Cabin Fun December 28, 2010

He Sleeps

Doesn't he look so peaceful and innocent? As soon as he wakes up the tornado begins, but he is calm and peaceful while he rests up!

Ahhhhhh CRAP!

Everybody’s had a day where you wake up and say, “ahhh crap!” We had a day exactly like that on Sunday. That’s because when we woke up the house was covered in crap. Fortunately, it wasn’t hard to identify the source because it was still covered in crap too. We were wondering what it was until it said, “Mom, I pooped.” We’ll call that the understatement of the past 6 months. Thanks to my excellent forensic science skills we were able to reconstruct the happenings of the morning just before our “awakening”.

Apparently, Andrew was standing on a kitchen stool, which had Katie’s coat on it, when about 3 days worth of diarrhea exited his body at hurricane force. The diaper and backside of his pajamas were vaporized in the initial blast. Shards of debris were embedded in the cabinetry and walls, driven there by force of liquid poo. Andrew, realizing that this situation might be slightly more serious than his normal modus excrementi, thought it prudent to go ahead and try to clean himself up. Since timing was already critical, he grabbed the nearest dish towel just in time for another high pressure front to move across his bowels. This storm lacked the high velocities of the first but triggered massive mud slides.

After completely saturating the dish towel and surrounding area, Andrew was smart to realize that while there was no hope of stemming the flood partially digested food, he had better let Mom and Dad know. He walked up stairs, and crawled up on our bed. Since Katie thought he was just coming to lay with us she pulled him up and lay him next to her. Right about the time she could smell that not all was ripe with the world, he broke it to her. “Mom, I pooped.”

The rest of the morning was spent refinishing the kitchen and re-flooring the hallways. And did I mention… we have a new bed! Unfortunately, for those of a weaker disposition, we did not think to grab our camera before rebuilding half of the house.

Happenings

 

This week has been a doozy!  On Wednesday Kallie woke up with a temperature of 103.6.  Lovely.  Poor Kallie.  When this girl gets sick she gets SICK!  So all day Wednesday we fought high fevers, throwing everything up, and just feeling horrible.  Early, early Thursday morning (I think, for what a blur this week has been it could have been Wednesday morning) I was awoken by the lovely sound of Kallie throwing up again.  So we hung out from 2am to 5:30ish am and watched Marmaduke (super cute movie) and other fun cartoons.  I finally get her in bed…not sleeping yet…just in bed and Andrew comes to the side of my bed telling me he just threw up.  Thinking he was just repeating things he had heard the previous day I didn’t’ think much of it till he decided to confirm it by throwing up all over me, our bed, and my pillow.  Fantastic.  So we all get up to change sheets, give Andrew a bath, and all that fun stuff you like to do at 5 in the morning after not sleeping all night.  Chris was sweet enough to rock Andrew while I took a shower.  Next thing I know he is in the bathroom too covered in throw up and Andrew is missing his jammies.  Yep, he got us again.  The rest of that morning was spent rocking a sick kid and trying to catch vomit before it got all over me.  A very fun game... but a horrible outcome if you lose! 

Friday was a little better since Andrew was finally not vomiting every hour and Kal’s fever was in the low 100’s.  So I figured I would start a project I’ve been meaning to get to since last Christmas.  I made these cute little “candle” bags! We do “candles” every night in December, a tradition we got from Chris’s side.  The kids love it!  To explain what candles is go here for the whole thing.  We put little gifts in these bags for the kids each night.  Ben and Kallie think it is so fun that they have started making gifts to give to us each night!  I love it!  They are such thoughtful kids.   

Tonight was our ward Christmas party!  Normally I stay home with which ever child is sick (because one is always sick for some reason during the ward Christmas party)…but since we got that over and done with earlier in the week we were able to go as a family.  But did I get a family shot?  No!  Ben didn’t even sit with us!  He decided to join the Ackerman family.  Kallie and Andrew had fun running around and playing with all their cute little friends.  Andrew loved being a big kid and playing out in the hallway.  I found new appreciation for my calling as an activity days leader when I recruited my girls and their friends to watch out for Andrew.  They are amazing !

