2/05/09

Thurs. Feb. 5 Another early am at the unit...I missed Denny giving another bath. Just a clean boys when I got there. They like eating oatmeal with Grandpa. AND HE LIKES IT, TOO. Missy went with E over to Great Granny's to bake a lamb cake for the birthday party on Saturday. Torren just sat on my lap while I worked on blogs. He liked to watch grandpa drive the bobcat and push snow. My box of Awana store items came. I got them all priced before I headed to Holstein to make the grandson exchange. I was 5 miles from meeting Jenny and realized Torren's bed toys and pjs were still in my dryer. I went back to get them and Jenny waited for me in Ida Grove. I went to Sue's for study. I stopped to look at some moving sale furniture. Then to unit. Missy cleaned today... getting ready for party. At night we started a fire in the coop and went out there for a while. Mandy, Dad wanted you to know it is now day 80.

2/04/09

R&R Wed. Feb. 4 ANABEL IS ONE!!!

I went to the unit early again so I could watch the Torren during the day. Denny really has a hard time leaving for work when there are little ones around. He did extra duty. I got home and he was getting Torren out of bed. Torren had gotten sick during the night and also after He and Grandpa had oatmeal for breakfast...so into the bath he went. Evan had not fared too much better. He had filled his diaper and crib, When I talked to Becky later in the day she had gotten sick, too. But she had finished painting the walls of the kitchen. For a birthday cake I made a bowl of finger jello and covered it with low fat cool whip and sprinkles. It worked for sensitive tummies. Good night at Awana. I've been checking the sows at night, so I stopped at the unit before I went home.

2/03/09

R&R Tuesday Feb. 3 Thankfully Karen Petersen volunteered to take my early am at the rec center. I went to the unit from about 4:30 -8:00 am. I got home just in time to see Denny fixing the boys oatmeal. T&E spent much of the day riding the firetruck. I got it this fall at a garage sale during sister's weekend. The boys took long naps and I did too. Curt and Carol Raasch wanted to meet with us so Denny picked up subs in town and they got here about 7:15 to eat. Missy and Phillip came home with Anabel. She had been off the IV and keeping food down so they decided to bring her home.

2/02/09

R&R Monday Feb. 2. Up to the unit 3:30-7:30. Anabel went back to the Dr. and after another set of bloodwork they had her check in to get more fluids in her body. I watched the 2 boys. Such nice boys. We read a lot of books. Mostly I just watched as they played. That didn't give me much time to post on this blog. Hence a lot of remembering and recording. WE went to great Granny's home,too. After rising early to get the work done at the unit I also took nap time when they took nap time. At supper Evan drank about a glass of milk, took a couple bites of noodles, which he wasn't thrilled about and brought some of it back up. Torren ate a big supper. 10 gals came here for study. After taking some essentials into Jensens, Denny was back from town to watch the boys in the basement. Missy stayed in the hospital overnight with A. Phillip came home to sleep. Anabel was on an IV overnight, but also ingesting some food and keeping it down.

2/01/09

R&R Sunday Feb. 1 Matt fixed pancakes. Missy called to say Anabel was going to the ER.

Phillip had left to preach at Webster City. Evan was going to Stephanie Porters for SS. After church Becky and I went shopping. D&M went to Starbucks, Then we all ate at Olive Garden YUM! Grandma Jenny is coming to St Joe on Thurs. so we asked if Torren could join us until then. It was all okayed except by Haley who has preschool and couldn't join her brother. She was assured one day this week she could go to work with her mom and wouldn't have to go to the babysitter without Torren. We left about 1. Torren slept about an hour...Denny slept about 2.5 hours. I could see Torren in the back seat, just a happy little boy. He could pull things out of the 3 bags his mom sent along. The toy bag was emptied. It took about a hour until he found the bag of marshmallows. and another 10 minutes to get them open. Then he would take them between his 2 fingers and put 1 in his mouth at a time. So cute!! Another 20 minutes and he was stuffing them in his mouth...but he was being quiet...and Grandpa was asleep. He quietly got out a cell phone (which made me wonder whose it was until I remembered he had one to play with). He spent about 30 minutes working on getting the wrapper off a sucker and when it was off he didn't even eat it. Some where he found a pacifier and stuck it in his mouth pulling it out only to put in 1 marshmallow at a time. He just kept rotating toys and I kept watching him. SO CUTE!! About 3 hours down the road and he was going to lick on the hand cleaners bottle...I said my first word, "No." He looked at me with those big puddling up eyes...and at the sound of my voice, Denny woke up and said, "I must really have been sick to let you drive this far." We got home and made a quick snack to take to Goodenow's Super Bowl party. And to check on Anabel. She looked kind of punk with her head on her mom's shoulder. They did blood work at ER and sent her home. Nice time at Goodenows. Paulsruds and Bergmans were there. Torren was just a sweetheart to take along. The picture is from Sat. fun in the sand box.

1/31/09

R&R Sat. Jan. 31 Denny slept in the basement at Matt and Becky's. During the night he started to feel sick. It didn't keep him from going to Matt's Sat breakfast at church. We also went to Super Science Saturday. Torren touched a snake. After some visiting about it, Haley touched a snake, too. 70 * weather. Befrore naps the kids played outside. We took a nice walk after naps and Becky got subs for supper. To bed early.

1/30/09

R&R Friday Jan. 30 Subbed in afternoon for Kris Gunderson at Battle Creek. Fixed heat lamps at unit til 5:30. Denny and I left for St. Joseph about 7 pm. [Anabel wasn't keeping down the food she was eating so M&P took her in for an appointment with Wendy Cadwell (Nurse Practitioner) about 3:15. I think they got some medicine and directions to feed her less amounts of food...more frequently. When we left Anabel was standing in Evan's room and taking a few small confident steps] We got to St. Joe about 10:30 pm. Becky was taking wall paper off her kitchen walls. The picture is from Saturday when Denny and Becky took the back splash tiles off the walls.