Blue Skies

The last couple days....

Tuesday, I had a great time with my friend Jaime. We have been good friends for 24 years, since elementary school. Whoaaa, I feel old! She was visiting from the midwest where she lives now. The kids had a fabulous time with Jaime too!

Wednesday, was a pretty quiet day, except when the FBI showed up at our house, and the bird flew into our house too. The FBI story is pretty darn funny, but I will tell it later. To ease any readers, the FBI had NOTHING to do with us, which is why it is soooo funny. And the bird... well, the kids were playing outside. I went to open our front door to check on them, and in flies a bird. The poor bird was so lost and more terrified than I was. It took comfort on a little bamboo plant on our mantle before realizing that the door was left wide open for it to makes its exit. Luckily that little saga only lasted a few minutes.

Today is just another sunny day. All of you on the east cost... this is what a blue sky looks like? I'm just trying to jog your memory.

More CA views

Saturday night, I had a girls night. It was great, of course. I did not take pictures for some reason, but trust me, we had fun. I wish I enjoyed a cocktail or two, although I don't trust myself when I am driving home. I had time to kill before driving home, so I guess it would have been okay. The company was all I needed.

Yesterday, I was fully intending on staying home or staying local, but of course, we had another adventure. Juliana wanted to go to the beach again, so I looked online to find somewhere new. We went to Bodega Bay. I'll admit, at first we were disappointed. Until we actually parked the car and went looking into the water. Within 2 minutes we saw crabs crawling everywhere, a sea lion swimming around, jellyfish swimming, and then we were invited to see crabs on a real fishing boat. The kids touched the enormous crab, and did you know parts of crabs are furry? I didn't know that. Learn somethin' new every day.

From there, we got back in the car to find a place to eat our picnic lunch. We ended up going down a back road and found a great beach with picnic tables on the high cliffs. We went to eat, play in the sand, and explore. Another California adventure in the books......

The fisherlady showing the kids the crab.

That is a loooooong way down. Pretty picture!

Daddy keeping Kev safe.

Lookin' perrrty, as usual.

More gorgeous views. Pictures barely do it justice.

Play dates n' more

We've been busy the last few days. Juliana had her summer camp beach picnic on thursday. They put on a show for the parents too. It was adorable! Yesterday, we had play dates nearly all day. One for a few hours with Kevin's friends in the morning, and one with both Juliana and Kevin's friends (and mine too) in the afternoon. In between, we met Jason and my mom for lunch. It was a last minute lunch, and a coincidence that we were all within about 3 miles of each other at the time.

Kevin waiting for Juliana's performance to begin. It was COLD!

Juliana is the third cild from the end, near the big guy. Ok, so you can't really see her.

Kevin in the sandbox with his friends Jack and Annelisse.

Juliana before her field trip.

Social butterfly or wasp?

I have come to the conclusion that Kevin will only attend school for the social life it will bring for him. That kid cracks me up!

I took Juliana with me to drop Kevin off at summer camp. This is a new place for him with new teachers, new kids, new parents dropping off... you get the idea. Kevin sees the first child show up and immediately walks over to him and says loudly, "Look Mom, he's my friend" then looks at the kid and says, "RIGHT?" He boy ran to his grandfather in fear of his life.

Next victim... a little girl. "Hi. I'm Kevin. I'm your friend." The girl didn't say anything, but ran behind a tree and looked for Kevin to play with her. After running around the tree together he says, "Nanny, come here." ("Nanny" is Juliana) Juliana comes over and he says to the little girl, "This is my sister Juliana. She is 7 and is going to beach camp...." blah blah blah. He went on and on and on. Just in case you are wondering, he calls Juliana her name in front of other people, but when it is just the two of them, he says, "Hey Nanny" or "Hey Nan". It is so darn cute!

So, the teachers come out, Juliana and I try to say GOODBYE, and he is already comfortable in the classroom without saying goodbye. I love that kid!

Almost 100 percent

This is a good synopsis of how Kevin is doing today. Notice in the video that he is blowing bubbles and playing, but when asked if he wants to chase them, he says, "No thanks."

This is all progress. I have a really good feeling he is about 85 percent back to normal. Give it another, well uhhhh, 4 hours, and he'll be 100% again.

Admitted-- in pictures

I am going to try to break down Kevin's hospitalization and cruddy days in photos.

In the ER, just after the IV was hooked up.

The ambulance ride. Shaky photo. It was a bumpy ride.

Second day in the hospital. No real changes. Yes, he is wearing a diaper. He could not control himself, if you follow my drift.

Late second day. IV out, and just had a bath. Yes, his hair is crazy because it was wet, then he laid on it for a while. Cute though.

Taken about 20 minutes ago. As you can see, not a lot of changes. He is dressed because Juliana started summer camp today and we dropped her off. He still has close to no energy for life these days. As a matter of fact, he plopped down on grass so he did not have to walk the 100 feet to drop her off with her camp group. He couldn't handle the walk.

He did eat a waffle and drank about 3 oz of juice this morning. So far, so good. Hmmm, time will tell. He can change for the worse in the matter of minutes, and he also can change for the better too. I'm hoping for better, I think he is too.

Admitted, Day 3

Day 3-- he is home. I should probably be more excited about it, but I'm not.

He has eaten one bite of waffle today, and drank a total of 2-3 oz of fluid. His IV was stopped yesterday about 2pm. Since then, he has ingested approx 6 oz of fluids. He is still rather lethargic, except for the occasional bouts of 3 year old boy energy for about 5 minutes every couple hours.

I am really annoyed that the hospital released him. I am so tired of fighting, so I signed discharge papers hoping to fight the battle at home, and return if we have to. Kevin has refused his lunch so far. Who knows what the afternoon and evening will bring.

Rest time now. Kev is asking to sleep.