Ear Ear

This is my ear.  This is my ear that hurt for 3 days.  This is my ear that I finally went to the doctor for.  This is my ear that the doctor said was tiny and that she had to use a child's otoscope thing.  This is my ear that was infected.  This is my ear that needed the amoxicillin that I had to wait at the pharmacy for for 30 minutes even though I called ahead to make sure that it was ready.  This is my ear that the pharmacy gave me my medicine for but then asked if I had insurance because they hadn't run it through.  This is my ear that did have insurance that did save me $40 on my prescription.  This is my ear that still hurt for 5 more days even after being on the antibiotic.  This is my ear that was connected my body that had a finger that texted Dr. Chris for a consultation about why it should still hurt after 5 days of being on the meds.    This is my ear that finally is feeling better.  This is my ear that just got us another $75 closer to our deductible.  This is my ear.

Testing Week Prizes

This week was High Stakes Testing Week at Cayden's school. This is the state tests that show if our kids are learning anything.   In an effort to get the kids to work hard and do their best they give out tickets at the end of the testing each day and the kids can win prizes.  Cayden won a frisbee one day and this lovely silly string another day.  He was busting a gut to spray that stuff when he got home and barely made it outside to do!  He thought it would be funny to spray me-I didn't think so and luckily he chose wisely and did not spray me!  I proctored one of the days up at the school.  Basically I sit in a classroom for an hour and half and play on my phone or read a book while the class takes the test.  This is to ensure there is no cheating.  I find it interesting that they give all the kids in all the classes a granola bar and maybe a juice box before the testing begins.  I asked a teacher once why they do that and they said that the granola bar may be the only the child had to eat that day and so they provide it to everyone just in case and because the kids to better with something in their stomachs.  A little sugar rush probably doesn't hurt either.  It is hard to imagine that a child would go to school with out breakfast.  My kids would mutiny!  It is also hard for me to imagine that a child would not have food to eat!  I hope that is never the case with my children!  I'm glad that the school does that even if it is just one kid that needs it.  Public education isn't all bad.

Good Morning to You

Caleb had his guitar out on his bed one morning this week and Don attempted to wake Cayden by up playing the guitar and singing to him.  Don does not know how to play the guitar.  Cayden got up rather quickly.  

Clean Up on Aisle 4

This is his Lin's shirt, apron and nametag.

Cody is officially employed!!!!  He actually has 2 jobs right now.  One is at Lin's in Overton and the other is at Walmart in Mesquite.  We don't quite know how this is all going to work out especially the transportation part of it but we will figure it out.  He interviewed for both jobs on the same day.  At Lin's he interviewed for a freight position that was graveyard shift.  They called him later that afternoon and said that they filled the freight position but that they really wanted to give him a job but they just weren't sure what it was going to be.  He had an orientation on Wednesday 4-17 and then started there on Friday.  I told him that they must want him to work with the public and not relegate him to the back room in the middle of the night.  He actually had 2 interviews at Walmart.  One on Monday and then again on Tuesday.  They hired him in the grocery department.  He doesn't have a schedule yet for Walmart.  Hopefully between the 2 he can get 40 hours!  Woo hoo!!!!  

Good Grades and A1C's

Connor had a great report card this time.  The kid won't stand still long enough for me to get a picture of him.  He had 6 A's, 1 B and 1 C.  That really is outstanding for him.

Don took Connor and Cayden to the diabetes doctor today.  Connor's A1C was 7.7 and Cayden's was 7.8.  Considering that they ate like crap at the fair all weekend and it was hard to calculate carbs that was actually pretty darn good.

Way Past Exhausted

This is where we found Cayden Monday night around 6pm.  The fair weekend was over and he had gone to bed late every night.  Sunday night it was almost midnight before he finally went to bed-too many funnel cakes?  Then bright and early Monday morning at 6am he had to get up for tutoring.  He was so crabby that morning and all afternoon.  He took Kyle's baby monitor and put the transmitter by his Ipod and the receiver by his head and fell asleep on his floor around 6pm.  He was listening to Hairspray.  He did wake up around 8 and stumbled out into the family room where we told him to just go back to bed.  He slept until 8am the next morning.

A Few of My Favorite Things

This is NOT one of my favorite things-Kyle throwing his food on the floor.