Shaving Cream Fun

The boys enjoyed playing with shaving cream the other day. It's a great thing to do on a cold winter day. Weston enjoyed it more than Tanner. Tanner tried to eat but soon realized it didn't taste so good.  (Sorry the photos are dark.)

Tanner's ER visit

So last week we had a scary visit to the Denver Children's Hospital with Tanner. I'm very thankful there is a north campus about 5 miles from our house. Tanner started coughing earlier that day but nothing big and then around 3:00 in the afternoon I knew he was going to need a breathing treatment. He just starts to sound a certain way, we call it "woody the woodpecker". So I gave him a treatment and then he had one more before bed time around 9:00 (late bed time that night). We thought he would be good for the night. As all parents know, when kids are sick at night we worry about them no matter what it is. When Tanner has these issues I fear he is going to stop breathing, that's just me. Well at 10:00 he started crying and we knew we was going to get sick (he threw up twice). He was breathing a really hard and we could tell he was working to get air.  I knew our treatments at home weren't going to help him and if we didn't take him then we were going to be there later that night. We just knew it was bad. So Mark took him to the hospital and they admitted him fairly fast. They gave him three more treatments back to back and then a steroid treatment to open up his airways.  He's only had this one other time which was the every first time this all started last year. They also stuck tubbing up his nose to suck out the junk in him and monitored his oxygen. After all of this I guess his heart rate jumped and they became concerned. It is normal to see the heart rate increase but I guess it was pretty high. When I got there he was very shaky but I was also told that it was the medicine causing. In the end we are very glad he did not have pneumonia and was treated and released 5 hours later. They decided to keep us for a period of time while he slept to make sure he wouldn't need oxygen. They all told us if we had waited any longer he would have had to go to the main campus in Denver and most likely would have had to stay a couple extra days.  At our recent follow up appointment they decided to put him on a medicine that is a very very small dose of a steroid called a "controller'. He is to have it twice a day in the winter time since he seems to have more issues in the winter as soon as he gets a runny nose or a cough. I truly hope this is something he outgrows and I hope I can find ways to help him so he doesn't have to use the neabulizer (sp?). As a mom, I also feel this is so minor to what many other moms go through. Weston has only had one minor ER visit also and he has been a very healthy boy. I could not even imagine and my heart goes out to them. We are blessed that Tanner is a pretty healthy boy too and this could have been a lot worse. For now this is apart of his day, twice a day. 

As long as a show is on TV he does pretty good for the whole treatment. 

Going Thru Photos

So I am bound and determined to get back into scrapbooking. I have not scrapbooked since Tanner was born...ugh!! I'm way behind. I've been going through photos to get some printed and I came across this photo today...

Where does time go?? I took this picture last year a little after Christmas. Tanner was starting to roll all over the floor and I would find him in funny spots. For this photo I caught him playing with the door stops and he was having a great time. So darn cute!!! 

Finally...Weston's Birthday Party {Part 1}

Weston is 5

So I know I'm a tad behind on Weston's 5 year old post. He turned 5 on December 21, 2010. 

But here it is:

Height: 42.75 inches

Weight: 41lbs 8 ounces

Favorite things: 

bakugans 

legos

movies

playing video games with dad

painting & drawing

loves School 

playing with his friends 

swim lessons

playing his "new" DS in the car

Favorite thing to eat:

Breakfast: Sausage Bread

Launch: Quesadilla

Snack: Apples with Peanut Butter

Dinner: Lasagna

Chores:

sorting the clean silverware

recycling

feeding the dog (which is becoming tanner's chore)

helping load the dishwasher after dinner

hanging clothes

new one: picking up dog poop 

along with his everyday/life tasks 

He also has an admirer named Tanner. I love when they play really well together. I love hearing them laugh at each other or with each other. They are boys and can be rough. They can fight but for the most part they get along really well and Weston truly cares about Tanner. Even if he is his "little brother".

This weekend we will finally have Weston's Superhero 5th Birthday Party. Happy birthday big boy. Where have the years gone??

Getting Ready for Valentine's Day

So I invited a couple of photographers over the other day to get some picture of our kiddos to run a Valentine's Day mini photo shoot special. 

Here is what on my photography post. ;)

www.sarahnicolephotography.com

In Daddy's Shoes

Tanner loves putting on other peoples shoes especially daddy's and grandpa's.