Whew…

What a week this has been.  I haven’t had THAT many things going on, but the week just seemed PACKED!!!

It started out with Memorial Day on Monday.  I was in Park City and woke up with a bit of what Jonah had all weekend long.  It wasn’t terrible, but put me out for the day.  Bryan and the boys got home very late Monday night.  Jacob couldn’t stop kissing my face, he missed me.

Tuesday was a glorious day as I anticipated the arrival home of Ryan Beck that evening.  The evening finally arrived and it was wonderful.  My cute little Ryan, all grown up and home from a mission in Taiwan.  He is truly one of my favorite people in the world.  So nice to have him home!

The rest of the week has been filled with a wonderful lunch with friends, baseball games, 30 minutes of the BHS choir concert, 5 minutes here with Ryan, Jonah’s nutrition appointment, preparing (for several hours) for my first pack meeting as advancement chair, Jacob throwing a shoe down the stairs which hits Jonah in the eye,  10 minutes there with Ryan, Jacob’s allergy appointment, apologizing to Jacob for not making it to the zoo field trip, baseball games, a very long but successful pack meeting, missed book group, laundry, oh dinner?????? was I supposed to think about that?, Jacob getting a baseball in the eye from Ryan, shopping for the beginning of our month long birthday season, and of course the whole time dealing with my darling Jonah who thinks he needs to be held at all times!!!!

Hold You

Oh my goodness, if I hear that again I may lose it!  Poor little Jonah baby has been sick since Thursday and that is what I have heard for the past 3 days!  While it was cute the first few times he looked at me and said “hold you, hold you momma”, it is not so cute anymore!

Bryan and the older boys had planned to drive to Arizona for the long weekend.  They left Thursday afternoon.  Jonah was not invited because he makes life miserable for everyone on long drives.  So that meant I was staying home as well.  I was perfectly fine with that, I started thinking of the fun things I could do.  Wednesday night we decided that I should just fly with Jonah on Thursday night (Bryan’s dad had a free ticket).  So of course Jonah wakes up Thursday throwing up, diarrhea, fever, and miserable.  I decided that I could not take him on a plane or to visit others in this condition.  So here we have been for the weekend.  Me holding Jonah, Jonah not wanting to be anywhere or do anything.  He normally loves to be outside, but not this weekend.  I know he is feeling better today, but still is in the hold me all of the time, I don’t know what I want stage. 

So much for a fun and relaxing weekend with only one child!  Jeff Beck invited me to go to his condo in Park City with he and his wife, so I am thinking after church that is where I will head.

Besides having to get over me holding him all of the time, Jonah is going to have to learn how to sleep in his crib again.  He took over my bed and so that I could sleep I let him!

Soccer Mom

Last night was Jacob’s last soccer game of the season, hallelujah!  I love watching him play sports, but spring soccer burns me out.  Anyways one of the Mom’s thought we should do something special for the treats since it was the last game and since I was in charge of treats that meant ME do something special.  She had suggested getting a cake from Dick’s or Costco.  Now those who know me well know that I will make something long before I go buy it, especially a cake.  So I just whipped up a big soccer cake.  It was great I felt no pressure for it to be “perfect” because it wasn’t for one of my kids birthdays.  The boys played great, won the game and everyone thought the cake was pretty neat.  You know there are few things I CAN do so I am always proud of my cute cakes! ( P.S. Tiffany, I think Jonah is going to want a Barney cake for his birthday so we better figure out how to make it actually look like Barney!)

 

My friend Chris has this big round pan that is perfect for making big round cakes, so thanks for letting me borrow the pan!

Whoops, if you look close you can see where the middle sunk in.  I NEED a new oven!!!

Brandon still has a few more weeks of soccer and both boys have about a month more of baseball, but I love watching baseball.

Mother’s Day and Week!!!!

I just read my friend Melinda’s blog about how she doesn’t think of herself on Mother’s Day and how that is the one day of the year that she cooks.  Now Melinda and I are similar in many areas, BUT this is NOT one of them!!!

Mother’s Day is ALL about me and ONLY about me and I LOVE IT!!!!!

My day started with Bryan getting up with Jonah at 6:30 a.m. (because Jonah has decided that he can wake up that early) and me sleeping in until I heard Jacob sneak in to check if I was awake, I was trying to be awake.  I then was presented with breakfast in bed and presents.  I love breakfast in bed (unlike Melinda), I had Jonah on my lap eating most of my french toast and Brandon, Jacob and Bryan waiting patiently for me to eat so I could OPEN UP MY PRESENTS!!!!  Bryan loves to shop for me so I always get great things.  And Brandon and Jacob had made the CUTEST cards for me.  We then went on a nice walk and everyone tried to be nice to each other because it was Mother’s Day.  Church was great, the young men sang which was so darling and the talks were so great.  The primary also sang, minus Jacob who had fallen asleep and would NOT go up there.  Brandon acted like he was way too cool to be up there, I turned to Bryan and said, he has 2 more years of this, he can’t act too cool already!

The evening was spent with my family all over for dinner which Bryan and my brother in law made.  I didn’t do anything, just gave bits of advice here and there.  I talked to 2 of the best missionaries in the world, Ryan and Brandon Beck.  It was so great to hear their voices.  My family sat around talking and the kids ran around like crazy.  What a nice day and a great way to be appreciated.

