DDA Chapter 19

[PNO4TE]

Good morning, DDA!

 

[PNO4TE]

Elin, that is Prince Caspian from the second Lion, Witch, Wardrobe movie.

Thank you , Heidi! That was my guess, but I was not certain.

 

[tinknme]

My whopping 18 Photopass pictures. I hope the link works. It should as I had loaded them using Firefox and checked the link in IE.

Great pictures Becky, I met Prince Caspian last may!

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Thank you , Heidi! That was my guess, but I was not certain.

i had no idea!

 

[tinknme]

Good morning.

I certainly haven't missed getting up at o'dark thirty.

My mom is coming to visit today. She has a neighbor whose mother lives one county down from ours. The neighbor is coming to visit her mother and asked my mom if she wanted to ride down with her. So I think she will be here until Monday.

Glad Alyssa is feeling better, but boo on having to go back to work.

Enjoy your moms visit!

 

[tinknme]

tall and blond.

I am glad your not upset about my dream, wasn't sure I should tell about it.

Oh Jen will be happy to hear this lol

Nope, no reason to be upset

 

[tinknme]

morning!! I forgot to post that last night I checked in for my flight (southwest) and got A28..hopefully that is good enough!

Im getting ready for work and then im out of here
Have a great weekend everyone--im sure ill be checking in , since were staying at someonesh ouse!

For everyone that is sick--get better!!!

Have a wonderful time!

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Oh Jen will be happy to hear this lol

Nope, no reason to be upset

 

[tinknme]

Deb I like your new avatar

 

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Good morning

 

[PNO4TE]

Deb I like your new avatar

I do too, but I didn't know it was her at first!

 

[PNO4TE]

This may be old news to you but I just got around to reading all my inbox...

(I have to be cryptic here because the DIS will *** it all out otherwise)

The privately maintained Polynesian site that Steve has done for the past 10 years is shutting down.
I know I will miss seeing the TIKI shots from that MAN.

 

[tinknme]

This may be old news to you but I just got around to reading all my inbox...

(I have to be cryptic here because the DIS will *** it all out otherwise)

The privately maintained Polynesian site that Steve has done for the past 10 years is shutting down.
I know I will miss seeing the TIKI shots from that MAN.

Bummer, I really enjoyed his site.

 

[Mommy2EmMoLu]

Last night I endured 4 hours of camp training for Girl Scouts. I can't say I learned anything, the trainer was all over the place and instead of informing us she took us for a stroll down her memory lane. It would have been great but she was most interested in hearing herself talk. And I still have to survive a weekend camping trip next weekend. At least, I won't be alone, 2 of the other parents were there with me as well.


It's been a bit hectic around here. Lucy managed to "drink" some nail polish remover on Tuesday, not by best mommy moment by far!! Thank god, she is fine. Poison control said the worse thing to happen would be an upset tummy. She managed to escape with no harm.

Our dishwasher died Tuesday night, so Eric replaced that yesterday. All by himself and while watching the 3 girls plus Em's friend.

Molly is still not feeling 100%. She is pretty crabby and nasty, so it's been a joy dealing with her. And Lucy is coughing more and more and also very clingy and whiny. Emma has been able to escape all the sickies but I think she is feeling a bit neglected as her attitude is less than desirable.

And yesterday, on my way to training, I got an email from our GS council with an offer for free tickets to the New Kids on the Block concert. Tonight!!! So I quickly chatted with my 2 parents last night and we canceled our meeting for tonight. Being in charge has it advantages! I got a hold of Dana and we made plans to go to the concert. I am sure the tickets are in the nosebleed section but I am on How can you pass up a free concert?!?!

So that's things around here.

Becky- Glad your dad made it through surgery, hope his recovery is speedy.

Bernadette- I hope everyone feels better today.

Jen- Have a fabulous trip!!! (I'm sure I missed you!)

Elizabeth- Hang in there. 's I sure hope your mom keeps her promise.

Tammi- Congrats on cutting the ties!!

Glynis- Great pics!!!

Heidi- Congrats on being one step closer to being DVC owners!!

Deb- I sure hope everyone wakes up today a bit better.

I know I missed a bunch of you 's and

 

[tinknme]

Last night I endured 4 hours of camp training for Girl Scouts. I can't say I learned anything, the trainer was all over the place and instead of informing us she took us for a stroll down her memory lane. It would have been great but she was most interested in hearing herself talk. And I still have to survive a weekend camping trip next weekend. At least, I won't be alone, 2 of the other parents were there with me as well.


