(Btw, I am not a fan of the word aint. Every time I hear it all I think of is growing up and my parents saying “aint aint a word so you aint gonna use it”. I just couldn’t think of a better word right now)

Back on topic. I love that out of the three kids, two of them are not in the slightest picky eaters. My oldest (Jr) would never touch what I made Samantha and Shawn for lunch, Shana’s version of Shrimp Scampi, minus all but a tablespoon of butter. I just added some garlic, a little bit of salt and cayenne pepper and wha-la, lunch is served! Shawn is currently on helping number two. He will probably go for one more too. Actually I should specify that he will eat more shrimp, the rice is now covering my dining room floor.

And yes my kids are either half naked or still in their pj’s. Nothing wrong with having a nice lazy day around the house 🙂

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I knew as soon as Shawn woke up yesterday he was feeling much worse. He had a temp of 101 and you could just see it in his eyes he wasn’t feeling well. His breaths were short and crackly. After three phone calls to the Dr’s I finally got him in at 5:30pm. The Dr couldn’t believe how he went from ok to so bad. He even has a double ear infection too. He got a dose of prednisone, a shot of roceferin and a breathing treatment while we were there. When the Dr looked at his chest x-ray he immediately said that’s not right. He said he thinks his lung has collapsed! After several calls to radiologists he came back and said he actually has upper right lobe pneumonia. The right lung is separated into three lobes. The top lobe of his right lung is filled with fluid. So he is treating him aggressively he progressed so quickly and so we don’t have to spend Christmas in the hospital. So we were sent home with two more meds and we are continuing the breathing treatments every four hours. Today we are going back so Shawn can get his second dose of roceferin and to see how he’s reacting to the meds. He has more energy which is good but still no appetite and barely drinking. Also his fever is down to 100.

Is sick 🙁 It’s never fun when your kids are sick. Especially when they’re young and can’t tell you what’s wrong. Shawn has been sick for about two weeks. Nothing serious, runny nose and cough. The cough has been really persistent then the other day it changed from wet to dry and it sounded like he was whistling. So off to the Dr’s we went. He has an upper respiratory infection along with wheezing. He has to do a nebulizer treatment every four hours. The Dr said to keep a close eye on his breathing because if he starts breathing rapidly or it sounds like his breathing is crackly to bring him back in and that it probably turned into pneumonia. I’m still keeping my fingers crossed it doesn’t turn into that but he is now running a 101 temperature. You can tell he’s not feeling well. His appetite is no where near where it usually is and he’s kind of dragging and you can just see it in his eyes. The kids got up at 6:30 (nothing out of the norm there, blah) but at 9:00 he grabbed his little nemo pillow, said “ni-night” and walked into his room and over to his crib. Little man was tired.

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We had the in laws and my sister in law and her family over the other day to exchange Christmas gifts for the kids. Jr got one of those little “indoor” helicopters. I say “indoor” because in my opinion those really need to be outdoor toys, especially when you have nasty popcorn ceiling and every it hits the ceiling chunks fall onto the floor. I have vacuumed 5 times in the passed three days. As soon as he opened it he was begging to take it for a spin. We all decided to go outside into and open area to let him play with it. Not TEN minutes later it was stuck in a tree. And not just some small tree, one of the highest one’s here! My husband went into the house and came out with a ball. I laughed and asked if he was serious. After about 10 minutes of throwing it up trying to knock out the helicopter that too got stuck. Next was the soccer ball. Same end result. He and my brother in law tried shaking the tree but there it stayed.
I finally convinced him he needed to climb the tree to shake it at a higher point if he wanted to shake it out. That was my first time seeing my husband climb a tree! And you know I took pictures lol
Finally he was able to knock out the orange ball and the helicopter but the soccer ball unfortunately is still sitting, tightly wedge in the tree. Shawn ran up to the tree after the guys tried shaking it and he “shook” it. I love this age.

For me to get into the holiday spirit. I have been trying so hard for the kids sake but every time Jr says to me “only ____ more days until Christmas Mom” it just breaks my heart. I do not have a single gift for my kids. We have been barely scrapping by the passed couple months. And with barely having things to make it through paycheck to paycheck we haven’t been able to put aside anything for the kids for the holidays. Holiday time is especially hard for us because my side of the family is Jewish so we celebrate Hanukkah also, which has eight nights of lighting the candles and the kids traditionally open a present each night after saying the prayer. We didn’t have presents for them for Hanukkah this year either.
I know the holidays have turned into about giving gifts and I hate that. We’ve never been big gift givers and we try to teach the kids the true meanings of the holidays but it’s still very hard on me thinking of Christmas morning with no presents.

I don’t know who was more excited for my son Jr’s pj party today, me or him lol He got his special golden ticket yesterday with his name on it to attend the party. All the kids got to wear their pj’s and robes to school and bring a blanket. They read Polar Express and then they handed in their ticket and watched the movie together. I think that is just the cutest thing ever! Of course I took pictures of my excited little man before school and yes I made him pose for me when I dropped him off before he ran inside. If you can’t tell by the smile, he was excited!