the number left in the container. I call dad to run to my house to that info plus the number of mg of each tablet. The bottle originally had 180 pills which Jason estimated were half gone before Jeffery got a hold of it. There were 40 pills left in the bottle, and each pill was 500 mg. I think he ate about 10 of them while I took a 15 minute shower.
Dr. Lytle says Jeffery does have bronchitis and needs an antibiotic, but he can't take it until tonight or tomorrow morning. He just wants to make sure he is over this vitamin C problem first. Now I have a problem because I go to school (UAB) on Tuesday, and after conversing with my babysitter, I have no one to watch Jeffery. I tried to get him to the doctor early so he would be on the antibiotic 24 hours before he went to the babysitter's house. That way he wouldn't be contagious anymore.
I go to my arsenal of family to find someone available to watch my sick kid. Kim is bowling. Jodi has clinicals. Mom needs to sleep (even though she would say yes so Dad would end up watching Jeffery). Becky has kids that would get sick. So Jason decides to take off work.
Once we get the zithromax and come home, I do just what I was told to do and pump liquids into Jeffery. He loves all this apple juice he is getting! Unfortunately, he has major diarrhea that leaks out of his diaper onto the carpet, a picture of Jesus, and even the dresser drawers! Even more mess to clean up! GREAT! After I get Jeffery in the bath tub, I just sit down and start bawling my eyes out from frustration.
Oh, by the way, today I was planning to spend all day studying for my first test in Abstract Algebra tomorrow!
I sure hope you had a better and more productive day than I did!
Wendy
Monday, February 9, 2009
Funny Christmas Pictures
Sarah and half of Ethan
Paul be careful. You don't want your face to freeze that way!
Jodi and Adam. I think she is going to blow a gasket!
"Nobody likes me everyone hates me I think I'll go eat worms."
Cheer up Jamie :)
Jeffy is a cutie isn't he Jodi?
Becky, Luke and Paul
She's not nearly as evil as she looks :)
Steve and Sherry conversing with someone.
Sariah as Mary. Ethan and Hyrum playing wise men.
Ryan taking pictures. Steve giving instructions. Sherry narrating? Adam is a shephard, and Nicholas is the donkey :)
Steve helping the wise men (Ethan, Brock and Hyrum) with their part in the reinactment of the birth of Jesus.
The wise guys-I mean men. Ethan and Hyrum.
My favorite! Brock thinking, "Is she ever going to stop talking?"
Aaron explains, "It says right here..."
Sarah reprovingly, "You better make sure you say it right!"
Some New Pictures
Paul, Brian and Rubi are sheep
Katherine and Mindy
Eilisa (my sister-in-law), Jeffery, Maddy (her daughter) and Ethan
Katherine
Jamie and Ethan
Jason just downloaded almost 300 pictures from the camera. We had Christmas pictures in all those.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Re: Christmas Letter
I was so bad and did not send out a Christmas letter last year. Our family is doing well. Jason still works for Alabama Power and drives 45 minutes to work (on the interstate-thank goodness we are close). He loves his job as civil engineer and enjoys being in the office at times and out in the field at others. He still serves in church as the Elders Quorum President which is an organization of men who hold the priesthood and are ordained to the office of Elder.
I returned to UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) last semester to finish taking the 4 classes that I lack in order to graduate with a Bachelors degree (Major in Math, Minor in History). This semester I'm down to 3! I started college right out of high school in the fall of 1995 and have taken "baby" breaks to have 4 children. I'm so close to finishing now I'm starting to get excited! However, it is extremely frustrating at the beginning of every semester now that I have really difficult classes. I have to have my sisters talk me into staying in school even though it is hard. I also serve in 3 church callings. I am Music Leader in Primary-this is the organization for children, Activities Committee Chairman-I'm in charge of planning and holding church socials, and Activity Day Leader-this calling involves being a leader for 8-11 yr girls in a program called Faith in God. (The girls set goals for themselves and work on achieving them.)
Jamie (9 yrs) wants to take gymnastics. She has changed her mind from soccer to gymnastics. She does well in school and I just ask her if her homework is done. She has friends one day and then fights with them the next, but I guess that is normal for girls this age. She takes piano lessons every once-in-a-while from mom, but doesn't practice much. I think she can be a great pianist one day if she decides to put in more effort. We have an 8-11 yr girl program at church called Faith in God that she participates in.
Katherine (7 yrs) played soccer last year but is now looking forward to being in a gymnastics class like her sister. She is the best speller. They usually have a few extra or bonus words and it is rare that she gets even one of those wrong. She is planning to be baptized in March after her 8th birthday, and we are very proud of her. Katherine is very loving, but don't make her mad because you will see knitted eyebrows and a big frowny face. Taking piano lessons seems to be a chore for Katherine. Counting and keeping the rhythm is the most difficult part. Now when it comes to singing, she does excellent. And reading too comes so naturally for her that sometimes she can sound out a word that is difficult for Jamie which makes her older sister mad. I even go a request from Katherine's teacher to test her for being gifted, but I haven't decided what to yet.
