Being Sick is no Fun!

This is my I am a crappy parent post!

The day we left for FL Preston developed a cough/cold. We watched him gave him medicine and it seemed to get better. When we got back, it seemed to come back and I just watched him. Yesterday it got really bad, so bad in fact that at dinner he coughed so much it made him throw up 4 times in a row. Of course always is the case when our children throw up, Alan was at work! I put Preston in a bath, cleaned up and put him to bed. He continued to cough so when Alan got home (he was just doing a 12 hour cover) We talked about what to do and decided Alan would take him to the ER (I figured since I had cleaned up puke he could take him in) It was 8:30 by then.

They went in, were put in a room right away and decided a chest x-ray and breathing treatment were needed. Iam so glad I wasn't there, Alan said the put him in this contraption that made Alan hold his arms up and Plexiglass wrapped around his chest. He was hysterical apparently. After the x-rays came back they showed a lung infection so they needed blood, again I am glad I wasn't there. They held him down and weren't able to after trying for 5 min, get any blood out of his arm, Preston says ouch every time he moves it this morning. So the had to milk his finger, Alan thought Preston was going to pass out he was crying so hard, he even saw his eyes start to roll back.

Finally they diagnosed him with Walking Pneumonia. Ugh, I should have taken him in much earlier.

He slept ok last night but he is going to have at least 2 naps today, hopefully he will feel better soon!

It's begining to look a lot like Christmas

We woke up this morning to about two inches of snow, Preston loved it





Gracie wasn't so sure about the snowman I made

More Pictures from Florida

I finally got around to uploading the last of my pictures from FL. Our nephew Jacob, Alan's brother Buzz and his girlfriend Amanda came over for our Mock thanksgiving and to celebrate Jacob's 3rd birthday.

























This is the formal night on the cruise

The Daily Preston

I am going to try and post new funny things he says often.

When we were on the cruise, my parents graciously volunteered to watch all three kids for the last night. Apparently, while trying to put Preston to sleep my mom was asked by him to scratch his back. After agreeing to do this Preston started to sing her a song, it goes like this (to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

Scratch, Scratch, Scratch My Back

Scratchy, Scratchy, Scratch

Scratchy, Scratchy, Scratchy, Scratch

Scratchy, Scratch My Back

He made this up all by himself. This kid amazes me sometimes.

We are home

We got home from Florida late last night, well actually about 3 am this morning. It was nice to sleep in my own bed. We had a lot of fun in Florida, thanks Mom and Dad for the cruise.

We went to Sea world and Busch Gardens last weekend and here are some pictures. There are a lot!





Waiting for the Dolphin show to start





Alan is taking the pic since he is extremely allergic to horses!















This is the Pirate Hat! Everyone wore it at some point in the day.


She was so tired!

The Cruise

We are still in Florida on vacation, but we got back from our cruise yesterday. We had a lot of fun, although the weather was rough and unexpected we still enjoyed it. Let me tell you it is hard being back to real life, where my bed is unmade and I have to cook and serve myself meals. The cruise was worth it just for the food!

Here are some pics, I will post more later off of my mom and sisters cams.



Grace in our state room



One of our towel animals, we had an elephant, chicken, swan, rabbit, and I can't remember the other one.



Preston in his tux for the formal night



Off my parents balcony in Grand Cayman





Cozumel in the background



Playing in the pool on board





Getting geared up for our excursion in Mexico, we went rock climbing and on a zip line, we were supposed to snorkel but because of the rough weather it was canceled:(







It was fun, and a workout, my arms and legs were killing me the next day.

After that we took some pics on the beach near the climbing towers, you can see the water was a little rough!















The shopping was good also, although we didn't buy much



Here is our ship







Getting ready to go to dinner









The waiters were dancing and being silly, the kids loved it!



This is what we found on our bed the morning of our last full day, it scared the crap out of me to open our door and see "someone" on our bed.



And this was our last night and our towel swan.

We had such a great time.