Funny Whitney

Whitney is really funny when she is sick. I mean, she is funny when she is NOT sick too! But she is especially funny when sick. Her latest thing is Dictionary drills! She bought a new dictionary in the school book order. It came in last week and she was soooo excited. Now that she is feeling a bit better, she comes and sits RIGHT next to me and has me call out words and she as quickly as she can, flips through that huge dictionary to find the word. When she locates it, she giggles with glee and then reads me the definition...ALL of it. They are working on alphabetizing in class, so this is reinforcing what she is learning in class, but it is so funny to see her enthusiasm. Now, Savannah's way of handling sickness is to be VERY quiet, play her DS, watch movies and just lay there. I don't think Whitney's body can do that...the sitting still and being quiet part!
We continue to make progress toward wellness! Yeah!

I forgot to post New Year's Pic

Kevin and Katryna Ross, Vic and Myrandi Ballesteros, Me and John, Bryan Williams, Tracy Fortch, Kevin Fortch & April Williams....to those that asked me who these people are...I know, we are getting OLD!!!!

We had a wonderful time on New Year's Eve with our "DBU Friends". We were missing one set of friends that live in New York now, but the rest of us made it! We stayed up way too late and John and I were hurting when the kids woke us up the next morning! Look at our evil eyes in the picture!!!! HA!

We are on the mend....

The girls seem to be doing better. Whitney has a blood vessel in her eye that ruptured from all of her vomiting, but it doesn't hurt....it looks terrible, though. She was hopping around tonight while watching an old Jerry Lewis movie with John and Savannah.

I got to get out and gt my hair cut and colored today...it was so good to get out, and boy did my hair need it!!!! (some of you are agreeing with that!) I got a new do and Reagan kept petting it! I am sure that I look funny to her because my hair lady ALWAYS straightens my hair.

Blayne and John went to Preston's birthday party today. It was a father/son football game. Even though Blayne didn't play football and opted for the playground, they had a great time. Sue, my monogram lady made them matching shirts that read "TEAM STONECIPHER" John says "Daddy" and Blayne has his name on the front....so cute. I am sorry that I didn't take a picture of them to post....maybe later! Anyway, it was some great guy time for them.

Well, we are praying for good rest for everyone tonight. Whitney has developed a bad cough....hopefully it won't be in my face all night as she is sleeping with me.

I will try to post tomorrow to give a health update.
Thanks to those of you that have called to check on them and to offer errand running and such. We are doing fine. Fortunately, John and I have been spared from the Flu and so far, we are tag-teaming well!

The Flu is Upon Is!!!!--Flashback to last year....

I don't have much time to blog....it is VERY busy around here.
I just wanted to let you know that we are somewhat having our anniversary celebration of having the FLU from last year. It was about a year ago EXACTLY when they were sick. I was so mean and did an entire photo shoot with them for Valentine's pictures. All three kids had the Flu and were running fever!
Savannah ran a high fever last night and I took her to the doctor today to find out YEP it is the FLU! I didn't get vaccinations for Savannah and Whitney and as I learned today, I am REALLY paying for it. Both literally and figuratively!!!! That $20 vaccination was for sure pocket change compared to what this is costing us! Oh My! I did get Blayne and Reagie vaccinated, so hopefully they won't get it. Plus, I started Whit and Savannah on Tami-flu today and I can already see a huge difference in Savannah. Whitney started turning the corner tonight, but this by FAR is the worst that she has EVER been sick. Last night she was hallucinating in the bed (she slept with me) At one time she sat straight up and yelled "Where's Bee?" (that is what she calls my mom)....I told her that Bee is at her house and she said "Well, where am I?" She was really confused and really freaking me out! I told her that today and she giggled and giggled. She has been eerily quiet since her sickness began, so tonight as she talked NON-stop to me, I was THANKFUL! She is back. And, well, after my overdosing my son incident, I am writing down all of this medicine that I am giving. It is so much to keep up with! Well, I am turning in early tonight, I was pretty much every half hour last night.

Oh, and a PS Savannah is missing her basketball game and team pictures tonight!!!! Poor girl...poor scrapbookin' momma too!

Our Day....Whew!!!

