It's Christmas!!

Update on Atlas - I kept him home from school on Monday, and he was completely normal- annoying even, and went to school on Tuesday.   You'd never know anything was wrong, aside from the fact that I waited an entire week to let him take another shower/bath.  It's winter, he didn't' go outside at all because of the cold and snow, so I don't feel too bad about it.  But yeah, 7 days of no shower. 


Christmas nice.  We were in Cinci this year, and got into town late (as usual) Friday night.   The boys slept most of the way, but I'm really looking forward to their gift from 'Santa' - DVD players for the car.   Sometimes you just need silence, and with my boys - we don't get that.  


I only took a couple photos with my camera phone.  The camera is terrible, and the pictures always come out blurry.    ALWAYS.  Naturally, no photo of the 4 of us, because Atlas wouldn't cooperate.


The big gift that was played with constantly?  these little beaded guys on elastic string with suction cup hands/feet.  $7 for 3 of them, and they were played with all weekend.   Also popular:  Trucks, Legos, OSU costume (with helmets) and all things Paw Patrol (Atlas). 


I got Adam a Jeep belt and something else I can't even remember, (something small) and he got me some prints based off of Disney watercolors that he put in frames for us to put in the new laundry room (That's not started, or even designed yet).  A nice Christmas with the inlaws (and Leah/Amanda).  We had fun, it was pretty relaxing - and now we're back at work.  *sigh*.   Wish I could take a 3 day weekend this coming weekend, but HUGE deadline, on a project that's not even mine, it was given to me last week, with 6 workdays to complete - oh, and it's workday #3 and I still dont' have access to the database I need to use.   LOVELY. 

I think there were 28 people playing.  
Adam's cousin Rob won.  So happy for him. 

This kid - so handsome.

This kid just had so much fun. 
He was certainly enjoying the party.

These guys  <3 td="">

 


Atlas opening his scooter.

my MIL knows me well

Scariest Moment of my Life

Tonight,  after a shower, Atlas was sitting in my lap while I was drying him off.   All of about sudden,  his eyes roll back,  he loses consciousness, goes limp and starts seizing.  He was naked, so I could see that he wasn't breathing,  but then a few seconds later he starts on his own.   Insert mommy freakout.  I started screaming his name.  Apparently loud enough to freak Ares out downstairs and have him running up scared to death.  He wasn't sick that we knew of, a little warm at times of the day,  but completely normal at other times.  Put him down, got him on his side, and though he was breathing,  completely unresponsive.   Called mom, and we ended up calling the squad to come get him.

104* temperature after the shower (EMT told me that), high HR, but otherwise ok.  He started crying once the EMT held him,  which sounded awesome.   He was out of it and drooling the whole drive, but at least holding his head up on his own.  

A popsicle,  Motrin, IV fluids and blood draw and chest X-ray later, he's sleeping soooo well under a warm blanket. Now we're just waiting on him to go potty so we can leave.  

Christmas Card from the Millers...

... came in the form of a Facebook post.  




You know those people who only send Christmas cards to those they receive them from first? Well, we don't even do that. Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season to everyone. #thatisallyouget #notgoingtopretendiamsorry #lifewithkidsandacrappycameraphone #nophotocardsfromus

After this lovely morning we had with Ares, I realized I can't do it all, and neither can Adam,  and we're not even going to try.  Our job is to survive this Holiday Season.   Like, 4 people, all still alive and living (and under the same roof) in January.  We can do this, right?!? 



• 2 more swim lessons next
• 1 more soccer season (he told Adam to sign him up again, we'll go as long as he can, although, I tend to push soccer a lot more than Adam does.)
• 8 more days of school left

Big PUF Couch

Back in High School, I had a giant PUF chair.  It was amazing. I sat on it, slept in it, in college, we put it at the end of the hall, and would run and jump on it, it was fun and comfortable, and a really awesome chair.
 
