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Maizee got her hands on a knitting project. When I said "Looks like Maizee wants to be a knitter", Dodee replied, "No, she's gonna be a knotter." Dodee was right!

Dance Performance

Taylor and Dodee both had dance performances tonight. They both did great jobs. Here is some video of their dances. My phone freaked out in the middle of Taylors so there is just a little of hers. She also ended up on the opposite side so it's farther away, she is the far left. They are both getting to be great dancers! Great Job, Girls!!

That Makes 3

Well if things run in 3s we should be done with ER visits. Traeson woke up yesterday with a fever and cough. He stayed home from school and I thought I'd just watch him for a day or two. When I got home from work he was listless and flushed. I took his temp. and it was 104.3 (I don't do high fevers, they freak me out). I decided he needed to be seen now, who knows what he could have, I mean if J.R. had a kidney stone, he could have......the Bubonic plague for all I know. This time I decided to try instacare. We lucked out and April Larkin was the Dr. on shift (we've seen her a couple times in the past and been happy). She did a strep swab and sure enough it came back positive. I was actually relieved at least with an antibiotic he will be better in a 24 hours or so instead of 5 to 10 days. He should be back on his feet in no time.

Update on the other two:
J.R. had a follow up Xray on Tuesday and they can no longer see any kidney stones, so we are assuming he has passed it (keep your fingers crossed). He got to keep a copy of the Xray and that was way cool for him.

Maizee is recoving nicely. She still has enough snot for five kids but seems to be a little better each day. She goes in next week for her 6 month check up, we'll see how that goes.

Splish Splash Maizee's Taking a Bath

She is a fish. She loves the water! I had a hard time editing the video so you get to see the whole 30 seconds sorry! But she's so cute, it's worth the time, lol.

Logan Regional at It's Finest

Well what a week we've had. Maizee got really sick at Taylor's basketball game on Saturday and I ended up running her up to the ER. She had a croupy cough, runny nose, and was just plain feeling crappy. She started throwing up and was so lethargic that I paniced and took her up. They looked at her and got off on a tangent about her vomiting. I wasn't concerned about the vomiting as I believed it to be from the phlem from coughing. Well they did everything from xrays to ultrasounds on her tummy to figure out why she was vomiting. They ended up calling it a "virus" and sending her home. I was in Dr. Firth's office this morning with J.R. (story below) and mentioned it to him. He pulled the reports from the ER and about croaked. She has RSV. Would have been great to know. Well she seems to be getting slightly better inspite of the care she recieved at the ER.

And it gets worse. J.R. had a horrible pain in the right side of his stomach that reached around to his back. He started vomiting from the pain at about 2:00 AM. We made it until Dr. Firth was in at 8:30 and he thought it was probably his appendix. So they sent us to the hospital to have a CT scan on his abdomen. Well it wasn't his appendix the little bugger had kidney stones. Dr. Firth called me while we were still at the hospital and told me to stay there that he had arranged for Dr. Larsen to see him and thought they would operate that afternoon. Well we sat in the waiting from for 2 hours waiting for Dr. Larsen to come down and look at him. They wouldn't even give J.R. a bed, a room, any pain meds, or even a bucket to puke in. After the 2 hours I had had it, I threw a fit and they found a cot in a storage closet where he could lay down, not before he puked all over the chairs in the waiting room though. Those of you who have had a baby imagine that pain with no meds or even a bed and the entire waiting room watching you. I was so angry I could have exploded. I finally called Dr. Firth back and explained that we were still in the waiting room, he called and Dr. Larsen finally came down at noon (we got there just after 9:00) and said that he hoped it would pass, wrote an antibiotic prescription and sent him home. Dr. Firth called back at 5:00 to check on J.R. (he's the best doc ever, so glad we have him) and when I told him J.R. was still vomiting and sick he had us call Dr. Larsen back and ask to have J.R. seen. So we did, and he called him in a different prescription (a suppository this time - great fun) and told us to try to make it until 10:00 tomorrow and he would see him then. So that's were we are now. I'll post an update tomorrow, hopefully of a happier J.R. Here is the pic of poor J.R. trying to rest in the waiting room of the hospital for 3 hours.

The Best Baby Sitter in the World

Maizee is permenently attached to Chico. She cries for him when he gets out of arms reach. Thank goodness he feels the same for her for the most part. They will sit in her jumper for a half hour or more together. She just loves to have him around.

She gives him the biggest hugs and rubs her face in his fur. She usually ends up slimming him with slober, but he probably returns the favor when Im not looking.

A bunch of new foods

Maizee has discovered the fun of food. She now eats cereal, baby fruits, licorice, ice cream, and about anything else she can con someone out of. Here are some pics of her firsts.