Some pictures for you to enjoy...

For some reason my slide show doesn't want to show up...they keep saying I'm giving them the wrong password, but I know it's right! Grrrrr...so here is the link if you want to see it. I will continue to try and get it up on the blog for you to see here as well!



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Otherwise, I was feeling better this morning so since Ryann and Jaxon had one of their preschool playdates planned for the day I decided to try and get them to it. They had alot of fun and I actually felt fine the whole time there. I basically just hanged out talking with the other mom's and watched the kids play. It wasn't until we got back home that it just hit me again and now I'm feeling crummy. Poor Ryann's blood sugar dropped a ton while we were at the park playing. I had to give her 3 juice boxes before she started acting like her old self again. Then when we got back home she started having diarhea...so it doesn't look like we are out of the woods yet with this stomach stuff.

Anyways, I better get going...I am being booted off the computer by Ryann who wants to play a game on the computer! LOL!

We are getting hit by...

A stomach bug! Yuck! So I mentioned that C.J. threw up on Sunday, which was than followed by diarhea (sorry if too much information!) Than yesterday Jaxon threw up all over me and later that night Ryann started throwing up. We were up until well past midnight with Ryann, not only did we accidentally overdose her, so her blood sugar was low because of that, but than her throwing up just made it worse since whatever we got down her to bring her blood sugar up would get thrown back up. So it was a long night and than C.J. ended up getting up around 1:30, I put him in bed with me, but he spent the whole night just tossing and turning which means I got hardly any sleep. On top of all that I think I might be coming down with all of this too, so I'm just worn out and would like nothing better than to take a nice long nap! C.J. has been a total grouch this morning and was pretty much screaming his head off most of the morning unless I was holding him, which unfortunately I couldn't do since I was trying to get everyone dressed and ready since Jayde had her last day of speech today. After spending the morning though (when I was gone with Jayde with speech) with Grammy though he is acting like he is feeling a lot better! But now it must be Jaxon's turn to be grouchy and I've already had to sit him in timeout twice since I've been home for taking out his grumpiness on his baby brother and sisters! So I've just got one thing to say..."is it bedtime yet?"

Not a good weekend...

