Dear Febrile Seizure, I HATE you!

As you may have guessed I have witnessed my very first seizure, and it happened to be Mr. T. Two Friday's ago we were laying down for our nap, because I like nap time as much as he does sometimes, when he woke me up when he started shaking on me. I thought he was trying to wake me or maybe he was cold but when I looked at him his lips were blue and his eyes were rolled back. It was, without a doubt, the scariest moment of my life! So I got him onto the floor and called 911. As soon as I started talking to the operator Mr. T stopped convulsing but he was still unresponsive. She had me check his breathing and told me where the ambulance was. It took them three minutes to get to my house. Three minutes! I am glad I live right on the edge of town! Once they walked in Mr. T was awake and pissed off! I can't blame him though. They did a sugar test and hooked him up to a pulse-ox and got some oxygen going just in case. Then we were off to the back of the ambulance. By this time the Hubby showed up after leaving work early and he went with Mr. T in the ambulance while I followed in the car.

When we got to the hospital Mr. T puked on himself so they put a gown on him, did more tests, including an x-ray, and finally gave us our own room instead of just a curtained off section. We waited there for about three hours when they told us it was most likely caused by a fever. They wanted to keep him over night but not at there hospital because of his heart. So they called over to his cardiologists hospital and they didn't want him either! We were however welcome to go to the hospital that has done all of his surgeries and of course where he was born. The problem with that, it is about 2-2 1/2 hours away. So the Hubs went by ambulance again while I went to pick up some company for my long ride (my brother) and met them there. As soon as we got there we were told we could be discharged. It was in fact a febrile seizure. So it took us longer to get down there then we were actually at the hospital. At least we got to check out some of the new hospital (it was newly built) while we were there.

So we drove home without waiting for morning, I wanted to skip the traffic, and didn't get much sleep for the next couple of days! End story of hectic/scary day!

The weather was nice here today so we decided we wanted to go to the park. We went and picked up one of our friends and did just that! Mr. T is the slide master and we found a park with nothing but slides, he loved it! Both boys would climb up the stairs and go down the slide without much thought as to where we were (we being the parents trying to help them up the steps and catching them at the end of the slide). Then we went and ran around the play castle they have for kids and came home. Mr. T was so tired he ate a hamburger (all of it) and fell asleep! The fresh air was nice though!

Then we went groceries shopping with a different friend. Him and his girlfriend got to ride in the car cart as we drove around the store. I have been trying out the couponing thing for about a month now. I was still surprised when we got to the check out and I saved about $20! My friend was so excited that she is going to start the couponing thing as well! Maybe we can learn together and get really good at it! Anyway, then I went to Walmart and saved about $10, so not to impressive but still ten more dollars in my pocket!

I am still not drinking pop, except for the can on the day of the E.R. trip, or trips! So a little deflated yeah me because I know I would still be going strong if not for that! I got out of the house today and walked through the park with my friend and the babies toddlers. I made her walk fast with me and almost lost her! She complained a little but then decided to step it up and try to keep up with me. So Yeah us! I have been eating more or less snack-y foods lately instead of making something so no yeah for me there. I am working a little at a time in the right direction though! Yeah me!

Beans beans the wonderful fruit

I know I go from no posts for months and then three in a week! Well just a couple of topics for today. 

I told you about the potty training in a earlier post. Well we are doing great, Mr. T better than mom sometimes I think! He wants to go more than I remember. I have an app for that now though! Anyway, recently Mr. T has been trying out different things to do with his arms. These aren't going to be as funny written down as they are when you see it, but I am going to tell you anyway. The first was he hunkered down (which he always does) and threw his arms up like he was riding a roller coaster. Then he tried locking his fingers behind his head while hunkering and letting out a sigh of relief. Then the hubby told me he did the put your hand on the wall leaning forward thing for him. I wonder which one he is going to end up with. They are all to funny! 

