Happy Birthday to Tommy

Last night was Tommy's 5th birthday and we had such a fun time. I made the cake and frosted it, then Tommy wanted to put the sprinkles on himself. He dumped the entire bottle of sprinkles on the top of the cake. I tried to salvage the appearance of it with the rest of the sprinkles and spread them around the cake. So it isn't that pretty to look at, but sure did taste wonderful!!!
Anyway, he had fun, and then took a bath with Will to play with his new toy! They had a great time. So much so that Tommy took a bath with his sister today to play with his new toy in the tub.
The good night song? Another rendition of Happy Birthday, this time Dad's version, the Happy Birthday you smell like a monkey....at his request.

Kids say the darndest things

Today during Sacrament Meeting, Will looked over at me and told me in his joking voice, trying to be serious and wondering probably if I would think it was as funny as he did, "Mom, do you know what a Pow Wow is?" I told him that I did, but what did HE think it was. He told me, "It's when you give someone a "pow" in their face (ouch!) and then they say, 'Wow!'" What a silly boy. I giggled as quietly as I could, then he told Ryan the same joke that he had just made up. Just one of the many funny things said lately in the Shuler household. As I think of more I'll add them to this site.
Have a wonderful night!

Halloween fun around Kent and Auburn

Hello all and I hope you had a safe and fun Halloween. We sure did at our house this year.
The kids dressed up as Goldilocks, a Cop, and a Gangster. I wonder if you'd guess who was who just based on their personalities? :) Of course, Emma was Goldilocks, Tommy the Cop, and Will the Gangster. Tommy took extra pride in knowing he could arrest his big brother as many times as he wanted to. Very fun. He was even trying to arrest Goldilocks on suspicion of breaking and entering (B and E in cop lingo), criminal trespass, damage to personal property, etc. Very cute.
We went to Ryan's old neighborhood, per our usual, and had fun visiting the old neighbors that he knew growing up. An old high school teacher, his old babysitter, the lady across the street whose kids played with Ryan and his brother, Wes. It was fun.

The Many Misadventures of Heidi the Mommy

What a book!!!!!

Oh my gosh!!!! I can't believe that I've never read this book before. I just can't put it down! I've only had it from the library now for less than a week and already I'm almost done! The book? Twilight. Yes, I joined the bandwagon, and for once, I'm really glad that I did. Now, which is her second? I want to read them in order so that I don't miss parts of the story. What a beautiful love story! Oh, I hope he can change back to a human but not age immediately to be the age he should have been if he hadn't been turned into a vampire in 1918.
I want them to live happily ever after....don't tell me how it ends for those who have already read ahead and knew about these books before I did. BTW, how did I NOT know about them? I rely on my sister to keep me up on the books to read and she didn't clue me in until this summer at the park in Auburn. Shame on you, tsk, tsk, tsk....
Well, I'm off to read some more. Hopefully I'll go to sleep before 2:00 a.m. like the other night!!!

Beautiful Earth

Hello. One of my friends sent me this link that I would like to share with you. Please click on it and turn up your volume. It is absolutely stunning.
The kids will enjoy this also, so gather them around. The music is beautiful, but it's really the photography that will enchant you.

http://video.thesecret.tv/windowsmedia/planet_earth.wmv

Does Heavenly Father sometimes give us "poop" urges????

Well, I have to start this posting by saying how grateful I am to a loving Heavenly Father who watches out for our children when we are on the other side of the house.
Last night the boys were watching The Wiz, I was online doing another roll-out lesson for the New Family Search website, and Ryan went into the bathroom. Emma had gone to bed a couple hours prior to this.
While Ryan was on the "throne" he heard Emma playing, or so he thought. Nope! He was ready to reprimand her for not sleeping yet, when he saw her fully engaged in a grand mal febrile seizure. I'm not sure it that's the official term for her type of febrile seizure, but her entire body was fully engaged and violent, so much so that she was actually falling off the bed. Ryan called me back into the room to be there with him and Emma. Of course, the boys naturally followed me in as they heard their daddy say, "Um, Heidi, I think Emma's having a seizure." Duh! He told me today that of course he knew she was, but didn't want to alarm the boys. Too late. Will took one look at his little princess and cried and said he was scared she would die. Ryan shooed them out of the room and we handled the necessary medical tasks we are used to with Tommy. I made sure Emma was safe on her bed, putting her back up onto it when she fell off.
As I put her onto her bed though, she vomited and so I put her onto her side. At that point we decided not to call the on-call ped in our clinic but rather 911. By now her seizure was into about minute 5 or 6. So I spoke with them and Ryan went out and calmed the boys down. Emma still seized and then gradually it went from all engaged to just her legs and mouth. Then finally her legs stopped, and just her mouth was engaged. That's when she sneezed vomitous and I called back to our friends at 911 to ask their ETA, that she had sneezed the vomitous and she told me to hold on, she checked their ETA and then they were outside our door. By now it was about 10 minutes into it. Finally it stopped as they began to walk into our threshold of our home.
So it was quite an eventful night. To make a long story short, her chest x-ray was clear, so no aspiration, which was a concern for us and the doctor as well. Her ears were clear, which was a surprise to me, because when my kids get high fevers and seizures, it's always been because of an ear infection or two at once. Her UA was clear. The poor little thing had to have a cath put in. I felt so awful for her, she was screaming and crying and saying "ouch" and "ow". She actually put her hand up to me for me to hold it through the pain. I couldn't take it and started crying too.
Her only diagnosis? 102.6 temp upon admittance into the ER and a swollen lymph node on her left side of her neck. So they gave us an rx of amoxicillin and released us at 2:30 in the morning. So I didn't sleep until after 3:00; good thing Ryan had the day off today!!! I needed to sleep in, and boy did I ever. 9:00 was wonderful.
Emma's much better today, but still feverish. I got her some Pedialyte and her Rx at the drugstore and so between Mr. Amoxicillin and Ms. Ibuprofen she's feeling better.
Well, I'm gonna sign off for now.
All I can say is, I am grateful Ryan had to poop or Emma could've been far worse off.