An Update

Just in case you were wondering, and even if you weren't, I thought I'd do a post today to give an update on some conditions.

This is the 4th day Ozzy has been on Rimadyl. He's still limping a bit, but doesn't seem to have as hard of a time sitting down and standing up. He's also seemed to have a lot more energy. When we let him in the house, he gets all excited and runs around and tries to get someone to play with him. It had been a while since he'd had a good case of the zoomies, so it's nice to see him feeling well.

I'm on day 3 from my crown lengthening and the swelling is starting to go down a bit. Still hurts, but not quite as bad and frozen peas and drugs help a lot. Bryce calls me his "little chipmunk wife" and makes fun of the funny way I've been talking. Nice to know someone is getting some entertainment out of all this. :)

I took Daniel to a Quick Care last night so that I could let Bryce still take the van and wouldn't have to sit and wonder if I should take him to the doctor. He has another ear infection. The doctor said it's even bulging a bit. So he's started on yet another round of antibiotics (he stopped the last one a week and a half ago) and should hopefully feel better soon.

Colds, Dentists, and Vets

We've had a busy weekend that is still going.

I took Ozzy to the vet on Saturday. He's been limping a lot lately and we've been meaning to take him back in, so I finally did it. All the workers who were in the waiting room were commenting on how he walks funny and holds his legs funny and all that. They weighed him and he was 104, which is 3 pounds lighter than he was a year ago. He should be going the other direction in weight. When we got into the examination room and the vet came to look at him, she pointed out how straight he keeps his legs from his ankles down. Usually there's more of a bend there, but he holds his pretty straight. As she was moving the legs while he was lying down, she said that he has more extension there than he's supposed to. Most of her moving his legs around didn't seem to bother Ozzy until she moved his legs outward. She said that especially in a dog as young as he is, that makes her think that it's hip dysplasia. So we scheduled to take Ozzy in on Monday morning for x-rays to see what the problem was. Yep, he has hip dysplasia. The vet (a different one this time) suggested giving Ozzy glucosamine and gave us some Rimadyl for the pain and we'll take him back next Monday to see how he's been doing on the Rimadyl. On a side note, when they weighed him when I dropped him off on Monday morning, he was at 107 again.

Sunday night, Daniel started showing signs of a cold. He didn't look like he felt well, had a runny nose, and was hot when I put him in his high chair for dinner, so I took his temperature. It was 103. I told Bryce about it, then went downstairs where I told the kids that no one else was allowed to be sick. Alex answered by running towards the bathroom and throwing up on the floor just outside the door, then making it to the toilet for the third heave. Luckily, he didn't throw up again after that and has been fine since then. Daniel has been slowly improving each day, so hopefully will be all the way better by tomorrow.

Today I got to go get a crown lengthening. What's a crown lengthening, you ask? Well, a crown lengthening is where you have a tooth that's too short or damaged to be able to put a crown on it, so they go in and cut away the gum around the base of the tooth to expose more tooth so they can do a crown. In my case, my tooth had broken off below the gum line, so I had to have it done. After they cut away the gums, they put in a couple (I got 3) stitches, give you a prescription for pain medication and a mouth rinse that supposedly tastes like black licorice (and the pharmacist said not to drink anything for at least a half hour after because it makes the flavor worse) and send you home. They do offer to sedate you for the procedure if you wish. I opted just for the local anesthesia. For the rest of the day today I'm supposed to ice my jaw (20 minutes on, 5-10 off, 20 minutes on, and so on)and watch for bleeding. I can take the Vicodin they prescribed today if I want, but I'm supposed to wait until tomorrow for the mouth wash. The whole thing took just over an hour (they said it would take an hour and a half). You always know it's a bad sign though when the dentist says, "Boy, you really did a number on this tooth." After all this pain and time at the dentist, I'm almost wishing I had just had it pulled.

Ben's birthday party

Today we had Ben's birthday party, so it's been a fun couple of days for him. Two of the six kids we invited showed up, but they each brought along someone too, so it turned out to be a decent crowd. Ben was especially excited to see Austin, a boy from his Kindergarten class who he hasn't seen since school ended.

They all played in the pool and a little on the slip 'n slide for about an hour and a half, then we came in where we ate pizza and cake and opened presents. Everyone all seemed to have a really good time and Ben is excited to play with all his new stuff. We also set it up to have Ben go over and play at Austin's house on Monday, so he has more to look forward to.

Here are some pictures of today's fun. Some look pretty similar to yesterday's fun. :)

Birthday fun

Here are some pictures of how we spent Ben's birthday today:

Getting in




Playing


Squirt wars!




Notice the dog in the background. He wanted to play too.


Daniel was checking out the action


Mom and Daniel

Happy Birthday To Ben!

