Its good to have him home again!

Yup, Aiden is home now. He's napping in his own crib right now, and I'm sure he's glad to be home too.

Thank you all for your well wishes.

Although his gland is still pretty swollen, the doctor said it could still take a while for it to go away completely. He is on 2 different antibiotics (one because Kevin has Strep throat and tonsilitis and its more of a precaution)

Yesterday he was taken off his IV antibiotic and given two separate oral antibiotic. One of which he had a pretty bad allergic reaction to. He broke out into a nasty red rash and has to be on an antihistamine for that to go away. The rash was nearly completely gone when he wokeup this morning. He is now allergic to two different antibiotics. Good to know I guess.

He also got Thrush while in the hospital because the antibiotics kill all the bacteria in your mouth, even the good stuff that protects it from yeast, so they painted his mouth and he has a bright purple mouth, which he actually thinks is hilarious.

His new thing is calling Kevin "Kevin" instead of "daddy". I don't know why on Earth he started doing this, but its freakin' adorable. He'll be looking for him "KEEEEEVIIIIN, WHERE AAAARE YOUUU KEVIIIIIN?!" and "SHHHHHH KEVIN IS SLEEEEPING" It drives Kevin crazy, but I think its funny.

But any way, there is your update. I'll let ya know how his appointment goes on Wednesday :)

Quick Update

Well, it looks like Aiden might be out of the hospital by Sunday. His gland is slowly going down, for those of you who don't know, he is in the hospital because of an infected gland on his neck and a relentless fever that, thank God, has broken finally after like 5 days. He is on IV Antibiotics and although he is one very tired and cranky baby, it is holding in there for the most part.

Last night his IV came out of his vein and all the medicated fluids filled his poor little hand. It was soooo swollen that his fingers looks webbed and they were tights and bright red and purple.

He likes the wagon rides around the hallways and the Elmo balloon that Mariah gave him. He was in his best spirits when Doug and Isabella came to visit. He ran to her and gave her a BIG hug. He also really enjoyed Skyler, Zane and Stacy's company. I think he liked the change in faces. He was his normal happy self when he was running around with Isabella, Thanks so much for brining her in.

Well, off for a nap for me and then back to the hospital I go.. I'll updat eyou when he comes home.

halloween pictures, finally!

Daddy's big helper.

High Five! Aiden helped Kevin and Ben rake our yard.

"OOOFFFFF!!!!!"

cute little tail

ME: "Aiden, what does a Dinosaur say?"

AIDEN: "CHEEESE!"

"CHEEEESE"

no thank you

I do NOT want to get sick, no thank you very much
No thank you, I would not like a house 3 feet from my house
Thanks but no thanks to the mountains of laundry waiting for me
Its monday? No thank you, I like Fridays much better.
25 degrees outside... NO THANK YOU!

That about sums it all up. You see the pics below? Isn't Leah adorable? It was a lot of fun to shoot her senior pics, she lives out in the middle of no where with awesome things all around to take pics of. Broken down cars, rusty garages, torn down buildings and an outhouse. She herself was fun too.

So we have a hearing to go to on Thursday because the neighbors want to build onto their house, making their addition 3 feet from our house. That pretty much makes all of our window on that side of our house useless. we will never again see the light of day. We have to go tell the courts "no thank you, sir" hopefully our pleas will be heard and their request for a building code waiver will be denied. Our main argument will be that their addition being so close to our house (and JUST within fire code) will bring down the value of our home upon resale. But what do we know, right "everyone lives that close in New York"

Leah

Kevin, some mexican guy, Derek and Tab

Bristol Palin
Blond Karissa

Vampire Bill and Sookie

Doug and Kevin (Golden Brown)

Jacob and Jordan

when boys are giggling like this.... watch out, it usually means trouble.

biggest tree ever.

upside down

mommy's boys

two seconds before the fight broke out.

These are Theresa's handsome little guys... ok they aren't so little anymore. But they're still adorable. I love the one where Jordan is kissing Theresa on the cheek, and Jacob is just looking cute. (he's too old to give mom kisses on the cheek)

chillin' at home this weekend.

He says "CHEEEESE!!" Now, but always closes his eyes because he knows there is a flash coming.

cheese again.
This is his mask for his nebulizer. He LOVES it! He likes to act like a monster and chase after everyone. he says "YARRRRRR"

Dr. O'Brien! Quick, Elmo is Code Blue... get the crash cart STAT!! hahahaha, I love this picture
You may remember the picture that we did like this last year, he's so adorable!

love/hate relationship

I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I like it because you can see what people are up to, how their doin' and look at their pictures. I hate facebook because even though you 'know' most of the people that you're 'friends' with its really not KNOWING them. Sure we get the quick status updates like "April OBrien is...wishing she didn't have to do dishes" and you can look at pictures and people can look at your pictures... I don't know- there's still something about it that I don't like. I've started adding people as friends just to see where they are, what they're doing.... what they look like, who they're with and how many kids they've had. After I'm done snooping, I pretty much never look at their profile again, I don't post on their wall, I don't accept their applications. I'm pretty sure thats the only reason they ad me as a friend as well, like all my old classmates from HS that I have completely forgotten about until I see them on someone elses friends list. I guess I just really like Blogger because although its available for anyone to see if they're browsing through, only a few handfulls of people really visit my blog, and thats how I like it. I'm not updating for "jane whatshername" from HS, I'm posting for my friends and family that know me the best. And apparently the occational annonymous person who visits every once in a while oh and Mr. Toast who occationally still stops by. But I'll still check my facebook every time I'm at a computer- why? Its like an obsession- like those people who check their email 500 times a day.

