Happy Referral Day anniversary Paisley!

2 years ago while I was driving Raven to dance I got the call! They had our information on our baby girl! When she was born, where she was at, her medicals and pictures! I could hardly focus. I prayed for lots of hair because Raven barely had any till she was two. Our Pais had hair! She was chubby and looked very healthy. We are so blessed and grateful for our beautiful gift from God! You've grown so much the past 19 months! Love ya Paisley! (Now quit crawling out of your crib at night! You're too young for that and it is stressing your Momma out!)

Raven sick and smelling something "stinky"!

Raven, my funny girl, had me get her a chicken salad sandwhich on Monday. She said it was stinky and only took a couple bites. She hasn't had an appetite at all. I even got her milk shakes and those don't taste good to her either. Today she wanted me to make her an egg salad sandwhich so we'll see how that goes! Anyway that night she kept telling her Dad something smelled! The next day she kept saying that all she smelled was that stinky chicken salad! She was smelling her shirt, the blanket, then ME! She couldn't figure out where it was coming from but something smelled! Ya know when your sinus' are messed up and you smell Stinky stuff? I think that's what is happening with her. This morning I had to hear it again. What smells? I'm like, "go brush your teeth!" Then she thought it was Paisley's diaper. She is just the funniest thing when she is sick!

My dear friend Leah was over last night and thought Raven looked really bad. today she was asking me about how much she is drinking because she was worried she might be dehydrated. Especially since her fevers have gotten so high at night and we're on day 11! I called the Dr. and the nurse had me swab the inside of her mouth and said it should be moist like mine. Well it wasn't it was dry! She said to bring her down. Raven has the best Dr. in the world! So of course I got the 50 questions on what they were going to do to her! I was so worried about them admitting her because I can only imagine my princess dealing with all the probing and poking they do in the hospital! I made her drink water all the way down there. The Dr. said she was fine that there was slobber under her tongue and that since she can get up and down on her own she's ok. But 1/2 hour later he called me and said her strep just showed up positive. So that's why her poor throat hurts so bad now. Just now she woke up from a cat nap crying saying she couldn't breath. Her nose is stuffed and it burns to breath. We need to go get those antibiotics and hope they help her feel better. I'm going to have to miss my classes the next 2 days and the only time I can take them again is the end of April. But I need to be here for my girl and Jeff has people out sick at his work so he's the only one there, so kinda hard for him to take off. This too shall pass!

Raven and Mono

My poor Raven is on day 10 of being sick. It started on a Saturday when we went roller skating. She took a friend and Ryker took a friend. She complained of a stomachache all day and just wasn't herself. Then that sunday night she had a fever as well as the next morning. I knew there was a lot of flu going around and she didn't have much for cold symptoms so I didn't take her to the dr. That wednesday morning she still had a fever! I needed to get to work so jeff stayed home with her and took her to the dr. They just said she had a virus. I was a little mad they didn't do any bloodwork. They did do a throat culture and it was negative. The Dr. asked Jeff if I was a Dr. since he told her that I wanted blood work done! Seriously couldn't he have just said, "aren't you going to do blood work to rule things and see what type of virus she might have"? instead he used me as an excuse to get it done and then they wouldn't do!
I was concerned about what we were going to do for Thursday because I had a class I couldn't miss because there was no make up class till the end of April. Jeff had a consultant coming into work so he really needed to be there. I prayed she'd be fine. She woke up with NO fever! She was excited to go! The past several days because she puts the "high" in "high maintenance"! She could have a 102 degree temp one minute and be running around hyper with many needs the next minute.

We found out that she spend 1/2 the day in the nurses office. I felt so bad but they didn't call me because she wasn't running a fever. Well sure enough it came back that night and the next morning so Jeff stayed home with her again on Friday. She was much better Saturday.....

Back to last Saturday, I feel bad now because she stayed home with Grandma that evening so we could have an evening out with a friend for her birthday. Hope Grandma doesn't get anything! Sunday the fever was back. Monday morning I'm on the phone with the dr. office. Her throat really started hurting her that day and she wasn't as lively as she had been the previous week. Over the course of the past 3 days she has fallen asleep here and there for awhile which is sooooo not like her because usually she is so wound that she can't relax enough to take a nap. So I did my google research and got worried it was mono. Also because she had complained about her stomach. When we got to the Dr. office (and many hours before) she kept asking if she was getting shots, will they prick my finger, will they swab my throat again, and on and on. Poor girl just stresses herself out worrying about things. They did do all the above except give her a shot. She started feeling really bad after we left the office. We had to pick up Ryker and go to Grandma's to pick up the roast and veggies she made for us. She was not feeling well in the car and then fell asleep. Dr. Anderson called and she does have Mono. He said in these little ones the average time frame for feeling really ill is around 2 weeks. But he said that her liver and spleen are enlarged so she has to be careful about rough housing or contact sports. (she just does dance!) But now she is all freaked out about that cause her dad scared her when he said that her brother and sister can't wrestle with her or hit her in the stomach or she can bleed on the inside. I explained he's not the most tactful person in the world! :) But that she just needs to be careful. She has a ton of homework from school but hasn't been up to it at all. The past two days her poor throat has hurt so bad and she just sits in a daze on the couch. She has been drinking a lot and eating a little. She gets the chills and the sweats. I'm exhausted too! Of course after I get her situated last night, miss paisley decides to get up, which she never does! Then after she goes down, Raven is up again and her fever was 104.6! I've never seen that before so that freaked me out! I gave her motrin and got her to sleep. I kept checking on her and then googled a little to ease my mind which of course only made things worse and then there was no way I was going to sleep. I'll pay for it in a couple of days!
My dear Raven, I pray you start feeling better and the fevers go away so you can go back to school with your friends!

Happy Valentine's Day

It was so fun this year! We had a crazier then normal week at the chocolate store with our largest truffle order ever! It was for a company to give to their big clients at a dinner they were having. They wanted big truffle boxes at all the place settings. We had 2 1/2 days to fill the order and get it shipped out! Whew! It was down to the wire too. The UPS guy was waiting for us to label the boxes and get em done!

I got to go roller skating with Raven's class for their class party. We were both a bit wobbly but then were doing pretty good. I used to roller skate all the time when I was little, but it had seriously been 30 years! I was so excited! I could still do spins and go backwards! Had 1 small fall that left a little bruise on one knee.

Ryker went bowling with his class. He said the game room was the best part, of course. Saturday morning I gave everyone their goodie bags. So fun! Then off to box chocolates and make chocolate strawberries. Roads were a little crappy since we had snow the night before. this all after having weather in the 50's a couple days before! That night we had a pizza party at Grandma's, I'm sure we woke her neighbors all up! It was fun. When we got home we watched Fireproof! Amazing show! Disregard some of the acting, and get the message. We all had tears! I highly recommend it. And the Duggars book on how they manage with 18 kids! Wow! I couldn't put it down.
Happy Valentines day!

kiddo update

Raven finally lost her first tooth a few weeks ago, and now her second! They are both her bottom front teeth.
First I got strep throat, then Ryker was home sick a couple of days but tested negative for strep, then 2 weeks later I get sinus infection and bronchitus. I had no voice and was stuffed up and hacking a bad cough. I really only felt bad for a couple of days but didn't sound so good for awhile. Luckily the girls have both been ok with only little colds.
Ryker's been doing the same ole same ole, into his wii and runescape. We were lucky for it to warm up above 30 the past couple of days so he enjoyed playing outside. He needs a hair cut but is enjoying the longer look these days.
Little Miss Paisley is talking up a storm. She immitates everything she hears and loves screaming and chasing after her brother and sister. We are very blessed with our kids.