Emergency Room :(

I had my first experience taking a child to the emergency room this morning. I imagined Ammon would be the first to go with some sort of injury from jumping off something, but I was wrong. I woke up to a sound that sounded like the dog barking and a weak cry at 3:30 this morning. Ryan was making both noises as well as snorting and gagging on junk running down his throat. When I went to pick him up, he felt really hot. We all got a yucky cold, and he started having the same symptoms yesterday, but I was worried with how hot and weak he was. I checked his temp and the armpit reading was 102.6! After giving him Tylenol and feeding him, I checked it again and it was still 101.5. So, I packed him in his carseat and headed to the ER. I was hoping they would tell me to just give him more fluids and Tylenol, but they were as concerned as I was, especially since the rectal temperature was 103.4 after having Tylenol in his system. The poor little guy went through quite an ordeal. In just a couple hours, he had a thermometer stuck up his bum several times, a "pee bag" taped to him, two pokes for an IV, 240 mL saline pumped through his IV, snot sucked from his sinuses twice, a lumbar puncture, chest X-rays, and an arm bar to keep his IV from coming out. After all that, the doctor was still concerned about him because he wasn't putting up much of a fight and he was acting too sick to send home. So, Ryan and I got a lovely ambulance ride up to Primary Childrens Hospital. He got checked out by the pediatrician and they gave him a steroid to reduce the inflamation in his throat and an antibiotic. We're still waiting on the results from the cultures to see if he has a bacterial infection, but for the meantime, they're treating it like croup. We were able to take him home (the nurse told us we're really lucky, they hardly ever send babies home the same day after having a fever that high), we just have to take him back in the morning to the doctor to be looked over again and get his second round of antibiotics. He has been so sleepy, but a real sweety for how bad he feels and everything he's been through today. I'm so grateful for the hospital staff we worked with today, they were awesome! I think I handle emergency situations and times like this pretty well, but they made it even easier to stay relaxed and help Ryan be as comfortable as possible.

Disneyland

Here are some of the highlights of our Disneyland/Southern California vacation. Jeff, me, Ryan, and Ammon as well as my brother, Daniel, Bryan and Dana (Jeff's parents) and Ginny (Jeff's sister) made the trip. The pictures are somewhat misleading though... Ammon is pretty happy in most of these pictures. He didn't take a nap the entire trip, so I'll let you use your imagination of what the other moments were like.
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Catching up

As expected, we've had a very busy last couple of weeks. My last day of work was on Monday, June 2nd. We packed and got everything ready to head out to Utah on Tuesday. Drove on Wednesday (Ryan cried for half of the 14 hour drive). Jeff started work on Thursday, then we drove to Elko that night for a quick visit. Came back to Salt Lake Saturday afternoon for a barbecue with friends. Church and a birthday party on Sunday. Jeff worked while I got everything packed for Disneyland on Monday. We flew to California early Wednesday morning and got back late Saturday night. Here we are Monday, and I think we're still recooperating. The craziness has not ended, but at least we can take a quick breather before heading back to Elko for my Mom's birthday this weekend and flying to Oregon on the 25th!

Early Retirement

Well, I did it. I made it through another school year. The past two years have been interesting, to say the least. I am looking forward to staying home with my kids next school year. We are driving to Utah on Wednesday to spend the summer. We also have a trip to southern California and another to Oregon planned this month. We sure are going to be busy in the month of June!

Sleep!

Ryan slept through the night! For the first time, the little guy slept from bedtime (about 9:30 pm) to 5:55 am. I was shocked when my alarm went off at 5:30 and I realized that I hadn't been up to feed him yet. I actually got up to make sure he was breathing because I couldn't believe it from my experience with Ammon's bad sleeping history. I'm just crossing my fingers that this keeps up.

Back to work...

Today was my first day back to work since Ryan was born. I was not ready to go back, but for how much I was dreading it, the day went pretty well. I sure missed the boys! It really made me feel good when a couple of my students told me that they missed me and they were glad I was back. I am as bad as the kids, I've been counting down the days to summer vacation (when I "retire")! Jeff is home with the kids while I'm at work for the next two weeks. Here's a picture Jeff took today.

First Swim of the Year

Jeff and Ammon decided to go down to the pool today since they just opened it last week and it was a nice day out. Ammon was really excited when they left, so I was surprised to hear him crying and carrying on about 10 minutes later as they came back through the door. Ammon was obviously not hurt, just throwing a fit, so I asked Jeff what happened, thinking Ammon did something that made Jeff mad so he brought him home. Jeff said the water was really cold, but that wasn't the worst part. "The worst part was there was a dead opossum on the pool! And I didn't realize it until we were already in the pool!" Gross! Needless to say, they will be draining and cleaning the pool, so we won't be able to go swimming for a little while longer.