Poor Curt Curt!!

Poor Curt Curt!!! Okay, this is probably way more info than you want to know, but here it is!! Last Wed. morning Curt started throwing up. Well that turned to diarrhea too.....but he was keep fluids down so I didn't worry much about him. Then he started just laying around. He was even throwing up and having diarrhea in his sleep. By Thurs morning he wasn't even keeping fluids down, so I took him to the Dr. just thinking she would say, yes, it's rotavirus, just keep him drinking.....But she took one look at him and put him in the hospital! He was very dehydrated and very lethargic. We got to the hospital about 10:00am and after all the procedures, ( a urine cath and 2 trys at an IV....I'm glad Chuck made it for all that!) he just layed on me and slept all day until that night when he perked up for about 20 minutes and then went back to sleep for the night. Now I say he slept all day, but he would have a diarrhea diaper and we'd have to change him and then he'd go back to sleep.....even in the hospital he had 19 diarrhea diapers on Thursday.



These pictures were taken on Friday when he was feeling okay enough that I could leave him sitting in bed for a few minutes to go clean up myself and the room....He actually sat through an entire TV show!! He's not a TV watcher, but I guess he felt that bad!!



They didn't let us go home Friday morning because his potassium was still really low, (3.0 for you medical people.....it was 4.0 when we entered the hospital) and because he wasn't eating or drinking or really even up and going....



By Friday when he woke up from a nap at 1:00pm, he was feeling pretty good!! He ate a good lunch and was wanting to walk around!! So we made laps around the nurses station because he was too contagious to go anywhere else. He even had a biohazard thing on his door. All visitors were supposed to gown up and glove up, but of course none did!!



These were all taken on my cell phone so they aren't great quality, but it's all I had....This is Curt walking around with us on the floor. By the time we were released Fri. about 5 pm, we were having to tell him to slow down and not to run!! His favorite activity at the end was playing peek a boo with the pretty nurse at the nurses station! He was feeling fine by Sat. but he still had 16 diarrhea diapers on Sat.!!! They finally slowed down and then he was able to go to MDO on Tues. I got a touch of it on Sun. and was severly nauseas. I was really bad off!! So on Mon. night Kylie woke up with an ear ache....she was up about 3 times that night hurting....so tues. I send her to school and made her a dr. appt. for after lunch. By the time I pick her up from school she is so wiped out and when we leave the dr. she is running 102.8 fever!!! She has an ear infection and sleeps the rest of the day and all night.....Wed she does not go to school and Thurs. and Friday are fine......so I think we are finally over all of us being sick and then Friday night she starts throwing up in the night!!! I was so out of it I'm not sure I believed her when she told me at first. But Sat. and Sun she was fine!! I'm just hoping this is it for now!! I had to take Curt back to the dr. for repeat blood work on Friday too, so in a weeks time I was at the Dr. 3 times and had a 2 day hospital stay!! I'm so done with being sick for now!

Soccer

Well, I am officially a soccer mom!!! I love it! Last fall Kylie really started showing an interest in playing soccer at our house. We'd go out and have family 'games' and kick the ball around. She always begged us to go out and play! So, after some explaining what a team was and how a real game worked, she decided she wanted to play. So we signed her up and she is on a team with 2 other little girls that we are friends with. The picture above is her first game. It was so cold!!! She had to wear her coat under her jersey! This is how she played most of the game, with her hands in her pockets!!




The above picture is what I like to call the mushroom around the ball!!





This is the game last week. I love these pictures of Kylie!!!

Waterpark in Feb!!

We decided that there was nothing that Kylie really wanted or needed for her birthday, so we decided to take her to do something instead!! So, she got a Sat. with just Mommy and Daddy!! We left Curt with GG and Pops and we drove about an hour away and picked out her big girl booster seat. She was so excited to get to be in 'big girl' seat!! We thought she'd pick one that was all pink, but instead, she suprised us and picked out a plain one, but it had fancy nightlights on the sides that she can turn on by herself!! She loved that feature! Then we took her to an indoor waterpark! It's not very big, but for her it was great!! Thy had 2 adult slides that Chuck and I took turns going on, and then 2 medium slides that you see above. Kylie LOVED them!!! They had a lazy river, a small wave pool and a great kid area with 3 more kid slides!



us eating lunch at the concession stand....we had Pizza Hut!




Kylie and Chuck in the wave pool!



It was such a fun day!! Kylie had so much fun!! I hope that we can do something like this every birthday!

Happy 5th Birthday, Kylie!!!

Wow!!! I can't believe my little baby is 5!! She is such a great kid! She wanted her party at Chuck E. Cheese, so that's where we had it!! We had about 11 or 12 little ones there and she had a blast!!


These are most of the kiddos...



She is way into Barbies this year!!



Kylie and Emma looking at her card.



Barbie Island princess cake!! She loved it!!



Little Alexis!! I was very proud of her little pigtail bows!!




This was her family party at home....Look at her face!! GG and Pops got her a new CD player that has a microphone on it!! oh, and it's shaped like Cinderellas Coach!




Curt eating Kylie's cake!




Happy Birthday, Kylie!!

Catch up post!!!

I am so not good at this blog!!! It's a good thing only a few people read it because it sure doesn't get updated more then once a month or so!!! Here are some Christmas pictures and whatever random pictures I feel like adding!!


Curt trying to catch Kylie at the park!



Curt being silly....I love this picture!



his movie star pose!



This was a random pic on my phone....this is at New Years Eve at a friends house....notice Curt in the middle....he's trying to play Guitar Hero with the boys!!! on a pink guitar!



These next pictures are on Christmas with my family....The kids loved their name puzzles!






My pcitures are out of order, I know....this next one is a rare picture!! Has never happened before and probably never happen again!! This was Christmas day after we had opened our presents as a family. Kylie and I laid in bed to rest and she fell asleep, then Curt woke up and Chuck brought him to me and he fell back asleep and I was able to get up!! How many more years till this happens again??



This was the kids before they opened their presents on Christmas morning!! (notice the handles of foam swords sticking out of the tree!!)



Curt and his new b-ball goal, as he calls it!



Why do we buy any other presents when they love the $2 swords??



These next ones are Christmas with Chuck's mom....his dad had to be at a mine outage and he ended up missing Christmas, New Years and Kylie's birthday....he was gone for about 6 weeks....





The grandkids!! No, we did not intentionally match the girls....Alexis's dress was actually Kylie's first Christmas dress that Chuck's mom made for her.....we were excited that she was the same size and could wear it!



Okay, if you read this one before I add more....here are some of the nexts pictures that will be in the next posts! Kylie's birthday, Curt in the hospital, Kylie's birthday trip, and soccer!! Now, let's hope that it won't be another month before I get all those pics up too!