We got back in from our Vegas trip on Weds..just now getting a chance to post about it. I had considered posting daily updates while we were there…but the hotel doesn’t provide free internet access….it was $9.99 a day for WebTV access and $10.99 for “real” access…
so.. instead.. you get one big post with all the vegas stuff in it…
So.. Saturday morning, Kael had been up for a little while, and we were playing in his room… out of the blue, he stands up..says “Donot” and heads towards the kitchen. He starts telling us repeatedly (and loudly) that he wants a donut for breakfast… We told him we didn’t have any donuts…but he didn’t really care, he kept repeating it, getting more and more agitated when we didn’t give him one (he started hopping from foot to foot..it was really cute actually)…so I took him to Krispy Kreme and got him a ‘donot’
This is really the first time that he’s gotten this worked up over a food. He’s gotten excited before, but we’ve always ‘suggested’ the food to him (asking him if he wants [food], or something like that)..this time, he just decided he wanted a donut and made sure we knew about it.
On a only semi-related note… we’ve updated the photo albums… you can see them here.
Janice took Kael in for his 18 month checkup (the official followup to his ER visit is tomorrow with a real doctor)… He’s in excellent health..and the little guy was showing off for the PA…. Janice tells all about it here.
So..go read it (it saves me having to retype it.. and I get to see if Trackbacks are working)
This pictures says it all!
Kael made his first trip to the Emergency Room today…
He choked on a piece of bacon this morning at breakfast, he coughed it up…but then he started wheezing and coughing alot, so Janice called the Dr., and they told her to head on over to Children’s Hospital, so she did. I got there a little bit after her and Kael did…
After I’d been there about an hour, they took Kael for X-rays…but the x-rays didn’t really show anything that would be causing him to be a raspy and wheezy… so they had one of the Ear/Nose/Throat Drs come take alook.. and they decided that they needed to knock him out so they could stick a tube with a light and camera on it down his throat, so they could take a look and see if there was something causing the irritation..
Turns out… there was… Bacon… still… apparently, even though he’d coughed up the bacon he was actually choking on, he managed to inhale a few tiny pieces, which were causing the raspyness and wheeziness… the Dr. said she pulled out between 12 and 14 pieces of bacon.. they did bring them out to Janice and I in the waiting room..but, we didn’t keep that… we did keep the pictures from the throat tube though…
thats one of the ‘better’ shots, in that its really easy to make out the little piece of bacon thats blocking some of the bronchial tubes…
We finally got to go home after Kael had been there for like 9 hours or so…. I’m very happy with the result, and the treatment he got at Children’s… I just would have like for it to have taken a bit less time…
All things considered though, it taking 18 months (almost) for Kael to earn a ER trip is pretty surprising…I would have figured we’d have been in there several times by now…
Kael’s gotten a little bored with Baby Banger, so last time we went buy our closest Apple Store, we decided to pick him up a new game or two. Now, knowing like I do that the kids edutainment titles are WAAAY out of date (there are kids’ titles out there, still selling, that will run on System 7!) I made sure to check the system requirements very closely. Since I don’t run ANY OS 9 software, I don’t have the classic environment installed on any of our computers. When I purchase/trial/use software at this point, if it doesn’t run natively under OS X, and its a ‘new’ (meaning less then 3 years old) title, I don’t buy it.
We decided on Jumpstart Advanced – Toddlers for him, and the system requirements don’t make any mention of Classic. Here they are as listed on the box:
PowerMac G3 266 Mhz, OS 9.2.1 OS 10.1.5 OS 10.2.3, 64MB of RAM (128MB RAM for 10.1.2 and up), 16x CD-ROM drive, 16 Bit Color
I think Kael is obsessed with a certain red muppet….
And I’m wondering how many years of therapy a muppet obsession takes to get over?
In case it’s not completely clear in the picture..That’s Kael..in his Elmo chair, holding his Elmo stuffy, watching the Elmo Holiday DVD.
Do you think its a sign of obsession when his first words in the morning, when we go to get him out of his crib is “Elmo”
So this was Kael’s second thanksgiving, and while its only been a year since his last thanksgiving (and, oddly enough…since everyone else’s last thanksgiving too), the differences between the two thanksgivings is….alot!
Ok.. so its been awhile since I last updated the Blog…..
So, this past weekend, my Sister-in-Law Vicki tied the knot