Beach Trip 2006

Beach Trip 2005

This was my first trip to the beach with the Children's ER crew. It was so much fun, but it seems to get more fun every year. Or maybe I'm just getting older, and it's the only weekend out of the year that I have an excuse to act like a fool!

Such a Slacker...

I feel that way in many aspects of my life at the moment. Man, where does the time go? I have been off all week, and have managed to get NOTHING done. I don't know why I feel so run down all of the time. Oh wait, could it be the fact that I haven't slept through the night in almost 12 months? That might have something to do with it.

So, I haven't post since Trev got his tubes....I'm not sold on them at all. Guess what, we already have an ear infection!! Whoo-hooo! I knew when we got them that he would still get ear infections, no doubt, he has the worst ears ever. Poor little guy, at the moment, he has goop draining out of his left ear. Better out than in, I guess! I actually think that tube might be partially blocked, because I can't seem to get his drops to go down into the canal. We go tomorrow for a follow up and a hearing test. I am super excited to see how bad he behaves this time. At least his daddy will be there too, so maybe he'll act better this time.

ONE WEEK....and I'm headed down to PCB for the weekend with some of my friends from work. Talk about a great time....we go this time every year, and every year it gets better. I am so very excited!! That is, if it's not getting hit by one of the many hurricanes/tropical storms brewing out there...Hannah, Ike.....Josephine....what's up with all the storms!?!

We Have Tubes!!

Yaaay...we have tubes! I don't know why we didn't do this a year ago. Trevor was gone from us for literally 5-10 minutes when Dr. Wiatrak came in the room, and said, "How's that for quick?" Joe couldn't believe he was already done. He did say that Trevor had alot of "goop" behind his ears. He said it wasn't infected, but there was a good amount there, and that's probably why he doesn't sleep well. We were on the way home by 8:30 this morning. And guess what? My child took a 4 HOUR nap when we got home. I guess he's catching up on some sleep that he's missed out on for the past year or so!! Overall, everything went great, and I hope we are on the road to less painful ears!

Drivin' and Waitin'

This little car was also a great distraction. I like how they had so many toys for the kids to play with. It definitely takes their mind off "being at the doctor".

Waiting Patiently

He did SO good considering the last time he had anything by mouth was last night at 9:00. I was pleasantly surprised. In a way, I'm glad that we haven't gotten rid of the paci yet, because it was a life-saver this morning. I think it kept his mind off eating and drinking. Crayons are a great distraction too!

Bath Time Fun....

This is my little ham when I told him to smile for the camera. He kinda smiles too much, but he's such a cutie.

Silly Boy

Curly Mohawk

Tubes Tomorrow!

First of all, let me say, excuse his hair, he had some MAJOR bed head in this picture with his Paw-Paw yesterday. We are scheduled for tubes tomorrow....YEAH!!!! The nurse anesthetist called this morning to get some pre-op info, and we have to be there at 6:15 in the morning. Please say a prayer for my little man that everything will go as planned. I know he will be fine, but I get nervous anyway. I will post some pictures hopefully tomorrow afternoon sometime. I have been such a bad blogger, but we've had alot going on this week!

Trevor and his Uncle "Jakes"

Don't ask me why, but Trevor calls my brother Jake, "Jakes". He was so glad he got to see Jake this weekend. Jake tends to spoil him, and he always gets his way with Jake, so he loves it when Jake comes home!

Cute Little Guy

Jake found this cute little baby lizard yesterday on my parent's front porch. I thought he was too cute and too little not to take a picture of! I don't think I've ever seen a lizard this tiny!

Pouring on the Charm...

This is why it's impossible to stay mad at him for too long, no matter what he does. I think all little boys have this power to make their mommies melt when they do something like this!!

Just Being Silly...

Me and my little man...notice I have to hold him down for a picture!

My Little Terd....

Don't let this sweet little innocent face fool you. This was taken last Friday.We went for an ENT visit today for our evaluation for tubes. Let's just say, I know there will be many more embarrassing moments, but this one takes the cake today. He was an angel in the waiting room, looking at the fish, and playing with the cars on table. The second we went into the room to wait on the doctor....he started this blood-curdling screaming. I'm talking about ringing your ears screaming. Not to mention throwing himself in the floor like a maniac. The whole time, I'm thinking, my child is only 18 months old....isn't this for 2 and 3 year olds? My Lord, I can't even begin to imagine what kind of tyrant he'll be at that age. And to make things even worse, he has a big bruise on his forehead, and a scraped up nose and top lip. Those poor nurses that had to listen to his screaming probably think I beat the crap out of my child!

