Pink Eye

Here we go again! Yesterday I picked up the kids from school. When Little Man got out of the car I noticed his eye was bright red and had clumps of puss all over it. I asked him what happened to his eye and he said "Oh it's been bothering me a little." It looked horrible!!! I can't believe the teacher didn't see it. I kept him home today and unfortunately we had to miss conferences also. It's already looking a lot better. Still really red but not hardly any puss. We are going to see how he is tomorrow for conferences and hopefully he will be better on Friday because that is his class field trip to the zoo!

Kenni's 6th Birthday

Yesterday was Kenni's 6th birthday. He had been talking about his birthday since probably November. For the last couple of months it was a daily discussion. For the last couple of weeks it was the only thing Kenni would talk about! It finally came!

I woke him up yesterday morning and he was up no problem at all! Usually it's not that easy! I went in to help out in his class for about an hour yesterday morning also. We aren't allowed to bring in treats but his birthday was announced to the whole school during morning announcements. His class sang him Happy birthday once while I was there and he said they sang it to him even more times during the coarse of the day. In his lunch I packed him two hostess cupcakes for a surprise.

He wanted pizza for dinner so after school we went and picked up some pizzas. And as always the kids get soda on their birthday and he picked coke.

I had decorated a little bit in the dining room yesterday and made his cake while he was at school. Thankfully when we picked the kids up Maddi was sleeping or else she would have told him all about it. When he walked in the door he was very surprised by the decorations and loved his ORANGE cake! He couldn't believe I came up with all the orange m&m's to put on it.

After Daddy got home from work we had pizza, finished homework and then on to presents! He had been asking about presents since we walked through the door! After presents he still had one more surprise. I had some boxes to throw out and I had Kenni come with me through the garage to throw them out. I went out 1st and "forgot" to turn on the light. I had Kenni turn it on for me and I was standing next to his bike with camera in hand. I immediately took his picture and he didn't even realize at first I was standing next to his new orange bike. After he realized it he ran over to it and almost started crying he was so happy. Little Man did start crying because Kenni's bike has a shiny new kick stand now and his doesn't have one at all. Kenni just loved his bike!!!!

After all that we had cake and ice cream. Maddi helped him blow out his candles. After that he had a little bit to play with the new stuff he got and before we knew it it was time for bed. Over all I think he had a pretty good birthday but it is way too hard to have a birthday on a school night!!!

My project of the day

Tomorrow is Kenni's 6th birthday. Since he has learned to ride a 2 wheeler and his bike is getting too small for him we decided we would get him one for his birthday. Of course since it is for Kenni it needed to be orange. We searched every store in Casa Grande and no one had an orange bike. I came home and searched the Internet and found a couple. One was at Kmart and so I called every Kmart around and all they had was blue. I also found one at Toys R Us but I was calling all around and they were all out of stock. I finally found one at a Toys R Us in Mesa and it happened to be that a friend of ours was going up to Mesa and he said he would pick it up for us. I had put it on hold and good thing I did because that was the last one there. Orange bikes must be a hot item! Today I went and picked it up and brought it home to put together to give to Kenni tomorrow. Maddi is quite the tattle tale and I almost got away with putting it all together without her seeing it, then the phone rang and she brought it to me. She even asked if it was Kenni's bike because she even knows everything for Kenni is orange. Hopefully she won't tell him about it and we can still surprise him tomorrow!

This is the before picture. I didn't get an after yet because I wanted to get it put away before Maddi saw where I was hiding it. I did get it all put together except for the pedals I couldn't get tightened and the brakes need to be adjusted but James can handle that when he gets home. I'm going to make sure he checks my work too. I've never put a bike together before and I don't want it to fall apart as Kenni is riding it!!!

Of course the cats were very worried about what was going on!

Laura's Messenger Bag

For christmas the kids got gift cards from Target. Laura bought herself a decorate it yourself messenger bag. We still hadn't done it yet but she reminded me about it yesterday so we did it. I don't expect the decorations to last long because the iron on things were already peeling before we were even done. She loves it and had fun doing it so that is all that matters!

She didn't want to have her picture taken!

Bird House

A while back we received a bag of groceries at the store that wasn't ours. I didn't even notice it until I had gotten all the way home. I know I should have taken it back but the grocery store isn't just a hop skip and jump away from our house. Anyway..in it was a box of cereal and a squash. I was going to try to cook the squash but the only one that would end up eating it would be me so I didn't do anything with it. It had been sitting in our pantry for quite some time and I had the idea to make a bird house out of it. I remember doing that with my Dad when I was little and I thought it might be fun. The kids argued a lot over who was painting where but in the end it got done. Next time we will have to do one for each kid! And don't mind the jammies!!! Maddi and James still are sick so what is the use of getting dressed?

Story Time

Maddi loves and always has loved being read to. The other night she was missing for a while which usually means trouble! This time I found her laying on her bed "reading" herself a book!

X-ray

For the last couple of weeks all of the kids have had a bit of a cough. Nothing terrible just annoying mostly. Everyone else is either getting better or staying the same. I've noticed that Maddi seems to be getting worse though. I had an appt for her today because she needs two vaccinations. When I made the appt she was fine. Since her cough seemed to be getting worse I knew she wouldn't get the shots but I kept the appt to get the cough checked out. Good thing we went because she has bronchitis. He listened to her lungs and on her right side he said he heard something he didn't like. He sent us down the hall for a chest x-ray and she did awesome!!!! She had the same thing done about a year ago and they had to strap her into a chair and it was just awful. Today though she sat up nice and still and did exactly what they told her to do. She had a terrified look on her face the whole time but she did great! After that was done she got a ton of princess stickers and we went back into the dr's office to get the results. He said unfortunately it had already turned into bronchitis and so he gave us antibiotics, and two different lung medications. Thankfully I already have done this with Little Man a ton of times with asthma so I know exactly what we are dealing with. He also gave her some eye drops. When she was born she had plugged tear duct and it gets yucky every once in a while, especially when she gets sick. So after school we will go pick up her meds and I take her back in on Friday for a follow up.