The past couple of days I have been trying out dry beans. I have tried before and they were not very good. So with a little bit of trepidation I first tried to make re-fried beans. My friend and Mr. T's girlfriend were over when I made them and she said she may never buy them again, just have me make some for her! Apparently she thought they were pretty tasty! They were awesome if I do say so myself, even the Hubs liked them and he doesn't like re-fried beans. Maybe he was just afraid I wouldn't make dinner for him anymore! Then today I made black beans and again scored big! I guess that's another Yeah me! I take them when I can get them! So after my successes I am going to try kidney beans again, the very same beans that I failed at the first time! Hopefully I can make them taste as yummy as the rest!

Still haven't found the motivation to do anything more but work around the house. At least I am still moving though and haven't gone back to my couch potatoe-ness! Still no pop! Yeah me! Still eating normally which if you remember is not to bad, so half hearted yeah me for that one! 

Just as a note before I go I want to send good vibes out for my friend who is going through a rough patch right now. Hopefully she will find out more soon on what is actually happening, and hopefully it is good news instead of bad. 

As I finish typing this Mr. T is getting into trouble for climbing where he is not suppose to be. The hubs started counting to give him time to get down.

Hubs: One, two

Mr. T: Two

Hubs: (trying not to laugh) You aren't going to use your cuteness on me!

And Mr. T goes to time out giggling the whole time!

Hopefully someone fed my fish while I was gone!

I just realized as I looked at my blog that my poor virtual fish have been starving for like half a year. Patiently waiting for me to come back they have just been swimming around, waiting. I'm surprised they didn't start eating each other. Poor fish! I hope I do better with Mr. T's new fish! It's a good thing Mr. T yells when hes hungry! I do have to clean the tank already though, it's looking pretty nasty. One thing virtual fish have over the real deal, no tank to clean!

Enough about fish, although I am a Pieces so I think that's why I have almost a kindred spirit for my virtual fish.

To bigger and better things, or just other things, that's probably it. On to other things. I have still had no soda, Yeah! Fist bump me! Speaking of, guess who does the fist bump now. That's right Mr. T! It is the cutest thing I have seen! Well one of the cutest things I have seen. Today. Or yesterday. Whenever he does it. He will go back and forth between high fives and fist bumps. He likes to do it for like 10 minutes at a time, so the cuteness does wear off a little by the end.

That's all my go me news. I haven't really been eating any different and moving more is still in the works. Although I did clean my kitchen yesterday so I am counting it as moving more. Every little bit helps, so another lower case yeah me and shoulder level high five! Don't want to get to hyped over the bare minimum.

In other other news, I have been waking Mr. T up early the past couple of days. Way earlier than he is used to. He is definitively my son in this category. I am a night owl and well guess what, so is he. I realized he really has to get on a better schedule because well he is just going to get older and it will probably be better now than later. So I have gotten him up around 9 a.m. both days. I know not so early to most of you, but remember I used to see 9 a.m. when I was going to sleep before Mr. T, not waking up. So this is early for me! Mr. T is used to getting up around 11 a.m. if not later! Early for Mr. T as well. My Hubs finally gets a break when I get up with Mr. T because that used to be all him, he is the morning person! This system worked for us but wasn't 100%. Something had to change. That's right where we are at the moment.

Getting up early has advantages. We went to a playgroup yesterday morning and I think Mr. T had fun. Even though it was him, his girlfriend that he plays with all the time and only one other little girl. He followed the other little girl around for a little bit and then helped her get all the dolls out. It was cute. The only thing that irked me a little was the sharing thing. Yes I do know sharing is hard, especially for toddlers. The little girl was obviously used to getting her way. Maybe she doesn't play with other kids very often and therefore doesn't have to share very often. Anyway, Mr. T is such a laid back toddler that he thinks its a game when other kids come over and take things from him. He either just starts handing them everything he picks up or he just walks away to find something else to play with. I usually glare at the other parent until they feel they need to step it up a notch on the whole parenting thing. Which I don't think I convey very well. My glare may be broken. I will have to check later.

