WOW!

Time has definitely been slipping away from me faster than I'd like! :)

Been busy! :) Chavalah's tubes were successful, however, straight from surgery we went to her pediatrician and found out she had pneumonia, so been busy with getting her well! She's doing much better now! So thankful!

Celebrated a big birthday yesterday in our home! Boy did we have a fun-filled day! We woke Ezra up by going into his room and singing Happy Birthday! :) Oma was here to do that with us. Then we all ate donuts (one of Ezra's favorite breakfast foods). I finished his birthday cake with the help of my mom. We had to do the letters for his cake. He was SO EXCITED about his Veggie Tales birthday cake! What a doll! :)

Ordered in pizza for lunch because that again is one of Ezra's favorite foods! :) Ate quick, then our birthday party guests started arriving! :) Just family, but guests nonetheless. We played outside for awhile then came in to cut the cake and open presents. Then played outside some more. Our guests left around 4. I started dinner, we grilled out, and then daddy started a fire. We all went outside to sit around the fire.

Daddy & Laine went on a Starbucks run for this tired mommy and turns out our Starbucks closes at 7!!!! WHAT!? SERIOUSLY!? Guess I've never wanted one this late here in Maricopa! :) My dear dear husband ran all the way into town (15 miles one way) to get me a Starbucks. He didn't want to come home empty handed! :) What a man! HE LOVES ME SO MUCH, I KNOW! :)

Daddy & Laine then camped out the rest of the night! Laine could hardly sleep he was so excited. Their lights went out at MIDNIGHT! :) They slept until 8 this morning! :) Came inside and both of them are sleeping again this morning right now as I type this! :)

Must go start lunch! :) Lots to get done today! Hoping to accomplish a lot of packing for the trip we leave on in 4 days! :) Yippee!! Iowa HERE WE COME! :)

Tubes

Well, Chavalah is scheduled to have tubes put in her ears tomorrow morning at 7AM. Not too sure she'll be leaving the surgery center with or without them at this point. She has been fighting something all weekend. I took her to the doctor on Wednesday PURPOSEFULLY for this, but at that time she didn't have anything to be treated for bacterial. It was viral! NOW, she's gotten worse just yesterday and has been running a consistent fever now for 48 hours. She is coughing a lot worse now and has some yucky stuff coming out her nose! Poor thing! We'll see what tomorrow brings! Please be praying for them to be able to do it tomorrow! I really want this done and off my mind. Too, we are flying in less than three weeks and that makes me nervous if we're unable to get the tubes in before the trip! Will post tomorrow after we're home.

Week thus far.........

...........has been different than I thought it would be! That doesn't mean it's all bad, just different than I had anticipated.

Not much to report. Taking the littles' to the pediatrician tomorrow. Both struggling with congestion, nose and not so good coughs. Today I took Ezra to gymnastics and didn't realize how bad his breathing had gotten. It's quite labored, and I'm anxious to see what his pulsox (sp) is tomorrow at the doctors' office. Poor guy! He has asthma, so it doesn't take him long to turn down like his daddy. He started running a fever yesterday. It has been quite low like 99ish, but still it's elevated and you and just tell he doesn't feel well.

In the meantime, I have started a new blog. This time it's filled with RECIPES. I will still maintain this one as much as I can with our family stuff, but in the past, I have had so many people asking for recipes I have prepared or even just talked about so, I decided I would just do a blog so that everyone could have access to my recipes and all the time. The blog address for that is: http://www.jojosnumnums.blogspot.com/. Go check it out! :)

Will check back again when I'm not taking care of my sick sweet babies.