Antoher trip to the Emergency Room

About 2 1/2 weeks ago Tyler fell off a garden scooter onto the cement and had a big bump on the back of his head so I took him to the emergency room. He was fine. Well Friday night at 10:45 when kids are supposed to be sleeping Sydney starts screaming. I went to her and blood was all over her month. I sent her right to Ron because I couldn't look at it. He cleaned her up and discovered that her 2 top front teeth had not come out, but fallen down. I didn't get a picture with my camera, just my cell phone, but I don't know how to get pictures off of it. We called her dentist twice and he never called back, so we called a different dentist with the same outcome. We ended up having to take her to the emergency room at midnight. The dentist there pushed them back up and gave her some pain medicine. The only problem was when he pushed them back up he also pushed them back so when when she bites her front teeth are the first to hit, so she is changing her bite. This all happened because her and Tyler stacked couch cushions on top of each other and she fell and hit her wood bed frame. She did leave teeth marks as a reminder. This is a picture of her gums. They look so painful. Sorry about the lousy picture quality. There is something wrong with my camera.

I took her to the dentist and he wants to pull them. We are going to wait a week to see if she will start biting normally again. I sure hope so because I don't want her to not have her two top teeth missing for over a year.

Moral of the story is "No more monkeys jumping on the bed" or couch cushions!!!!

Sydney's new eye wear

So my baby girl had to get glasses. I took her to her Kindergarten registration and she completely failed the eye exam. Good thing I had an eye dr. appointment already scheduled for 2 days later. She definitely need glasses. She looks so cute in them. She doesn't always wear them like she should because she says she can see better without them until I have her try to read something across the room without them then she realizes she needs them.

She has been so responsible with them. She is so grown up now.

Sydney's Birthday

I slacked of a little in getting Sydney's birthday pictures on the blog, but better late then never right? She turned 5 Feb. 28 and wanted to have her first birthday party. They celebrated it in preschool first then I brought 5 girls home with us from preschool.

She wanted it to be princess themed so that's what I did for her. It started with eating pizza and since it was a princess party they needed tiaras, a princess needs a tiara.

Next a princess needs jewelry so they all made a princess necklace.

After the necklaces a princess needs a bag to put her stuff in so they decorated a small tote using flowers I cut out onto sticky back felt. It worked perfect for this project.

They broke a pinata and filled there bags with candy and treasures. I think they all had a great time being princesses.

Sydney loved her first party and I'm glad they only come around once a year!

Sydney's diagnosis

So we just got back from the Dr. and he confirmed that it is something called Henoch Schonlein purpura or HSP for short. Inflammation of the blood vessels causing bleeding in the tissues. It has gotten worse, and it still may get worse, but it will go away in about a week. They don't know what causes it, but it will just go away. We have to keep an eye out for her kidney because it could effect that, but she should be just fine. The Dr said that they don't see it very often. It is so weird. It looks painful, but she says it doesn't hurt.

She is running around just fine, so no need to be concerned. I'll keep you up to date on her condition though.

Ouch!

Saturday late afternoon Sydney was saying that it hurt to walk. I looked at her feet to find that her right foot was all swollen and she had some bumps on her leg. I had no idea what happened. I didn't know if she sprained her foot, or had an allergic reaction to something, or even a spider bite. I gave her some childrens benedryl and it didn't seem to work so I brought her to St. Al's Emergency room. After they did the initial exam they put her in her own room. The Dr. had no idea what was wrong. I just have to say that I have the bravest little girl. They had to draw blood and give her and I.V. She never cried. She just let them do it to her. I was so proud of how brave she was. The Dr. said that she was there favorite patient of the day. She also had to have chest x-rays, a strep test and urine sample. Her results came back and they were all fine. The Dr. drew around the swelling and bruising to see if it got worse. It spread to both legs and on her little bum. Her arm was also starting to swell a little.

I fogot to take the camera with me and they wouldn't let me have my cell phone on so these pictures were taken Sunday at home. She was on so much pain medicine that she was running and jumping all day. I'm sure that it made it worse, but we could not get her to sit still. She has a Dr. appoinment today and we will see what he says. Poor Sydney.

Good bye tomatoes!

A couple of weeks ago we were going to have our first freeze and I didn't want my tomatoes to just die so Sydney and Tyler helped me pick the tomatoes. They had so much fun doing it. Our plant was out of control. I got it at Costco and it grew so good. I don't know if it was the plant or the place we planted it. Either way the plant was awesome except for the fact it was a yellow tomato plant. Note to self: Look at what type of plant it is before you buy it. I wasn't even thinking when I bought it. That's ok because we discovered yellow tomatoes are just as good. Here is a picture of the plant. The one on the left in the cage is the cherry tomato plant. Again look to see what kind of plant it is before you buy it. The other plant is just one plant!

My huge Zucchini plants that I couldn't keep up with!

My trusted helpers!

They had so much fun! The plant was so big and the soil was muddy that I would pull part of the plant off and hold it up and Tyler and Sydney would pick all the tomatoes off for me. It's a good thing we picked them all because it froze that very night. Good thing we have weathermen to worn us about these things.