Little Isaac...

Isaac had been having a bit of a cough for the past week. He had been on a puffer, so we started that again, but the cough & wheezing wasn't going away. I took him to the clinic yesterday, and they sent us to the ER for more testing. They gave him some medication by nebulizer, which requires holding a mask to his face for almost 10 minutes...during which he screamed the entire time. His vitals were all pretty good, but they wanted to help with the congestion, so we had another round of medication. They did swabs checking for RSV and influenza, and the doctor said it is probably one of those. There is no treatment, just monitoring until he gets better. RSV is a virus that isn't usually much in adults, but could end up being pretty serious for preemies, so hopefully he'll get over this quickly. Fortunately he was in pretty good spirits, except for the chest x-ray, poor child. He's sleeping now, and seems to be doing a bit better.

Indoor Leaf Pile

It was too grey and rainy to play outside in the leaves...


...so we made our own indoor leaf pile


and had lots of fun!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Happy Birthday Marya! We love you! Eric, Evan, Darren, Liam and Isaac!

SMILES

I couldn't just pick one smile to post, so I chose them all!!!

Bob the Builder

We haved a Bob the Builder CD in our van and Liam loves it. This is how he dances to music lately. He has also learned some new words, which the boys enjoy helping him with. The newest one is pretty cute - he talks about Scoop from Bob the Builder, calling him "Mook." He also likes to be a frog, walking around saying, "Are-bip, are-bip."

Swimming Lessons

Evan has been doing really well in his lessons. Unfortunately, the one time we were allowed to take pictures, they were wearing life jackets. Normally he doesn't wear one.

Things They Say...

I try to write them all down but I keep forgetting some. Here are a few:

• Liam was walking around the house being a turkey, "Boggle, Boggle!"
• I told Darren he was being a good big brother. He said, "No, I am being a good medium-sized brother!"
• Evan asked me if a namo was a man who took care of dogs. When I asked him about that, he said it was from the song, "And Bingo was his name-o!"
• My mom was asking Darren about his Sunday School lesson. She asked him what the snake said to Eve, and Darren said, "Sssss."
• Evan told me there was a boy in his class who lived in a stackhouse and he wondered what kind of a house that was. It turns out that this boy's last name is Stackhouse.