We also had breakfast with Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Bill. We went to McDonald's, one with a play place, and seeings as it was early no one was there. So I took Mr. T through all the tubes and up the big scary tower just to slide down the slide once. He really liked it and wanted to go again. I didn't. Honestly how much weight are them things suppose to hold, I was scared it was just going to come apart. Like one minute I would be crawling through the tunnel the next falling to certain broken limbs at least! So he played with the stuff on the side of the play place. And still had fun! When we walked into McDonald's we saw an old man sitting at a table with friends who greeted us as we walked by. He complimented on Mr. T's hat (it's got a Mohawk) and they proceeded to compare cool hats. His had the Incredible Hulk on it. Needless to say we had to stop and talk on the way out as well! Mr. T, always making friends.

And on that note I say ta ta for now!

Poop, just because

No one else is going to say it for me so I might as well. Welcome back!

Thank you, thank you, it's good to be back!

Now that I got that out of my system for the moment I would like to say yes, it is true, I am back. I know you have been waiting and waiting, wondering if I would ever grace these electronic pages again. Surprise! Here I am again. I am going to try to stay a little longer and be a bit more regular this time. I may have said that before, I'm not sure, and since I have a strict no reading of the already typed blogs rule, I'm just gonna go with it. I always wondered how anything I write makes since if I don't read over it before I post it, then I figure spell check is smarter than me so it will pick up on what I was trying to say and let me know if I said it right, as well as spelling of course! So if something ever doesn't make any sense it's because of my unwillingness to reread whatever it is I have already posted, and spell check, don't judge me to harshly.

I don't remember where I was going with this post now so I will just ramble on and see how many people actually read it to the end.

In important news my baby is definitely a toddler now. And practicing for the terrible twos. He's still got like four months, I guess he thinks he needs extra practice. It's alright though, except when he laughs at you in time out, is too cute to say no to when you have to, decides to save a diaper by taking it off and pooping throughout his bedroom, and tries to set his own bedtime every night by seeing how long he can keep his eyes open! We usually get him in bed around 2:30am. Fun times! That's just what I had to deal with today! Mr. Toddler has started potty training as well. He does fantastic throughout the day, except he would rather poop on the floor than in his potty. He still has not pooped in the potty.

The other day Mr. T (as in Mr. Toddler not the other guy) and my Hubby had a conversation. Something to the sound of this:
Hubby: (After putting his diaper back on for the 74th time that day) If you don't leave your diaper on I am going to ductape it on.
Mr. T: Quack quack
Which the Hubs took as some kind of challenge and went to find the tape as I tried to explain it was the duck part that Mr. T heard and answered with what the duck says.

Come to think of it, maybe it was a challenge.

Back on track, I have finally decided to start couponing. So I have little file like folders to hold my coups and have printed a bazillion off different sites on the Internet. Now the Hubs says I'm going all crazy with the coupons. I don't understand why he cares if he is saving money from my crazy ways! I saved $10 at the store yesterday! Go me! I know not much, but I am pumped!

In other news I have decided to loose some poundage! That's right I have decided to say farewell to auntie flab and granny love handles! So step one of my no more fat relatives plan, stop drinking soda. And I haven't had any since my birthday! (1w1d) Another yeah me! Step two of NMFR plan (abbreviated to save time) is to eat better. I don't really eat terribly to start with, but I am going to watch how much I eat through the day and go from there. I am keeping a food diary for a week to see what it looks like and I will be completely honest with it. If it goes in my mouth it goes in the book. Step number three will be a planned work out routine, from my wonderful Hubby, because he needs the practice anyway. When he grows up he wants to be a personal trainer! Yeah for Hubs!

So I think that's long enough for my first time back in a couple months. Hope to see you again soon!