Needless to say, by the time Dr. Wiatrak got in the room, we were both hysterical. He didn't even take the time to look in Trevor's ears. He started out by asking me all of these questions like how many ear infections he's had and how many antibiotics he's been on, and I finally said, "I really don't know I'm so crazy right now...how about too many, will that answer work?" Poor guy, he probably thought I was a psycho-path! He finally said, Okay, Dr. Hardwick sent you here because he thinks Trevor needs tubes, and I won't argue with that. He also said something like if a child has been on antibiotics more than 3 (I think that's the right number...remember, my child is screaming the whole time) times in a year for an ear infection, then they are candidates for tubes. I just laughed...that's all I could do. I told him that it took 3 antibiotics alone just to cure one of his last ear infections.

I mean, I work with sick kids on a regular basis, but let me tell you....you don't hear screaming like that come from just any child. Those are the type of patients you dread taking care of. Those are the type of patients that you beg one of your attending physicians to go and see, and get them the heck out of the ER.....QUICK! SHEESH....I was SO embarrassed! And I just think about all of the times when I said..."my child will NEVER act like that".....well, he proved me wrong today. And had we not been in public, he would've gotten the spanking of his life!

Sorry I'm rambling, but I needed to vent. Anyways, we are scheduled for tubes on August 19th.

Splash Beach...Again!

Trevor got to meet his buddy, Dylan today at Splash Beach. Dylan is 5 days older than Trevor. Dylan's mommy went to highschool with Trevor's daddy. I can't believe we haven't gotten the boys together before now. We definitely will have to plan another play day. Maybe next time we can plan something indoors, considering it felt like it was 100+ degrees outside today....sheesh!

Besides being blazing hot, it was a pretty good day. The boys seemed to have a good time. We witnessed an almost near drowning the first 5 minutes we were there. Joe was chasing Trevor (as usual) to the slide, and I was getting things situated. I saw a crowd of people around the lazy river, and sure enough, the lifeguard was pulling a toddler out of the water. Joe saw the whole thing, and was commending the lifeguards, because he said that the little boy was only under water for maybe 2 seconds. The little boy was fine, just scared to death I'm sure. Of course I wanted to run over and assess the situation, but I contained myself. I didn't want to play the "I'm a nurse" card.

Also, my child suffered a nose vs. the pavement incident at the water park. Of course he was running, and he tripped....ouch! He now has a pretty strawberry on the tip of his nose.

On the Go....

It was not easy getting pictures of these two, they were constantly moving!

Going Down the Slide!

Trevor and Dylan loved going down the slide!

Cute Kiddos!

Brayden and Catherine sure do know how to work the camera...I sure wish I could get Trevor to look at the camera and smile like this. I was amazed at Brayden, all you have to do is say, "Brayden smile" and this is what you get!!

WHOAH!!!!

WHOAH!!!! That's Trevor's new favorite word...everything he sees, WHOAH! These are from Friday night at Stix when the cook was making the volcano. He wasn't so sure about the flames at first, but then he started clapping and saying "WHOAH!!"

Eating at Stix

These pictures are out of order, but I forgot about them. These are from Friday night. We went to eat our favorite...Stix! These are a couple of pictures that our sweet little waitress took.

Busted!

We noticed this afternoon that Trevor was awefully quiet, and this is what I discovered in the kitchen. He was helping himself to some watermelon, standing in the chair and all. He even shared with his Uncle Davy. He is such a wild child!!

And Everybody Joins In....

I'm Done!!

He's through....hands up and all. He is SUCH a stinker, he cracks me up constantly. I never know what he's gonna do next, but there's never a dull moment with this child!!

Animal Sounds

This is a video of Trevor doing his animal sounds, of course, while he eats. It's just a little game we like to play. I'll ask him what the animal says, and he'll do the sound that they make. Remember to pause the play list at the bottom of the page before watching!

Happy Boy!