It's been a bit hectic around here. Lucy managed to "drink" some nail polish remover on Tuesday, not by best mommy moment by far!! Thank god, she is fine. Poison control said the worse thing to happen would be an upset tummy. She managed to escape with no harm.

Our dishwasher died Tuesday night, so Eric replaced that yesterday. All by himself and while watching the 3 girls plus Em's friend.

Molly is still not feeling 100%. She is pretty crabby and nasty, so it's been a joy dealing with her. And Lucy is coughing more and more and also very clingy and whiny. Emma has been able to escape all the sickies but I think she is feeling a bit neglected as her attitude is less than desirable.

And yesterday, on my way to training, I got an email from our GS council with an offer for free tickets to the New Kids on the Block concert. Tonight!!! So I quickly chatted with my 2 parents last night and we canceled our meeting for tonight. Being in charge has it advantages! I got a hold of Dana and we made plans to go to the concert. I am sure the tickets are in the nosebleed section but I am on How can you pass up a free concert?!?!

for the concert, have a wonderful time!

How scary about Lucy drinking the nail polish, glad she is ok

Sorry about the dishwasher, glad to hear Eric got the new one installed quickly!

Hope all the sickies leave soon

 

[tink2020]

Heidi, it's not that "no kids" can have cough medicine. That's why I was curious about Deb's pediatrician's thought. The recommendation has always been that kids under 2 not have it, especially over the counter. There just haven't been any studies in kids, and the risks from the various ingredients outweigh the efficacy, which is questionable anyway. In the last two or so years, there have been recommendations (following lots of deaths) suggesting, depending on the study and the source, not giving kids under the age of 4 or 6 OTC medicines, and for doctors to prescribe the good stuff "as infrequently as possible". Given how our country loves frivolous lawsuits, especially against medical professionals, this has turned into "almost never".

The bottom line is that there haven't been controlled studies in children, AND there have been deaths linked to it, in large numbers. Many times this is idiocy of parents (dosing wrong, etc) but absolutely not always. It's just one of those situations where they'd prefer not to risk death over something that isn't medically "necessary" anyway.

That being said, when the girls hit about 4, barring any new evidence, they'll get cough syrup if they're coughing so hard they're purple and I'm not sleeping. Especially if it lasts 7 weeks again.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I hope your trip is just awesome, Jen!

Have a wonderful time, Jen!

Good morning.

I certainly haven't missed getting up at o'dark thirty.

My mom is coming to visit today. She has a neighbor whose mother lives one county down from ours. The neighbor is coming to visit her mother and asked my mom if she wanted to ride down with her. So I think she will be here until Monday.

I hope you have a good time with your mom!

Glynis nice pictures, Timothy is getting so big!

I enjoyed your pics, Glynis!

I have to ask, what is wrong with giving children cough syrup? Heck I remember the doctor always prescribing cough syrup for my sister and I when we were kids.

Parents like to "super size" the dose because OTC cough syrup is basically worthless. That leads to overdose. I have yet to see an OTC cough syrup that works at all. When DS gets a chronic cough it is usually because of reative airway, and it will only respond to asthma meds, not cough syrup.

Robyn - Yay for a concert!
I hope the girls are feeling better soon! Wow, out of the house 3 nights in a row this week. You are going to owe Eric big time.

I have another whopping stye smack on top of the one that wasn't completely healed from the first "crop". I feel like I have been shot in the eye with a poison dart.

Princess has a play date today with a little friend whose caregiver speaks no English. It was suggested that we just drop her off, but there is NO WAY I would leave her with someone she can't understand! So we'll be in for an interesting morning. I'm sure the girls will have fun.

 

[tink2020]

TMI alert!

Some of you know from facebook already, but we could still use some prayers this way, too On top of the coughing spells - which now both girls have in earnest - that have me concerned because it looks just like Elise's illness that led to pneumonia and are requiring daily breathing treatments, they both have the GI thing going around, too. At first it was not at all worrisome. Kids get gastro - diarrhea, vomiting. I know it's not the last I'll see it this badly!

Now, however, Avery isn't drinking either. She has, with no exaggeration, about 10 diarrhea diapers each day, many with "water loss stool" which is even worse. She empties her stomach 1-2 times each day (we're talking more vomit than I usually produce). All this, while taking in about 7-10 ounces of liquid for the last 3 days. We've done every liquid allowed (water, juice, pedialyte, formula, whole milk, mixtures of things) in every form we can think of (sippy cups, regular cups, syringes, bottles of course), and the best day we've had in a while is 11 ounces. She should probably be having 40 or more with all of her symptoms, more now that she's coughing, too.

