This too shall pass, or be surgically removed!

Well it happened. David swallowed a quarter. I am not one of those paranoid moms that freak out if their child has something in their mouth...oh he will never swallow it...oh well today he did! I was down stairs and he was upstairs when I heard him choking. I ran upstairs and started banging on his back. He coughed and coughed and then I thought that he finally swallowed it because he stopped coughing. Then he threw up. Then he did it again and again. I thought that maybe it irritated him or something. I thought that it would just pass but as the day went on. At this point Sarah wanted to go to swim lessons...so did I say "your brother is throwing up and we can't" nope. I said well it looks like he has stopped throwing up lets go. While we were at the park waiting for Sarah's lesson to be over (we can't go in and watch) David spit up again twice and I am sure other mom's looked at me thinking what kind of horrible mom would bring her sick kid to the park.

He fell asleep on the way home from swimming lessons, but when he woke up his sheets were soaked from all the drool. I tried to give him lunch but when he tried eating a banana he chewed it up tried swallowing and then spit it out and just cried.

I called the doctor and at first the nurse said to come in...about 5 minutes later she said to go to the ER. BLAH the ER! So away we went. Fortunately Aaron was just doing the orientation for the first years so he was able to meet me at the hospital. All the doctors came in and saw him. David was really scared and he cried but other than that he would just gag now and then.

They had to take him to the OR and put him under and then remove it. I think if Aaron wouldn't have been there I would have cried as the nurse took my baby to the OR. Aaron didn't really seem bothered by it so I took on that attitude.

Here is his x-ray. Man we are lucky to live in a day where this didn't kill him! Once it was removed he was such a happy kid. He drank and ate like mad because he was starving.

Hopefully we will not have any more trips to the ER! But with this kid we will see!

take the plunge

David LOVES the water! Yesterday we were at a swim party and he was an animal! He would jump in and "swim" to me. Here he is on the diving board. He only did it this once and now that I look at the picture he looks scared, but when he came out he was smiling. That is me jumping in the water when I realized that he just might jump in!

Sarah started swim lessons and is having a great time. She skipped the first level so she is the youngest in her class. David reminds me a lot of Sarah when she was his age!

After kid's go to bed treat

I am struggling with the "after kid's go to bed treat." When the kids finally fall asleep I feel I am entitled to a reward for not killing them or at least being nice to them all day long. I have been eating "Chocolate Seduction" ice cream which is the best chocolate ice cream I have ever had! But with these extra pounds I would like to lose this treat thing needs to go somehow.

Any suggestions of treats that are not that bad for you...

Father's Day present

So for the Fathers I sent a little card and some kisses. On the card this is what I put

Sarah loves to:
visit Grandpa!
go swimming
ride her bike
read books
go to Hershey Park
go camping

Becca loves to:
visit Grandpa!
pick flowers
go swimming
color in coloring books
play with her friends
play outside

David loves to:
visit Grandpa!
play duck, duck, goose
play in the sandbox
go swimming
eat food
play rowdy

My Dad

All week long I have been trying to remember the lyrics to the song "My Dad" from the "I'm a Mormon" songs. The only thing I can remember is

My Dad's the strongest dad and my dad's the smartest dad and my dad's the greatest guy, the greatest guy I know. Maybe I'll introduce you so you'll see that it's the truth that my dads, my dad's the greatest guy I know.

Well my Dad is the greatest guy I know! I love my dad. He is the funniest, smartest, most sensitive and caring guy I know. I was telling my girls some stories about my dad today. I think my favorite ones are of him cheering me on in my various sports events (because he was the loudest dad) and he always had something constructive to say! Also I told them when I was Becca's age we went to Clear Creek and I had to take off my water wings and my dad was at the bottom of Dragons head and yelled up for me to jump in. He promised me an ice cream at Dairy Queen if I would do it. Then he yelled for me to spit and jump into it. I spit and then everyone yelled 3, 2, 1 jump and off I went. My dad was there at the bottom to make sure I came up and got to the other side fine. Good times!

I also told them the alligator story and the iguana story!

Dad I hope you have a great Father's Day!

waterballoon fun

I tried posting this photo with the last post, but it just didn't let me...the kids have gone through about 300 balloons thus far. It is their favorite thing to do outside!

Summer fun and summer scare!

I have always LOVED swimming! It is one of my favorite things about summer. Fortunately my kids love to swim too! Today we were at a friends pool and David was just going CRAZY! He loved the water. He was really funny about it. I put Becca's floats on him and he loved the freedom (although I was always right there!).

Sarah love diving in and swimming around. It is too bad she doesn't want to do swim team, she would be GREAT! Maybe when she is older.

Anyway, the scare part...Becca was taking off her friends swim suit/life vest and it got tangled around her ankle. I heard a splash and I looked and saw that she had fallen in the water. I looked and waited for her to pop back up...she never did. I waved to my friends neighbor (who is deaf) to come grab David and I dove into the water and went right under her and put her onto the side of the pool. She didn't take any water in, but BOY was it SCARY! She was a little shaken up but I don't think it will hold her back from swimming. I was a life guard when I was younger and fortunately never really had to save anyone (a few kids that slipped from their tube). When you are the mom it is a lot more scary!

I hope that eventually she will be more comfortable around water as I would LOVE to have a pool in my back yard someday!

random picture of Becca

I am not sure how to place the pictures once I put them in. Sarah and Becca love to take pictures of eachother. Here are some funny ones.

Sarah's graduation

Well Sarah has oficially graduated from kindergarten. My friend (Nicole) said in her blog that she got a little emotional at Michael's preschool graduation...well honey I down right cried when I hugged the teacher.

I think that I realized how quickly the time is passing and how big my kids are getting. Her teacher did something REALLY cool for the kids. She asked all the kids to write things they liked about eachother and then made a pillowcase for them with the nice things ironed on (along with pictures throughout the year). It was such an incredible gift. Miss Allen was a great teacher,

I hope that next year will be just as good!

blech

This morning I woke up (at 6 since that is David's new wake up time!) and everything was fine until breakfast and that just didn't sit well at all. Sure enough I have the flu and Aaron is in Boston. It was coming out both ends and I let the kids watch TV and play computer all day. Fortunately David too a 3 hour nap! I hope we are all well in the morning and the bug passed!

mini triathlon

My friend Ruth just did a mine triathlon (15 mile bike, 500 meters swim, 3 mile run). I thought I would LOVE to do it. I have wanted to do it for a long time. So this week I have been motivated to start training because I would like to do it next year (Memorial Day). Monday I started out running. After a mile I started really wheezing and having a hard time...I am REALLY out of shape. It is going to take a little while before I am ready. As the week went by it was a little easier to run so I don't think it will be that hard (although it will be after the bike and the swim...) then today I went for a little bike ride and was DYING! It was so hard going up the hills. I really am going to have to train for this one.

I saw Ruth tonight at a picnic and she said she might do one in August...I don't know if I will be ready quite then, but it might be worth a try. We will see.

funny picture

I thought this was a great shot of David. We actually had to change the front screen because he kept crushing his face against it!

mean girls

I was SO heartbroken today. Sarah came home today really sad and I asked her what was the matter and she didn't want to talk for a long time. I asked her again and again until she was ready to talk. Then she said that Sydney and Emily didn't want to play with her in gym class today. sigh. I am not there to protect her any longer. she is so sensitive and was just crushed when her best friend didn't want to play with her. I know there will be plenty more of these but this was the first time that someone at school has made her this sad. They really aren't mean girls and I know that there will be harder times than this but I just felt really sad for Sarah. she is not that social so the friends that she does have I want to be nice to her...life goes on though.