Mixed Emotions...Kindergarten!!

Denial...Scared...Excited...these few emotions about sum up what I am feeling this week.  WHERE has the time gone?  Okay...so some days, I feel like will never end...I never imagined that the past 5 years would have flown by so quickly.  My baby girl is starting kindergarten in less than a week.  Is she prepared...YES!  Am I prepared?  NO!

LeLe has to be the most happy child that I have ever known.  She can make almost ANYONE smile and she is such a caring giving child.  When I asked her 4 year old teachers what we needed to work on over the summer...the only thing that they could come up with was that she gives EVERYTHING away.  I am not quite sure where she gets that :)

I have been a nervous wreck over the past week.  While our friends in neighboring Hoover schools have found out their teachers...here we sat...waiting on the mailman.  Yesterday, the original day that we were told we would find out passed with no letter, I decided to call the school.  They said that we would know today at 3:30 when they posted on the windows of the school.  I decided not to take LeLe to the school to fight the crowd.  Instead, she went to a friends house and then I took Gibson to the doctor.  He has terrible skin and has been running a fever.  He woke up several times during the night with nosebleeds.

I am not sure why I am feeling so overwhelmed with LeLe starting kindergarten.   I am not sure if it is the fact that she now is going to be on a strict schedule or if it is the fact that we are now going to have to start getting up at the crack of dawn.

I still have many questions...what should I send on the first day of school?  What should I do about lunch? What should I give the teacher?  You know...all those things that normal people don't even think about...I am losing sleep over.  I believe more than anything...it is just the fact that we are starting a new chapter...and in order to do so...it means that we will have to close the one that I am on...and this particular chapter...I would be fine with lasting for eternity.

Getting better...

We got home from the hospital around lunch on Memorial Day.  My sweet cousin Lauren took LeLe to a Memorial Day swim party.  Gibson and I put train tracks together, built block towers, and watched MORE movies.  I fell asleep a couple of times...probably because I haven't slept but 3-4 hours over the past couple of days. 

He still is fighting taking his medicine.  This is something that is very new to me considering he has ALWAYS been a great medicine taker.  He actually still takes medicine a couple of times a day for allergies and for his eczema.  So, medicine is not new to him....however, I do think that it was causing some issues on Saturday and he correlates the 2 together.

We went to Krispy Kreme...which was his first request...and he carefully and cautiously gulped down 2 doughnuts today.  We are on top of him regarding intake of liquids.  We did try to get him to eat outside (which is one of his favorite things to do)....but it ended in screaming and crying.  Lauren finally convinced him into taking his lortab...and then he started acting better...well, acting drunk...but not crying.  After the lortab kicked in, I loaded him up on Popsicles in the bathtub..They were filled with fructose...which is a big "no no" for Gibson but at this point, I would rather him have any liquid than to get dehydrated.  He ate 5 of them!  I am sure that the fake sugar is much better tasting than regular Popsicles which we usually have. 

He fought off sleeping...another new experience..but finally fell asleep while I watched "The Bachelorette".  I took him to his bed...I climbed in too...and we slept until 10:15 today!

When we woke up...I decided I could NOT TAKE being in the house any longer.  We herded the crew together and headed to grab some lunch at Newks...where G didn't eat a thing...and then to the popcicle place in Homewood...where...Gibson didn't eat anything.  :(  We then headed to the new target in Homewood where G loves to ride the escalator.  Anything I can do to make this baby not cry all day lon
g.  I think Lauren and Gibson may have ridden it 10 times.  :)

We have continued to push "nilla" milk, gatorade, but tonight...he asked to go to the "cook behind you place".  So, we all loaded up and headed to Stix.  He FINALLY threw back some food....and a lot of it.  He loves watching the fire and while paying attention to the guy cooking...ate about 1/2 cup of rice and some steak.  Matt...claims we will go every night until this baby is back to normal. 

Gibson's first trip to Children's

Thank you again for the outpouring of love over the last few days.  We are at home now and hope to stay here for a while.  If he does not continue to drink or take medicines, we will have to return.  I have received several questions about what happened so I decided to go ahead and post instead of emailing you guys individually.  

Gibson had his tonsils and adenoids out on Tuesday (we found out Monday they needed to go).  We were warned that 1 in 100 of these do sometimes start bleeding.  Matt and I laughed and said...that will be us.  However, I didn't think much more about it.

Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday and Thursday, Gibson was whiny but not miserable.  Saturday was a different story.  He couldn't get comfortable.  Saturday night, I put him bed.  Even though he was sleeping peacefully, something told me to just lay down in his bed.  About 2:30, I heard him coughing/gagging.  I looked over and it appeared he had dark stuff all over him.  He wasn't crying but was startled. I switched on the light and he got upset so I turned on the hall light to find he clearly needed to go to the er.  His face, hair, shirt,pillow and about a foot or so of his sheet was covered in blood and many many blood clots.  I quickly woke up Matt and he took off his clothes and threw him in the car.  Since lele was sleeping, we decided to call  Lauren Reaves to go with me and he would stay behind with Lele.  