We're going to try popsicles today (lucky 9-month old! ) and see what she'll do with them, but she hates cold stuff so I'm not sure it will go over well.

She has been acting "well" for the most part, but is now starting to get lethargic which concerns me. My usual standard measure for dehydration (wet diapers) is almost impossible to keep track of because of the water loss stool (that looks the same, but is most certainly differentiated by smell! ).

I feel so helpless, and am starting to get very concerned that she'll need replacement fluids. I don't want that for obvious reasons, but mostly because - as I felt when we were trying to keep Elise home from the hospital - I don't want to be away from whichever one is home!

This is getting old. We haven't been "well" since January, but I expect that from winter. It's the last 2 bouts (pneumonia and now this) that have our doctor calling US every day to make sure the girls don't need admitted that have me more stressed out




The lot of DDA kiddos needs a long break.

 

[Mommy2EmMoLu]

My whopping 18 Photopass pictures. I hope the link works. It should as I had loaded them using Firefox and checked the link in IE.

Great shots, Becky!!

Good morning.

I certainly haven't missed getting up at o'dark thirty.

My mom is coming to visit today. She has a neighbor whose mother lives one county down from ours. The neighbor is coming to visit her mother and asked my mom if she wanted to ride down with her. So I think she will be here until Monday.

Enjoy the time with your mom!

Colby and Hunter were both up several times during the night and both had fevers as of 3:30 AM. When is this going to end? Chris is still feeling under the weather so he will be staying home with them. I feel better at the moment so I'm heading to work. We'll see how it goes. Nick is still sleeping, but he said last night that he needs to go to school as he doesn't want to get behind.

Hope you make it through the day. for everyone.

for the concert, have a wonderful time!

How scary about Lucy drinking the nail polish, glad she is ok

Sorry about the dishwasher, glad to hear Eric got the new one installed quickly!

Hope all the sickies leave soon

Thanks, Janet!

Eric is efficient. The thought of washing all the dishes we go through in a day by hand is a scary thought!

Robyn - Yay for a concert!
I hope the girls are feeling better soon! Wow, out of the house 3 nights in a row this week. You are going to owe Eric big time.

I have another whopping stye smack on top of the one that wasn't completely healed from the first "crop". I feel like I have been shot in the eye with a poison dart.

Princess has a play date today with a little friend whose caregiver speaks no English. It was suggested that we just drop her off, but there is NO WAY I would leave her with someone she can't understand! So we'll be in for an interesting morning. I'm sure the girls will have fun.

Shh, don't give him any ideas! He's not very happy and actually accused me of buying the tickets But he'll get over it!! This is his camping weekend, after all. And I'm only ditching the girls Saturday night

 

[Mommy2EmMoLu]

Jennifer,

Loads of for the girls and you. I know it's not easy and exhausting. You all certainly deserve a break. Just hang in there. 's

TMI alert!

Some of you know from facebook already, but we could still use some prayers this way, too On top of the coughing spells - which now both girls have in earnest - that have me concerned because it looks just like Elise's illness that led to pneumonia and are requiring daily breathing treatments, they both have the GI thing going around, too. At first it was not at all worrisome. Kids get gastro - diarrhea, vomiting. I know it's not the last I'll see it this badly!

Now, however, Avery isn't drinking either. She has, with no exaggeration, about 10 diarrhea diapers each day, many with "water loss stool" which is even worse. She empties her stomach 1-2 times each day (we're talking more vomit than I usually produce). All this, while taking in about 7-10 ounces of liquid for the last 3 days. We've done every liquid allowed (water, juice, pedialyte, formula, whole milk, mixtures of things) in every form we can think of (sippy cups, regular cups, syringes, bottles of course), and the best day we've had in a while is 11 ounces. She should probably be having 40 or more with all of her symptoms, more now that she's coughing, too.

We're going to try popsicles today (lucky 9-month old! ) and see what she'll do with them, but she hates cold stuff so I'm not sure it will go over well.

She has been acting "well" for the most part, but is now starting to get lethargic which concerns me. My usual standard measure for dehydration (wet diapers) is almost impossible to keep track of because of the water loss stool (that looks the same, but is most certainly differentiated by smell! ).

I feel so helpless, and am starting to get very concerned that she'll need replacement fluids. I don't want that for obvious reasons, but mostly because - as I felt when we were trying to keep Elise home from the hospital - I don't want to be away from whichever one is home!

This is getting old. We haven't been "well" since January, but I expect that from winter. It's the last 2 bouts (pneumonia and now this) that have our doctor calling US every day to make sure the girls don't need admitted that have me more stressed out




The lot of DDA kiddos needs a long break.