Out with the OLD, in with the NEW

So, I went grocery shopping saturday night, spending double what we normally do, because I hadn't been for SOOOOOOOOOOO long. Since the baby can't go out, it is harder for me to make it as often as I need to.

Anyway, Sunday morning I went to the freezer to pull out the pork chops to cook for lunch. When I picked them up, I realized...they were not frozen like they should have been. Then I started investigating more...soggy crookneck squash and zucchini, brown bags of mush that used to be frozen bananas, and watery Ice. You guessed it- our fridge went out on us! Of course after I had just been shopping!

Anyway, to no avail, it wouldn't keep our food cold, so we transfered what we could to our deep freezer and then put milk, cheese, eggs etc in the freezer part of old fridge. It still stayed somewhat cool, just not freezing like a freezer should be!

We found ourselves at Lowe's the next morning, buying a new fridge! I have always wanted a new one, because we didn't buy one when we built the house, it wasn't in the budget. But, now just was not the right timing. O-well, so I got a new fridge, on clearance already, and then he took another 10% off because there was a dent on the side that hides behind the cabinet anyway. It is nice to have water on the door, already cold...and ice to go with it. It is way bigger then our other one and we are excited about that.

Brad kept opening it last night and looking inside and saying, "I really like our new fridge hon!" We decided you know you are getting old when a New kitchen appliance is so exiciting!

Valentines Day Fun

The boys had a fun Valentines day. In the morning, they got the puppets from Mom and played with those all day. Then Dad brought home his Valentine for the boys...john deere tractor toys from work. They are in heaven and I think have totally forgotten about the puppets!

My gift for brad was a flop, as usual. I was so excited the night before because he had mentioned several times he needed a renewed fishing license and he had to get the combo in case he got a deer tag, a new requirement I guess. Well, so I snuck off to buy him a new one and did. I was all excited for him to open it...I had the camera ready, he opened it, and, instead of the reaction I was hoping for, he looked up and said, "did this come in the mail or something?" I just looked at him and realized he had already bought one, forgotten to tell me, and figured it was his he had bought. I just started bawling (prego hormones) and spent the rest of the night in my room. Now brad has two fishing licenses because I doubt they will take the money back. Their computers should show he already bought one, but owell.

I told brad not to get me anything, I just wanted a heart-felt LONG letter from him. Well, that didn't happen either. So, the boys had a blast but I have decided that holidays just aren't as fun as when you were the kid...as an adult I spent all day doing stuff for kids and then I didn't even get to enjoy it with them because I was too emotional about brad's gift flop. Such is life with post-prego emotions!

Jeric Home from Hospital...Again!

Jeric started getting sick on last tuesday, he had his two week check up that day. The Dr. looked at him and said everything looked fine but if he got worse to bring him back in. Well, two days later we were back in. He said he was pre-RSV and wrote up an order for him to go to hospital and get suctioned out. I did that for three days and he seemed to be doing about the same. Then on sunday he seemed so tired, I thought growth spurt, but then he wouldn't wake up to eat and that night started looking really pale to brad and I.

We took him in to get suctioned that night and his oxygen saturtion was 89 (they want to see it above 90 and it should normally be at 98-100) As she was suctioning his number was dropping and he got down to 71%. So, they had to admit him to the hospital. He was hooked up to oxygen and an IV and ECG machine and something else that I don't remember. I just know it was a lot of cords to deal with and I couldn't hold him as much as I wanted because if I did, they machines would all go haywire and they would have to come in a re-situate everything again.

I just got home yesterday late afternoon. His oxygen is still suffering, so we had medical tech's come out yesterday and set our house up with oxygen etc. He has to be on it all the time until the dr. okays otherwise. He has to stay in my bedroom all of the time, because he is hooked up with the tubes and oximeter monitor. But it is still nice to be home and to hold him and talk to him...only two cords to deal with instead of 15! We will slowly start to ween him off of it when we get the okay from the Dr. He stays really good at 98-100 with the oxygen, but if we take it off, he drops to low 80's again. So he definately still needs it. We decided that one month rental of the oxygen equipment is as much or less then one night stay in the hospital, so we are glad to be home!

We sure hope he gets better and can get stronger in health after he does. So that he can fight off other things. It is so hard when they are so little and still growing. Brad and I feel so helpless, all we can do it pray and keep him on the oxygen. I have decided it isn't any fun having one of your own children in the hospital and hope we don't have to do it again anytime soon.

I HATE the neighbors Dog!

Well, sorry for another blog for today...but I had to post this. A few weeks before I had Jeric, our neighbors behind us decided to get a dog from the pound. I hate it...it barks all night and everytime I go outside. It wakes the kids up and me...brad of course sleeps through it all.

So, even though I hate the dog, I felt sad for it today and then was overtaken with laughter as well. I went out to let our dogs run and noticed the above picture. The dog has his food container totally stuck on his head. It is on there and they will probably have to cut it off of his head. The poor thing can't get food or water and I would assume can't get air in there either. So I called the neighbors and told them, they said they would take a look. Well, an hour later it is still there with this container on it's head. So sad to me. Anyway, I couldn't stop laughing though because I have never seen such a thing and it was so funny to watch it walking around with it on.

Spiked Hair

The other day I was nursing Jeric when Dalton and Coleman ran into the front room with wet hair, trying to spike it on their own. I laughed and then they disappeared again. Then they ran back in with even wetter hair...I realized I hadn't heard the tap come on and so I panicked! Where were they getting water from? I was so worried that the answer was the toilet...thank goodness it's not! I hadn't drained the tub from this morning, so they were using tub water. Phewf!!! Anyway, they ran back and forth for about a half an hour wetting and spiking their hair, being goofy brothers. It was pretty entertaining for me while I nursed.

Our Sunday Drive

Well, since the baby is pre-RSV, we haven't been leaving the house at all. Except for Jeric's doctor's appointments...the last place I want to take my two week old, during RSV season is a dr.'s office!

Anyway, I was going house crazy so we went for a sunday drive. It was raining at our house so brad drove towards cedar city until we hit snow. I don't know where we were, but we pulled off in the slushy, WET snow and played.

Coleman was asleep, so dalton made some snowballs to put in back of truck for his brother to see when we got home. So, the snow balls didn't melt and dalton built a snowman...it is little and there is a puddle of water running from the snowman, but dalton thought it was pretty cool. It was a nice drive and good to go SOMEWHERE!!!