Eggciting Easter

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Well, Easter encompassed several days for us this year due to my having to work that weekend. We had plans to decorate eggs and make a cake on Good Friday however Cooper started vomiting that night on top of the wheezing that he had already been doing for a couple of days. He obviously caught what Katelyn had. He vomited 12 times in 5 hours and we really thought we were going to be heading to the ER. Luckily he fell asleep at 10:30 or so and by the next morning he was eating and drinking. We are still battling the wheezing and doing steroid treatments daily which seems to be slowly helping. Katelyn and I did go ahead and dye the Easter eggs on that Friday night while Daddy sat with Cooper downstairs. We mistakenly boiled all of the eggs we had in the fridge not remembering that we needed a couple of eggs for the cake batter. So, on Saturday morning we baked the cake and had fun decorating it before I went to work. Sunday morning we gave the kiddos their Easter gifts which were a huge hit. Katelyn got a really cute picnic basket and Cooper got a wooden bowling set for outdoors along with some other smaller items. Ryan and the kids took off for his parents later that morning since I had to work again and they had a great time. The next day the kids were just dying to have an Easter egg hunt so I filled about 40 eggs with M&Ms and we had a hunt in the basement. They had a blast but needless to say, the M&Ms didn't last long. All in all it was a fun Easter. We have yet to exchange Easter gifts with my side of the family but will be doing it soon. In the meantime we have lots of candy to eat!

Misty's Graduation

Misty's Graduation 3-08

Congrats going out to my rockin' sister Misty for graduating with her Bachelors in Accounting. She has been working the last several years really hard and juggling her kids and activities. We had a party for her at Lazlos in Lincoln and later that night we went to PO Pears to listen to Groove Puppet. I am so proud of her and this awesome accomplishment.

IV Therapy :(

Well, this has started off a crazy week for sure. Katelyn went to the sitter Tuesday morning and Gina called Ryan a couple hours later to tell us that Katelyn was throwing up. For those of you that know Katelyn's history she tends to dehydrate very quickly and has been hospitalized a couple of times for it. Needless to say, after vomiting 8 times before 4pm I decided to call the pediatrician. They told me to bring her in right away. I took her to the office, they checked her for strep because her throat was sore and they started an IV. Her strep came back negative (the rapid one anyway) and the culture results are pending. About an hour and a 1/2 Liter of fluids later she was taking gatorade without vomiting and got to go home. She did awesome opening her mouth right up for the strep swab and watching them dig for her IV without even crying. No more vomiting since thank goodness. Katelyn now enjoys talking about the whole day. She told Daddy tonight all about it saying that she was so brave and that she got a shot in her hand. She called it her "Drinker" which was hilarious. I don't know where she got that from. She then told him she got "Special Water" in her arm so that she will never get sick again. Hopefully Cooper will not get sick. He was congested and coughing at bedtime tonight so I'm a little nervous about what the morning will bring. Cooper said something pretty funny today too. He reached down between his bed and the wall today and pulled out a toy magnifying glass. He looked at me smiling big and said "Mommy look, I found my detective!" It was adorable and cracked me up. I will try to post pictures later this week. Have a great Easter (I'll be working, bummer)!

Giddy Up!

Horsebackriding

Last night the kids went horsebackriding in our basement to show off for Grandma and Grandpa Neumann. They came over for Daddy's birthday celebration. We went out to eat at Famous Daves and came back home for ice cream cake from DQ. After putting the kids to bed I kicked Ryan's 31 year old butt on Guitar Hero. Go me! This week has been pretty uneventful except for the fact that Katelyn was sick on Wednesday with vomiting and sore throat. She recoved quickly (by late afternoon the same day) and was back to her usual energetic self. Have a great weekend!

Austin's wrestling meet

Austins Wrestling meet

Cooper and I had a great time on Saturday when we took a little trip down to Tri County School and watched my nephew Austins wrestling meet. He did an awesome job winning his first match very quickly 10-0 and although he lost his 2nd match he fought hard and stayed in it without being pinned. He got 2nd at his meet and got a pretty cool medal! Cooper did a fairly good job hanging out in the bleachers with some candy/popcorn bribes. Katelyn was mad that she didn't get to go because she had dance class that morning. Speaking of dance, the next set of pictures I took this week while hanging out in Coop's room before bedtime. The kids were having a ball dancing around and wrestling with Daddy. They capped off the evening with Daddy reading them books.

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This last album of pictures was taken the same night as we presented Cooper with his first package of big boy underwear. He was super excited and put them on right away. He has been wearing them over his pull up and thinks he is pretty special.

Coops 1st underwear

Like father, Like daughter and son! The kids enjoy the computers and often look like they are in a trance watching it.

New Camera!!

New Camera Fun!

I am so excited because my husband got me a new SLR Digital Camera for Valentines Day. I Love it! I'm having oodles of fun with it and can't wait to start taking classes to learn more. My friend and I got the same camera so that we can learn how to do fancy stuff together. The pics above were taken around the house over the last couple days. I also got to go to a Lincoln Stars Hockey game on Sat. which was so fun! I don't have pics of that to post though. I'm gearing up for a long weekend scrapbooking retreat Fri, Sat, and Sun. So, keep Ryan aka Super Dad in your prayers over the weekend.