here, there & everywhere

so it’s been a few days since i’ve actually written an entry.. not that i’ve forgotten about OD so easily like normal, but i’ve been kinda busy since Malachai’s birthday…

thursday we had ball practice, which lasted until almost 9 pm.. i swear lol, the kiddos were falling down in their positions… what took so long is that instead of giving the batter a set number of tries they just kept pitching and pitching to them. I know the kiddos are just learning, but come on… 20 tries per kid? and i stopped counting at 20… let them try to hit the ball 5 times each…then run to base anyway.. this is just learning what to do right now.. so we were there forever… and then we came home, got Chai into the shower, then jammies, then bed… me, i worked a bit on my math class then headed to bed myself (plus i had read a bit of my book i’m reading  too… )

friday morning, got Chai up for school, and she said she had a belly ache.. so I told her that she should stay home, but she wanted to go.. so i let her even though she looked like she didn’t feel good… well about 1000am, the school called…her teacher knew she didn’t feel good when she came into the classroom and talked with her, and of course Chai said "mommy tried to get me to stay home, but i didn’t want to miss you" … she’s too sweet lol… so Maggie let her go to her seat, until she could just tell Chai wasn’t feeling any better… so she went to the nurse and i went and got her…she wasn’t running a fever when the nurse checked her, but when i got her home, it had spiked up to 101… poor baby slept on the couch from the time I got her home until after mom got here…and then she tried to get up and play and ended up bringing her fever back.. so most of the night was spent watching over Chai, not doing much else… she even slept in my bed, which about killed me lol..she tosses n turns way too much…

so saturday morning came around and she still had a fever, but her belly felt better… we hung around the house while mom went with Lou hunting for yard sales…and of course Chai was mad… she loves going to yard sales lol… but i wanted to bring her fever down..so gave her more motrin… when mom got back she was on the mend…fever down, and belly feeling better, we decided to go to the parade that jana was riding in representing her festival… we had planned on doing this before Chai got sick… she did okay while we were there, said her throat hurt a bit, but was in a good mood, up until we were ready to leave… then she started looking peaked again… so by the time we got home, her fever spiked again…so more motrin… and sleeping with mommy again… while we were at the festival…she got an air force ball cap…looks really neat…since her daddy is in the air force she said lol…was cute the way she said it to the lady selling them…

so sunday morning, mothers day…she gets up and is feeling okay enough to chase the animals around the house.. and she gave me the presents she made in school, which were adorable.. i got a tye-dyed glitter flower that she made and a picture magnet… and a little laminated sheet of questions she answered about me:

Question                                                            Answer

What is my mom’s name?                                                                                 Nicole

How old is she?                                                                                                   30 (bless her heart lol!)

How tall is she?                                                                                                   I don’t know

What color is her hair?                                                                                       Blonde (she kinda got that right)

What does she do around the house?                                                           Cleans the kitchen

What is her favorite food?                                                                                   Pizza (i like it enough lol but not my favorite)

What is her favorite TV show?                                                                  &nbsp

;        CSI (she got that one…)

What is her favorite color?                                                                                  Pink (nope I like orange lol)

what does your mom cook?                                                                               Chicken nuggets (lol when she asks for ’em I do)

What do you love most about your mom?                                                       She waves at me (she’s talking about when she gets on the

                                                                                                                                  bus in the mornings)

okay so that was just adorable…but then she starts laying around on the couch and fell back asleep after Kia tucked a blanket around her..she kept saying she was cold… so i go to check her for fever again and of course it’s back up to 101… so i went to give her more motrin…and her tongue is covered in white bumps…which is an indicator of strep…so we spent about an hour in the ER…and yep she has strep…

so we go and get her antibotic…and she’s feeling a little bit better… so we go ahead and go out for dinner (she was crying because we weren’t going to go) and everything seems fine… her throat was feeling a bit better and the fever was staying low because of the motrin… well we get back…and it hasn’t even been 4 hours since i gave her the first does of the antibotic…and she’s got a rash all over her private area…so i call my sister (she works in a pharmacy) and ask if that’s a typical allergic reaction to the antibotic…and she said yep..put her in the shower and get her in to doc lawerence in the morning… so we did the shower thing… and when she got out the rash is was everywhere… so i gave her benedryl to stop the itching…

so after all that she wanted to call her gma…who we had talked to earlier… and Debbie didn’t get to the phone before Chai left a message… so then Chai said "can i call my daddy" .. so i dialed the number not expecting Mark to answer…normally he’s at work when she calls and she talks with Amanda and Kaydence… but he answered this time… and they had a good converstation…mostly her being silly because of being tired and fighting the benedryl, and she did ask when her new sister was going to be born lol… they have about a month left… and then she talked to Amanda, told her happy mom’s day… then handed me the phone… so Amanda and i talked for a few minutes and then i gave chai the phone back so she could say good night to Amanda and her dad.. then I had to talk to Mark… we went to the dentist earler this week and Chai might need braces… the medical card doesn’t cover that, which I’m probably going to be loosing anyway once I start my job…. but he said he needed her social and a copy of her birthcertificate so he can put her on his insurance… and that he was actually going to call me today to get all that info… we had a civil conversation… i think he’s realized that i like him being with Amanda, and that i don’t want to be a dramatic ex… i want things to be okay between all of us because of the kiddos…

anyway, he told Chai good night and that he loved her to pieces and asked if she’d call him again tonight… so that’s what her plans are later.. talking to her daddy, hopefully without all the sillyness lol…

so todays plans are taking Chai to the docs about the antibotic and doing math homework for me… that’s about it, lol.. i’ll update after the docs appointment.. have a good day

 

<3 Cole