Happy 10th Birthday, Zachariah

Zach celebrated his 10th birthday on March 31st. I made him a Mayonaise Cake, with half peanut butter, and half vanilla icing. Yummy! He was really excited to see the small pool we bought him. I'd say he made out this year! Happy Birthday, Zach!

Dora's hospital stay

Well, the hotel I mentioned in my previous post, was actually a hospital stay. Shawn jokingly referred to it as my hotel stay, but it was far from that! I started having more noticeable upper right quadrant stomach pains than I have been experiencing for the past 11 mos. with symptoms coming on as soon as I ate or drank, and lasting 3 or 4 hours, then fading some. Wednesday, March 2, after supper and while getting ready to go to meeting, the pain was a lot sharper and I decided the time had come to get checked out since it wasn't going away. Shawn and I took the children to Dad's, meeting was there, around 7:10, and Shawn took me to the ER. The ER Doc said he was 90 percent certain he saw gallstones, and I would have my gallbladder taken out in the morning. So, I was admitted. However, after another ultrasound in the morning revealed I did not have stones, no surgery. I was still in pain on Thursday, so they kept me Thursday night, and then did a CT scan on Friday, which was normal. Finally, I was dismissed on Sat at noon, with no explanation to the pain. It is much better, but still comes now and again. Anyway, that's where we are right now.

March 4,2011, Happy 3rd Birthday, Noah!

Happy Birthday to our baby! Unfortunately, Mommy wasn't at home for his birthday, she was away for a "Hotel" stay, at least according to Shawn. I could order meals anytime I wanted from 7:30 to 6:30, however, even having someone cooking for me with a phone call from me, still didn't make it any easier as I was lying there on the bed, knowing my family was at home without me. :(
Back to Noah, I won't compare him to a bad weed, but he sure is growing fast. He is learning his letters and how to count while I school Josh. We can see pretty clearly he has a personality a lot like his dad, poor thing. But then again, I did marry his dad, so that proves the good is far easier to see than the occasional temper. :) I love both my easy temper honeys. We ended up having cake and ice cream for him on Sat. the 5th, a day late, but I am very thankful to still be here to see it. After I was released from my hotel stay, Shawn took me to my cleaning job that I missed on Thursday night, then to the grocery store to buy cake mix, home and rush to bake the cake and decorate it before the party @ 7 p.m. I will post more pictures when I upload the pictures, and make a post regarding that marvelous,(NOT!) hotel stay.