Oh, CROUP!

Keeley is determined to help us experience everything parenting has to offer, so whatever Luken managed to skip over, she's taking one for the team and filling in!

She didn't nap well yesterday afternoon - woke up crying and was really agitated, so I got her up, and after that she seemed just fine. Bedtime went smoothly at 8:00pm.

Fast forward to 2:30am when she woke screaming, wheezing, gasping, the works! I quickly suspected croup, so we looked up the symptoms and calmed her down, but she kept wheezing no matter what. The advice nurse had us do the hot shower steam thing, followed by some fun playing in the freezer, but it had no effect, so I took her to the ER at 4:00am. Boy was she pissed off about them putting the oxygen saturation monitor on her toe, and just about anything else they tried to do to her! She had a cool mist nebulizer treatment for a while (she actually liked sniffing in the mist!) and then an oral steroid, and they sent us on our way with an Rx for more steroid. She slept from 5:30am -10:30 (when I couldn't stand it anymore and went in to check on her, and she woke up.)

She's been in pretty good spirits today, just a little tired. I can definitely still hear the rattle in her lungs in every breath. We have our fingers crossed that she will sleep OK tonight. Todd and I are both exhausted from the lack of sleep. Luken was up EARLY this morning for some reason, so Todd only got a little sleep while Keeley and I were at the ER, and I got a bit more sleep from 6ish to 7:30am. *Yawn*

Anyway, now we've had the middle of the night croup experience..... Wheeeeeeee!

Keep on trikin'

I took Luken to go pick out a helmet so he can ride his new tricycle outside! He picked a really cool one with a dragon-snake thing on it! They are like the "Chihuahua snakes" from the Hercules movie. OK, I guess you had to be there, but in his mind, snakes are called Chihuahuas, and I have no idea where he even HEARD that word, but it is what it is! LOL!

Riding down the driveway. He had a lot of help from Daddy on this excursion!


We stopped next door to see if Jacob wanted to come along, but they were just about to sit down to dinner, so we just visited for a few minutes to show off the new helmet!


They have a new baby bird in their yard!

Strapping the helmet back on and getting ready to ride!

Getting going!

What a cutie!

Hi, Mom! Look at me!

More help from Daddy.

And another push. Luken tired quickly! ;)

No pictures of Keeley - she was riding on my back for this one! :D

Knife Skills

Over the weekend we had a neighbor and their two boys over for dinner. Their older son is 6, and was allowed to use a knife at dinner, so of course, Luken had to have one, too. And the next day, ha ha! Here he is, showing off his knife skills!

Yes, that is an actual green bean! And he actually ate it! And even ate some more as a bedtime snack, woo hoo!


Posing for the camera! :)


Oh, yes, he was also drinking iced tea from a real GLASS, too! Almost 4 going on 44!