Our First Run in with Poison Control

Oh my gosh, I have never been so scared in all my life. Guess I should start at the beginning, since that is were all stories should start. I decided that since I am going out of town tomorrow for Grand I need to power clean the house. So I am going to all the bathrooms putting toilet bowl cleaner in them. I do the rec room, I do the master bath, and the hall bath. Then I pass through the family room were Christopher and Anna are playing only to find them not playing with toys. Anna has decided it would be fun to get the Cascade 2 in 1 out from under the cabinet and play with them. What was worse was she gave one of the packets to Christopher who has processed to try to eat it. He has powder ever where and all through his mouth. So I freak out. I am yelling at the top of my lungs….stop you two…..that is a no no. I pick up Christopher and stick his head under the running tap water to rinse his mouth out. I then look at the packet to see what is says…it says to call your Dr. or poison control. So I try the doctors office, after calling back 5 times to get a person to answer then nurse tells me to call poison control and gives me the number.

So I call poison control. They tell me that the worse it will do is burn his mouth and make little sores and make him throw up. To try nursing him to help cut any he swallowed, if he swallowed any. So I nurse him and he falls asleep….well since he might throw up I put him in the bouncy chair to sleep, which wakes him up. So him, Anna and I sit on the floor in the family room and play. He burps a ton but never throws up. About 30 minutes later I nurse him again and he puts himself to sleep…so I lay him in his bed.
Poison control just called back for there one hour follow up and said if he has not gotten sick he probably wont and he can lay down with no issues.

So that is our run in with poison control.

Needless to say the lock is back on the cabinet under the kitchen sick. It has always had one but I have not been locking it since Anna has not messed with it in over 6 months…guess she wanted back in it again. Oh well.

Thoughts on N. Korea Missile Crisis and Weapons

Today as I was reading Fox News Website, one of the ways to see what is going on in the outside world, I started thinking.

Today they are reporting more about the Korean missile crisis. I say crisis because to me it is a crisis, since the outcome could have major implications. I have been trying to keep up with the store, even more so when they listed Kansas City as one of the target points for the Korean Missiles and well that is were I live. So today I read how the United States is or has Activates our Missile Defense System. That got me thinking. I totally think it is ballsy for North Korea to threaten to even test a missile that could hit another country. What is the reason for this missile but to cause harm to another nation? I can’t think of any other use. Ok so we label them the “Bad guys” because they might try to hurt us. Fair, as humans we tend to put people in one of three groups, our alias or friends, the neutral (not on any side), and then the enemies or bad guys. So to counter the “threat” that has been made we activate our missile defense system. I totally understand why we would do such a thing. It is not like we want someone to shoot at us and not try to protect ourselves. I know this is just a “happy thought” and not probably ever a reality but I wish there was some way everyone could get rid of their missiles, get ride of their weapons and stop trying to show who is better.

As a Christian, I believe we are all children of God. If anyone is to be better then us it would God, himself, not another human. We are all his children and in my book God does not play favorites, God loves us all the same. He loves the murder just like he loves the saint. He loves the girls just as much as he loves the boy. To me, God is the perfect parents, he is able to love you even when you break his heart. I pray that some day all the world can think with Christian heart, that all the world can see with Christian eyes and that someday we can all live in a world that is Christ like. I know God, our father, would be very happy that day.

This is the latest report from Fox News about what is going on.

Fox News Story on N. Korea Missile Crisis

Anna tinkled in the potty!!

I just looked back to see it was March 13th when Anna pooped in the potty. Like I said back then I figured it was just lucky timing.

Well the past week she has wanted to wear big girl panties. I have one pair of Gerber Training pants left from Catherine so we normally put them on once a day till they are wet and then wash them. Well tonight she wanted panties instead of a diaper. So I told her "if you wear them you have to use the potty" So a little bit later I noticed she was pulling at the front of the panties. I said to her, do you need to use the potty and she siad yes. So I had Catherine open up the door to the bathroom (it was closed from me cleaning it) and she went in. She came out a little bit later without her panties. So I said to her "go get your panties"...so she comes back to the family room with her panties, and I expect them to be wet, but they are dry! So I help her step back into her panties and said to her "Did you use the potty?" She said yes, and I said well lets go look. I expect to find a dry potty like all other times we sit on the potty. BUT NO! She went potty in the potty!! So I yelled for Catherine and we both cheered and clapped and had a little potty party for Anna.

Here is to hoping this continues!

Christopher's 8 month weight check

Well today we took Chrsitopher to the hosptial for his 8 month weight check. He offically turns 8 months old tomorrow. Well he weighed in right on the mark.....17 pounds and 9.6 oz! They say he should gain 4-12 oz a month right now and he gained 10 oz! What a growing boy we have!

Greek Festival!

This year we finally made it back to the Greek Festival! It was wonderful. My parents, Mr. Russ, and Mrs. Gretta went with us. We all left after church and headed over to Overland Park, KS to go to the Greek Orthodox Church for the Festival. The food was out of this world. The girls had a great time watching the Greek dancers and dancing them selves. My mom, Tony, Catherine, Mrs. Gretta and I took the tour of the church and learned a lot about the icons in the church, it was fascinating!!

Slip-n-slide

Well we replaced the wet banana with a new slip n slide. We picked out a double run, so Catherine and her friend can play at the same time. They had a blast with other then the fact that Catherine needs to learn to let her self slide on her tummy.

Wet Banana

Do any of you remember the water slide called Wet Banana? It was alot like a slip and slide. Well I had one when I was little...it is at least 20 years old. Well my mom sent it to my house for Catherine. So Tony hooked it up for her...she took one slide....and



BAM



The thing shattered into a million pieces. It was wet...but the plastic was so brittle that when she slid on it just like exploded.

Needless to say we are off to by a slip and slide soon.