Gibson remained calm.  Lauren jumped in the car and we were greeted by the er staff.  I am not quite sure what they thought of us when we walked in.  Here Gibson was with red crusted hair, no shirt, wrapped in a blanket and here we were well, not looking our best.  He started getting upset when I had to put him down for a weigh in. He weighed in at 15.3 which was significantly lower than the 17.8 just a few days earlier. They couldn't get a temperatures reading and after my looks of death, she went ahead and sent us back.  We went to er room 4 where we were greeted by a nurse and an er resident, then an er doctor, then 2 nurses, then an ent resident, ent fellow, and many others.  Gibson continued to vomit blood and clots at the tune of several ounces if not a cup or so each time,  Lauren was in charge of vomit catching.  He did it enough to look at her when he needed to get sick again.  The nurses tried to get a line in but unfortunately, he was uncooperative and dehydrated. they went ahead and did X-rays on his chest since his breathing was labored.  Lauren and I held him in the correct position while they did the X-rays.  Fortunately he Didn't get sick again until we got back into the room. The ent doctor then suctioned as much out of his mouth. He could and was able to take a quick look of his throat...enough to know that there was a clot in the back of his throat large enough to obstruct his airway.  At this point, Gibson was just begging for me to hold him. The doctors came in to let us know that we would have to have surgery.  By this point, he was lethargic so they were able to get an IV started. 

We moved up to the operating room where we were greeted by a ton of folks.  Gibson was sound asleep as they took him back.  At this point, it was around 5;30.  They found that his right tonsil scab had fallen off but that it was healing quicker than normal.  The left side also a

Had fallen off it there was a vein closer to the surface which was causing the problem.  They then removed what they called a large blood clot and cauterized the vein.  They then pumped out a "significant" amount of blood.  Gibson didn't cry in recovery but was asking everyone to "get him out of this place".  We met him in the me children's tower 1046 where he continued to rest.  

They pumped him with fluids, anti nausea meds and pain mediation. He rested until around 5:30.  

Matt brought dinner to all the nurses which was appreciated.  We took him on a wagon ride with IV in tow.  He didn't even ask to get up.  He got really antsy during the night and they brought him a dose of Benadryl through the IV.  He also continued to fight when we asked m to take his lortab or Advil but we got enough down him to make him comment "the doctors and medicine makes me not hurt".  Matt came home.  Mom had lele and I stayed.

We woke up this am greeted by 2 doctors and they decided not to give him blood or steroids as we had first spoken about.  Instead, they sent us home on strict orders, special diet and w new meds.  Gibson has done better today than since Tuesday.  W are still fighting over medicine and liquid intake.  He did ask for dough nuts which was a great sign

  So far, we have had 3 doughnuts, 5 popcicles and 2 vanilla milks.  

Full day!!

We had an action packed day today! Gibson woke us all up this morning explaining that it was a sunny day and we don't need to sleep during the sunny time. So, we all got up. I cleaned house for a couple of hours getting it prepared for the maids to come. I had previously made the kids a couple of outfits for Easter but since it was so cold outside, I made them a couple of long sleeve items for them to wear today. Lele chose a bunny and I tried to convince Gibson's do a train with a bunny or an egg but he quickly explained that bunnies or eggs ride in trains. He picked a floppy ear bunny for him. Ater getting dressed, we headed to lunch. Gibson loves croutons and lele loves noodles so they decided to go to olive garden. After packing in all that we could eat at olive garden , we headed to get Gibson's hair cut. Lele loves getting her hair cut so we let her get a shape up too. While they were getting their hair cuts they took turns getting their nails painted. While formally I wouldn't let Gibson get his nails done, it did keep him quite and so...we did it'll. He chose pink and blue and lele chose pink and yellow.

We then headed quickly to see the Easter bunny. This Yale went to the galleria and they wouldn't let me take personal pictures. I even got in trouble for videoing Gibson. He was very unsure about the easter bunny but after making the bunny hold their stuffed animals...he agreed to sit close to the bunny. No way would he get in his lap. After the pictures, Gibson did go up and hug the bunny.

W then headed home for a quick rest and then back out we went. We decided to get some Mexican for dinner. Gibson never woke up during dinner. Kim and i took turns holding hi,. and then headed over to the 7:20 movie of the crowds. It was a cute movie but not really what I was expecting.

Errands....

Well, we finally got out of the house today! I spent most of the morning setting up a new train track for Gibson. When we left to do errands...surprisingly it was still together.

The kids took a big big big bubble bath....so big that the bubbles were coming out the top! They then jumped in the shower and we headed to Sasser eye place where they fixed Lele's glasses. I am not sure how she gets them all bent up so badly but she does!! Even they comment on the way they are all jacked up!

Afterwards, we went to Olive Garden to grab some lunch. The Kids like their pasta and I like their soup! But, when I was getting out of the car and realized that I didn't have my wallet. I called Matt and he met me at Great Clips where I was getting LeLe's hair cut. We got a couple of inches cut off of it. She LOVES getting her hair done!! Gibson actually wore underwear all day today and only had a couple of accidents. The accidents were my fault because I forgot to ask him if he needed to go. I didn't have to potty trim lele cause mother did so this is an experience for me! After lele got her hair cut, we went back to Olive garden to enjoy lunch at 2:30! When we got done, we came home and played trains, horses and I sewed. Matt helped me package up orders and then we are dinner, headed to visit the neighbors and then headed to bed! Good night all!!