A Glimpse into the Lives of the Carter's

Monday, January 23, 2006

Can my eyes get any bigger?

Thanks Mom and Dad for the beautiful get well flowers:) I'm sure that they smell GREAT, I'll let you know when my nose starts working again;) As for now they brighten our days trapped in this house!

Look at those chunky thighs!!! You'd never know he's sick either!

Olivia testing out her new nap mat w/cover from MiMaw for school (she starts in feb).

Smiling through the fever:)

No Olivia he is not your doll, and yes I caught you trying to feed him!

we did a lot of sleeping this weekend

She's always loved music and already she can do more on the guitar than I can.

Jeff teaching Olivia to play the guitar- SHE LOVES IT!

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Weekend in review

A little bit of a song for your amusement (not necessarily mine)- about our lovely weekend stuck in this cracker jack box house w/ everyone (except Jeff) sick!

one nonsick person
two high fevers
three stuffy noses
four loads of laundry
FIVE MINUTES OF SANITY
six trips to walmart
seven hours of broken sleep
eight if you're Olivia
nine times a day yelling "Use your manners!" and "Leave your brother alone!"
TEN minutes it'd take me to back my bags (for Hawaii that is)
eleven doses of medicine
twelve times we'll do it again this year!

Hope you had a good weekend:) ...maybe next weekend will be for us!

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Still Sick

Well it's been a week and Deagan is still sick, so I took him in again for a check up. She was amazed that after three rounds of antibiotics he's still resilient and not responding. He still has a double ear infection (going on 20 days now) and still bronchitis. BUT now we get to add sinusitis to the list. He has an endless supply of green goo in his nose at all times. Poor little man can't suck his bottles cuz he has to come up for air all the time. He's hilarious and laughs when I suck his nose out with the hospital ball aspirator- it must tickle or something!

Anyway, she was afraid that he had pneumonia, so we went in for another chest xray...but that was negative. (Olivia got to watch behind the 'special glass' as the "tv took a picture of brother's tummy" so she said very excitedly).
So we went home and waited anxiously to know if we were going to get an all expenses paid weekend at the hospital, but we didn't;)

Now he's on yet another new antibiotic, an oral steroid, and another med added to his breathing treatments.

Ok, he can get better any time now!!!!!!!

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Olivia's quote of the week

This one I am not proud of, at all, yet it is pretty hilarious...

"Do it and die Maverick!" says my two year old angel while attempting to prevent the dog from attacking the cat.

! TrAfFiC !

At the moment I cannot think of anything that frustrates me more than traffic. Traffic filled with terrible drivers who rear-end each other and cause major back ups. Traffic due to the gazers that stare at those drivers. Traffic due to semi trucks that cannot seem to keep their trucks on the straight as an arrow highway, thus veering into the middle and causing yet another back up. And finally traffic due to the 100,000 post-Katrina population of my little 25,000 pre-Katrina Slidell. IT FRUSTRATES ME MORE THAN ANYTHING that it takes seriously three to four times as long to make a trip that never, ever took more than 15 minutes across town! There, I said it and now I feel better:) Thank you for reading and no I will not pay you for being my shrink;)

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

CONGRATULATIONS

CONGRATS to Nicole and Mark Downer (nicole and I graduated high school together and go way back) on the birth of their baby boy! Little Dominic arrived at 11:07 last night via a late C section. Everyone is healthy and resting! We love you guys so much:)

p.s.- Congrats to Jason and Lindsay Pociask who just found out that they are pregnant and due late august! It's just babies, babies, babies!!!!!!! Seems like all of our close friends are having babies, and I just love it!