Did you know that they made them in couch form?  I did.  And I've coveted it for years.   But they're HUGE, and take up a crap-ton of space.  I mean, the chair was a good 3' tall and as round as a willow tree, so a couch?  haha.   Adam joked that we'd get rid of our sectional and buy a ton of these PUF chairs.   what a horrible idea.


So when I saw a PUF couch in my Black Friday Amazon shopping cart, I thought it was a joke.  Adam said it was a good price, so I bought it. Team effort. It's amazing.   Have I already talked about this?   Maybe.  I have a horrible memory, and there's a bunch of crap-tastic stuff happening in life right now.  But Alas, here's our giant PUF couch, which hasn't left our living room.  In fact, I'm not sure I've sat on the couch since we've gotten this.

It comes in a small  box  (I mean, this is a couch)

This photo actually makes it look smaller than it is in real life.
In real life, it's my entire length of body, and Ares and Atlas can
lay on each side of me - comfortably.  LOVE!

Atlas' First Winter Concert

My phone was dead, so I have no photos. I haven't even been on Facebook for 2 days, so it's not that.  I promise, once I get some from others, I will add  them here.   He was super cute, super shy at first, until he saw his teacher, whom he loves.  He sang most of the songs, and kind of did the hand motions, but VERY small, and down by his waist, so as not to appear to be dancing, haha.  He did warn us that he wouldn't dance though, so I'm super proud of what he did do.  For his first concert, the little guy was super!  Ares had a rough go at it before the concert, but once in there, he was proud of his brother, and kept pointing him out and wanted to go up and get him off stage at the end of the concert 

He's in the middle row, in the red vest, with his fingers in his mouth making faces.  This kid!  hilarious!

It took a LOT to get Ares out of the house and into the concert, but once there, he was a
proud big brother, and his mood lightened up. 

Take TWO!

Ares, my son.  Oh, how I love him.  So so so much.   But oh, how I do not like him as of late.   It's tough, he's having a tough time, but he's so defiant.  SO SO defiant.  Throw all his toys away.  He doesn't care.  Take all furniture out of his room (and put in ours, SMH Adam.  Thanks so much), he doesn't care.  If he doesn't want to go somewhere, he won't, I must physically carry or drag him. 


So he's on a second med now, hopefully this will begin working today, because the only difference we saw yesterday, was him staying up extra late because he wasn't even a little bit tired.  He read some (and by 'read' I mean, flawlessly read through a perfectly long chapter in minutes, while I was there.)


And he's making Christmas tough, like, he only says he wants a slugterra blaster, a power ranger something or other (Aunt Katie got it for him) and a baseball mitt (Papa Keith got that for him).  My mom got him a TON of Science kits, I got him a spy kit and the slugterra thing, and he wants NOTHING else.   Maybe some nice art supplies, and a nice tote or bin that fits pads of full size paper, and crayons/markers etc that can ONLY be his, so he doesn't need to share?   he's obsessed with all things glue and tape....   I'm totally stretching for items.


Atlas wants 'Monster trucks.  All of them.'   That's it.  nothing else.  Mom got him a shit ton of Paw Patrol things from the mommy's group. 


Adam and I both  have our lists on Amazon, although, they're not beefy.  I really just want my laundry room moved so I can have a mud room.    We did a lot of damage with Amazon shopping this year.  Like, the "couch" that's like the puf chair I had in HS and College has been on my list for years, but I refuse to pay a lot for it (and we have no room for it).  Well, apparently it was on sale, Adam put it in the cart, and I hit 'buy'.  It was a tag team effort, hahaha.   


Speaking of Christmas... I put up a new tree!  (It may or may not be the FOURTH tree in the house!).   This one might have a beautiful gold glitter on the tips of most branches that will drive Adam crazy for as long as we have this tree, but I love it.)  it matches the room PERFECTLY, too.   Although, we had to move the beer fridge to be by the liquor cabinet, so it's farther away from the island.   Ah well.