Ethan update

I thought it would be a good idea to update the blog and let everyone know that Ethan is just fine now. He's jumping on the couches, climbing on the counter tops and sliding down the stairs on a big mat with all the energy of a healthy two year old.

Ethans' ride in a Ambulance

It's 9:00 on Monday morning and it has already been a very exciting day. Yesterday Ethan came down with a little cold, slight fever, and tiny cough. At 3:00 am I heard him coughing and crying so I went into his room to give him some water and check on him. He was wheezing, coughing and barely breathing. He was very pale, limp and his lips were slightly blue. I called to Shaun and said, "Ethan is having trouble breathing, come look at him." He rushed right in picked him up and diagnosed him with big words then said call 911 right now. I got on the phone dialed the number and gave them the information and handed the phone to Shaun for the medical stuff. I got dressed ran downstairs, unlocked the door for the EMT called our neighbors on the cell to come over and watch the other two kids so we could go the hospital. Meanwhile upstairs Ethan started throwing up yucky gunk but it helped his breathing so that was good. The firetruck and ambulance were there within 5 minutes to take over. They were very impressed with Ethan PJ's, he just happened to be wearing him firetruck ones. I decided to ride in the ambulance with Ethan and Shaun followed in the car. As soon as we got to the hospital they gave him medicine to drink and medicine to breath in. He had croup. My kids have had coughs and colds lots before but this was a new experience for us. He was such a good little patient. We stayed for around 4 hours for obsertavtions and just got home. My plan is to have a good cry, say a prayer and go to bed.

I'm a person to ya know.

I love looking over my old blog posts, to me it's like flipping through a scrapbook. But that is when I realized everything is about my kids. I'm not saying that they aren't worth reading about but I just wanted people to realize that I do have my own life. So here is some information about me. My calling in church is Activity Girl Leader and I love it. I was called in when Sarah turned 8 last March and it has been lots of fun to spend girl time with her and the 5 other girls in the class. We do lots of cooking and art projects around a gospel theme. My personal hobbies include reading, exercise and cooking. But my favorite is American Sign Language. I've been taking classes for over six years now. My hope is to one day be an interpreter for the Deaf. Right now I satisfy myself by teaching my kids and making them sign back to me. We have silent time to help us practice and no it is not a form of punishment, they really do enjoy it. I start signing to them the day they are born and they are all great little signers. Eventually though they all start talking instead. My next class starts up in February and I'm looking forward to it.
This year I will try to update my blog more and post more picture of myself with the kids. I'm also trying to get more creative with my blog - hence the new color!

Santa

We had our ward Christmas party last weekend. Santa always comes to visit. Most of the time kids cry when they see Santa and won't sit on his lap but Ethan saw him and just started laughing and giggling and pointed to him and said "You funny."

Snow Day

I accidentally posted this picture twice and I don't know how to delete it. My new years resolution is to improve my blogging skills. But until then you are just going to have to bear with me.

Little Food Man

Joshua likes it when I make his snacks into people or faces. I made him this snack the other day and about 15 minutes after I gave it to him he was still sitting at the table just looking at it. I said, "Why aren't you eating your snack?" He burst into tears and said, "I just can't eat him, I like him so much and he is my friend." So we made a video and took pictures so we could remember Little Food Man forever. He is a cheese stick body, a cracker head and cherry eyes.

Ok, this video is a little long and very dark quality but it makes me laugh. Let me narrate for you. The kids are getting ready to go out. The door bell rings and it's the first trick-or-treaters of the night. Ethan runs to the door hands out the candy then bursts into tears because we gave away the candy and he didn't get any. After crying on the couch for a bit the door bell rings again, and the same thing happens. He was so disapointed. Then at the very end of the video Joshua starts throwing up again. It's a classic!

Halloween 2008

Joshua was spider man. He started throwing up about 2 hours before we left to go trick-or-treating but still I could not talk him into staying home. I almost had to carry the poor little guy home after we were done.

I thought Sarah was a pink princess but I was later informed the she was "a person from India."

And here is Ethan our little frog prince. He loved this costume. He loved the candy. He got really picky towards the end and if someone handed him a piece of candy he didn't care for he would hand it back and say, "NO, that one." and point to the one he wanted instead.