my son the hillbilly (mom, remind you of someone, lol)

Baby Jace

I spoke to soon about Jace being a happy go lucky self.......He is sick....He has croup.....And now he is on breathing treatments every 4 hrs, antibotics, and steroids....Hopefully this is a short lived illness....

Baby Jace

Jace is getting big..........Such a little sweetie pie.........He loves to give hugs and kisses now.........those slobbery, drool filled kisses are the best!! He is really starting to smile more and more..........His whole face lights up when he smiles including his eyes.....he has this sparkle in them that I can't put my finger on.........(Austin has a sparkle to but his is different, not sure how to explain it) Still no teeth but today he decided that he was going to chew on the nipple of his bottle......Yikes, time to change him to the cheap bottles/nipples...........We will have to see how that goes.............I love my playtex nursers but I can't afford to replace the nipples everytime I turn around (4.49 for 2 nipples) So I believe he is teething......He still isn't sleeping through the night but is doing much better about sleeping.............

He will have to have the RSV shot in a couple of weeks due to his prematurity and him being on the vent for 8 days........he will also be 6 mths old when the flu shot becomes available to he will be getting that as well........Plus we were informed yesterday that it is highly recommended that we get the H1N1 vaccine.........She explained that babies who spent time on the vents can have weaker lungs then other babies............So she highly recommends it for our family..........God forbide if someone else were to get sick in this family..........I think momma might loose it................

Update on Austin

Yesterday was the appt for Austin for a followup on his mushroom poisoning...........He has to have one more set of labs but we won't do them until the 5th of April when they will do his labs for school anyways (iron levels) but she honestly thinks everything will turn out fine and I do to............

Austin will not touch the mushrooms, he comes running for daddy, mommy or sissy to come kill them..........so I don't think we will have to worry about them anymore..........but sure as I let my guard down something else will happen..........

Accountibility

I never slowed down yesterday to land at home to work on my list.......So my list is as follows

Living Room~complete deep clean (I do this once a week but it seems like I have to do it because boys' little hotwheels end up under the couch, the chairs everywhere, so we pull them out and sweep under them.....We are in the middle of this now.........Half done...........I will sweep and mop this floor today....... Done

Hallway~needs swept and mopped

Laundry~its a never ending battle!! in progress

Kitchen~finish the dishes, get them all put away. The counters wiped off, get dh to get the broken microwave down and the shelf moved down so we can put the new one on it and get it off my counter (I have very little counter space, this will help) in progress

If I can get this accomplished this weekend it will be awesome...........My kids will definantly deserve a treat............

Accountibility

Ok, this is my first post dedicated to accountibility.........on my list today

7:45 have to be at Alyssa's mental health appt with the dr, we are going to see if there is just something else we can do to manage her behavior. done

I will meet with her principal after that Done

come home, do a load of laundry that is calling my name, I started it last night in the middle of the night when the boys were throwing up

Do at least one load of dishes

sweep the hallway, kitchen and living room

Pick up Joshua and Alyssa from school and head to appt number 2 for Alyssa and follow up for Austin, talk to the dr about the swine flu vaccine and Jace getting the RSV shot Done

Home to have a hot meal....... Done

I think that is enough for friday...........

Now hopefully this will be a start of good things to come.

Mushrooms

well all of you know about Austin eating the mushrooms by now.........I have posted the pics of them...........Since then we have been very diligent about keeping them picked out of the yard........NOw they are growing in the pasture with the horse.......YIKES!!! then this afternoon having to go into town for feed for our chickens, I backed up in the yard because Kent asked me to and he found 4 more huge ones.............in the kids' play yard no less..........

Last night on the weather, the weather meterologist figured up in the 1st 18 days of Sept we have now had 14 days of rain, no wonder I am complaining.......Really I love the rain but seriously we do not need any for a couple of days.........There comes a point and time that it becomes to much of a good thing.........we can not get the grass cut in the kids' play yard so Kent is going to tie the horses out there and let them have some of that good ole' grass........its almost as tall as the trampolene...........they will have it mowed down in no time........

Searching

for what is missing in our lives.......Part of me just thinks that I am still dealing with PPD, those of you who know me well know how bad it can effect me............This time I think I was just to busy to deal with it........Jace spending 23 days in the NICU, having 3 kids at home, Kent's health problems, Alyssa's behavior problems......I didn't have time to really set and cry it out......I was to busy dealing with everyone else's problems.........But there really feels like there is something missing in my life.........I have no motivation to do much of anything, Jace is not sleeping through the night and laundry has doubled............I don't feel like cooking much anymore.......I think I just got to the point where I need to do something rather it is right or wrong...........My family is not being neglected but my house is........I think I am going to try something new..........Its called an accountability partner........I have asked a very dear friend of mine who is actually going through hell right now (love ya, she knows who she is) maybe it will help both of us.......I am also going to start a housework thread on bbc and see if I can get the lg family mommas to join in........I didn't realize I had lost motivation til just here recently..........I have got to do something to make my family happier, my home less cluttered and more baby friendly.......I can not believe my baby is 5 mths old now.......He is showing his own personality more and more everyday...........He will be moving soon, I need to get a baby gate for the hallway, I need to get busy on finishing cleaning out the kids' rooms..........but all one step at a time, one foot in front of the other..........Wish me luck on this endevour.......Oh and I really need to start sleeping in my bed again, I started sleeping on the couch cause Jace couldn't sleep in the bassinet and then when we went to texas, he slept so much better in his pack n play..........I have asked Kent for help to clean out our room so we can set the pack n play up in there..........I'm not ready for him to be out of my reach just yet.........Maybe by thanksgiving or christmas I will be but he is my baby.........No he is not my last........but for right this minute he is my baby........

