Today is a very special day for Melissa and I. It’s Annaversy of our first date. So we had big plans for the day. Breakfast out with the kids, then heading out to for a day of family fun. Finally we planned on dropping the kids off with Nana and Papa and heading out to a movie. Well every thing seemed to go wrong at breakfast, with Jacob having a massive tantrum as we were leaving the restaurant. It looked like our family day was going to be ruined. But naps heal all things, and after an early nap he was his cheerful self and went headed out for our day.
Our picture is from the outing. Jacob is ‘hiding’ behind the pole. So we thought it was strange to see a pole with arms.
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Another day and another food picture. I think I’ve got to move away from taking snapshots of what I’m eating. It’ll be nice when the weather is nicer again and we spend more time out and about as a family. For now here is what Melissa had waiting for me when I got home.
Tonight after the kids went to sleep I was vegging in front of the TV, watching Death Race. I enjoy watching things blow up when I don’t really want to think. It was a nice relaxing do nothing evening. Of course there are a ton of things that I should’ve been doing, but I just didn’t seem to have the drive to do them. Then while I was thinking about what I would use for my picture today I saw the Oxygen mask, that the firemen left last week when they were here for Jacob’s Asthma attack. It was just sitting there on a shelf. I’m not sure why we’ve kept it. But there it was. A reminder of that night. One of my toughest nights as a parent. So I spread it out on the table and snapped a picture.
I’ve been wanting to write about that night ever since it happened. I started to the night I spent at the hospital with Jacob. First with the few paragraphs I scribbled out that Melissa posted for me, Followed by a few more thoughts that I tried to scribble but were never clear enough to even type up. Looking at the mask tonight though it brought back some of the thoughts and feelings I had that night. Sitting in the Ambulance riding to the hospital. Jacob was screaming. He didn’t want to go to the hospital. The seatbelt on the stretch bothered him and he spent most of the riding crying, All I could do is it next to him and try to comfort him. It was a hard ride, the hardest part was feeling helpless. It’s a feeling that I felt the second time Jacob went to the NICU when he was just a couple of days old, and not one I wanted to relive. But there I was riding in the back of an ambulance feeling it again. It didn’t really leave the entire time he was in the hospital. Once we knew the treatment was working it was easier, but it took so long. Today Jacob seems almost 100%, he’s still on his puffers, but we’ve had no more real incidents and he seems to have his usual energy levels back. Here’s hoping that we can catch any future incidents before they need a stay in the hospital.
Tonight I once again take a look at myself. Today I tried setting the camera up and using a timer. I’m thinking next month I might try something more artistic… Though I’m not sure what that’ll be.
Today was a nice lazy day around the house. To pass the time Jacob asked if he could do puzzles. He did 5 or 6 different puzzles. He’s like puzzles for a long time, but lately he hasn’t been doing them. It was great to see that he could still put them together without help.
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After a long week, tonight was family night. We shared a pizza and wings dinner with Nan, before Jacob and I disappeared upstairs to ‘Do Something Different with the Train set.’. It was a nice relaxing evening, it was Jacob’s choice to play with his train set. It was nice to have a night that was just the 2 of use playing in his room. It’s these moments that I really enjoy as a dad. Perhaps tomorrow will be the day to turn our freezer box into a fort.
Today at work I snapped a picture of my coffee mug. It’ just seemed that after all the drama of the last week it would be nice to just relax with a cup of coffee and what better cup to use then my work cup. The picture is from Jacobs first Christmas. Lynn and Dan gave me the mug as a Christmas gift and I treasure it. I’ve been thinking of finding or taking one of both of the kids and getting a new mug, but till I do I see Jacob’s smiling face every morning when I enjoy a much-needed cup of coffee at work.
Today we have a bit of a departure from my usual 365 posts. Here are my photos for the last three days. I spent the last couple of days at the hospital with our oldest child as he was treated for an asthma attack. Due to being between working cell phones, for much of the last few days I was unable to connect to the internet. So here they are each with their own write-up.
Taken our first night in the ER. It was the first of many treatments to get his Asthma under control. Around 11:30 we were told that they wanted to admit him. It wasn’t until 6pm the next day that we got into a room.
Our second night at the hospital, we’d finally got a room and the asthma was mostly under control. We were there primarily for monitoring. I tried to get a picture of the room, but I was using a cellphone camera and it didn’t turn out.
I took today’s picture when I returned to the hospital to take back the incorrect discharge and prescription that I was given when we left earlier in the afternoon. I took the picture of the ambulance in memory of how we got to the hospital the first night.
Recently during meals Violet has asserted her independents . She is happiest when we let her feed herself. Of course we still sit there and help her, but she’s getting to the point were that is not needed. Of course she still hasn’t worked out how to use the spoon but she’s trying.
A while back Melissa and I turned an old water bottle into a Change Jar. We try to put our loose change in there every night. We’re hoping to fill it up and use the money for something special for the family, like a trip. Recently Violet has found it and her new game is to put what ever she can find that fits down into the bottle. Last week I fished out the toy spoon she got with her dolls, plus assorted odds and ends. I could be upset but it’s not that big a whole and she’s shown great hand eye coordination to fit some of the things into it. Who needs a shape sorter when you have a water jug.
