Funny Sayings

I have pictures I need to put up about November, but I need to write down some of the funny things Caleb and Levi have been saying. It's great to be two!

Levi, "I gonna drive the blue car." Me, "where are you going to drive to?" Levi, "to Grandpa's house. Caleb sit in the back seat. Pooh Bear coming too."

Levi, "Mom! We're baking (raking) the leaves!"

Levi, after getting a tissue, "I blowing up my nose."

Caleb, after I said I had a head ache, "Mom, you got a hair ache?"

Caleb, "Mom, you making a milkshaker?"

Caleb, "Daddy's moving (mowing) the lawn."

Caleb, after taking Ian to the bus stop, "no neighbors to talk."

And Ian, until just a few weeks ago, has needed to look at the "destructions" (instructions) to see how things are supposed to go :)

Hospitals and Halloween

Levi got his tonsils out Thursday morning. We knew he had to stay overnight, and if he was doing well could go home the next morning. He had to show he would drink at least 16 oz of liquid in a day before they'd let him go home. Right after surgery he drank about a cup of juice - since then, none. The doctor said she hoped I wouldn't be getting my mail at the hospital, and she told me her weekend plans, thinking we'd be there forever. She said I'd have to just make him do it, using a syringe to get liquid down him. It actually worked, and he was okay with it. So they let us go home Friday evening. He has only drank about an ounce on his own since, and so he's getting it all by syringe. He's really not all that happy about it, but if he can be distracted watching Winnie the Pooh on TV, then he'll at least tolerate it. We've watched Winnie the Pooh almost constantly for days now! Keeping him medicated with his pain medication has helped a lot, and he actually wants to play some. He's acting better than I thought he would. He's not himself yet, but talking and playing sometimes. After we got home he was excited to see Caleb, and they said hi to each other and Levi gave Caleb a hug. It was really sweet. Then they went on to fight over toys, just like always :)

I started this a few days ago but haven't finished yet, so I can update - Levi was doing better every day, Sunday he had a really good day. Then came Monday. Ian and Caleb both caught the stomach bug I had, and after trying to keep Levi from it, he still got it by afternoon. So Monday evening he was back to the hospital to get re-hydrated. Tuesday I think he must have hurt a lot, he wouldn't swallow hardly, but hopefully every day hereafter will get better!

A few hours after surgery.

Friday morning the Child Life Specialists took all the children who were able trick-or-treating around to the nurses stations on each floor of the hospital. Levi actually had just taken his medication and was kind of out of it, we didn't make it to all the floors, but he held in to the things he was given - especially these two little boxes he fell asleep with later on - and it was nice to get out of his room for a little while.

Friday afternoon Levi was feeling pretty good. We went to the playroom and then brought some toys back. He was playing with this toy that plays music and after a while he laid down and played with it, and in a few more minutes the music stopped and he was sound asleep, his hands still on it.

Since we knew Levi would be sick on Halloween, and grandparents wouldn't be home that night, we went trick-or-treating to their house on Monday. That way I could still make Caleb and Levi the costumes I wanted (I didn't think it would be nearly as much fun to have a Thing 1 without his Thing 2). Plus I got to make Caleb another one for Friday. Ian was excited to be a train engineer, that's what he wants to be when he grows up. On Friday Ian and Caleb had a great time trick-or-treating and both kept wanting to go to more and more houses.

Thing 1, aka Caleb, Ian the train engineer, and Thing 2, Levi.


Ian the train engineer, Caleb the doctor, and Levi the patient. He got this bear at the hospital and has fallen asleep many times since then with it in his arms.




The excitement of trick-or-treating and Levi coming home was somewhat subdued this year, with the still-birth of our sweet little baby niece on Halloween morning. It was really a shock to everyone, and we're saddened greatly by it. It's so nice to know there is a plan for each of us, that sometimes sad things are part of that plan, and that we can have faith it will all work out for our good in the end.