Saturday we headed for the river to go boating with one of Doug's really good friend's. It was Doug, Doogie, Jayde, Ryann, Jaxon and Me (of course) and than Doug's friend, his daughter and her boyfriend and friend. Doug's friend was ahead of us in his boat and we were following along behind them. They had been talking on the walkie talkie and Doug's friend said lets go out farther on the river before we start skiing. So Doug thought we would be going for a while still, I made a comment to him and than turned around (Doogie, Jaxon and I were in the front of the boat and the girls were in the back) to tell the girls to make sure they were sitting down on their bottoms. Doug turned his head to look at them as well and than when we turned around we saw that we were right on top of our friends! Doug turned the wheel as hard as he could to try and avoid them and we ended up skipping off the back/left side of them. I could see the look on their faces as we went over them and than I remember turning around and looking at them and seeing blood on Doug's friend's daughter's head. And I remember saying to Doug "Oh my God we hit her with the boat!" Doug's friend had turned around to look at everyone after we hit and asked them is everyone okay...they all answered yes until she lifted her head up and he told her no you aren't! So they whipped their boat around and headed quickly back to shore with us following. We were extremely lucky that none of us were hurt as well, Ryann had gotten thrown down to the ground but she was okay. When we got to shore he asked us if we were okay and I said we were and he said that she had a pretty good size gash on her head. Even seeing blood from our boat after the accident and hearing him say she had a gash didn't prepare me for actually seeing it! It was a nasty jagged gash on the left side of her forhead! I grabbed the car keys from Doug and went running to the car to get the first aid kit (note to self make sure one is in the boat from now on!) We got ice on her head and got her out of the boat and into the truck and then helped them get the boat loaded so they could head to the hospital. It took us a bit longer to get ready since we had to wait in line (right after they left about 3 cars showed up to launch their boats). When we finally got loaded up we took the boat home first got something for the kids to eat and then headed over to the ER to see how they were doing. They had called a plastic surgeon in (which was something Doug and I had talked about on the drive home) and they were just waiting. We had been trying to figure out what part of our boat had hit her and thinking that she's gotta be in a lot of pain if the boat hit her! But what we figured out happened was when our boat hit theirs we shattered their plexi glass window and that flew back and cut her. We are just so thankful that it didn't hit her anywhere else (like her neck, her eyes, etc..) So she ended up getting a ton of stitches but is doing well (she also has a pretty good lump on her head). The doctor said best case scenario is that she'll have a faint white line on her head for a scar. So anyways, yesterday instead of having a fun time out on the water it turned into a nightmare. It was a good reminder about how you always have to be aware of what is going on around you when you are on the water (or even in your car). Of course Doug and I just feel horrible and Doug has been going through in his head all the things he should of done differently. And I know Doug's friend has been doing the same, he said that he shouldn't of just stopped the boat like that knowing that we were behind him and we said well we shouldn't of been following that close. But all in all what it was was just a horrible accident that we are extremely lucky that things weren't even worse. I started thinking what if one of our kids had been hurt, thrown out of the boat or something else...so someone was really watching out for us. And the damage to the boats was actually not as bad as it could of been. Ours has a 6 inch gash on the bottom but luckily it isnt' too deep and than we have some scraps on the side, but nothing too major. Their boat had one of the hooks ripped off and the plexi glass window was broken (obviously) and there was a dent in the back where we hit and the cover for the motor is cracked a little. But like I said before...we were all very lucky. In fact the exact thing had almost happened earlier where he stopped the boat in front of us, but Doug had been looking forward and was watching and was able to cut our engine and just coast in behind them. And then they almost ran into us earlier when our engine had died and we were trying to get it started again and were drifting close to them so we pushed off of their boat and than they gunned the engine and took off missing us just by inches. So I guess we were just an accident waiting to happen but we weren't being as careful as we should...I think we were just all excited about being out on the boats and waterskiing for the first time this summer. Doogie was pretty bummed that we didn't get to ski and kept asking why aren't we skiing! So anyways...that's our story for Saturday.

Today after we finally got everyone dressed and ready to go we were going to head to the store and run a few errands. We hadn't gotten too far down the street when C.J. started throwing up everywhere (my mother-in-law was throwing up yesterday) so we turned back around and went back home and got him cleaned up and Doug got his carseat out and cleaned that. Poor guy must of been exhausted from his ordeal because he ended up crashing and slept for a few hours. He's been acting like he feels fine now though, so hopefully it was just one of those throw up once and get over it type things. I just hope nobody else starts throwing up!

Then Doogie informed me (he was outside in the backyard playing) that the neighbor girls aren't allowed to come over to our house anymore to play since the oldest one got hurt over here. They had been outside in the back playing and Ryann had gotten her with a stick and she had a scrap on her neck from it. I cleaned it up and put neosporin and bandaid on it for her and she was just fine. So Doogie was asking me if I was going to go over and ask him why she couldn't come over...I said no, I said his kids are going to have a boring summer if he pulls them away from a friend anytime they get hurt. The bottom line being kids get hurt...you can't keep them in a plastic bubble. I know there have been times when another kid has hurt mine, but I dont' keep them from playing with eachother (unless the kid is hurting mine on purpose and continues to do so). But Doug said maybe it is a blessing in disguise...since these girls just show up out of no where and just walk in unannounced (especially when no one is home!) I'll just have to call their other friends up more often and get them out on more playdates that way. I feel bad for the neighbor girls because they want to come over and play but their dad won't let them. Ahh well, what can you do, right? There going to have a sad and lonely life if their Dad keeps taking them away from friends whenever they get hurt. And who knows...maybe in time he will change his mind and realize that things like this do happen.

So anyways as you can "see" or read...this hasn't been the greatest weekend! I hope the rest of the week goes alot better.

Ryann is on...

