Make a plan Stan

The plan is to take pictures of Blondy with his artwork and post it here. Lets see if I can get that done. The best layed plans....

2nd Grade

Blondy got a great teacher and a classroom FULL (30 kids here in California now) of good friends. Hope he has a wonderful 1st day in 2nd grade! I put little notes in their lunch boxes today telling them how much we love them and to have a terrific day at school.

Blondy starts 1st Grade

All the tests came back clear on his headaches!!! YEAHHH!! So we can pretty much manage them by keeping him hydrated, keeping him away from processed foods(mostly meats like sausage, hot dogs and salami) and away from caffeine and chocolate. The chocolate is the hard part. Just ask him what his favorite food is... his answer will be chocolate. We do let him have it in moderate doses. Occasionally in chocolate milk or on ice cream. That's about it.

Anyhow we are in full Fall swing getting into school and ready for homework and school projects galore. He has a wonderful teacher who is VERY creative and artistically driven. I think Blondy will fit right in.

Mr Sand man, take me away

Blondy has his sleep diagnositic test in Sacramento tonight. Wish us luck. Hollywood is spending some one on one time with Gma K and Gpa D tonight and we'll meet him at the game tomorrow. Little fella seems to be bothering him. Can boys get UTI's? First the headaches, sinuses and now this? UGHHHH.

My Fellow Friends

This morning I sent Blondy off to to the shower to undress and I followed him in and started the shower so it wasn't too hot (I know he can do it, I've watched him. But he's not 6 yet and I want to protect him from some things for just a little longer, ya know, like getting scalded by the shower and such)

ANYWAY, He gets undressed, goes pee-pee and looks down proclaiming... wait, your just gonna love this. Sorry buddy, I know I'm so dead but gotta tell everyone anyway....

"My weenie sure is a big fellow" so matter of factly that I (figuratively) almost peed my pants. LOL

update

FFP and I took Blondy to Sutter Hospital today for a pediatric neurology appointment after getting an unheard of referral from his general ped doc. With Blondy's constant headaches and migraines we needed a bit more than good old Dr. Tedford could give us so off we went for an afternoon excursion to Sacramento.

Blondy missed an afternoon of school and really didn't want to go. He actually said he'd rather just stay here but we had to explain that it doesn't work that way. He didn't fight us when it was time to go. The great thing is that Dr. Tedford's office called last Friday with the results of the MRI we had done the week before and they showed that he does have chronic sinus infections, and nothing more.

Dr. Khan was great. He has wonderful bedside manor which I would hope for if you went into pediatric anything. Jackson was cracking jokes and felt very comfortable with him. There were a few things that set off warning bells about his migraines though:

He snores
He reverted back to wetting the bed after being completely potty trained
He doesn't breath through his nose (he has to stop mid sentence to breath)
he has migraines (no brainer hu?) way too frequently
He tires easily

So the plan is to get a sleep study down at Sutter sometime this next month. After that we will see Dr. Khan again and depending on the sleep results he maybe referred to an Ear Nose and Throat Specialist. Dr. Khan believes he may have sleep apnea, not to the extent of not breathing but just not getting enough restful sleep. If this goes on too long it could have lasting problems, school work suffers, his attention span wanes, his fatigue increases and as an adult it can cause hypertension and lead to heart disease and stroke. So if we can nip this in the bud here and now, lets do it.

Some things we are able to do at home in the mean time is a regular bedtime, no chocolate (yes Blondy's world just might collapse), and no nitrates or processed meats (out goes the salami and hot dogs in his mac and cheese). For a child who is pretty picky about what he eats I'm cutting his diet in half. LOL. We are to the point that he goes hungry if he doesn't want to eat what I make. He gets his pick at breakfast and for the most part at lunch (I say you can have this or that and he picks one but I AM NOT A SHORT ORDER COOK). Dinner has been harder. He just doesn't like mexican food and that's what everyone else wants. I need to add some different recipes into my dinners and be more flexible I know.

So we survived today and I just can't wait for them to plug him into all those machines and then try to sleep, and me try to sleep too.

Testing, Testing, 1-2-3

Blondy goes in tomorrow morning at 7am to get an MRI for his Migrains. Thankfully its a no-constrast otherwise we would have had to do the sleep depravation so he would stay still. Thankfully this test should only take 20 minutes or so. He should be able to sit still at this age. I'll let you know when I get some news.

Here Son just play with a hatchet

Ok so that sounds kind of bitter. When Chris took the boys out to Durham to go woodcutting last weekend it ended like I hoped it wouldn't, with a trip to the ER for a cut thumb. I had visions on my way home from my walk, then too the hospital of what it would be like and thankfully it wasn't nearly that bad. As a precaution, FFP took him in just in case he needed stitches. He didn',t just sterile strips and a big bandage around it for a week.

