Summertime in Pictures

I have been horrible about blogging our summer adventures so far. So here are some pictures I pulled off the camera in preparation for our trip next week.

Carter at Family Fun Night at the daycare.


Us before Jazzoo 2009


Anna and another girl at my cousin Megan's wedding shower. Would you believe this girl is younger than Anna. Look how huge she is compared to Anna. This was one of the flower girls.


The bride-to-be my cousin Megan and my Grandma


Lots of Royals games


Carter took his glove. It was so cute

Home from Procedure

I had my second lithotripsy today and so far I consider it a great success. I didn't want to puke my guts out after this one. I will go for an xray in 2 days on Thursday to find out if it worked 100%.

They did this procedure on my back side (last one was on my front hip). I feel like Forest Gump when he got shot in the booty and laid on his stomach and ate ice cream in the hospital.

I am going to have a huge bruise on my ass.

Sunday I had to go to the hospital because the pain was so bad. So I am really looking forward to some good news on Thursday.

8 days till VACA!!

Kidney Stone Update - Take 2

I had my follow up appointment for my kidney stone today. It is still there. I am going to do a second round of lithotripsy early next week. If it works awesome! If not (and I'll know within 48 hours) then I'll have a more invasive procedure to put a stent in for a few days and then have it removed.

I told him I just have to have all of this be over before I go on vacation later this month!! He said no problem :)

Oh and do you have wireless at the hospital and can I go back to work in a few hours? I have a big deadline at the end of the month.

I'm still here and I promise to post some updates and pics from recent activities. Sorry I'm behind! Work is too crazy so blog suffers.

It's not a weenie

While sitting on the potty tonight Carter called his "thingy" a weenie.

Me: "It's not a weenie, it's a penis"
Carter: "It's not a penis, it's a weenie"
Me: "It's not a weenie, it's a penis"
Carter: "It's not a penis, it's a weenie"
Me: "It's not a weenie, it's a penis"
Carter: "It's not a penis, it's a weenie"
Me: "Who calls it a weenie?"
pause
Carter: "Not me"
Me: "It's a penis"
Carter: "It's not a weenie, it's a penis"
Me: "Right"

I'm pretty sure it's his teacher in the new room he moved to that is calling it a weenie. I'm pretty sure tomorrow they will have the above conversation but Carter will be me and his teacher will be him. I can just hear him "It's not a weenie, it's a penis!"

You just never know what conversation you're going to have with a 2 year old.

Worst Wedding Shower Gifts EVER

Yesterday Anna and my mom and I went to a wedding shower for my cousin. Worst wedding shower I have ever been to, speaking from my cousin's point of view, in my opinion. It was a "Pantry Shower" which I've never been to but they requested everyone bring items to stock her pantry. Seriously. bring food? I couldn't believe what people gave her. I took the notes of the gifts so believe me, I saw it all.

Swiffer
Bathroom shower spray cleaner
Laundry detergent
Lemon ammonia
Pledge
PineSol
and on and on.

Seriously, you think a bride wants cleaning supplies for her shower? What planet are you from? Especially when her registry was still very unfulfilled.

I took a set of 5 nesting bowls from Crate and Barrel plus a recipe book for 500 cupcakes. Then we added a bag with a muffin tin, and the ingredients to make the cupcakes - self rising flower, super fine sugar, real vanilla, confectioners sugar, and pink sprinkles, etc. But I still would have rather gotten more kitchen items than food and I only bought the food because I felt the need to comply with the theme.

The best gift was a dutch oven calphalon pan from her future mother in law. But that was in another league from the other stuff she got. Amazing and ridiculous.

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Today I took the kids to the new pool in Lee's Summit complete with slides, lazy river and kiddie area to wear the kids out. We met Candi and Alex and everyone had a great time. Carter was scared to death of the inner tube for the lazy river - of all things. Until Candi took Anna and Alex and then of course he wanted to go and had a great time. He did the blue slides over and over and over again and Anna did the red slide over and over and over. Carter did the red slide twice but it was one of those enclosed slides and a lot more water at the end, plus a lot more water getting to it, so twice was enough for him. Anna was like a fish the entire time!

