Josh's team finally got a win last night! First one of the season. It was a big win, too- it was against Encampment, in Encampment, at Encampment's homecoming! It was very exciting. They won by 4. Phew! His JV was close- they lost by 1. Encampment boys won by 1.
They are in Hanna today. Brecken and I didn't go. Hopefully Josh's team will come home with another win!
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
my friend
Totally out of the blue tonight, Brecken gave me a HUGE squeeze around my neck, and said, "Best Friend."
I swear, I didn't know my heart had anything else to melt!
I swear, I didn't know my heart had anything else to melt!
Saturday, January 24, 2009
oh, no.
Here's what started last night:
"Why, Mommy?"
I was dreading this stage. And here it is.
Wish us luck.
:)
"Why, Mommy?"
I was dreading this stage. And here it is.
Wish us luck.
:)
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
welcome home
I beat Josh and Brecken home today. I was standing in the dining room when the door opened, and in comes Brecken, shouting, "MOMMY! MISSED YOU!!!!" before he even saw me. What a nice way to be welcomed home. :)
what an historic day
I'm here in Casper for the All-State Conference. I have been since Sunday, but we get to go home today! I'm glad, because I miss my two boys at home.
I was afraid I was going to miss one of the biggest days in history, because we were in clinics and the kids were in rehearsals, all day long. But the guest choir conductor, from the University of New Hamshire, had a great idea. He stopped rehearsals for his choir at about 9:30 yesterday morning and had the inauguration projected on a HUGE screen in the auditorium so the kids could witness the event. So I skipped one of the clinics and joined them. I wasn't the only teacher with that idea- there were several rows of us in the back of the auditorium. :) And WOW. What an amazing event. Not only did they have one of the most beautiful arrangements of "Simple Gifts" that I've ever heard... (Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Pearlman, and two of their friends, playing the arrangement done by John Williams!!!!!!!!! Could it get any better?!?! It brought tears to my eyes!) but just the historical significance of swearing in Barack Obama was incredible. No matter who you wanted to win the election, you have to admit- this is a HUGE day in history. One that will be written down in our history books. And a day that shows that we as Americans, have moved in a direction that shows that everybody is EQUAL. And that's a wonderful direction to be going.
I was afraid I was going to miss one of the biggest days in history, because we were in clinics and the kids were in rehearsals, all day long. But the guest choir conductor, from the University of New Hamshire, had a great idea. He stopped rehearsals for his choir at about 9:30 yesterday morning and had the inauguration projected on a HUGE screen in the auditorium so the kids could witness the event. So I skipped one of the clinics and joined them. I wasn't the only teacher with that idea- there were several rows of us in the back of the auditorium. :) And WOW. What an amazing event. Not only did they have one of the most beautiful arrangements of "Simple Gifts" that I've ever heard... (Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Pearlman, and two of their friends, playing the arrangement done by John Williams!!!!!!!!! Could it get any better?!?! It brought tears to my eyes!) but just the historical significance of swearing in Barack Obama was incredible. No matter who you wanted to win the election, you have to admit- this is a HUGE day in history. One that will be written down in our history books. And a day that shows that we as Americans, have moved in a direction that shows that everybody is EQUAL. And that's a wonderful direction to be going.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
a visit to the rawlins hospital
I finally got to ride in a wheelchair with my baby- I never got to when he was born since he left in an airplane- but I got to on Tuesday morning!
Brecken has had a fever since Friday. We thought it was another molar coming in- he had a fever over Christmas and when it went away, we found a molar. So we kept alternating Tylenol and Ibuprofen and trying to keep the fever down. Monday we decided we better get him to the clinic to get checked out, so I stayed home with him. Dr. Jake thought his ears were pretty red, but not infected, and that his throat looked terrible. Brecken had a good cough too, so Jake thought it was the same crud that has been going around. He prescribed us antibiotics and we went home. Brecken had some energy back that evening and we went to bed as normal.
At midnight, I heard him wimpering in his sleep. So I went in his room and felt his head and almost burned my hand off. Brecken was BURNING. I got out the temporal thermometer and totally freaked out when it said 106. I tried several more times and got readings between 104 and 105. Josh tried the under-arm thermometer and go 102.9. He called the doctor on call, who thought we could probably give Brecken a half dose of ibuprofen since it wasn't time for a full dose yet. After Josh hung up, Brecken threw up all over me. That's when we decided it was time to head to the ER in Rawlins.