The Potty Train!! Whoo Whoo!! That something just finally clicked for her and she is doing awesome! I don't have to remind her to go anymore (well except when we are getting ready to go somewhere and I remind them all to go in and use the potty!) So now she acts like she has just been doing it forever and goes in and goes when she needs too. We are all very happy and excited for her and we make sure that we continue to give her praise for going in and using the potty and for being a big girl! So I guess next up will be Jaxon....

Lock The Door

Well I've learned the importance of making sure your door is locked when you leave the house. I was distracted this afternoon getting five kids in the car and I really didn't think about locking the door, especially since Balder was inside. I was on my way home when my cell phone started to ring, I saw that it was Doug calling from home so I answer. He told me that he came home to find the front door open Balder out in the front yard and the two neighbor girls in the house! At first I thought he was joking (he does like to pull my leg alot) but he was telling the truth...I even found a pair of shoes that belongs to one of the little girls! The girls do have the tendency to just walk in the house announced...which usually isn't that big of a deal, but isn't good to do when no body is home! It was a good thing that Balder stayed in the yard and didn't run off and that our cat didn't get out! So yes, from now on I will be making sure that the front door is locked when we leave the house!

Busy, busy, busy...

Well lets see if I can get everyone up to date on what's been happening the past couple days.... On Tuesday Balder had a bit of a playdate. I looked out the window and saw a young german shepard in our front yard. So I went out to see if I could get her to come to me and find out who she belonged too. She was a real sweatheart and came running right to me, she didn't have a tag that gave me a name or number but she was chipped so I called that number. Unfortunately they didn't have the owners name on file, just the human's society but when I tried calling them they weren't open until noon and it was 9:00 in the morning. So I put her in the backyard (keeping Balder in the house) while I figured out what to do. Well Ryann decided that Balder wanted to go out too (he was barking at the back door at the new dog) so she let him out! I went racing out there since I didn't want to have a dog fight on my hands...but they hit it off and were soon romping with eachother around the yard. I think he over did it though (he's not as young as he used to be...and he's been really limping around since). Anyways, I finally took a look at her other tags and noticed one from the vet clinic, so I called them up told them my situation and gave them the number on the tag. They were able to look it up and find out who she belonged too. So I gave them my name and number and they gave the owner a call and passed on my info to them. They called me a few minutes later and it seemed that they hadn't even known she was missing yet and they actually just live a couple houses down from us.

Yesterday Jayde had her first day of speech (she gets 6 sessions total for the summer). She was so excited to go and see her speech teacher, she has really been missing her and her speech teacher was just as excited to see her. It was nice for me to be able to see the things they worked on and how they did things so that I can help her better with her speech at home. Tommorrow Doug will take her in since he has that day off and he can see how it is done as well.

Hmmm...what else has been happening... I saw a shooting star last night! It was pretty cool. I had taken Balder outside to go potty before going to bed myself and just happened to look up at the sky at just the right moment. That's the first shooting star I have ever seen!

Nothing else super exciting happening. We have gymnastics tonight and I have to remember to get the kids to it. We have missed the past month because things have just been so crazy and we have just forgotten all about it! But it is so good for the kids and they have such a great time that I hate to have them miss it!

Oh and we would like to wish AUNT JENNI a very very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We hope you have a wonderful day and are looking forward to seeing you soon!! :)

Progress???

I surely hope so! I think Ryann has finally gotten the hang of this potty business (knock on wood)! I have hardly had to remind her to go in and go today, she has just been getting up and going in on her own when she has to go! I am so excited and proud of her, I think she is finally taking that big step! I'm hoping this will continue and our potty problems will be a thing of the past. I'm not too worried about her staying dry at night yet, that can come later. It is also a little bit more difficult to potty train a child with diabetes than one without. I've read from some online message boards about others who have a difficult time getting their child with diabetes potty trained, especially at night. But I'm just glad that she finally seems to be getting the hang of it! So if this keeps up than I guess I will start concentrating more on Jaxon and see if we can't get him potty trained as well!