I broke my foot...

Well about 25 hours ago I was coming in the back entry to our house and felt my self start to slide on a ceramic step. I trip to grip the stair with my right foot to prevent from hitting my shin on the step. However I slipped as I gripped and the rest of my body continued to go forward/downward and my arch of my foot took all of the weight on the edge of the stair. I saw bones pop out towards me, about 3 to be exact, and knew right away it was broken but needed to get to the hospital. I pushed the bones back in because it would have hurt more to wait and have to deal with swelling. It took my neighbor and Joel to carry me to the car.

At the hospital they did an x-ray but couldn’t tell much it either looked like a sprain to an old foot injury (which I never have had an old foot injury) or quite a good fracture. I knew it had to be the later. So they sent me down for a cat scan. When it came back the doc saw :wow I sure did a number on my foot. He had not seen something like that. He assumed what I did was essentially fold my foot in half as it happened and broke 3 long bones and 2 smaller ones.

Right now I am in a hard split with it wrapped really tight. It’s pretty much like a cast but it can be removed when I go to the Orthopedic guy in a couple of days. They do not think I’ll need surgery… but the Ortho guy will decide all of the logistics.

If you could send out some prayers for us we would sure appreciate them. We are going to need alot of them!!!

Kids update...

Maddie is at the end of her year of Kindergarten and I can not believe how fast it has gone. She is doing well and looking forward to summer break. Not sure I am as much LOL.

Allie is doing well and 100% potty trained now...well for the day atleast. She is as devious as ususal and keeping me on my toes at all times.

Logan is wanting to follow in Allie's footsteps literally so he spends most of his day following her arround. He has been army crawling for a while now but today really took off on regular crawling. He can get into a sititng position on his own and even has 2 teeth and 2 more on the way. He's 9 months old now and changes daily.

So things are really good here and we are so excited about the summer and all it brings.

Things seem to have settled...

I realized that I had not updated you all on how we are doing since our sickie post. We are all finally healthy and hopefully for a while too. Allie's med kicked in and she became my sweet happy little one again. Logan popped another tooth so that helped him become a little less cranky.

Weight loss is going well. I am currently involved in a Biggest Loser Challenge with some friends on a mom board. When we started I was at 162.5. I am currently at 153.5 I'd really like to see myself at 145ish by the end of the challenge. Right now since the start I've lost 9lbs (5.54% of my orginal body weight)!!! So I'm feeling pretty darn good about that. I hope to get a little more serious though because I really haven't been trying all that hard so some weeks I lose nothing and others I lose 2-3. If I can be serious about the actual getting myself moving more then it will come off a whole lot fast. So now I am committing to doing that even if I run up and down our stairs 50 times a day. More movement will be the key to really get things going.

Go away Sickies!!!

Well just when we thought Allie was doing better we found out we were way wrong. Before we took her to the Doc yesterday to get a check on how her lungs were doing I went to take her temp. The right ear was a little over waxy looking (nothing new here) so I cleaned it out and she seemed fine. Well I went to put the thermometer into her ear she started screaming and shaking. I was like oh you have to be kidding me... she is on her 3rd set of tubes and we had finally been doing well. By the time we got to the docs she has puss ozzing out of her right ear. They both were pink and perfect on Friday. The left one was fine and looked great.

Well my guess is if looked at today she wouldn't say that now... it's ozzing chunks of puss. Thank goodness our ENT has a refillable ear drop at our disposable at all times otherwise we'd be a mess here for days.

When we were at the docs yesterday she tolds us that ear infection can sometimes come on in hours. You can look at them say at noon one day and they can be perfect and 6 hours later they are finally showing the signs you knew where going to be there because of how the child was acting.

So the story doesn't end there..... Logan is coming down with this same crude. And Maddie is almost finally over it. She has had it for almost 2 1/2 weeks now. Unless they get a bacterial type infection too there is nothing that can be done. What a horrible week to have 2 really sicks kids. Joel is in beautiful California right now. Please someone come hold my cranky baby.

My Allie is very Sick...

I decided to take Allie into the Med center this morning. Normally we go to the Docs but I won the award for the worst mother of the year with Maddie this morning when I forgot about a huge art thing at her school this morning so I made plans to pick her up and see the art then.

Allie has been running a temp around 102-103 for almost 3 full days now along with a funcky cough, runny nose, and allergy symptoms. So I get her to the Med Center and the Nurse Practioner runs the tests and is baffled at first because her lungs are clear for now and her ears were great and throat was just a little red. She did find huge lymph nodes and then she heard the cough. She was completely thrown back by it and thinks now that Allie has a viral induced asthma. But she is also concerned for her temp that doesn't seem to be budging and that her cough could get worse. So I'm on my way to get a nebulizer and meds.

The hope is that by tomorrow her fever has broken and the cough is better if not we've been told to get her into the ER. What sucks is this is the busiest weekend I think since my wedding. I really hope and pray that things do get better for her because I want my happy Allie safe and healthy.

A sad Day....

Yesterday was a rollercoaster of emotion.... I thought that right now I'd be shouting from the mountain top of the joy of a new puppy in our home. But instead I've broken my girls hearts and the puppy is back at the rescue foster home

The puppy we found was at Petco yesterday morning and he was 10 weeks old. He was so beautiful and we fell in love instantly. We brought him home and at first it was going great until we turned our heads for 2 seconds and we found him on top of Logan thinking they were littermates. He did not scare or even hurt Logan at all and at first it was kinda of cute funny. But the more he played near Logan the more we realized he thought that Logan was a littermate and not a baby. This scared me huge time and made me realize that even though he was perfect for our family and even almost house trained the timing might be off by 6 months. So I called the lady that we got him from and asked what we could/should do. The decision came down to the big what if I turned my back because Allie is almost potty trained but stills needs the occasional run me to the potty so I can make it and Logan got hurt on complete accident because of the innocent puppy how would I feel then. I was heartbroken with how I realized how it made me feel because I know that if we had found Teddy 6 months later we would have a best friend for life.

We took Teddy back and we really need some prayers for some healing right now because we are all hurting because he stole our hearts and the thought of him not in our home is killing me.

Wordless Wednesday

Right now I have another blog going that is a way for me to just talk mommy and nothing but mommy. I started a new thing on there today and thought to myself that it would be worth sharing here as well!!! I also hope to use that blog to review products that have to do with my life as a mom. (Also Known As "Mom")This blog will remain my personal journey...well beyond being "mom" but also a wife, child, believer, and so much more. Now onto my first Wordless Wednesday post:

(This was taken August 2006)

This picture truly takes the words right out of my mouth... it leaves me wondering where the last 1 year and 9 months have gone and when did my Baby bear grow up??? Once again Happy 3rd Birthday Allie!!!