When we got admitted to the ER, they took his temp rectally, and got 105.1. It's so much more scary to get a reading like that from professionals. I was terrified. My first thought was "Oh my God, he's got meningitis." His heart rate was over 200, and his oxygen level was only about 72%. They started him on an IV, which was TERRIBLE. They only had to stick him once, thank goodness, but the look of terror on his little face is something I'll likely never forget. They drew blood, did a nasal wash to check for RSV (negative), and then we had to do two chest x-rays. Let me tell you how fun that was. It wasn't. He had to sit on a stool by himself. Josh held his head and I held his hips. At 3:10 am, when you are two years old and not feeling good AT ALL, it was a miserable experience. They said his upper right lung looked a little off. They asked if Brecken had ever had problems with his lungs that had hospitalized him before. Why, yes, he has! (click on "why yes he has" if you don't know the story!) By this time, Brecken had had a bag of antibiotics through his IV and was started on his second bag of fluids. They decided we better be admitted into the hospital. FINALLY at 5:30 am, we were given a room. (this is when I got to hold him and be wheeled up to our room!) Then they poked and prodded him and we got no sleep. (I forgot to mention that the hospital is under reconstruction, and at the dot of 7:00, the construction started. RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR ROOM, IN THE HALLWAY.)
So we got to hang out in the hospital bed all day yesterday. Couldn't go anywhere since Brecken was hooked up to the IV, and we had to keep an oxygen tube near him at all times to keep his oxygen up. Plus, Brecken didn't feel like going anywhere- he felt pretty terrible. He would cry every time a nurse would come in because he knew they were either going to mess with his IV in his hand, put a "sticker" on his foot or finger to check oxygen levels, take his temp, make him do a nebulizer treatment, or something else he wasn't interested in doing. Poor kid.
Brecken has had a fever since Friday. We thought it was another molar coming in- he had a fever over Christmas and when it went away, we found a molar. So we kept alternating Tylenol and Ibuprofen and trying to keep the fever down. Monday we decided we better get him to the clinic to get checked out, so I stayed home with him. Dr. Jake thought his ears were pretty red, but not infected, and that his throat looked terrible. Brecken had a good cough too, so Jake thought it was the same crud that has been going around. He prescribed us antibiotics and we went home. Brecken had some energy back that evening and we went to bed as normal.
At midnight, I heard him wimpering in his sleep. So I went in his room and felt his head and almost burned my hand off. Brecken was BURNING. I got out the temporal thermometer and totally freaked out when it said 106. I tried several more times and got readings between 104 and 105. Josh tried the under-arm thermometer and go 102.9. He called the doctor on call, who thought we could probably give Brecken a half dose of ibuprofen since it wasn't time for a full dose yet. After Josh hung up, Brecken threw up all over me. That's when we decided it was time to head to the ER in Rawlins.
When we got admitted to the ER, they took his temp rectally, and got 105.1. It's so much more scary to get a reading like that from professionals. I was terrified. My first thought was "Oh my God, he's got meningitis." His heart rate was over 200, and his oxygen level was only about 72%. They started him on an IV, which was TERRIBLE. They only had to stick him once, thank goodness, but the look of terror on his little face is something I'll likely never forget. They drew blood, did a nasal wash to check for RSV (negative), and then we had to do two chest x-rays. Let me tell you how fun that was. It wasn't. He had to sit on a stool by himself. Josh held his head and I held his hips. At 3:10 am, when you are two years old and not feeling good AT ALL, it was a miserable experience. They said his upper right lung looked a little off. They asked if Brecken had ever had problems with his lungs that had hospitalized him before. Why, yes, he has! (click on "why yes he has" if you don't know the story!) By this time, Brecken had had a bag of antibiotics through his IV and was started on his second bag of fluids. They decided we better be admitted into the hospital. FINALLY at 5:30 am, we were given a room. (this is when I got to hold him and be wheeled up to our room!) Then they poked and prodded him and we got no sleep. (I forgot to mention that the hospital is under reconstruction, and at the dot of 7:00, the construction started. RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR ROOM, IN THE HALLWAY.)