He's always the happiest when he's eating....sounds like his momma! He is feeling much better today. I can tell a big difference since yesterday. We went to follow up with Dr. Hardwick yesterday, due to our ER visit Saturday. He still has a nasty cough, and you guessed it...ear infections. For the LOVE!!! I'm so glad we meet with an ENT specialist on August 4th to discuss tubes. He doesn't act as miserable this time, because Dr. Hardwick caught it early, and is treating it early. This time we only have 5 days of antibiotics....hooray!! Other than that, he's pretty much back to normal. We haven't done anything interesting this week, so that's why I haven't posted. We've been trying our best to stay indoors while he's getting over this cold. Lord knows he doesn't need to be in the 100 degree heat!

First Official ER Visit

Well, I had to break down and take Trevor to the ER last night, well actually this morning. He's had a cough for about a week that wasn't that bad. Last night about 8:30, he started coughing constantly and having stridor. He couldn't catch his breath, which is kinda scary when stridor's involved. I got him calmed down, and kept telling myself, let's just wait and see what happens. So the stridor went away, but he continued to cough like a maniac.

So, at 3:00 am, off to Children's we go. We started off with an albuterol neb to see if that would help with the coughing (mind you, he had already had 2 doses of benedryl, and 2 doses of tylenol with codiene for the coughing). Dr. Sorrentino also thought his cough sounded "croupy", so we did some steroids. After the albuterol, we let him calm down, and the stridor started back. Well, that bought him a chest x-ray, airway films, and a racemic epi neb. His chest x-ray looked great, and airway films were "narrowed", which is to be expected with croup.

After 2 breathing treatments, steroids, some x-rays, and 24 hours of no sleeping (what's new?) we are doing better, just exhausted. Thank you, thank you to Dr. Sorrentino, Dr. Monroe, Adam, Skip, and the rest of the ER staff for your help. I work with an amazing group of people! Thanks for getting us in and out, considering how crazy it was there.

Another Hot Day at Splash Beach

We went to the water park again today, and had so much fun. Trevor started out kinda clingy, so I didn't think we'd be there very long. He actually hung in there until about 2:30, which was a record for him. These are pictures of him when I got out my camera. I took my eyes off him just long enough to get out my camera, and this is what I found. He was already on the see-saw playing with some little girl!

Hunter and Trevor

Aren't the boys so photogenic with their mommies?

Austin and His Mi Mi

I think this is the sweetest picture of Tricia and Austin, I just had to share it. I don't even think Tricia knew I was taking it.... :)

Weston, Aiden, and Austin

Sweet Pictures with MiMi and PawPaw

My parents are coming home this afternoon. They've been gone to the beach since Thursday evening, and we miss them! I asked Trevor where they were and he started going around the house saying "MI MI......PAW PAW!" I know he'll be glad to see them in a little while!

Congrats Sarah and John Michael!

My friend from work, Sarah, got married last night at Magnolia Manor. It was such a pretty wedding. I wish I wouldv'e got a picture with all of the ER nurses and Sarah, but I was in it, and there were just too many cameras!

Not Loving the Life Vest!

This picture speaks for itself!

First Time on the Innertube!

Okay, I know he's kinda young for this, but keep in mind that we were being pulled by a pontune boat (not sure how to spell it). I mean, how fast can you really go? He lasted about 30 seconds and then started screaming! As soon as we got into the water, he was quiet. He just wanted in the water, that's all!

Playin' in the Sand

There's a little "beach" down by the water at the river, and Trevor and Avery loved playing in the sand.

Fireworks!!

We went and stayed at the river with our friends the Nicks Friday night. We had fun shooting fireworks Friday night. I think this was the first time Trevor had ever seen them. He just started sqealing and pointing at them.

Little Stinker....

First, he starts out in the bed....then he decides that he's hungry, so he just goes and helps himself to his drawer of snacks. (I've been meaning to move it to a higher drawer or cabinet for this very reason....he knows the snacks are in there, and he can reach them now.)

Hot Days at the Park

Sweet Kiddos

Braden is the sweetest little boy. Every time he sees Trevor, he runs up to him and gives him a hug!

A Party for Sarah...

Last week at work, we had a shower/party for Sarah. These are just a few random pictures I took.