that didn't take long!

achoo! achoo! achoo!

that's the only sound i hear when i pick colton up from school friday. i ask him how he's feeling & he tells me he has been doing that all day. immediately, i think his allergies have sprung up from nowhere so i start him back on his allergy meds. claritin & a nasal spray.

saturday morning he's not sounding much different & he keeps telling me his eyes are bothering him. i think for sure that means it's his allergies. knowing that his meds take some time to have an actual effect, i give him some benadryl to temporarily relieve his symptoms.... nothing happens. hmm....

six hours go by & he is just as bad, if not worse than when he woke up. this time i give him two tsp instead of one... not much change.

i am now convinced it's not allergies ( i am however keeping him on his meds since fall is fast approaching) he's got a cold. a cold i am sure he brought home from school. it took 8 whole days of being in school for the first sickness to come home.

fast forward to sunday. colton is sneezy & his nose is running away, but his spirits are high & he is happy. me? i wake up with a sore throat & stuffy nose. it gets worse as the day goes on. by sunday night i am loaded up on cold meds & just ready for the day to be done.

monday, labor day. i promised braedon i would go to the dollar store & see if they have any new puzzles. so i head to dollar tree, the grocery store for a few things, gas station & home.

when i get home jeremiah tells me braedon didn't eat his breakfast & feels really hot.
"did you take his temperature"
"uh, no"

men. poor baby has a fever of 101. give him some meds & comes down. lets fast forward to about 6pm. braedon & i are sitting on the floor at the coffee table doing his homework, after an hour long ordeal to get it done he is finally coloring his pages. he's sitting on my lap. next thing i know his moves are getting slower & slower & slower & then he's passed out. right there, on the coffee table. crayon in hand. ohhh man was his brother cracking up!

moved him to the couch where he slept a few hours. woke up, took some more meds for his fever, had a couple waffles per his request & back to sleep he went.

this morning he is currently snuggled up in his room, watching a movie & playing his leappad ... with a fever!

poor guy! made it through surgery like a champ only to get hit by some icky germs colton brought home. we're really hoping he breaks his fever today so he can go back to school tomorrow. he hasnt been since last wednesday! 8! after a healthy summer for both kids it took 8 days!! in school for the sickies to start! sigh....


[later this week posts on: surgery day, school so far & homework!]

the first day of school!

let me give you a little rundown of our day!

my alarm started blaring bright & early. 6am to be exact! that's going to take some getting used to, bedtime isn't usually 11pm around here. in fact most days we're not even eating dinner until 10:30-- but im sidetracked, that's for another day! 

anyways 6am. first order of business... snooze, twice! by 6:10 im out of bed. second order of business ... coffee, lots! head into brae's room, get my sleepy little sweetie up! i tell him "wake up, its morning" "its time for school" his response ..."hahahahaha!!! it's still dark, why are we going somewhere in the middle of the night" always making me laugh that one is. get him set up with some cartoons & breakfast. coffee. coffee. coffee! get colton up, kids get dressed, brushed teeth, a million pictures & out the door by 7:10 (which is a little later than i had wanted for the first day)

first drop off is colton. he can be at school at 7:30am. our county's school district is pretty cool ... free lunch for all students. why not take advantage of it, right? plus colton was thrilled with the idea. so we all walk him in, go to the breakfast line. he picks out his meal. they have hot & cold breakfast available. he pick cinnamon toast crunch ( also known as "golden squares"- dont ask), it comes with strawberry graham dinosaur crackers. he gets his milk for his cereal & his apple juice.

we find a table, he eats everything & we head to his classroom. he signs in on the big poster board. finds his name tag at his table, hangs his backpack on his chair, sits down, picks up his pencil & starts his morning work pack. 