Today is Ben's 6th birthday. I can't believe how quickly 6 years has gone by. It's hard to believe that 6 years ago today we were holding our little baby boy for the first time. We love having him in our family. He's such a smart kid who loves doing nice things for others. For example, when I asked him what he wanted for his birthday, he said (after coloring books, candy, and a Transformer) that what he really wanted was to get something for our whole family and he asked me what we needed.

Here's a picture of Ben at 6 months. Wasn't he cute?



Here's Ben's last school picture.



And here are a couple pictures I took of Ben today on his birthday. He was a little busy playing the Wii, so they're a bit silly.

A little summer TV

Okay, so I admit it. I watch waaayy too much television. I like it because I can relax and not have to actually do anything. And it can be pretty darned entertaining. I tend not to be able to watch shows as they're on, so I love my dvr where I can watch them later. Whoever invented that thing is a genius. They need it for the radio though, since it throws me off and I think I should rewind to hear what they just said. Maybe that will be the next invention.

Typically in the past, summer television hasn't been all that great. Reruns and reality tv. Great. The last couple of years have actually had some good summer series shows going on, so I'm getting pretty excited about some old favorites of mine starting their new seasons. That fun all starts this week.

On Thursday, the second season of Burn Notice starts. When it first came out last year, I wasn't sure it would be one I would be interested in. Much to my delight and surprise, I really like this one. Ex-spy (he got burned, which is why he's no longer a spy) who does spy-like jobs for people who are in jams, all the while trying to figure out why he got burned and how he can clear his name. Action and humor. What can be better?



On Friday, the new season of Stargate Atlantis starts. This one I can see it or miss it and it's not a big deal, but I do like to watch it. Usually it's watched a few days or weeks after it's originally aired when I finally get to watching it on my dvr. Still entertaining though.



Next Friday, the new season of Psych starts. This one has me laughing out loud on a regular basis. It comes on right after Monk, for those who are Monk fans. I've never quite gotten into Monk, but it's pretty popular. If you're not familiar with Psych, it's about a guy who basically has a photographic memory and whose dad taught him how to be hyper-observant who pretends to be psychic to work with the police department. He named his psychic p.i. office "Psych."




On the 29th, the new episode of Eureka starts. I was up until after 11 watching last season's finale since they were actually showing it again on SciFi. This is another one that has me laughing out loud on a regular basis.



Have you noticed the shows I like are all on USA or on SciFi? Interesting. Whatever the channel though, I'd say I'm in summer TV heaven.

Swimming lessons again

Today was the first day of Level 1 swimming lessons for Ben and Preschool swimming lessons for Alex. They both seemed to have a really good time.

Ben says he likes this class better than his last one because there's just one girl and the rest are boys. He was basically the only boy in his last class because the boy who was in it wouldn't go in the water and his mom stopped trying to get him to.

Alex impressed me with the way he paid attention to his teacher and would volunteer to be the first to try things. He said his favorite thing was floating on his back. He's very excited to go again tomorrow.

Here are some pictures I took today:

This is Alex floating on his back:


Alex on the stairs at the beginning of his class:


Alex playing with the boats in class:


Ben is doing a glide/dive thing here:


This is Ben's class. He's on the left. Sorry, it's a bit dark (this is the one the flash was on with the camera.)

Tagged - A Closer Look

De tagged me, so here goes:
1. My kitchen sink


2. Inside my fridge


3. My favorite shoes


4. Inside my closet (you can't see all of it from this view, so sorry.


5. My laundry pile (today is laundry day)


6. What my kids are doing now





7. My favorite room (you'll notice I left the pantry door open...I love my pantry


8. My recent purchase (we went to the dollar store and stocked up)


9. A dream vacation - it's nothing big or too exotic or exciting. I just really want to be able to take my husband and kids to my mission areas.


10: A self-portrait. The one on top is from today, the one on bottom is so you can see what I look like when I leave my hair down



Okay, now I tag Lisa, Jill (do a new post, Jill!), and whoever else wants to do it. :)

Our 4th of July

So I'm finally posting pictures and stuff about our 4th of July.

We had a fairly lazy day. The boys mostly played video games with their dad during the day. We did bbq some hot dogs and hamburgers for dinner, then did fireworks at about 8:00 that night. Bryce tends to go overboard when buying us fireworks, so they spent an hour and a half doing fireworks that night, followed by another hour on the next night.

Here's Bryce lighting fireworks for the boys. He would sit in the chair and light the fireworks (flowers and bombs) and throw them to the street.



Ben and Alex playing with sparklers:




Ben and Alex sitting in the grass watching the fireworks:




The only fireworks Chris really liked were the smoke bombs. They didn't make loud noises and just made pretty smoke. He of course especially liked the yellow ones.

Here are Ben and Alex (Chris wasn't that brave) playing in the smoke from the smoke bombs:




This is how Chris spent most of the time during the fireworks. He's a bit scared of them and sat on my lap shaking the whole time we were actually able to get him to go outside. He was a little braver the second night and watched a few from inside the garage.