Well, actually, our "day" started last night with Whitney crying when it was dinner time. (that was weird!) She told me that her head hurt and that she was so sick!!! (she was right!) She rested during dinner and perked up a bit when her Tylenol kicked in. I had a shopping trip to Costco planned with my friend, Beth, so we left to go and shop for a bit. When I got home, I was happy to see that John had gotten everyone to bed (except for Little Bit...long story) Whitney was sleeping in Blayne's bed, and Blayne was sleeping with Savannah....thus starting our night of musical beds!!!! I got Reagan to bed and settled in to watch the overview of LOST with John...we love that show. After a nice hot bath and some reading I was off to dreamland....well, until 2 am when Whitney came and asked me for a drink. She was burning hot with fever. I got her a drink, and gave her 2 TEASPOONS of her medicine. She wanted to sleep in my bed, so I put her in bed next to a soundly sleeping John and I went to Blayne's bed where she had been sleeping! At 4:30, Blayne came and found me and slithered into the TWIN bed with me. He was coughing like a maniac, so I got up and sleepily went and got him a "dose" of his medicine. He took the medicine in his sleep, only to wake me up at 5 to tell me that I was squishing him!!! So, I headed to the game room to the couch...the cold, cold, couch! By 5:15 Blayne was there with me snuggled in on the couch with me. At 6:30, I got up to get Savannah's stuff ready for school and I was sooo tired. I put Blayne in his bed and asked John to take over with the school prep. I couldn't see straight. I had arranged for a carpool for Savannah, and with Whitney resting on the couch watching tv, Blayne and Reagan sleeping, I decided to catch a few more winks. Reagan who ALWAYS sleeps in when she can awoke at 7:30!!!! I got up and started her day. As I was moving about the house, I started thinking about my night. I thought about what a good medicine taker Blayne is, and then it hit me, I had given him a FULL syringe of medicine and I KNOW that prescription cough medicine is for 1/2 a tsp. I quickly went to his room where he was sleeping soundly (and BREATHING!) I went to the kitchen and found TWO 2 teaspoon syringes....had I given him TWO teaspoons??? I ended up calling Poison Control, who are very kind and helpful BTW, and told the nice lady what I had done. She sounded VERY concerned at the dosage that I had given and she had me wake him immediately. He groggily aroused and started asking me questions and was very much okay. I got him started on some juice. The PC lady told me that she would call me in one hour and that I needed to keep him right with me and monitor him....I was just kicking myself....argh....well, much to my surprise and relief, when I went to make Blayne's bed, I found the ONE tsp dropper there on his night stand on a paper towel. Obviously, it was the one that I had used for him....whew, I had only DOUBLED the dose, not QUADRUPLED it!!!! When the PC lady called back, she was relieved to hear that my mistake was not as bad as I had originally thought! I took Whitney to the doctor (she had fever all night and morning WITH Tylenol in her system!) She was tested for Strep (which was negative) and she was diagnosed with a sinus infection. The pharmacy tech was very rude to me when I went to get her prescriptions and he sure didn't know that he was messing with Momma who was functioning on little sleep!!!!! I finally got her heavy duty antibiotic this afternoon and as soon as I gave it to her, she threw up all over the place!!!!! Now, you must understand, I can handle smells, diarrhea, mucus gross stuff, but John does vomit duty around here. Poor Whitney she felt so bad as I was gagging and cleaning and my eyes were pouring tears as I held back my own desire to vomit!!! So, here we are waiting for her stomach to settle so we can attempt the medicine again! This time, I will make sure that we have John nearby in case we blow!!!! I don't think I can do it again. So, no school tomorrow for her, but hopefully better sleep for ALL of us tonight! Whew. I need a nap after writing this one!

Jump Rope for Heart

Okay, my ESP must have been on overdrive today. I was just getting you prepared for the UPCOMING event....I didn't think that the packet would come home TODAY! I just remembered that last year, the packet came home and it was a FAST turn around, and somewhere in there, my kids got the Flu! The picture of them in their Valentine's get up on this page was from last year when all the big kids had the Flu!!! So, I was trying to be on top of things...didn't know how on top of it I was! So, some of you got e-mails tonight. Savannah came up with the list herself and finally I sent her to bed and told her that she could think some more tomorrow about it. She dictated and edited everything that I was writing. Some days, I miss when she couldn't read and didn't really have an opinion!!!! Ah, those days are gone, she is really growing up. Okay, I am going to attempt to put a link to her home page for the Jump Rope for Heart Site. She picked out the background and the wording...I just had to put it up there. That is so hard for me not to add my two cents...and withing minutes of getting the thing registered, my brother "Uncle Jerral" had made a donation! WOW! The great advantage of modern day technology!
Okay here we go:

https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=248914&lis=0&kntae248914=ED

Thanks for supporting her in this. She doesn't get real excited about much (NOTHING like her sister, but she is VERY excited about this and wants to raise lots of money!)

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