While they were out at the field FFP taught them the right way to hold the hatchet and to keep both hands on the handle. Boys being typical boys, they played the right way for a long time. But Daddy forgets that little boys have a tendency to foget the rules after a while too. They "played" well for about an hour with the hatchets and when they were about to leave "AHHHH" and BLOOD! Blondies left thumb was hit with the edge of the hatchet because he was hitting the ground and holding himself up with his left hand instead of holding the handle like instructed by daddy. Hollywood got really got pale and didn't do so good with the blood.He felt so bad that he told his daddy that he thought he might throw up. I don't think that Hollywood is going to be a paramedic since he apparently inhearited the lack of excitement over bodily fluids gene from me. FFP looked at it and decided we better head to the hospital just in case. It wasn't that big but kinda narly. My hope is that no one in my family plays with hatchets again for a very long time.

Christmas 2007

The boys had a great Christmas this year. Santa (who is still very much believed in here in the household) brought the whole family a Playstation 2, it was a considerable deduction in price from its lately issued PS3 or the Wii. Although Blondy is much more intrigued with his Webkin "Jump" who is a beautiful Tree Frog with a virtual room and yard at Webkins.com. He has to earn Webkins $ by doing various tasks to buy food and other essentials for a happy and healthy, not hungry tree frog. I'll have to get a picture of them together. Of course Hollywood got one too and his obsession is a bit more engaging as I wrestle time with my computer back from him. Blondy is in his I want it and I want it now faze so we have been having to curb computer, video and TV time of late but I hope with the back to normal routine things will even back out to normal. We are counting down the days to Uncle B and Aunt R's wedding Feb.2nd. We can't wait.

What Daddy's do when Mommy's aren't watching

Uncle Brian with the boys last summer.

Here are some pix of my used to be blond child post haircut from Daddy. Keep in mind... Family pix are just a few weekends away. The boys wanted to pay tribute to their Uncle Brian who is serving in Iraq for the Army right now. I sure hope his hair grows fast. Of course now both of my children are BALD because I was not going to let them go to school with crooked Mohawks. LOL

I speak Norwegian, yea

My creative FFP taught my little sweet Blondy how to fluctuate his voice to sound "Norwegian". He has the accent down to a T like some big Swedish maid or massage therapist who will turn you into a pretzel if you let them. He goes to school and tells his teacher that Daddy taught him "Norwegian" and tells her that he can teach her by "just saying YEA like a question at the end of every sentence". She laughed so hard she almost cried and now I'll have to get it on tape to prove it to you all. I'm so glad my kids (and my hubby) are so freakin creative and keep me laughing every day. I am so blessed.

This is a disclosure that my child and my husband mean no disrespect by speaking in the stereotypical voice of those from Norway or Sweden area of Europe.

Greased Lighting

Blondy was moving so fast tonight at the park. We took Hollywood out to ride his bike without training wheels for the first time and he rocked. Blondy was very anxious to ride his without training wheels too. I am sure it won't be long and he'll be racing his brother all over the place. Here is a pic from tonights excursion to the new park north of town. Poor kid has to peddle at least twice as far as his counterpart on the big boy bike.

On the first Day of Kindergarten my teacher gave to me...

A great best friend to spend the day with!



Blondy had a great first day at school with his his very best friend 5 going on 21. Unfortunately she got accepted to the other school where her sister and Hollywood went last year so the excitement of being in the same class was short lived. Blondy is very ambitious and wants to know how to read "RIGHT NOW." I can't wait to work in the class and be involved in the PTA. I know I'm a nerd...

Campin makes you DIRTY! Good thing I'm so darn cute

I am so thankful that you love to camp. You are so creative that its easy for you to stay busy with just some sand toys a bucket, a beach and a lake. I can't wait to take you camping again. I can't wait for you to go fishing and hunting with your dad. I can't wait for the day that you can put up your own tent... Or maybe I can. I love this age you are at and will cherish it and hold onto it as long as I can. Thank you, Blondy, for being YOU!

My Blond Bombshell

On a nice May morning we welcomed you to the world 5 years ago. You had white hair and big sweet baby cheeks. That aspect hasn't changed but you are no longer a baby. You are officially a Kindegartener in just 10 days. You give me dozens if not hundreds of loves and kisses every single day. I will be sad if (when) there comes a day that slows or even ends. I promise for you and your brother to be the best Mommy I can be and welcome your love whenever you want to give it. Even when you are in trouble. You will still be punished but I will not turn away from your love, EVER. That is something you can always count on from Daddy and Me. We love you both more than the world.