Halloween 2007

You had to know this blog was coming. hehehehehe.

Seriously though...a truly uneventful night. It was a little strange because our last three Halloween's were in Michigan and with our Michigan Friends. We have very few of those out here in the boondocks as of yet.

Only a handful of trick-or-treaters to bother us and it gave Hubby an excuse to play with his fogger (and strobe light). Little Man wasn't too sure about that at first, but eventually he too thought it was pretty cool.

We know we'll probably never top the Yoda costume from last year but he still made a cute little pirate. Enjoy the pictures...you know where the rest are. Well, they'll be there tomorrow anyway, ha!

Little Man's Fishies

Little Man is fascinated with fish. It all started with the trips to Texas Children's and their very large fish tank. He spends all of his time with the fish while we wait for his appointments each week. While we were in MI, he spent plenty of time at our friend's tank too. He got some money for his birthday so we bought him his very own fish tank.

So here it is, he's not spoiled or anything,

Just Cute

Okay, so we're both partial...after all, he is OUR child. :)

Yesterday we let Little Man loose with his new easel and some chalk (a bday gift from his Uncle & Aunt in VA). He had a blast. By today, his favorite part seems to be erasing the writing which is hilarious. He's the same way with the magna doodle, btw. He wants you to write on it so he can erase it, haha!!!!!

He also still appears to be completely ambidextrous with his writing. It all depends on his mood but he also loves to be writing/coloring/etc with both hands simultaneously.

Later that night we took him out to the driveway and put him on his brand new tricycle that he received as a birthday gift. He loved it and we were both impressed at how quickly he seemed to catch on with regard to the peddals. He can barely reach them without shoes on but he tries. These are just precious to us :)

Great Trip

First of all, an update on my mom. She's doing better. They succesfully put her under and cleaned out the infected area. They should get the cultures back tomorrow (hopefully) to actually confirm the suspicions of MRSA. Hopefully she'll be able to leave the hospital on Wed and be back at work next Monday.

On another note: DAMN it feels good to be home, lol.

We did have a great trip though. 4300 miles worth of great trip.

Here are a few of the highlights.

Seeing old friends....

The National Zoo

Hanging out with family: SIL & her DD (b. Aug 3) & Cousin & her DS (b. July 19) and Little Man with the kids great grandma.

Little Man LOVED playing the piano with Granny

Pittsburgh Zoo (& Aquarium)

Eating Cake in Michigan

More friends...

The St Louis Zoo with friends...

By now you know where the rest of the pictures are *wink*

There are a ton of them and some videos too. Although I'm not done uploading the videos yet.

MRSA

Unless you've been living under a rock you've probably at least heard the term MRSA at least once or twice lately. It's the potentially deadly bug that has been making people fall ill left & right over the past few weeks. (At least it's been in the news for that long anyway).

Please take a moment and say a quick prayer for my mom who is in a Dallas area hospital with MRSA.

Her bday is in a few days and for her bday she was going to Dallas and was going to go to the Cowboys game today. But something wasn't right and this little red spot had suddenly gotten huge so she went to the ER.

The doctor made a 2 inch incision told her he was all but certain it was MRSA but they weren't going to grow the cultures b/c that would mean lots of paperwork in reporting it. (Oh that makes my blood boil, btw). They gave her a lot of oral antibiotics, drew a circle around the red spot and told her that if it got outside the line, she needed to come back ASAP for IV antibiotics.

So early Sat afternoon, that's exactly what she did. She was admitted and they began the really strong stuff through the IV's.

We were all in hopes that we would see the red starting to retreat this morning and although she was feeling better, it wasn't retreating even though it wasn't still growing either.

Fast forward to this afternoon...it's still growing on at least two sides of her 'circle'. They are going to be taking her into surgery soon so that they can open up the area and try to make sure as much of it is removed as possible. I do hope that by tomorrow morning I can say that it's finally retreating and she's actually getting better. If not, I honestly don't know what I'm going to do with myself. I think I can honestly say it's torture for all of us, just sitting around waiting to find out if it's going to respond to the antibiotics.

This surgeon did finally take cultures yesterday so that they can grow it and actually confirm their suspicions of MRSA for a fact, but they all expect it will come back as that.

As for the school, I don't know what they are going to do. (she's a middle school nurse) She is going to call the principal at his home and let him know so that appopriate action can be taken. I think what's scary is that there is probably a student out there that has this and either doesn't know it or it wasn't reported, just like they tried to do with my mom.


So keep her in your prayers and I'll keep you posted.

THANK YOU!!!!!