Sick Day for my #1

When Zane was little (started around 6 mos old), he'd get really bad wheezing when he developed a cold.  We spent many days/nights in urgent care and at the doctor trying to get it under control.  He was on multiple inhalers and finally we got our own nebulizer for home - which helped greatly in cutting down our visits to urgent care.  He ended up being diagnosed with "cold-induced" asthma. He would be fine all year until he developed a cold and then it was game on for the asthma.  It sucked.  I was told by his pediatrician that he'd outgrow it by the time he was probably 5.  And I'm happy to say that for the most part he has!  It is VERY rare that he needs his inhalers or nebulizer now and that's great...but because of that...I am not good at keeping up on the rx's for them - oops!

He spent yesterday and today home sick with a pretty bad cold.  This morning he woke up crying and saying he couldn't breathe while he was coughing his brains out.  I knew he could breathe since he was talking, but the doctor described it to me one time as it feels like an elephant is sitting on his chest when that sort of attack happens.  Yuck.  Zane also has a tendency to develop pneumonia very quickly - so once I realized all of his inhalers and the albeuterol for the nebulizer were way past-due, I decided to take him in to get checked out - mainly to make sure there was no pneumonia starting.

Thankfully no pneumonia - but the doctor did say he was very impressed with his wheezing, ha.  He added another medication to the albeuterol in the nebulizer and Zane was not a fan - apparently it tasted horrible.  But he soldiered through.

O2 was down to 90 - that is technically hospital bound numbers...but thankfully
the nebulizer was able to bring it up enough, but not too 100.

LOVE that I get to work from home now when I need to if the kids are sick or whatever!

Gotta get this kid well for his birthday!!

The Wanna-be Photographer

It's not surprise to the few readers I have out there that I love photography and love taking pictures...

In the past couple of years I've had a few select friends ask me to take photos for their Christmas cards...nothing gives me more of a high than getting a card in the mail at the holidays and MY picture I took for them on is on it!  Maybe that sounds conceded, but it's not intended to be...it just means I'm very prideful in my "work" and get so happy to see that others enjoy it too!

Now, I am starting to have people I don't even know asking me to take their families pictures because they saw the ones I did for their friends or whoever...what a cool feeling.

I received a text yesterday from a good friend of mine asking if I could take pictures of her WHOLE family in December when they are all in town for Christmas.  We are talking at least 10 kids, 10 adults and a few dogs!!  I have done her own little family of 4 the last couple of years...so this is a little bigger of an ask than in years past.  Of course I told her I'd be happy and honored to try. Am I nervous?  Hell yeah, but I can't wait at the same time!  I know most of her family very well, so this should be pretty easy; easy as in comfortable for me...but getting 20 people (6 under the age of 7) to look at me at the same time??  That is going to require a lot of wine (after the pictures are done of course)!

Anyway...to try and track my photos that I'm doing for my own sake and to show those who want to see some of my "work" - I've started a separate blog and I wanted to share it with you all if you'd like to follow the bouncing ball along too.  If not, I totally get it...but that's where most of those pictures will show up...not on here so much.  This will be saved for our regular family shenanigans.

Follow the journey here: http://capturingthesmallstuff.blogspot.com

I'd love for you to leave me comments to tell me what you think...but only if you can be nice! Remember I am still learning everyday...

PIG

If you are part of PETA or a vegetarian...you may want to skip past this post!  Josh has been wanting to smoke a pig in his smoker for quite awhile now...that quite of while came to fruition this past weekend.  A few of our neighbors went in on a pig for Josh to smoke...so after about a week of him defrosting in our garage refrigerator...he was ready to be smoked and devoured.

I really thought this whole ordeal would be very traumatizing for the kids...I was wrong.  It was more traumatizing for me!  The kids thought it was great...every last kid in the neighborhood who saw the pig from start to finish was enamored with it.  I on the other hand felt so sorry for this poor Wilbur...but apparently not sorry enough to not eat him...he was delish!

Great job Josh - I know you were nervous about this and researched for hours how to do it just right...you did fabulous!

Per the neighbors...this is now an annual tradition for us...oy.

Fall

Because leaves are cool and endless hours (or minutes) of fun for kids...

Pumpkin Patch

After the train ride we headed over to the pumpkin patch...pretty sure the pictures speak for themselves so I won't bore ya'll with a description :)

Train

Landon has been asking since the beginning of last summer to go on a train ride.  Funny thing...before we lived in Snoqualmie we used to drive out here for the Thomas and Santa Train every year...now that we live here...we just drive by and wave!  Well, I wasn't about to shell out the money for Thomas or Santa again since we've been there, done that...but we could go on a ride and check out the new train shed!

The train only runs through October, so I was running out of time...finally booked it for October 18th!  Landon was elated once I told him we had tickets!  The day could not get here fast enough for the little guy!

The train shed is a special stop you have to reserve and pay more for at the beginning...but so worth it.  It's where they restore the old trains.  It's only about a 30 minute stay there to look around which isn't long enough...but it gives you a good idea of what beauties these old trains can be restored into. There were only about 10 of us who got off here - so it was a pretty private tour!

Family Camp (T1D)

October 9-11 we headed up to Warm Beach in Stanwood, WA for our annual Type 1 Family Camp! I'd like to say I had tons of pictures of the boys having a blast...but because they were having such a blast, I rarely saw them to take photos!  So trust me they were there and trust me that they had a great time!

It's wonderful for Zane to be around hundreds of kids who fight the same fight he fights everyday.  It is wonderful for Landon to be around other siblings who's brother or sister have Type 1 and they don't and how to handle that.  And of course it's wonderful for Josh and I to be with other parents dealing with what we deal with day in and day out - having someone who just "gets-it" is a wonderful thing!