who is this kid?! the same kid who literally cried everyday for months last year. the same kid who would cry so hard he would puke last year. suddenly that kid turned into a mature, excited, cant wait to be at school kid. i am so incredibly proud of him there are really no words for it. of course he insisted on a hug from us, he also gave his brother a hug & told him good luck. we left. he didn't even turn around to watch us leave. this year the tears i wanted to shed were not because it felt like my heart was being ripped out of my chest but because of happiness! i am so glad it went so smooth. 

next order of business, get braedon to school. in ... oh crap 25 minutes. im not going to lie, i was a little worried we were going to be late. we werent. phew. pull into the parking lot & braedon is nothing but smiles. walk him into his classroom where he tried to b-line to buzz lightyear. the same buzz lightyear he's been talking about since open house. non stop. we explain to him its not time to play yet, that time will come. that he has to go sit quietly with the rest of the kids. he starts trying to play with the kitchen. no, braedon you cant do that either.... he gets mad. he walks over the wall. slides down. sits with his arms on his knees & looks at us, with a mean face.

i ask j "do we leave now?" he says yes. ( i had already given him hugs & kisses) we say goodbye & we walk out. i peek my head in a couple times all secret agent like. he hasnt moved. we start walking away. i look back. his teacher is standing in the door way. i look at her, she looks at him, she looks at me. "he's okay" & we leave. 

at 11:30 i pick up brae. his teacher says he did fantastic. as soon as we left he joined the other kids. he didn't cry, he wasn't upset at all. totally different from colton last year & to be honest not what i was expecting!  he tells me all about his day on our way home. how he played with this & that. made friends. wrote letters. painted with apples. he used red. they put apples in water, to see if they sink. told me about his morning snack & that he didn't try the juice because "my friends said it tastes yucky" hahaha! oh kids.... he did amazing. he loved every minute of it & he cant wait to go back tomorrow. oh & he got a sticker. which means excellent day. if you get a sticker everyday, you get "treasure box" on fridays. 

at 2:30 we pick up colton. he also tells me all about his day. his lunch "was delicious" i packed it, what would you expect, haha! he talked to some kids, they played outside, they did work & they danced. oh & "there is something very important in my backpack for you the teacher said"-- referring to the 8923 papers for me to sign. he didn't cry either. lets face it my babies are officially big boys now! oh & he got green, which also means he had an excellent day & did everything he was supposed to.

once he was done filling me in on the deets, he turned to brae & said "how was your day, did you love it" the entire rest of the ride home would consist of them talking about their first days of school with each other. mop me up because i am a big pile of mush! 

so there you have it. a novel later. our first day really couldn't have gone any better. i hope everyday is as good as today ...

growing like a weed!

thursday we headed off the ped for braedon's 4 year well check appointment,

they started off with the usual. 

Braedon @ 4 years  

height: 40 inches. 

weight: 35.3 lbs

perfectly average. he is right in the middle of the chart for height & weight(unlike that skinny big brother of his)

she then asked me a billion questions about his development.

asked him a bunch of questions so she could evaluate his speech, make sure he is hitting his milestones & of course he is. 

she said is healthy, happy & a  very smart little boy!

always makes mama feel good to hear that.

he was referred to a specialist [ im not going to go into all the details about that here on the interwebz] its nothing that's causing immediate health problems. BUT its got us feeling a little anxious as we might head to the specialist & hear the solution is surgery SO please keep him in your thoughts & prayers. 

that is something mama NEVER wants to hear.

oh & shots?! easy peasy! seriously. all day i was so worried he was going to freak out about shots & i didnt even mention it to him before hand because i didnt want to stress him out. 

we laid him down, he played his nintendo ds & she stuck it. 

his response?!

ehhh. he didnt yell. he didnt cry. he was just sorta like what the heck was that & why did you do it?

then he was angry because she put a bandaid on him & he "didnt have any owies"

so proud of my tough boy! 

our appointment with the specialist is friday morning ( & then we have a new student meeting & meet the teacher at coltons school) so check back at the end of the week & i'll get a post up with all the happenings of the day.