Ethan (5 yrs) is the clown of the family. He does the silliest things to make people laugh. For example, he often hits himself in the head, rolls his eyes around in his head, and falls to the ground. Sometimes it is difficult to get him to be serious enough to do homework. Jason is very excited about Ethan starting baseball this year. It was Ethan's choice to play baseball instead of soccer this year. This will be the first organized sport he has played. (I better hurry and get done with school so I can be the "soccer mom.") Ethan had a rough start to kindergarten, but has now settled into the routine of going to school and getting along with his classmates. He loves to play cars with his little brother, and they have plenty to go around. Ethan and Jeffery share a bedroom, and Ethan puts up with Jeffery's restlessness well. Although sometimes they play instead of staying in bed.
Jeffery (2 yrs) is 2 hands full! It seems like he is always into something. And his temper tantrums are awful when he doesn't get things his way. On the other hand, just like his brother he is hilarous at times. Jason pretends to eat Jeffery, and now Jeffery really does eat or bite Jason's cheek! I make this little growling noise at him. Now when I do it, he makes a little growling noise back. On the mischieveious side, I found him in the bathroom on day sitting on the counter with his feet (he had on pjs with the little footies) in the sink full of water. He had pulled medicine out of the medicine cabinet which was floating in the water around his pj-clad feet.
Wendy
I returned to UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) last semester to finish taking the 4 classes that I lack in order to graduate with a Bachelors degree (Major in Math, Minor in History). This semester I'm down to 3! I started college right out of high school in the fall of 1995 and have taken "baby" breaks to have 4 children. I'm so close to finishing now I'm starting to get excited! However, it is extremely frustrating at the beginning of every semester now that I have really difficult classes. I have to have my sisters talk me into staying in school even though it is hard. I also serve in 3 church callings. I am Music Leader in Primary-this is the organization for children, Activities Committee Chairman-I'm in charge of planning and holding church socials, and Activity Day Leader-this calling involves being a leader for 8-11 yr girls in a program called Faith in God. (The girls set goals for themselves and work on achieving them.)
Jamie (9 yrs) wants to take gymnastics. She has changed her mind from soccer to gymnastics. She does well in school and I just ask her if her homework is done. She has friends one day and then fights with them the next, but I guess that is normal for girls this age. She takes piano lessons every once-in-a-while from mom, but doesn't practice much. I think she can be a great pianist one day if she decides to put in more effort. We have an 8-11 yr girl program at church called Faith in God that she participates in.
Katherine (7 yrs) played soccer last year but is now looking forward to being in a gymnastics class like her sister. She is the best speller. They usually have a few extra or bonus words and it is rare that she gets even one of those wrong. She is planning to be baptized in March after her 8th birthday, and we are very proud of her. Katherine is very loving, but don't make her mad because you will see knitted eyebrows and a big frowny face. Taking piano lessons seems to be a chore for Katherine. Counting and keeping the rhythm is the most difficult part. Now when it comes to singing, she does excellent. And reading too comes so naturally for her that sometimes she can sound out a word that is difficult for Jamie which makes her older sister mad. I even go a request from Katherine's teacher to test her for being gifted, but I haven't decided what to yet.
Ethan (5 yrs) is the clown of the family. He does the silliest things to make people laugh. For example, he often hits himself in the head, rolls his eyes around in his head, and falls to the ground. Sometimes it is difficult to get him to be serious enough to do homework. Jason is very excited about Ethan starting baseball this year. It was Ethan's choice to play baseball instead of soccer this year. This will be the first organized sport he has played. (I better hurry and get done with school so I can be the "soccer mom.") Ethan had a rough start to kindergarten, but has now settled into the routine of going to school and getting along with his classmates. He loves to play cars with his little brother, and they have plenty to go around. Ethan and Jeffery share a bedroom, and Ethan puts up with Jeffery's restlessness well. Although sometimes they play instead of staying in bed.
Jeffery (2 yrs) is 2 hands full! It seems like he is always into something. And his temper tantrums are awful when he doesn't get things his way. On the other hand, just like his brother he is hilarous at times. Jason pretends to eat Jeffery, and now Jeffery really does eat or bite Jason's cheek! I make this little growling noise at him. Now when I do it, he makes a little growling noise back. On the mischieveious side, I found him in the bathroom on day sitting on the counter with his feet (he had on pjs with the little footies) in the sink full of water. He had pulled medicine out of the medicine cabinet which was floating in the water around his pj-clad feet.
Wendy
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