Halloween!

Here are the Halloween pictures. Yay! At least it's before Thanks giving right?

Halloween Parade

When I was in Elementary School we would have a Halloween parade every year. It was the coolest thing ever. It was so much fun because the whole day was completely shot. All the preparations, the parade, the cleanup, and then of course the party with the room mothers. The day was completely wasted! Apparently the teachers caught on, because they later cancelled it. So imagine my excitment when I learned that Maddi's preschool held a Halloween Parade! Huzzah! I was so excited. I wasn't there, however *sniff* , but here are the pictures my mom took. Thanks mom!

This face is only because he wanted to join in. sigh....me too Andrew.... me too.........

Picture Tag!

I've finally participated in a tag!

Here are the rules:
1. Go to your pictures.
2. Upload the 4th picture from the 4th folder
3. Explain the picture.

4. Tag your friends-You are invited to post if you want to. :)

Wow I look so fantastic in this picture! I think I was thinking "Can someone clean him off, please?"Just kidding. This is a picture of Andrew right after he was born. Our camera was sitting on the end table. The nurse handed Andrew to me and then picked up the camera and took a picture. I barely even had time to react. You can see her hand pulling the blanket down so you can see his face. Wow, good times.

Halloween Block Party

We were so excited when we were invited to a Halloween Block party in our neighborhood. It was so fun! We had Chili, cornbread, apple cider and fun desserts. There were also tons of fun things for the kids to do. We had so much fun!

Here is Maddi eating a doughnut on a string.

Here is the prizes Maddi and her friend Taylin won while they were "fishing"
Here is Maddi participating in the cake walk. Such the social butterfly!

Here is Andrew running around.

Some Serious Slacking

I know, I know. There's a lot to post about, and I'll be putting it all on here. Just be patient. Check out the post below, and I'll be posting about our trip in segments. Here you go!

Andrew's Birthday

I know this is pretty late, but here are the pictures from Andrew's Birthday. It was on Oct. 4th and I had surgery a few days before, so we decided to celebrate his birthday a week later and hoped he didn't notice........ he didn't. We just had a little party with some family. Here are the pictures! (Cherilyn, I stole some of your pictures since they turned out better.)

Are you FREAKING kidding me?

Wow, such is my life. I have been looking forward to Halloween SOOOOO much since we moved here. People that actually trick or treat? And I was super excited when I found out that the elementary does a Halloween parade. We did that when I was in elementary and I loved it. But as fate would have it I landed myself in the hospital...again! WHY WHY WHY?
Ok long story, short-ish. I had a sinus infection and I went to the Dr to get some antibiotics. He gave me amoxicillan. I only took 3 pills until the "Crazy Headache of '08" returned.I did go to the ER as I felt the symptoms coming, but the dr though I was crazy. My headache wasn't full blown until 3 am Halloween morning. I pretended it wasn't happening and tried to go back to sleep. But I couldn't do it so I woke Jess up at 6 and we went to the emergency room. This time did not go as smoothly as the last time. It was a few hours before they gave me any pain killers and I was there a total of 7 hours before they admitted me. Last time it was 3 hours. They X-rayed my chest (although I'm still unclear as to why), they did a CT scan on my head, and another spinal tap. This spinal tap did not hurt nearly as bad, although I did have to lay on a metal table that they tilted. Scared the heck out of me! Jesse held onto my arms and the girl tried to figure out which way to tilt me, and the intern seemed really excited about it. The CT scan was embarrassing since I threw up multiple times as they wheeled me down the hall and waited for me to finish before they lifted me onto the table. Yes, 3 guys stood around me and waited for me to finish. Thanks guys. Although one guy did take the bag from me, so huzzah to him.
They gave me a lot of Morphine, but it didn't seem to really help so much. When they admitted me (into a GINORMOUS ROOM! it was awesome!) the nurse I got said she wanted to make pain management the first priority. THANK YOU! So she upped the morphine...alot....and before long the pain was lessening.
The Dr. came in and said that they don't know what was wrong (comforting, REALLLY comforting) as the CT scan was normal and didn't show swelling. However my white blood cell count was still too high and the pressure of my brain fluid was WAY to high. Hence the crazy headaches.
I went home on Saturday because the headache was all but gone. Which was a big mistake. I should have remembered last time that it went away and then came back again. So Sunday night I was back in the emergency room. They gave me some toridal, and can I just say: WHOA. I was out in 2 seconds flat and I slept for the next two days. I think they were probably thinking "Man, she keeps coming back! Let's just knock her out until the headache goes away so she will quit bugging us" 3 times to the ER is 1 week is a bit excessive, I agree.
The theory Jesse and I have is that the amoxicillan is to blame. Both times this happened after taking it for a few days. When I told the Dr this, he said it wasn't possible. He left for awhile and then came back and said"You're right! Some people have reported severe headaches after taking it" HA!
However my neurologist does not agree. Well it's not that he doesn't agree, he just wants to do all his fancy tests before we talk about a diagnosis. So I'm having an MRI tomorrow, and a nerve conduction test, and an EMG in a week. We'll see. Although doing some research on my own I found an article about a woman in Great Britain that had all the symptoms of Meningitis (me!) but they couldn't find any infection (me!) they believe it happened because she had taken some amoxicillan (ME!). They called it Aspectic Meningitis, which means, all the symptoms with no infection. Here's the a link to the definition here. Yes, this is my self diagnosis. We'll see if the neurologist agrees, he should though, it completely makes sense!
So that was my Halloween adventure. Although it was cool that Maddi and Andrew came to visit me and they weren't scared or mad at me this time, like when I had surgery. Maddi wouldn't talk to me for almost a week! Weird kid.
But lets give a big shout out to my mom for coming and taking care of the kids, not once, but twice! Thanks mom! And she cleaned my house, brave woman. And thanks to everyone who brought dinners and called to see how I was. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!
I'll get the Halloween pictures posted after I get them off the camera. These are not pictures I took. Cause yeah, I wasn't there.....hmmmm....I'm not bitter.....ok.. YES....... I AMMM!!!!
And YES I'm we're still going to California! If I have to follow everyone around on a SCOOTER or a STRETCHER, I'm GOING! We have delayed this trip to many times because of my health, and I REFUSE to do it again! I might show up to Wicked in my pjs, but I'm still going!!!!
Phew...... I just had to get that off my chest. I'm not sure who I'm yelling at, but I hope you heard. me. I think I was yelling at fate. Ok I'm tired from that rant, and I'm going to take a nap........zzzzzzzz......zzz....oh! hold on I need to log off...k, Good bye!