School

This is from the kid that cried everyday, all day the first two weeks of daycare!

On Sunday afternoon, Cullen and I went outside to write with sidewalk chalk and catch bugs. (We had been locked up since Thursday)We had been outside only for a few minutes when Cullen went to the truck and asked to go to school. I explained that no one was at school. He tried very hard to open the locked door and continued to insist that he go to school, now. All this and named each of his friends at school, teachers and one of the directors. I tried to explain to him that it was his days to play with mommy and daddy, and if he felt better he could go back to school tomorrow. He sat on the ground, put his little hand over his mouth and began to cry! Think fast...

Cullen, would you like a popsicle? Yes! All the drama was over. Tears and crying stopped. He hopped up and said, "This way, Mama!"

Junk will distract them everytime...

Fever

Cullen has a fever, again...

HUNGRY

You know you eat at a restaurant a lot when:

1) Your two year old wakes up and asks to eat at "Casa Ole" and can name the foods he eats there.

or

2)When you pull into the shopping center down the street to said restaraunt and your two year old says "Eat at Pappadeauxs, Yeah!"

Armadillo

Well, Monday started like this:

Cullen did not want to go back to school and wanted Easter candy for breakfast. Imagine that! We finally got everything together and headed out the door. Cullen headed to the side of the truck that he gets in on, stops "dead" in his tracks, and says,"What's that?" I looked, so I could answer. I saw the corpse of an armadillo belly up in our driveway. He must have been hit just lightly enough by a vehicle to do some major damage but not enough to kill him instantly. Anyway, I replied,"That is an armadillo. Daddy will take care of him." Cullen obsessed about it all the way to school. "Daddy get ardillo." He even told his teacher.

When we got home it was still there. Brent told Cullen, "The armadillo is sleeping. I will put him in the woods to sleep." Cullen was O.K. with that until we started to leave to go to the park. He wanted the "ardillo" to go with us. Of course, we did not take him. Cullen soon forgot about it and had a good time at the park.

It started getting late. It was hot, and Cullen needed to eat supper and have a bath so we went home. We started up the stairs and Cullen said, "The ardillo is hot. He come in. No sleep outside." I could not believe how worried he was about the armadillo and that he still was thinking about it. I told him to tell his Daddy, and he told him the same thing. Brent replies, "He has a trailer right on the edge of the woods with his mommy and daddy. They have plenty of air condition." Cullen has not mentioned the "ardillo" since.

This is the second armadillo that has been hit in front of our house. The first one was so bad that it was difficult to tell what it was after the accident. So, it did not affect Cullen like this one did. I hope the sight of this creature belly up in our driveway does not traumatize him forever.

You know the armadillo is Texas' official small mammal.check some more facts about Texas here: www.senate.state.tx.us/kids/Matching.htm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Happy 2nd Birthday to Cullen!

Time passes so quickly. We cannot believe how much you

have grown. You are truly the joy of our life.

We are very blessed!

We love you very much!

Love,

Mommy and Daddy

THERAPY...

This email was sent to me by a great friend. I found it very funny! ENJOY...

Ways to Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity at Work.

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.
4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It "In."
5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.
6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "For Smuggling Diamonds"
7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy."
8. Don't use any punctuation
9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.
10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go."
12. Sing Along At The Opera.
13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme?
14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.
15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood.
16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.
17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won! I Won!"
18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling "Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!"
19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. "Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."
20. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity.......
Send This E-mail To Someone To Make Them Smile.
It’s Called ....... therapy.

The Visit

Here are the pictures from the family visiting in February! Here they are feeding the ducks. Cullen loves to feed them crackers and bread. I know that I am way behind and out of order with my blogs! I will get it together soon...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitcat

Cape San Blas

We all had a great time at Cape San Blas. You can tell that Cullen did. He wanted to swim even when it was to cold! Cullen also fed and chased the "Sea Eagles"! There are alot of those in Florida...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitcat/

Sick...

This story starts last Friday, March 31st. We took Cullen in to the doctor for a sore throat and cough. "Oh, he has an upper respiratory infection and if his throat gets worse over the weekend here is a prescription for Omnicef. You can begin giving it to him twice a day. Be sure to give his H-C Tussan for the cough"
Saturday passed without any indications of him getting worse. Sunday began normally church, Pappadeaux, house looking and nap. He woke up and seemed to be fine. He played and didn't seem to be cranky.
It all fell apart when Cullen arose from his deep sleep. He had a fever of 102.8, a terrible cough and refused to eat or drink. "My throat," was the quote of the night. After being up most of the night, I called in and took him back to the doctor. We did start the Omnicef. By the time we could get in to the doctor his fever had spiked to 104.8. My child was feeling lousy and so were we.
Doctor appointment:"It seems that we are treating everything with the antibiotic. If he has strep throat or a bacterial infection the antibiotic will take care of it so I am not going to do any tests. Give him tylenol and then motrin every three hours for the fever. If he hasn't turned the corner by Thursday give me a call." We were good with this because it was Monday and it had just started.
The rest of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and most of Thursday, we were alternating tylenol and motrin every three hours to keep the fever down to 102. By the way, motrin wires Cullen. It is speed for him. So, when the third hour came late into the night it was not fun.
He would not eat anything. We had to beg, force and let him do whatever to get him to swallow liquids. His diet consisted of popsicles, jello, and gatorade, when he would take it for these days. Cullen turned down all of his favorite junk food. We knew there is a problem.
There was a break in the fever on Thursday and he ate some yogurt. Wow, we are getting better or is it a trick. A trick! Within hours fever back up to 102.8 and he doesn't want anybody to even look at him! His cough was so bad that I had to stand up with him and sit up sleeping so he could breath and sleep without coughing. We are back to the tylenol/motrin thing again.
Friday morning, he had a fever, cough and did not want to drink. We called the doctor again. "Bring him in because he could have some secondary illness that is preventing him from getting well." A chest x-ray and some blood work later, Cullen's illnes is viral. He has large ulcers in his mouth and on his tonsils. It is just taking him longer than normal to fight off this viral infection. He does still have the upper respiratory infection, also. The doctor gave us his cell phone number and his home phone number to call if Cullen gets worse over the weekend. This does not happen often.
We did not take Cullen to Dr. Green. We took him to his pedatrician...