Thanks for the prayers.....

Quick update on Khoa:

Our little man is feeling much better! He is no longer running a fever and is not coughing near as much. Thanks for all of your prayers!

Khoa has pneumonia. Not sure how the ER Doctor didn't know that, considering he's the one who ordered the chest x-rays and said they looked fine. Thank God that our family doctor took a look at them and called yesterday to tell us that he had pneumonia in one lung. I took Khoa to see our Dr. today and he changed his antibiotic and hopefully we will see some improvement soon. His fever hasn't broken yet. It's been running between 99 and 104 (with the Motrin). We are now alternating Motrin and Tylenol. Hopefully he will sleep thru the night. We've tried two different cough meds and they aren't really doing much. We are now trying Mucinex Cough for kids. He also now has diarrhea more than likely because of the antibiotic.

Erin took this picture of Khoa laying on the floor between our kitchen and dining room. I was making dinner and he plopped down on the rug and waited for me to finish. Poor baby. Please pray that Khoa will feel better soon. He feels terrible and it just breaks my heart.

It may be a long night!

We are experiencing our little man being sick for the first time. We really don't know what his health was like the first 3 1/2 years of his life. We don't have any other times to compare this to. I feel like a first time Mom and I guess to some extent I am. Khoa has been running a fever of 103.3 and sounds like a chair sliding across the floor when he coughs. He woke up this morning gasping for breathe and crying. I thought maybe it was the Croup. According the ER Doctor, it is not. He has a middle ear infection, a Lower Respiratory infection and a throat infection. What!?! He's had a bit of a fever the last few days off and on, but nothing to indicate what we would wake up to this morning. We took him to the ER since he was having so much trouble catching his breath. It was a little scary, but he did so good at the hospital. He's a trooper! He is just miserable. He's been either on the couch or in his bed ALL day. That's not our little man! He's usually up and going the minute his eyes open and doesn't slow down until he has too!

Please pray that he will feel better in the morning. We will have been able to get about 5 doses of antibiotics in him by Monday morning.

Last weekend...

We had a nice Labor Day weekend spent at home. It was very nice to get some things done around the house that have been neglected. Like the landscaping. I'm usually pretty good about keeping everything weeded, but since our oldest daughter saw a snake in the flowers, well....I just couldn't bring myself to take the leap and start weeding. I put it off as long as possible. When my mom asked me if I knew the things growing in my flowers were weeds, I knew it was time. Sooo, the biggest part of Friday and Saturday were spent outside, but it was a beautiful weather weekend here in the mid-west so I really enjoyed being outside.

Khoa is doing much better with pre-K. Thank you, God! Last week was tough, but hopefully we are past the crying and screaming and begging not to go to school. I wondered how it would go yesterday since he didn't have to go to school on Monday, but he did great! Went right in just like a big boy. The first thing he said when I picked him up yesterday was that he didn't have to go poopy while he was there! Here is a video of Khoa talking about not going back to school. I know I'm his Mommy, but look at those eyes. Aren't they the sweetest ever!!!






Uncle Dan and Aunt Jo Jo passed along to Khoa this fun little jeep. He loves it and drives everywhere. I'm happy to say that he can now drive it without running into my clothes line post or the swingset! Grandpa put in a new battery and the car can go pretty fast now. He's taken the dog a ride (which I hate that I didn't get on video) and all of his favorite toys.



Isn't his play set and little house the cutest! We've had so much fun watching him play and pretend. Uncle Brad and Aunt Jeanie built the play house for their boys and they had out grown it. Grandpa and Daddy took it apart, moved it to our house, put it back together and then roofed it again. What a great bunch of guys we have! I love the American Flag flying!



If you get a chance, check out the post below this one. I actually posted both of these just an hour or so apart.....maybe I should have just made them one big post, but the post below deserves it's own title!

Yucky with a capital Yuck!

I'm not one to really freak out about much, but what I saw the other day was eye-opening to say the least. Have you ever given any thought to what happens to the shopping carts when they are not being used? I hadn't. I've been noticing the boxes of wipes that are offered to wash off the handles on the carts at certain stores. I've used them a few times. After what I saw today, I think that I'll have to take my own cleaning supplies to de-contaminate the stinkin' cart where ever I shop! At this particular Meijer, there were two fairly long rows of carts parked very close to where we pulled up to wait on my husband. I was looking out the window of the van and that's when I noticed nasty little birds running in and out of almost every cart lined up. They were in the seat, on the handles and seemed like everywhere in between. I really had never given it a thought that the carts we use to put our groceries and our children in, are being molested by nasty dirty yucky little birds!


EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW! Birds are full of germs and I can just see a mom with a small baby putting her baby in the seat and of course that baby is going to try and taste anything she/he can get to. Yuck!! Now I understand those new things you can buy to put over the seat and handle of the shopping cart. I have to admit that until now I thought the covers were over-kill, but now..... I think they are a must if you have a baby that can sit-up in the cart.

Again, I'm normally fairly level-headed and don't freak out about too much, but for some reason, little birds using the carts as a playgroud just makes my stmoach turn.

I didn't have my camera with me so I had to use my camera phone to take the pictures. They aren't very clear and you can only see one bird in each picture, but trust me there are at least 10 hanging out.

I've tried to figure out how I can do my shopping without a cart, but I don't think there is anyway I can do it. Soooo, I guess I'll be carrying my own antibacterial wipes with me so that maybe I'll feel safe enough to let Khoa ride in the cart without being afraid that he will end up with some nasty birdy turdy germs on his precious little hands.