What I learned

So I have been under house arrest for the past four days. In my efforts to stop the spreading of germs to other people I have kept kids home, only to find out that the fevers they had were caused by ear infections and not the pig flu. This is what I learned this week:
1. I am not really good at actually staying at home.
2. I have been extremely unproductive all week.
3. The next time my 19 month old is completely cranky all the time I will look in his mouth to see if he is teething, rather then take him to the Dr. and have the doctor tell me he has 4 molars coming in at the same time....thus the cranky, whiny, sleepless baby.
4. And when we get our next round of fevers I won't assume they are super sick and I will Motrin them up and send them to school, gym day care, etc for my own sanity.

over and out............................

Hold your breath and cry

This little guy has been doing something lately, that quite frankly scares me. So if anyone is familiar with this maybe you could give me some advice. He's a hold your breath crier, never had any of my other kids do this. It happened a few times this week, once while we were at dr. office getting flu shots. The dr. told me not to let him do this and informed me that kids use this as a way to control and manipulate and that if they don't stop when they are young they will continue as they get older and it gets more serious. Excuse me I didn't think I was letting him do it, it just kind of happened. And then she offered no solutions or help with her wonderful advice. So now I all have is this fear he is gonna do it and rather then just turn blue, that he might actually pass out and that scares me. I don't do well with passing out. So I am looking for tips and info. on how to stop him from holding his breath while crying. I blow on his face and tell him to breath. Anything else I should do???

Thank you Denae

Thank you for being a talented photographer. You were patient, with four little boys and a husband who refused to do certain poses. You were calm even during all the screaming from the unruly 18 month old whose sole purpose was to exhaust us and make us all sweat. Thank you, I love them all!!!

Halloween fun....but aren't we all so glad it's over?