Bubbles!

I love the line from Finding Nemo..."Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles...my bubbles!" Well, tonight, Nathan learned how to say bubbles! He was so cute. He says bub-buzz-so cute!

I usually blow the bubble while they're in the bath, and daddy went and showed me up tonight with the battery operated bubble blower that blows HUGE bubbles! I was able to get some great pictures, and even got Nathan to say bubbles on video! Way too cute!

Rain, Rain Came Today!

When Nathan woke up from his nap, we ate watermelon, and then it started to rain! So of course, being from Arizona, where it never rains, I sent the kids outside to play in the rain! They had so much fun getting wet and playing in the water! We were out there for more than 30 minutes and it rained and thundered and rained some more! Gotta love monsoons, even small ones!

Juicy Watermelon

Mom got the kids a watermelon yesterday, and so we cut it open today and let them each have a slice. Then of course I had to take a picture! The kids both love watermelon, so they devour it during the summer!

Old Family Recipe

We were having a quick bowl of chunky chicken noodle soup (from a can) for dinner tonight, and Emily was listing all the ingredients in the recipe. She started out by saying, "This is an old family recipe...you pour it out of the can, and add milk and all the stuffn after that." Gross on the milk, which we don't do, but everything lately to Emily has milk in it. I didn't even know Emily knew what an old family recipe was, so that's what shocked me!

I had to keep myself from laughing, because it really is an old family recipe...I grew up eating chicken noodle soup from a can!

Emergency Room

Wednesday night I got a call from Kathryn and she told me they were taking mom to the Emergency Room. Kathryn told me mom was suffering from chest pain and throwing up. I quickly jumped in the van, and off to Banner Gateway I went.

I got there and mom was really restless and uncomfortable. She said her upper stomach hurt and the pain wouldn't go away. I found out that about 9:30 her stomach started hurting, so she just ignored it hoping it would go away. It only got worse, so she decided to go downstairs at work to the potluck to see if food would help. That aggravated it more and she decided to come home from work. As soon as she got home, she threw up. She tried to rest, drink water and take it easy, but the pain only got worse. Jessica called to see how mom was, and notice mom didn't sound well. So Jessica quickly went over to mom's house, and when Kathryn got there later they called Dr. Bair in her ward and he told her to go to the ER. So that's when they called me.

We got there about 6:45, and mom was finally seen about 7:30. In triage they thought it might be her gallbladder, so they started working on getting her a room. Then we got to sit and wait, and wait, and wait for a nurse and the doctor. They finally came in and decided to do an ultrasound, so she got moved to another room. More waiting. Another nurse came in and started pain medicine and mom was able to start to calm down and relax. She was then taken for an ultrasound, and then more waiting for the results. Michael, Jessica and Allison left about 9:30, and Kathryn and I waited for the results and diagnosis. Mom was able to get some sleep, even with them coming in every once in a while to check on her. The results came back at about 11, which said that she has gallbladder disease, which caused gallbladder stones, and that she would need surgery, so the doctor was going to talk to the surgeon and get his opinion if she should have emergency surgery, or do it as an outpatient surgery. More waiting. About 11:45 the doctor came back in to tell mom that the surgeon suggested outpatient surgery, prescribed a pain medicine if the pain came back, and started the release process. We left the hospital about 12:15, and Kathryn drove mom home with me following them. We got mom into bed, got her comfortable and told her I'd be back in the morning.

I got home about 1, and fell into bed about 1:30. Long day, but I was grateful I was there to help mom and be with her. Her consult is set for July 15, and I pray that she doesn't have any more flare ups before she can have her gallbladder taken care of!

Super mom...

Well, sort of. I finally got around to putting the kids clothes away. I know I'm bad at house work, but I'm TERRIBLE at putting the kids clothes away. I have so many excuses for why I don't put them away each week...they wear so many clothes, they are small and have small hangers, why hang them up when they're going to go through a few changes of clothes a day...you know...all the valid excuses. The kids are always excited when they have clothes in their closets, so that should motivate me more often. I'm usually really good about putting Robby's and my clothes away, but the kids just pile up on Nathan's bed. So, I decided to take a picture and post it to show you one of my many weaknesses. :) Maybe this will convince me to keep it clean now that you know how bad I am. LOL!

Emily

When Emily fell asleep at 5 last night, I was so afraid that that she would wake up in the middle of the night, and not want to go back to sleep. Well, she woke up at 5 this morning, and got out of bed on her own, went and turned on the tv, and didn't bother me at all. When I got up at 7, Emily was happy and had no attitude, like she's known to have when she wakes up! I think I'll put her to bed at 5 more often!