In honor of Jace turning 5 mths old

As you can tell Joshua loves his little brother........and any time I have the camera out he has to be in the pics........

The dangers lurking in your yard

On monday Austin decided to give his momma and daddy a really bad scare..........I have beat myself up about this but know there isn't much I could do about it..........but it sure don't help the mommy guilt I feel...........OK now the story and the reason for the mushroom pics..........

Here in oklahoma we have been having a very wet summer........Kent nor I thought anything about the mushrooms growing in the yard..........I actually thought they were kind of cool, they grow after a heavy rain and are feeding off of something decomposing in the ground..........Never in a million years did I ever think that one of them could kill one of my kids...........

We were all outside taking care of the horses, checking on the hen that is sitting......Just doing things as a family......Jace was in the house asleep (we still don't have a monitor) Alyssa came bringing me up this huge mushroom.........I've always been told to treat mushrooms that grow in the wild as poisonous, so I told Alyssa to throw it down and destroy it........She tells me "Momma, there are more over there growing" so I told her to go destroy them and I went to check on Jace..........About 5 mins later she comes in and says that Austin ate a mushroom, I didn't put 2 and 2 togather at all........Austin comes up to me and says "momma, my belly hurts" I didn't think anything of it until about 5 mins later when he comes up to me and says "Momma my belly really hurts" It couldn't have been no more than 15 mins from the time he ate it to the time that I figured out what was going on...............Kent called poison control while I got him ready to go........this boy is a dirt magnet........Turns out that he ate one of the most deadliest mushrooms in the state..........We rushed him to the ER..........They met us at the door........The ER was completely packed, standing room only and they met us at the door (I'm impressed) Took us back started accessing him.........And he acted like nothing was wrong however that was an understatement..........Within 15 mins of us getting there they had to give him charcoal........he took maybe a tablespoon of it and started throwing up.........They dont' believe he had enough charcoal to begin vomitting that way........They wanted me to get more of the charcoal down him.......ya right..........this poor baby was throwing up so much that he had the dry heaves......Poor baby.....AFter throwing up almost continueously for about 30 mins they came in and says well we are admitting him, we have to watch his liver and kidney levels for 48 hrs.........One of the adverse effects is liver and kidney failure with mushroom poisoning..........So we had 4 sets of labs done........After he was done throwing up or so we thought, he developed diareaha........oh it was bad.........again this is an effect of eating the mushroom......he was up all night long, flipping from one end of the bed to the other end......I would try to doze with him and that wasn't happening..........6 am rolls around and we have to change the bed for the 4th time.......he finally just lays there, you can tell he just don't feel good..........But at least we are done with the vomitting and throwing up........I can't get him to drink or eat.........by the time Dee gets there around 10:30 his eyes are sunken in and they are black.........he just lays there........He finally passes out around 12:30..........Dee goes and gets Kent and kent is staying up at the hospital with him now............As we all know Kent may love his kids but he can't deal being stuck at home when one of his babies are in the hospital............So we traded places.......Of course I dealt with the worst of it..........Well I have to leave around 3:30 to get home intime for Alyssa and Joshua to get off the school bus..........I try waking him up........Nope but ok didn't think anything about it......checked the diaper that he had on it was still try............He hasn't gone to the bathroom since 6 am.......Told kent to keep an eye on it and went home..........Around 6 pm he saidd that he couldn't get him to wake up........And he was still dry...........So I had him get the nurse in there............She got him to take a drink in his sleep........but couldn't get him to wake up........this was another thing they were watching for...........Around 7:30 I started calling on the prayer warriors to say a prayer for my son.........Around 8 pm I got a phone call that made me cry.........It was my baby, he had woke up.........They don't think it had anything to do with the mushroom poisoning just to do with the fact of what his body had been through in the last 5 days (he had his tonsils removed on friday) and the vomitting just took it all out of him............He still hadn't peed at that time but hey we were still awake.......So I informed the prayer warriors and about a half hour later dh calls me and says we are peeing..........I have never been so happy to hear bodily functions as I was then............I knew then that he was going to be ok...........It was a scary 2 days..........The labs always came back normal.......which is awesome however we still have to monitor them for about 6 mths to make sure nothing sneaks up on us............but my baby is fine............Thank you Lord.........

He has been asked by several people if he is going to eat mushrooms again, he growls at us........I don't think he will even eat the ones out of the can now.............I did get a direct answer out of him yesterday and its a "no" He actually has been put to the test............They found another mushroom growing in the yard.........he went running to his daddy to have daddy get rid of it........

Moral of my story, get rid of the mushrooms before they cause problems and watch your kids......In the blink of an eye it can all change.........

A Quote

I found in Woman's Day magazine that came in yesterday........

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle, I just wish he wouldn't trust me so much~Mother Teresa

Isn't that the truth.......