Kidney Stone Update

Wednesday afternoon I had lithotripsy to basically sandblast the kidney stone that was 7mm x 3.5 mm. My hip is bruised and the first layer of skin was kind of raw in a small spot but I was drugged so it didn't hurt too much at the time.

Afterwards I was really sick. Super nauseaus in the recovery room. For 2 1/2 hours. Everyone else in there was annoying the hell out of me. Some guy was supposed to eat so they were talking about all this food. yogurt, ice cream, steak, baked potatoes. I wanted to throw up all over him. Another woman had just had a hysterectomy and kept moaning. I wanted them to put her out of her misery. They gave me some anti-nauseau medicine but it didn't do anything. I drank one sip of sprite and threw up what clear liquids were left in my stomach, which wasn't much. The room was spinning. I was so sick I couldn't turn my head left or right or look slightly up or down. It was awful. Finally something stronger made me not so sick to my stomach.

Then I basically fell asleep in the car on the way home. Kevin moved me to the couch and then to bed. I woke up feeling ok and went to work all day Thursday to kick off a big new project.

I don't feel like I've passed anything. Last night (Saturday) was the worst I'd felt since last Sunday but it was much more manageable than last week so I took a pain pill and it seemed to go away. It is still achy today. I go back to the doctor in about 10 days to see if it is gone.

Trip to the Dr turned into a 3 1/2 hour event

Last Sunday I had some pain in my back right side but I thought it was just from working in the yard and getting old. It was so bad I couldn't walk but I laid on the couch, took some ibuprofin and an hour later I was fine.

Fast forward one week to yesterday. Last night I got out of bed around 10:30 to use the bathroom and on my way back to bed I said to Kevin "My back is starting to hurt like it did last Sunday."

It went from bad to worse and pretty soon I was crying and laying on the chaise lounge, the couch, the floor. I wanted to throw up and the ibuprofin and tylenol did nothing. At 1 am we raided the medicine cabinet but came up empty handed. I thought for sure we had some percocet or something leftover from my c-sections. I contemplated going to the ER but didn't think I could make the car ride there since I was having so much trouble getting comfortable. I contemplated dropping the kids off at Sam and Candi's on the way. Kevin made me a huge ice pack and at some point after 1:30 I fell asleep on the couch.

I woke up at 4:30 with Sonar circling me because a thunderstorm blew in and he now freaks out when there is thunder and lightening. I locked him up front and realized I pretty much felt fine. It was just a dull ache in my back now.

I got ready to go to work and Kevin mentioned that maybe I should call my dr. On my way to work I called and they could get me in right away so I just drove there. She did a urine culture and said she thought I had a kidney stone and I need a CT scan. My dr's office is connected to the hospital so I walked across to Radiology.

I waited 2 1/2 hours to have the CT done. I watched the Price is Right with Drew Carey and listened to the conversations of the 70-ish crowd talk about how they thought he'd gained weight since he started the show but he has been a good replacement to Bob Barker. Then we watched the entire Obama address to the physicians about the healthcare revamp and I got to listen to them mutter under their breath about how they wouldn't be here in 20 years bla bla bla.

Apparently there are 2 CT machines in radiology there but they got backed up because the others "weren't going well." something about a biopsy. I dunno. I just know it took forever. I watched them deliver a stack of pizzas and leave and wanted to ask if I could just have a slice. All I'd had was a mocha and it was now 12:15.

Finally it was done and I got the results about an hour later. Two or three small stones on my left side - which isn't even bothering me right now. And a big one on my right side - 7mm x 3.5mm. I have an appointment with a urologist tomorrow morning to find out what they will do. I'm hoping tonight is less eventful than last night.

And I'm hoping this is all resolved soon. We kick off a big project that I'm very excited about this week and I'm already missing the meeting with the CEO tomorrow. They have a team flying in on Thursday for some all-day meetings I don't want to miss.