My Granny made the kids hats for Christmas, and Trestin LOVES his!
On your birthday you get to pick what you want for dinner, which is usually out to eat somewhere. Well since he's a funny eater recently, we opted for Denny's, with it's wide variety of choices. Plus breakfast for dinner sounded good and they do breakfast all day!
His "Say cheese" face
He's very nervous around fire (and that's a GREAT thing, especially since we now have 2 gas fireplaces that he's stays back from), so he's trying to blow out his candles from as far back as he can. 
He liked the sugar letters. It was probably his second favorite thing about his cake after Elmo.
Garrick standing on top of the mound of snow that was accumulating from shoveling the side walk.
Our drive way and mounds of snow!
This was supposed to be before the last two pics, but oh well. Behind our house was a hill, that in the nonsnowy times is sage brush. Well the kids loved to walk half way up to the flat spot, then sled down. That first drop was quite a big one! I went down with them 5/6 times to get a "path" for them to follow in, then they where off!
On my 100th post, I get to show you our new house! FINALLY!!! We finally signed the papers, January 9th, only 3 weeks after our original date. But it worked out in the long run because for the weekends before we had horrible snow storms and couldn't have moved anyway. But thanks to wonderful people at church that where willing to help us move with less then a 12 hour notice, we got it done in no time!
We are loving all the space! The kids are as hyper as Christmas morning, EVERYDAY! Garrick is loving walking to and from school too. The first day he woke up earlier then normal asking, "Is it time to go to school?" "No Garrick, you still have 2 hours till school even starts. It's too early!" Now if all the boxes would just magically unpack themselves, I'd be the happiest girl in the world! But it's kinda fun finding spots for everything though. But finding the time to do it is the problem, while working full time night shift. Oh well, we are moved, and that's what's important, and the unpacking will just have to be over time. So come on over for a "real tour," but in the mean time, enjoy the slide show!
Well it's been one heck of a day! While it was snowing outside like crazy (although not as much as for our Spokane friends), it's been pouring inside! It started last night when we found out that we probably won't close on our house on the 19th like we thought. Due to the low rates lots of people are deciding to refinance which makes for more work load for the bank. So after shoveling 3-6" this morning (depending on the drifts) I proceed to try to contact our lender to see if we are able to close tomorrow! Than calls around lunch time saying he's going to the doctor since he doesn't feel very good. Then get another call from the hospital saying he's getting a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia. I then go out to shovel another 3" before going to Garrick's dentist apt at 2:40pm. After shoveling I came in and checked my email to see if our lender had replied, and the kids yell out, "Trestin's in your purse and eating medicine!" Tylenol 500mg tablet to be exact. AHHHHH! Called poison control, and they advise that if he's taken 4 or more tabs he needs to go to the ER. Well I wasn't sure, but better to be safe then sorry. I would have preferred to go to my hospital, but since the roads where crappy, and time is of the essence, we took off for Pullman's ER. I had to tune out the Mom in me and focus on the nurse in me. I knew what needed to be done, and focused on getting us to the ER so we could start the process, and not let my emotions get in the way. Well we arrived 10 minutes after ingestion at the ER! Pretty good! Luckily they had me "feed" him the activated charcoal instead of sticking a tube into his tummy and pumping it into him. But that was no picnic! It was black tar, that got all over everything! But I was able to hold him down and force feed him 3/4 of it! They then let us go home, and come back in for a blood test 4 hours later to check a tylenol level.
**in english, and not medical mumbo jumbo, activated charcoal binds to the tylenol so it won't be absorbed then they just poop it out. The tylenol level 4 hours later will give us a good idea of how much he absorbed and is now floating around in his system. Tylenol overdose unfortunately shows no symptoms. It just kills your liver. That's an organ he kinda needs!**
So we get home from the ER, and there's a message on the machine saying Than's x-ray shows pneumonia! So we pick him up on the way back to the hospital later for Trestin's tylenol level. He's gotten antibiotics and nebulizer treatments. Trestin did great for his blood draw, cried less then when I had to shove charcoal down him. An hour later his level was 0! Hooray! So back home, throw the kids in bed, tuck Than in for some much needed rest, shovel 3" more from the drive way, then notify the sellers that tomorrow is a no go. They are going to potentially let us still move our stuff, since I have family coming and church guys coming on Saturday, but they are leery. I don't blame them. They rented out the place they bought, let people move in early and got burned bad, and several months later still haven't settled it. So I understand. It would probably be best to let Than get a couple days of antibiotics on board before moving in the cold. But the kicker is after this weekend I have the 24th and 25th off (but we are probably still going to Tri-Cities) and the 30th off for the rest of this month. So trying to move and clean in that little time is going to be... fun. So we'll see.
I'll end on a sweet note. As we are driving home from the ER, Garrick said:
G - Mom, I said a prayer on the way to the hospital
M - You did! What did you say?
G - Dear Heavenly Father, please help the doctors to find out what is wrong with Trestin. And please help him to get better. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
M - That was very smart and good of you Garrick! (as a tear forms in my eye)
G - I know!
So my sweet little 6 year old remembered to pray for help in times of need, as his mother tried to keep her whits about her and get us safely to the ER. What an amazing little boy we have!
I have a pic of Trestin all tuckered out after his ER visit, but our internet is freeking out, so later I guess!