So today Chris kept talking about how we needed to be at the   Christmas party by 6 pm to make sure we got a table.  We were asked to bring a pie…and Chris being the little chef that he is decided to make a pumpkin pie from scratch.  He started making it Friday night with baking out the pumpkins.  This morning he made the pie crust.  The afternoon was the big moment of pureeing the pumpkin and making the actual pie.  Needless to say he was very excited about this pie.  If I had been thinking I would have taken a picture of his precious pumpkin pie!  It gets out of the oven and he just can’t leave it alone.  Finally he has to try a piece.  He cuts into the pumpkin pie we are supposed to be taking to the ward party.  Doesn’t everyone love it when you bring a treat and one is already missing?  Chris assured me no one would notice since there would be a large selection of pie.  So we show up with our pies at 6 pm on the dot.  We are the first ones there.  Only the party planning committee people are there and they look surprised to see us.  Why?  Because the party doesn’t start till 6:30!  I was so embarrassed…but not as embarrassed as when I got home and realized that we had left our pie there (the only one on the table) with a slice MISSING from it!  Of course they knew who made it now and who took a slice from it!  I was so embarrassed…and Chris just laughed and laughed.

So back to the party.  We had an amazing dinner, fantastic dessert, sat by fun friends, and even got to hear the primary kids sing us songs.  It was such a fun night!  We lost Andrew a few times…but he always popped back up .

Kallie in her cute Santa hat!

Kids running around having a fun time playing together.

Kallie singing.

Ben is the kid in the Santa hat crossing his arms like he is mad.

Chris and Kal.  I think this was a little much for Kal.  She got pretty tired after being up and going again.

How’s your morning?

This is how mine started :)  Andrew’s awake!  What a little helper I have.  He needed a little more milk in his cereal…being that he is 2 1/2 he is defiantly old enough to pour it himself (or so he thinks).  Welcome Monday!  Let the games began!

Christmas Parties have begun!

Tonight we attended the Gillen Family Christmas party.  The kids always love to go to this family reunion/party, because they have an extra special guest who come…SANTA!  So, we got the kids dressed and headed up to Murray!

First off I love these two little kids.  Ava and Andrew are the cutest little buds these days!  I have to admit a few months ago when all Andrew wanted to do was pull her hair and push her down I was pretty worried.  But it seems time heals all (and growing up a little) and now we get cute pictures like this!

And this!  I have to admit Andrew pretty much cornered Ava and she finally gave in and gave him a hug…but how cute!

 

Kallie, Lisa, and Sierra

 

Mom, this one is for you.  Here is a shot of Kal’s new hair cut.  Cute huh?

Papa with Ava.  Isn’t Ava’s little dress adorable?!?!

I know this next picture is blurry…but I have to put it in.  Andrew was SUPER excited when Santa came in.  We lucked out and happened to be sitting right in Santa’s pathway to get to his special red chair.  I asked Andrew if he wanted to go and see Santa.  He jumped up and ran to him, bypassing the long line of kids that had already formed.  This is the only shot I got of Andrew running into Santa’s arms.  He got right on his lap and just sat there with him.  It was so adorable!  (I’m not sure if the other parents who were standing in line with their kids thought it was adorable…but I did :))

 

Andrew and his best bud

Santa and Ben

When Kallie found out she was going to meet Santa she disappeared into her room.  She came out with a beautiful picture she had drawn for Santa and even wrote a cute little note on there for him.  This is Kallie presenting her masterpiece.  Santa made a big deal over her picture and even put it in his special red sack!

Santa with all the grandkids that were there…sans Ava.  Ava was not a Santa fan to begin with.  Her Daddy worked really hard at convincing her he was a nice guy. 

  

The Hanson’s waiting in line to see Santa.  Ava kept a pretty close eye on what was going on with Santa.  Amy grabbed a Santa treat for Ava when the other kids sat on his lap…so Ava decided she would go and tell him thank you.

Success!  Ava told Santa thank you and gave him a nice list of what she wanted for Christmas.  This was as close to sitting on Santa’s lap as she would go.  Good job AVA!!!

Party worked its magic.  We got home and put kids in bed….and THEY STAYED THERE!  It was a little bit of Christmas magic tonight!