christmas 2008

This is finally one of the pictures Jami took in September. She is fabulous!!!

Ok, I know. I am officially the worst blogger yet. I'm sorry about that lapse in time I've not done anything. Lots of things have happened. I have been very busy. In December I applied for a new job as the Clinical Coordinator of the Nursery, and after all the ho hum and waiting they finally made a decision. Sadly I did not get the job. However I did find out how respected and loved I am by my co-workers and the Pediatric Docs. In someway I'm glad I don't have the nightmare, and that I just have to worry about just doing my job and going home to spend time with my family. Thomas has been sort of a pain. He started getting mouthy, and kept saying he wanted to move out, and so I lost it and told him fine do it then. Well, in anger we say things we don't mean. Anyways he proceeded to move out when I was at work the next day, Kevin let him thinking that is what I wanted. Needless to say I wasn't happy and Talked with Thomas about the legal aspects of him living somewhere I'm not. Told him to come home, he would not, so we ended up reporting him as a runaway. He spent 3 days in Vantage Point a holding center or time out for kids who do this. He wasn't very happy, but he got the point. He has done better since coming home, but still requires some reminding. Anyways more latter.

The Drunken Sailor

Well, as you can see. I'm not a great blogger, I just forget to do this. Anyways, life if going well for us. Kevin continues to struggle with ulcers and infections, but that is just par for the course. We did have a little scare this past week. Nathaniel decided to dig through stuff in the bathroom and found some of Kevins pills in a travel bag. Since the pills had been in that bag since August, I really had no idea what he had taken. He came to me with a pill in his mouth that was an antibiotic, stating take pill mommy, look take pill, need a drink. I had him show me where he had gotten the pill and then asked if he had taken more, he said yes. He wasn't really able to tell me what color of pills he had taken. I thought that he had maybe just taken the 3 antibiotic pills that were in the bag, and we would be ok. However 15 minutes later Thomas cames running holding Nathaniel saying something is wrong and that we needed to take him to the hospital now. He said Nathaniel had been fine and then he started to stagger and fell down, then he acted like he was dazed. He tried to walk again and instantly fell over and smacked the floor. His eyes were dialated, and he was very calm and lethargic. Now if any of you know Nathaniel you know that this was definetly not right for him. (Wait, do I really want Mr. Hyper back???) Anyways we went to the ER and were quickly rushed into the back and seen by Dr Jones. He was given a black shake of liquid charchol, that we told him was a licorice shake, Yum YUM! He would drink it then smile with black teeth. Anyways he was admitted for observation, and cried cause he wanted to go home. We had to convince him he was camping and having an adventure at Mommy's work. We are now home and all is well, we think he got into kevin's Lyrica. What an interesting week.

Presidential debate.

Have any of you been entirely irritated with the way politics are? I wish they would all realize that I have a brain and don't need to hear the faults of the competitor. If you are the best canidate for the job, then why would you have to resort to maligning your opponent. If they put the trust in the people instead of assuming we are all ignorant then we might figure out who has the best plan. I mean if you are going to be the president I want to know what you promise to change, but you better be able to give me your plan of how you are going to bring about that change. Don't tell me what the difference is between your plan and your opponent. I'm just sick and tired of the BS that goes into the political campaigns now. O another thing that is just idiotic is that they get a pensions for 1 or 2 terms of service. Hello, how is this even right. In fact I don't think that Congress should even be paid unless they are actually in sessions doing work, but on the off season then they should be working jobs like everyone else. If this was how it was we would have less coruption!!! Anyways good luck voting this year, but if you didn't vote and you don't like who is in charge of your country then you''d better sit down and shut up, you didn't earn the right to complain. Only those who chose to help make the decision has that right.

pictures

Well, I quess I'm really not that great with blogging!!! I've tried to get the pictures posted, but have been unsucessfull, I'm going to get Jami to help me. Anyways things are doing good, Kevin met up with is long time best friend Becka. He has been exstatic since because he finally has someone that has been his friend as long as my friends have been mine around here. Anyways I hope they can move to Payson permanently so we can start doing things with them. Thomas has had a rough week, his girlfriend of 4 months and he broke up and his heart is broken. They are going to try and be friends though. I hope that works for them, it rarely does. Anyways he is doing well besides the break up. Andrew is a regular Monkey, Kristen really nailed him with that name, he is mr mischeivious. He is starting to talk alot, he can repeat almost any word with clarity. He is very smart. He gets so upset when Nathaniel gets to go on the bus to school. Nathaniel is mr serious, but reminds me of Dennis the Menance. He is always getting out the door, or over the fence and going into the neighbor's yard or knocking on thier door. He is quite silly sometimes. He is now totally house broken, we haven't had any accidents for about 2 weeks. He is starting to be able to express himself with his words and seems to be less destructive. School is going well for him, which I'm very proud of his progress. Anyways I got to go!!!