My baby has Pneumonia

Dane has had a cold for almost a week. Icky cough, runny nose. He woke up at 12:30 last night coughing and didn't stop. He threw up twice because he was gagging. I tried steam shower, cough meds, everything. Finally at 2:00am Steve got dressed and took him to the ER. I laid back down and woke up at 3:00 and thought about calling but figured they were probably in the middle of things. I fell back asleep and woke up again at 4:00am and they still were not home. I frantically called, thinking the worst but Steve answered saying they were almost in Lynden and that Dane had Pneumonia in his right lung. They gave him a dose of Amoxicillian and sent some home. "Okay, poor kid, I will see you soon". As soon as I hung up I started thinking, Dane is allergic to penicillin, I sure hope that isn't what they gave him. Yep, it was. So as soon as Dane was asleep I spent the rest of the early morning hours checking on him every 30 minutes for hives and to make sure he was breathing. As soon as I got the other kids off to school, I called the doctors office to fix the medicine for him. An hour later I got to Rite Aid and they told me no one had called anything in. So I had to call the doc office again and they said they would fax it right away. So I went back to Rite Aid and they had the prescription, but didn't have Dane on file, and of course, my medical card was with Steve, so I had to drive back home to get it. Back to Rite Aid again with the card and she tells me Dane has been terminated from our policy. WHAT?! Your kidding me right? So I head back home in tears. Steve called the insurance company and they said everything was fine and gave him a number for the pharmacy to call if there were anymore problems. Steve went back to the pharmacy and gave them the card to run again, and what do ya know...it worked just fine. Hmmm. So anyway, here I sit again tonight listening to my boy hacking away upstairs wondering how much sleep we will get tonight. I sure hope this medicine kicks in quickly.

My little Ansel Adams

I told Dane that we were going to go on a picture adventure today. The wind wasn't blowing which made outside tolerable...for me. I have an old Canon Rebel that I decided to arm Dane with. I figure your never to young to learn an art. I hadn't used it in over a year so the battery had little life to it and only lasted ten minutes. That was fine though, because he just wanted to play at the playground anyway. I hate playground pictures. I think I just get bored of them. Dane would let me take pictures as long as it wasn't in his face. So I got hands and feet and a few other things.

And lastly one of Dane's shots....ME!!! I like this one...maybe cuz my head is cut off!

My guy..

I have nothing really to report or no new pictures due to crappy cold weather. So here are some old pictures of my main squeeze and some of the kids just for fun and something to look at. Only thing that has been going on lately is that I finally caved and got a gym membership. I have actually been going at least 5 days a week, thanks to my dear friend Karen who shows up at my door every morning to make sure I am going. I have been doing a class called power pump, which is almost pure torture, but Steve says my hips are shrinking (even though I don't see it) so I will continue with the torture. I even did my first Pilate's class (Hard! I am so not flexible) and Zumba, which I think is the most fun. Kind of some Latin dance moves. I just make sure that I am not standing in front of a mirror while Zumba'ing so I don't really see what I look like dancing. ( In my head I am not so bad). So anyway enjoy a few old pictures of my kids and family.

One of my favorites....my precious baby Dane only a week or so old sleeping with Daddy. Sometimes I miss my little babe.

Daddy and Dane again, only not too long ago at a dirtbike park, watching the big boys ride from dadddy's shoulders.

Little Miss Maia and Dad

All my boys!

And one of my very favorites! A trip to the Oregon coast and a day at the beach! Some great picture taking that day.

Bob Marley

"Who are you to judge the life that I live? I am not perfect and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers...make sure your hands are clean"

I like this quote. I think there are some people out there that should take this to heart before they open their mouths.

I don't think a month goes by that I don't encounter or hear something that completely floors me. It makes me very angry when I hear gossip or rumors or someone just saying something mean about someone else. I have heard a lot yesterday and today and it saddens me that these "grown ups" are potentially influencing our kids and how they think.

I am far from perfect and I will never pretend to be, but do people have to be so cruel?

Great weekend~

We had such a good weekend! Davis was at his moms, Gage and Maia were at their grandparents, so we were down to just Dane. That is not why we had such a great weekend though, of course we miss the kids when they are gone. But it was just very relaxing. The grandparents took the kids to their basketball games, so we just showed up at starting time in no rush. Gage had a GREAT game! I have never been to such an intense 10 year old game! We were behind most the game, and some yahoo sitting behind us rooting for the other team was being extremely annoying with his comments about the kids. I just don't understand how/why some parents act that way. So of course I secretly was wishing we would beat them so he would shut up. The closer the scores got, the more frustrated that guy got. It was a little entertaining. There were twins on the other team that were GIANTS and they were patting my Gage on the head. Well, Gage showed them! the score was 22-23 and there were 10 seconds left. The idiot behind us was yelling at the kids with the ball to go slow and waste time. I was so mad I yelled at Gage to steal the ball and HE DID! He listened to his mother! yeah, or maybe he didn't, but he still stole the ball and raced down to the end of the court with me yelling SHOOT IT! He actually made the shot with 1 second left to win the game! I wanted to spin around and yell "HA!" to the guy behind us, but I didn't because I was so proud of my little guy that I started to cry, and I didn't want anyone to see what a blubbering fool I was. But my husband took the spotlight away from me and my crying and cheering by running across the court like they had just won the Superbowl cheering. It was pretty funny but he was so proud of Gage too.

So then since we just had Dane, we decided to take him to a movie. For some reason my 3 year old boy keep asking to see Mall Cop. He sat through the whole thing laughing. And I was laughing because it was so cute that he was laughing. Make sense?

And Sunday we sat around all day playing video games.

Sorry no pictures to post!

It was a fairly decent day today

So I took some pictures of Gage, Maia, and their cousin MaKayla. We went to a pretty church in town to take photos on the front steps. There was a creeper lurking out his windows watching us though. What a weirdo. We didnt stay too long.

The Twilight Series

So I got hooked on the Twilight series. It was right around Christmastime. I had heard so much about this book, I thought, I am just going to have to read it. I finished the first book in a couple days and thought I must have the next. Well they were sold out! Everywhere! It was during the snowstorm we had here. I made Steve drive me into town to Barnes and Noble but they CLOSED because of the weather. I couldn't believe it, I was actually mad and wanted to pound on the windows because I SAW there were people in there. All I wanted was one measly little book! So then we headed into the mall and hit the little bookstore in there. I couldn't find it anywhere. I asked the employee there and she said to take a look in the JUNIOR/TEEN section. "OOHH, I see...a teenage romance novel. Yeah, cuz my niece, yeah that's right, my niece really wants it for Christmas." Hmm, so I am reading a teen book. Oh well. I ended up ordering New Moon and Eclipse online and had to wait. As soon as I got them I completely ignored my family for days while I devoured them. I am finishing up Breaking Dawn now. I have to say Twilight and Breaking Dawn are my favorites. The other 2 middle books are pretty good still. Now I really want to see the movie! I know it wont be as good as the books. So if you had read the books, who would you choose?? Edward or Jacob? I cant decide, I like them both.

On a side note, we decided on Disneyland!! Yeah!! I am going to try to keep in a secret from the kids, I don't know how long that will last since I get too excited. Don't ask about the airplane ride, I haven't figured out how they are going to get me on yet. I am trying not to think about it. Medication may have to be involved again. We are getting a sweet deal on the tickets thanks to a friend and I have a lot of unused airline miles...imagine that. So the expense of 6 people wont be too bad!

And for the picture lovers, here are some amazing photo's from Vanity Fair magazine. I love them! www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/twilight_outtakes200812

I hope that works. Beautiful pictures.