Higher Education

Maddie has had a band-aid on her boo boo for a couple of days now, so...

"Maddie, can I take your band-aid off?"

"No"

"Are you going to wear it to college?"

"No, I'm going to wear it to Grampapa's house!"

Zachey Pneumonic

Zach doesn't get sick very often, which is why it was surprising to see him get steadily worse over the last week. Fever, aches, extreme fatigue, no appetite, the list goes on and on. This one had his doctors stumped until early this morning when his fever had climbed to 103.5 and he was looking white as a ghost and clutching his chest and was finally diagnosed at the ER with a bad case of pneumonia. You can see it there in this X-Ray, a big white blob of pain residing in his left lung.

He's in the hospital now, with an antibiotic drip, and getting more blood tests. We'll let everyone know how it goes, and long for the day when we get our energetic and rambunctious boy back...

Boo Boo Weekend

This past weekend will forever be memorialized as "Boo-Boo Weekend". Maybe it was the wet slippery weather, maybe it was the fever of spring-time over-playfulness. Whatever the reason, Zach and Maddie each got three or four pretty substantial boo-boos.

Zach fell off a wet picnic table hard onto concrete, got hurt in a "stick war", scraped his leg on a baby gate, and had a few other incidents. Maddie had lots of miscellaneous scratches and bruises, the worst being the result of a face-down fall from the tree circle onto a big plastic truck.

I think I aged five extra years this weekend.

It's all a part of being young, and as I recall I was always very daring as a child. If there was a tree, I would climb it. I jumped from garage roofs, played "bike hockey", and did just about anything else dangerous I could find. So it's no surprise that the kids are fearless explorers. I just don't remember scaring my parents like this. I guess they won't either.