Another love/hate relationship... Ugly Betty. Why, oh WHY do I love that show!

Anyway- so how about that True Blood on HBO. Thanks to Derek, we're hooked. Its my new favorite show ever. If you haven't watched it yet- HBO 11pm (central time of course) Sundays.

ok, I'm rambling. ok, so that whole post was rambling... I'm getting back to my blogger roots.

blogger slump, potty parties and one chipped tooth.

As I was going from blog to blog in my favorites... I noticed that no one has written anything in forever, but that made me realize that I haven't written much either. Here I am, posting about pretty much nothing, in hopes that it will start some of those blogger juices that I know is still in all of you.... C'Mon people BLOG!!!

As the title says... Aiden is one step closer to being a BIG boy! He has now successfully used his potty 3 times. I know, its only 3 times. But he's getting the concept and he's excited about the potty, for the most part. I've never been so excited to see pee in a potty. I can almost see that diaper pale being tossed into storage.

I don't know how I did it, but I chipped my front tooth. I mean REALLY chipped it. I am hoping to get into the dentist tomorrow to get it fixed, because I feel like an idiot. How I can not know how it happened is beyond me.

Kevin is feeling better, he went back to work today. He's still a little sore, but doing very well.

So that pretty much covers it all. We seriously need a hobby.

Kevin-1 Gallbladder-0

Kevin survived the "battle of the gallbladder" and he came home today with one less organ than what he had when he woke up this morning.

Yup, he got to come home. Technology baffles me sometimes. Its amazing how someone can go in to the hospital, have a body part removed using a small little scope, wake up from anastesia and then go home less than 12 hours later with a prescription for pain killers.

He's doing fine now, he's sore, and the pain meds make him very tired, but he's doing just fine. He's been sleeping all evening. Aiden woke up this morning and when I went to get him from his crib, he was confused that it was Mommy and not Daddy coming into his room. "Daddy, go?" He asked. I had explained to him last night that daddy has an owey in his tummy and he has to go to the doctor... so when he asked "daddy, go?" I said "remember Daddy has an owey and has to go to the doctor" Then he did something that made me realize that he does actually listen to me, and remembers what I say... he lifted his shirt and pointed to his tummy and said "daddy, owey tummy" He remembered where daddy's owey was. I know, its a story that only the mother cares about, but I was very amused at the fact that he can comprehend things like that and he's not even 2 yet. When Kevin got home, Aiden was very aware that something was different and when we were eating dinner, he said "shhhhhhh daddy sleeping" and then mumbled mismashed words like "shhh" "tummy" "daddy" "owey" "night night" LIke I said before... My kid's a freakin' genius. At least I think so. And I'm the only one that matters, so...

So Kevin has to go to get Lab work done tomorrow, just to make sure he doesn't have any stones in his Common Bile Duct. mmmmm.... Bile.... If there IS a stone, he'll have to have that removed sometime soon. They would sedate him slightly and go in through his mouth and shove a tube all the way down.... ick. Lets pray that he doesn't have to do that.

Here's a handy illistration of a gallbladder and a Common Bile Duct, in case you had no idea where your gallbladder and bile duct is... now you know.

Attack of the GALLBLADDER part 1

Short Version:

Kevin went to ER last night because of severe tummy pain... er I mean upper to mid abdominal pain... men don't have "tummies"... he waited at the ER... and decided he was fine again and we left, even though the nurse and myself thought this was stupid, but Kevin insisted he was fine. All the way home I teased about how he is a stupid male, acting like he doesn't need medical attention. We got home, I put Aiden to bed, and as I was walking past the bedroom I heard Kevin groaning in pain; he was laying on the the bed in a ball holding his stomache and when he saw me standing in the doorway, he said "I'm a stupid man"

So I called Doug, and he picked Kevin up and brought him BACK to the ER.

Sure enough he was having a gallbladder attack, and the ER doc referred him to a surgen, that he saw today.

Kevin has surgery at 7:30am tomorrow morning to get his gallbladder taken out. Poor hubby. Now you all are updated.

I'll let you know how he's doing tomorrow.

Stacey and Nate... sneak preview

head table
rings

beautiful cake

best flower girl and little ring man EVER!
Not my favorite of the two.. but still adorable
unity sand
super cute
beautiful bride