So we got to hang out in the hospital bed all day yesterday. Couldn't go anywhere since Brecken was hooked up to the IV, and we had to keep an oxygen tube near him at all times to keep his oxygen up. Plus, Brecken didn't feel like going anywhere- he felt pretty terrible. He would cry every time a nurse would come in because he knew they were either going to mess with his IV in his hand, put a "sticker" on his foot or finger to check oxygen levels, take his temp, make him do a nebulizer treatment, or something else he wasn't interested in doing. Poor kid.
Early this morning, around 3:00 am, his fever broke. And you could tell- he was up and hyper! He was pushing the buttons on the bed I was sharing with him (Josh slept in the other bed in the room), making it go up and down and up and down. He channel surfed on the TV, watched movies on his DVD player, we walked the hallways, he put a million stickers that the nurse had given him on to his hospital mug, and the best thing- he asked for food! He hadn't had an appetite in 4 days so that was a wonderful sign! Finally, he went back to sleep about 6:00 this morning. Just in time for construction to start at 7:00. :) The doctor came in around 8:15 and said we could go home. Hooray! His final conclusion was that he thought Brecken had an upper respiratory infection, even though his white blood cell counts were in the normal range when we came into the ER. And he didn't know why exactly Brecken's temp was as high as it was. But he sent us home with a decongestant, the nebulizer machine, antibiotics, and tylenol.
So, we got home around 11:00 and after lunch, Brecken and I took LONG naps. :) Now we're hanging out and taking it easy. It's so nice to be home! I have to go to work tomorrow morning to work with my all-state kids before we leave on Sunday, so I will go and Josh will stay home with Brecken. Then we'll switch at lunch and I'll come home and Josh will go to work for the afternoon, since he has a home game that starts at 3:00. Josh doesn't have school on Friday so he can stay home with Brecken. Next week we'll get back to normal!
Thanks for everyone that threw prayers our way- they worked and Brecken's on the mend! I can't believe how brave our little boy was. We are very grateful that we have such an awesome kid. Throughout this whole thing, HE was kissing OUR owies. What a trooper.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
chicken and nanny
Every single day since August, when Brecken started daycare, we ask him what we have for lunch. And every single day since August, the answer has always been "chicken and nanny!" (nanny means candy.) Every day. I KNOW that's not the answer because Amy always tells us what he has for lunch. And it's never chicken and nanny. :)
I thought after 2 weeks off at Christmas, he might forget about that answer. But Jan. 5, first day back, I asked what he had for lunch. "Chicken and nanny!" was his answer. Nope, he didn't forget!
You should hear him say "candy cane". It's so funny. "Mommy, I want a nanny cane!" :)
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
he wants to go!
Josh and I were talking with each other tonight about how much we loved Marco Island and we wanted to go back. The word Florida was mentioned and all of a sudden Brecken exclaimed, "SEE MICKEY MOUSE FLORIDA!"
How in the world does he know Mickey lives in Florida???
He kept telling us he wanted to go see Mickey in Florida though! Our arms might be able to be twisted.... :)
Thursday, January 01, 2009
i love the age of two.
It's interesting, that's for sure. B thought I was his slave today. Everything was "Mommy get it." and if that didn't work, he'd shout it at me. It was a long morning. For both of us- for myself because I was being yelled at and for him because nothing he ordered me to do got done! :) The classic was when he tossed something off the couch and then said,
"Mommy get it!!!"
Me: "YOU get it. You're the one who threw it and you have two legs."
B (in a snotty tone, I might add...): "Where?"
Oh, my child. Thank you for keeping me on my toes.
The afternoon was much better and by the time Josh got home from his poker run, B was hysterical. He's really into pretending he is a horse right now. He gets on his hands and knees and rares up saying, "Neigh, neigh!" Tonight he found his stuffed toy horse and was "riding" it, neighing. Yesterday while doing this, I said, "Daddy, we have a horse in the house!" B goes, "WHERE???" (again, his favorite question.) I said, "Right there!" and pointed to him. He looks over his shoulder and exclaims again, "Where????" Poor kid probably got very excited thinking we really had a horse in the house. :)
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