I'm Not A Mean Mommy!

but at 7:30pm, catching me at the mall with two rambunctious 6 year old girls, after a day of whining and carrying on and of me saying "no", "you can't", "do this", "do that", "don't do this", "don't do that", "Marissa", "MARISSA", "MARISSA!!!" ... you caught me at a bad moment and I appear to be the meanest mommy in the world...oh well, I'll start out tomorrow like I always do. Sweet as pie, agreeable and lovely...but watch out come 7:30pm tomorrow night...I turn into the mean mommy again...because it will be "clean your room", "get in the shower", "pick out something to wear to school tomorrow", "get your back pack together", "are you packing or buying", "GET TO BED!"

Hearing Test Hunh? Huhn? Is This Thing On???

Dylan's hearing test went well yesterday. We had a huge mommy & me day. We went to Speech, then to the Children's Museum, then his hearing test. He has some decrease of hearing in the right ear, nothing marked and the audiologist thinks it's from the fluid. So she is faxing the paperwork to the ENT for his review and I should hear from him by Monday.

We Didn't Start The Fire

Last night Larry & I went to the Mellon Arena to see the Billy Joel concert!

It was great! It was like listening live to a Greatest Hits Album! I had such a good time.

He got so old, but he played great. The band was great, the songs were classic and we loved rocking out with Billy.

Funny part: He told the crowd that his guitar roadie was a tryout for American Idol but didn't make it because he wasn't telegenic enough. So Billy was going to give this guy, Chainsaw, a chance to perform and he was going to sing a religious song that we'd all be humming to on the way home. The guy comes out and the band performs AC/DC's Highway to Hell! It was fantastic...the guy was a dead ringer (sound wise) to their lead singer.

What a great night. He of course ended with Piano Man. I lost it when he performed "New York State of Mind."

More Injury News

Yesterday when I took Dylan to the Pediatricians for his ear recheck (ear infection 3 weeks ago), the NP and DR. thought they saw dried blood behind his right ear drum (the ear below the staples) and said that it could indicate a small fracture to a bone in his ear and referred us to his ENT.

When I called our ENT they said I could either take him to AGH on Wed. morning or to their Richland office to see our Drs. partner on Tuesday. I opted for the latter as it's closer to home and I didn't have to be in work today until 2pm. Wednesday I have to be at a Job Fair in Beaver in the morning.

We had a long wait and then an examination. We (me and 2 nurses) had to hold Dylan down while the ENT looked at his ears with a microscope. Poor thing was royally pissed off. Good news is that the Dr. doesn't think it's blood, but dark mucus/fluid from a prior ear infection, but does want him to go for a hearing test just the same.

Spring & Camping & Injuries, Oh My!

I was sooo glad that Spring seemed to finally be here, however, we had rain and cold this weekend...back to jackets and long sleeves.

Camping was FUN! The girls had a ball and I'll share some pictures of the Daisy's in a link.

WE got home and the trouble started. We had a birthday party Saturday night and we all got ready while we waited for Madison's mom to pick her up.

The kids were playing and Dylan was the "Monster" chasing the girls and then we heard crash, boom, bam and WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Larry ran to investigate and found Dylan bleeding from a head wound. He crashed into the joint of two walls at the bottom of the staircase and split his head open. He cried and bleed for about 3 or so minutes and Larry cleaned the wound and put a wet rag on it. We questioned the girls and they insisted they didn't push him and Dylan concurred.

We decided to take him to the ER. Called John to stay with Marissa and called Michele to see how close she was. She was less than 3 minutes away. I packed a backpack with snacks and toys because we all know how long the wait is in the ER.

We left and took him to Passavant and immediately they took him in and determined that it needed to be closed.

So we got into a room, he was really good, got crying or complaining of anything. He sat in his bed and wanted to watch cartoons, then he wanted to watch Baseball. They put a numbing gel on him and then set up to start the procedure of putting staples on the wound to close.

The registration clerk came in to register him and led me out to her desk and I heard him scream for about a minute, when they gave him a needle to further numb the area. I went back in about 5 minutes later and they were discharging him. He had already gotten 3 staples and was sitting back in bed eating an ice pop and watching TV. Larry signed the paperwork, got the instructions and we left. We were there for only about 30 minutes. I was so lucky on so many counts--it wasn't worse, he wasn't going nuts, the wait wasn't long and I didn't have to witness any of the procedure.

He is doing well. Back to his old self and sporting a mean set of staples and Oh what a story to tell.

Here's a link to some pictures taken on one of our nice Spring days. http://s87.photobucket.com/albums/k160/dcmyers/Spring%202008/

Here's a link to Camping pictures.
http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=222202176/a=128451296_128451296/t_=128451296

First Sleepover Ever!

Tonight Marissa is having her first sleep over ever and she's been excited all day. Madison is here because she's one of the Daisy scouts and we are going "camping" tomorrow.

Daisy's can't stay overnight, but the area Girl Scout troop is hosting a camping weekend and invited my Daisy troop. Madison's mom works and can't take her so I volunteered.

Tomorrow we'll be on the road by 9am and heading back around 5pm. Should be fun.

Note to self...bring the camera.