Maybe if my Mom was still alive I wouldn’t be so selfish on Mother’s Day, but I doubt it.  I loved all the cards I got from my boys saying how bootiful I am, and how I wish I could be famous and also how is wish I could be alone(?????).  And the best part ab0ut Mother’s Day is that is doesn’t end there!  Since we have been married Bryan has done Mother’s Day Week.  Either the week before or after depending on how busy he is, I get pampered for the whole week.  No cooking for me, no laundry or cleaning (well that used to be the case, but there is no way he would have time to do the laundry or cleaning).  I get surprises each day.  This year each day is going to have a theme so I am anxiously awaiting what each day will bring!

Saturday is a special day

I have out done myself today and I just need to congratulate myself!

I ran the Race for the Cure this morning, while pushing Jonah in the stroller.  I finished just a mere 4 seconds after my goal time, I figure I spent several seconds maneuvering the stroller around people and apologizing for bumping into them!  I love this race, it is so inspiring to watch the many teams and individuals who are running for someone in particular.  You see so many interesting people, men wearing pink bra’s, girls in tutu’s and several people with pink hair.  I had a great time along with 20,000 other people who were a part of the event.

I came home and luckily Jonah had fallen asleep in the car and stayed asleep when I moved him to him bed.  I then planted my garden, well most of it.  I love getting my garden all ready for the yummy vegetables to grow.

By the time I finished the garden the boys were all home from the Father and Sons campout.  They filled the house with all of their gear and ALL of the leftover food.  I figured I was dirty and outside and I might as well get to work on the south side of my house.  This is the part of the yard where we never go and never look at.  It was a disaster, I say WAS because now it is all cleared out.  I hauled so much wood, garbage, weeds, and whatever else was over there to the garbage and made a nice big pile to haul to the dump.

I am beat, I am ready to get in the shower and let the pampering of Mother’s Day begin!!!

Feeding Therapy

Jonah started feeding therapy today.  Everyone has been asking me what feeding therapy is.  Well now I have a better idea and I am thinking maybe it will help me!  Basically the idea is to go back to the development of feeding stages; liquids, purees, etc…..  We found which stage he excels at and are starting at the next stage.  Anyways it will be interesting, but even more interesting would be if I could go back to the basic food groups stages and try to implement those!!!  Oh I am supposed to eat lots of fruits and vegetables and only minimal sugars, oils, and fats.  No wonder I weigh what I do.

Always thinking about food!!!

Survived Surgery

Ahhhhh, home and able to sleep in my own bed.  Jonah had surgery on Wednesday to repair a diaphragmatic hernia, I know, I had never heard of it either.  It was congenital and his liver grew itself into the hernia.

Anyways he was supposed to have this done last fall, but got sick the day before so we postponed it until spring.  I had been dreading it very much.  I didn’t tell tons of people about it in case it got cancelled.  Well I was able to keep him well (even with Brandon getting strep throat the day before) and the surgery went as planned.  I actually felt very calm about it and didn’t get worried. 

The hardest part about surgery and kids is making sure they don’t eat anything.  Poor Jonah cried on the way to the hospital, Ba Ba, Ba Ba.  While in the waiting room he licked the bubbles off the bubble stick, he was really hungry.  The surgery lasted about 2 1/2 hours and went perfectly.  The surgeon came to talk to us afterwards and said it had gone exactly as planned.  Yea, the worst was over.

Well really the worst part is trying to sleep in a hospital for two nights.  The first night Jonah wouldn’t stay in the crib they had him in so they switched him to a regular hospital bed which was fine except for the fact that I had to stay with him in the bed to make sure he didn’t climb out.  I think I got a total of 3 hours that night.  I was so happy when the resident came in at 6:00 a.m. Yea the night was over and I could get up and quit pretending to sleep.  The second night was much better.  Jonah discovered the wagons they have at the hospital and after several rides on the “beep beep” he wouldn’t get out and so he fell asleep in it.  That lasted until the 12:30 a.m. vitals check, he then couldn’t get back to sleep for 2 hours.  I did finally get him back to sleep in the hospital bed.  I knew he would be just fine so I went back to sleep on the couch until 6:30.

Wednesday and Thursday he was on morphine and slept most of the time.  He would wake up long enough to cry and ask for a Ba Ba, which he finally was able to have Thursday evening.  By Thursday night he felt much better, mainly because they switched to motrin.  Friday he was climbing up the bed and sliding down.  We spent the entire day walking the halls of the hospital waiting for the Dr. to have time to come and discharge us.  Finally at 5:00 p.m. we were out of there.

As I was driving home I was thinking about how blessed we were that the surgery went off without a hitch.  There were some complications that could have happened during surgery, but they didn’t.  He could have had a reaction to the morphine, but he didn’t.  He could have had trouble breathing, but he didn’t.  He could have had trouble with eating, but he didn’t.  The biggest event was when Bryan was holding him and I noticed blood all over Jonah’s blanket.  His IV had come out of his foot and there was blood everywhere, all over Bryan, the floor, the bed.  Luckily he had consumed enough fluids that day and they didn’t have to put it back in.

I am so grateful the surgery and recovery is over.  Any adult would still be tenderly walking and moving, but not a baby.  He was climbing everywhere as soon as the surgery was done!