He's Fwee!

Yes, it's true. My #3 kiddo is finally 3!!YAY!!!!We celebrated today by playing at Pump It Up & having some awesome cake. This boy is loving, playful, adventurous, & oh, so endearing.

How can anyone resist those big brown eyes?

Happy Birthday Jack- We couldn't possibly imagine life without special little you.

My Kid Ate My Homework

This was my letter to my supervisor today-

Dear Boss,

My kid ate my homework. No, seriously. I've been keeping a record of all of the work I've done, just like I was trained to do. But my 2 year old knocked it onto the ground & my 9 month old tried to eat it. He managed to consume all of today's work records.

So don't lose any of my work data, OK? I'd like to get paid for it anyways.

Sheepishly yours,
Kris Merriman

Say What?

Frank:

Hey Mom. When I get to be a grown-up, will I have to take off my shirt to wrestle with another grown-up?

(Never fear. I managed to determine that he was talking about Sumo wrestlers.)

(Whew! I was a little scared for a minute there.)

It's Been A Rough Week....

Yeah- it's bound to be a rough week when this is where you're staying. Little Man James was admitted on Monday because of a bulging fontanelle (soft spot). Can you see it? His little head was pretty pointy for a few days.
Life in the hospital is rough- this is after fasting for 26 hours, 1 MRI, 1 MRV, 1 CAT scan, & 1 spinal tap. And he wasn't even blinking- this is how he really looked.
Can you see the bulging soft spot & the swelling under the skin on the forehead?
Yes, family. My kids do have big noggins. But when it's this bad you can definitely tell when it's swollen! Stinkers.....
Wednesday was a little better- no needles, at least. Wait, until they had to redo the IV that blew in his arm.Sigh- I just wanted to take him & run. So much pain & trauma. But we had to find out what was going on!By Thursday the noggin was more normal-shaped. Taking out the fluid for the spinal tap really made a difference!
And we were lookin' spiffy in our cute tiger gown.

So here's the scoop. James has viral meningitis. It's MUCH less severe than bacterial meningitis, and since it's a virus, they can't treat the meningitis, just the symptoms. Viral meningitis is caused by a virus- anything from roseola to West Nile Virus, to a common cold. They told us there's only a 50-50 chance that we'll find out the cause.

Basically, they can only treat the symptoms of both the virus & the meningitis. So since his only symptoms were a fever & a nasty nose (oh, and the pointy head), & those symptoms were resolving on their own, we got to go home 2 days early! Yay! So sometime Friday or Saturday they'll have some more test results in & we'll get some more answers.

For now, we're just going to hang out & snuggle our bug. What a scare!