Walking Pneumonia?

Okay so for anyone who didn't know we had quite the, well... horrendous weekend with Hayden. He wound up in the hospital with the pneumonia. Since then I have had a flood of questions pertaining to this.."how did you know something was wrong? How did it happen? What were the signs?" I am here to tell you I am an inept unknowing mother!

I picked up Hayden from school on Friday and he was complaining of being tired - odd but not ER material. So I hugged him, carried him home took his temp - FEVER? YES.. so uh maybe the flu.. administered tylenol, motrin alternating for safety. His fever came down for a little bit on Sat Morning (Fallon's bday - sorry we missed it guys) but spiked back up to 101 around 11:30. Gave tylenol again but with no help his fever went to 104. Now I am getting worried..Why won't it go down? ears don't hurt, eyes don't hurt, throat?..good. Stomach/ well that he says hurts off and on, but could it be a bad flu? Head ache?..Yes but gee he is burning up, who's head wouldn't hurt. So with no answers left..off to the ER we went - to please.. stop the burning!!! By now he is a tired boy, no running around, very mellow! He is making me nervous.

At the ER they give him an adequate dose of a Tylenol/Motrin type substance - Evidently the bottles dosage is under dosed for children so they explained that what I was giving him wouldn't even touch his fever. HEY who knew? I sure didn't! within an hour - I could see my boy come back..a smile here and there and a more talkative Hayden appeared, wondering when we could go home, because he was feeling better.. GEE so was I! I started to breathe better and thought oh this is just fine now - until they Doctor came over requesting chest x-rays, (which I thought was routine) then came back again , with 2 nurses this time, to explain that "NO your son is not going home, he has a mild pneumonia!"

SO blind sided? yes, I had no idea! He coughed a couple times in the morning and during the night but during the day he was 100 percent fine and active as ever! I mean really "Tis the season for coughs and colds!" We were lucky Hayden only had to stay one night and was a true trooper with all the shots and breathing treatments and all that jazz! It was an emotional roller coaster for this mom that has left me really wary of any COUGH that comes out of anyone's mouth. Now if Tyler coughs I almost panic in my head and want to check his temp. I mean he is energetic and running all over but you never know, tommorow it could be the pneumonia!!!

Oh the Birthday Fun!!!

So I made it home Halloween night in time to cook 2 cakes so they would be ready to frost the next morning. Hayden requested an Indiana Jones Cake and Tyler's only request when asked "what kind of cake do you want?" was "GREEN, Mom, GREEN!" So with those two things to go on... I came up with an Indiana Jones cake (The #5 candle goes in the space after the word "is") The Indiana Jones guy and boulder set come off but the other rocks are all edible. It was fun to be artistic with the cake and Hayden just said over and over "THIS is so AWESOME!" Now there is some real praise for a mother! AND with the word green to go on I came up with..well what else..the green cake. Which is green throughout. It is frosted green, decorated with green and when you add a little green food coloring to the mix, turns the cake itself green too. I never knew adults could be swayed so much by the color of a green cake. Hasn't anyone ever read Green Eggs and Ham? I mean really?? I had quite a few wary looks and a few.."wow that looks gross" comments but I guess that is what you get when you make a perfectly yummy tasting green cake! Tyler's #3 candle went right in the middle of the hands. I thought it turned out nicely and did taste delicious too!

All in all I had 2 very happy boys about each of their own special cakes. Hayden was lucky enough to get to go to school on his Birthday. There they present the birthday boys or girls with a birthday crown that displays the 5 that they just turned for all to see. Hayden now thinks that since he is 5 the whole world revolves around him. It used to be "oh did you know that Collin was 5..that is why he can do that." or "Mom did you know SHE is 5!!" NOW it is all about how he is 5 and now he is fast and can go first and is the tallest. It is almost like he gained a super power!! I just wish we could all think like kids do. I am so excited to find out what kind of power I am going to get when I turn 32! It most definitely will be something cool!! I know you are all holding your breath! I promise to let you know! Here is my smiling 5 year old - so happy to be wielding the 5 year old power! Can't you just see it in his smile!!

The actual Birthday went nicely! We had games and a treasure hunt! The kids followed a map all over the park much to the disappointment of Will who so nicely videotaped the whole thing for me - Thanks WILL!! Hayden and Tyler loved following the letters and the map all over to find the key to discover the buried treasure (in the sand at the park) After the kids all dug it up Hayden had to use the key to open the chest and get to the sacks of goodies for all the kids! It really is fun to watch their delight at discovering the treasure and opening it up!! Besides the kid games we had chips, dip, a veggie plate - more chips and more munchies and of course the CAKES! Here are the 2 birthday boys ready to blow out their candles!! Don't you love how Tyler matches his cake. Do you even wonder for a second what his favorite color is?

All in all it was great! HAyden wants another birthday party and can't stop talking about when his next party is and what he wants the next one to be like! I am just glad they are still young enough not to mind that we do ONE BIG party instead of 2 separate small ones. I am hoping we can keep doing that for a long time. It is a whole lot of fun and exhausting all at the same time. Thanks so much to everyone who came to make my boys smile!!! 3 and 5, I still can't believe it!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Happy Halloween to all!! Our lives have been crazy full of Pumpkin patch visits, Birthday planning, House sitting, Halloween ward parties, the battle for prop 8 and all that October fun. I am seriously hoping November will take it down a notch! Here are my Little Halloween Treats :)

Hayden wanted to be Bumble bee the transformer and Tyler well he stuck with his costume from last year and was Spiderman. When we went trick or treating he liked to point out all the spiders that he saw everywhere so his costume was really a perfect fit : )

We made it down a couple of streets before both of my boys decided they had had enough and I couldn't have agreed more. Their bags were heavy enough to cause the boys to walk slightly lopsided. I was glad to be able to call it quits. I still had to run home and make their Birthday cakes for the party the next day.

The evening all in all went really well. This halloween we remembered to say Trick or treat when we got to the door, we didn't stop after the first house and decide that that candy needed to be eaten right then (Tyler's last year exp.) and we even remember to say thank you over and over and over again. Hayden was excited enough to actually want to run to the next house, which brought back some of my Halloween memories.

Tyler even engaged in miscellaneous conversation at a few houses saying things like,"how'd you get those dogs here?" and "Look at all your spiders!" etc, He told me as we were walking from a front door "Mommy, we just keep saying Trick or treat again and again and again!!!" He was pretty funny!