A CHRISTMAS TRADITION

It appears now for several years (since Daniel was little) that the week before/of Christmas our family ends up sick. So far this year has consisted of:
Justin: double ear infection and bronchitis
Delaney: throat and ear infections and a fever of 104
Natilie: ear infection, throat and bronchitis
Daniel: ear infection, swollen glands
and our poor Wade: has been sick for 13 days, he has been into the Dr's 3 times in the last 13  days, he was first being treated for ear infections and throat,fever and just laid lifeless and would cry and moan nonstop, and was put on one antibiotic that didn't seem to be working, so was changed to another antibiotic and still didn't seem to get better until this past weekend, we thought he was finally on the up, until Sunday afternoon he took a drastic turn for the worse! He was back in the doctors changed his meds again AND sent us to Children's to have a chest xray and blood work done to rule out pneumonia and mono and check for a few other things. The xray was normal but we are still waiting on blood work. He has lost almost 5 pounds these last two weeks (which he was already skinny to begin with) I have never seen him that sick and for that long, it was really starting to scare me, but today he has finally drank a full cup of water and sipped on some rootbeer and snacked on a few things so hopefully the 3rd antibiotic is helping. Just my luck all of the kids end up sick the week before my own surgery (which if I get sick they cant proceed) so here is to hoping that everyone is healthy and better by Christmas eve, so we can enjoy Christmas day. We sure seem to go through one thing after the other, but as I look around and see that there are people who have it worse off than we do, I am constantly reminded of everything that I have to be thankful for.

Merry Christmas!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS FAMILY NEWSLETTER

MY LITTLE WRESTLER

 This first picture was the "Picture of the Week" on our wrestling website, that's right, its my boy pinning the other kid, and the other kid with a busted lip.

 Daniel won his first match of the season :)

 This past Sat. we had to have Daniel on the school bus at 7:15am for him to head to his Wrestling tournament. We were gone ALL day and didn't get done until 4pm but it sure was a BLAST! These next pictures are from the tournament, Daniel wrestled 5 matches that day, he was pooped when we left there.

Out of the 6 schools at the Tournament, Copley took 2nd place and got a trophy!

It was such a rush for me to watch him wrestle. I know wrestling is not a fond sport by most mothers but I grew up working with the wrestling team through my high school years. I was the student athletic trainer for wrestling and football (and yes I was the only girl) but my passion is with sports and I am VERY competitive, back in high school I actually wanted to wrestle myself  (and play football) and started working out  learning moves from the other wrestlers, the coach back then said he would be happy to have me on the team (back then I was also on a competitive weight lifting team (yes once again the only girl) and was super strong and could actually take some of those boys down while practicing) my dad never said no that I couldn't wrestle but he never actually said yes either, so I didn't, but I continued to work with the team never missing a match. I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE wrestling, so when Daniel said he wanted to give it a try I was super excited. This is his first year, he has played 5 years of baseball (and is REALLY good at it) and tried cross country this year too, now its wrestling and so far so good, he has a lot to still learn, but he LOVES it too and is really doing well for his first year. I am a little insane at the matches, after Sat. when the tournament was over I was hoarse (yes I am one of those way crazy screaming very intense moms) but it is just so fun to watch your kids play sports (or do anything really) Daniel tries so hard at everything he does and never gives in. Way to go Daniel! There will be lots more wrestling updates to follow, the season started last month and he is gone 5-6 days a week with it and the season doesn't end until Feb. (yayyy for me :) it means lots of running around for me and the little ones but I wouldn't miss it for the world :)

WOOHOOOO.....(complete sarcasim!)

I got a call from my OB's office today and they scheduled a Laproscopy and a Cystoscopy to be done Dec. 30th....More fun times...(NOT) well I guess the upside is that it will be before the end of December, because Josh's work decided to change medical insurance companies and to a more crappier plan, which sucks for our family since we all have some kind of medical problem or regular medicines to take, next year outta be real interesting.....I guess its better to get everything we can done now in the next 2 weeks!

FUN TIMES

I guess I will document, that tomorrow I have to wake nice and early for an Endoscopy and a partial Colonoscopy (for another biopsy, I had a full Colonoscopy last year) they are still trying to find an answer to some problems that I have and from what they found last year from the Colonscopy, hopefully they will because I am just having way to much stinking fun!! ;)