Time to blog?... I don't have no stinkin' time...

I say this as Bekham gives me the pouty lip and starts howling.  Yep, life is busy!  Lacrosse practice started a few weeks ago, soccer practice starts tomorrow, Trae decided to do track and those practices started this week, and then let's not forget about the older two having scouts.  The very best time taker is that my sister-in-law is in town with my niece and nephew!!  Woot! Woot!  I feel like I still have not had much time with her, but we've been able to do a few fun things with the kids.  Yes, you heard the underlying meaning... We played hooky!  Shhhh, don't tell on us.... Okay, I just told on myself, but hey, all that matters is that we had fun and even escaped the gloom one day and hit the goldmine of Sunshine! 

Last week was Jamison's big 1-0!  He's so excited to be in the double digits.  Although, he seems to think that this has given him a hallpass to be a snot bucket.  I'm hoping he looses this idea soon or he won't be seeing the light of day after school hours because he'll be stuck in the dungeon by himself.  He had a great time celebrating his birthday at the movie theater with some friends.  We saw Diary of  Wimpy Kid 2 and I think I laughed louder than the kids.  Loved it!  Bekham was great the entire movie.  Jamison had a good giggle over the fact that Bekham was ripping some very loud farts, but at least he didn't do any crying,

Finally, Daddy was able to pay up for a deal he had made with Mason and Jamison:

I will have to catch up with baby pictures next time.  I have a bunch on my phone I need to transfer over.

My poor baby is still one very sick boy. I took him in for his follow-up yesterday and was just floored by the news. I had honestly thought to not even schedule it and then I felt silly for even taking him because he seemed to be doing better.  He was smiling more and would bounce on my lap (which is hilarious because he only bounces with one leg while the other leg stands there pretty stiff.) The dr walks in reads his O2 levels and asks me if I'm ready to admit him to the hospital.  I was stunned.  I tell him not yet, and he says he'll do everything to help me keep him out.  He also found that Bekham has an ear infection, which he says he's never seen in a guy this little.  Even lovelier news...  So from here we keep sucking out his nose, give him treatments at the very least 3x's a day, give him antibiotics, and hope that this is all still enough to keep him out of the hospital.
I haven't slept in days and it is all railroading me today.  I'm worn out and just want my baby healthy again.  So excuse me while I continue my mini meltdown that has turned into an all day crying event.

Sickies at the Smith house

I'm seriously missing Bekham's smiles these day because he is not doing much of it.  We have one very sick baby on our hands and one exhausted Momma trying to do everything possible to keep him out of the hospital.  Our Dr sent us home with an electric suction machine for his nose, actually pretty cool and so much faster than those little blue bulb syringe things.... can I say something that pulls boogers out of your kid's nose is cool?  Oh, well, I just did anyway...  Then of course, we are doing the nebulizer treatments. 
The Dr warned us that Bekham would get so much worse before he got better, and holy hell, he was horrifyingly correct.  He said some other things and I really did try to concentrate, but I was burning up with fever and wanted to keel over and die myself.  I lived through it and we'll get Bekham through this.  These walking the floor nights are really wearing me out though. 
I announced to Jamie that dishes and dinner were now his duty because I don't have time to pee, let alone feed anyone.  He's already been doing it, but now that it has been discussed between, it can officially be his job.
Let's see, Trae won 2nd place at the Davis/Weber Science Olympiad.  We are stinking proud of him.  I was worried he wouldn't be 100% because he was up most the night before sleeping in a snow cave (that he built himself) for scout camp.  He just started practicing for lacrosse and should get his nasty smelling cast off tomorrow!
Here are a few pictures of the chunky monkey

and we'll end with a self portrait of Mason