Sept - Nov 2009

Monday, September 7, 2009: Colby slept through the night but woke up with a fever so I gave him Tylenol and his fever broke and he started to feel a little better. He woke up first thing and wanted to mow the lawn with Josh but we need to try to get to the doctors. I called the doctor and got in for a 10 am appointment. So we went to the doctors. He took one look at Colby’s bite and said that it was for sure a tick bite with Lyme disease. HE gave him an amoxicillin prescription for 3 times a day for 3 weeks. He said that we caught it early enough that there shouldn’t be nay long term effects. He did check him for signs of meningitis and arthritis. We went straight to the pharmacy after leaving the doctors. Amazingly that was Colby’s first visit to the doctors beside for his regular doctor appointment checkups. His bite had gotten even bigger over night and was scary looking. We had pulled out the hide-a-bed for him yesterday and he pretty much spent the day there. He wanted to watch movies of course. He took a nap but when he woke up his was really hot. I gave him more Tylenol but it didn’t seem to do much for him this time. He was getting sicker but when he woke up his first request was to mow the lawn with Josh. He was crying he wanted to do it so bad but he was so sick. Josh finally said he would take him outside. They went out and came in two seconds later and Colby was crying saying he was too sick to do it. Josh BBQed hamburgers and hot dogs for dinner but Colby wouldn’t eat. I think I was stressing out a little too much because I started having bad contractions and stomach pains and all I could do is to lay down. We called Rhett Johnson, who had volunteered to give a blessing if he needed one, to come give a blessing. When he got here Colby had just dozed off and had woken up again, even worse than before. They were able to give him a blessing. Patty also sent some Motrin with him. I checked his fever and it was over 104. So we gave him medicine (first he needed to eat or drink so chocolate milk seemed to do the trick). Within a half hour his fever started to break. I feel so blessed to have the Priesthood in my life and then it can do such miraculous things. We were able to get him to eat some ice cream and read stories a little while later.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009: We dropped Grammy off at the airport and as she was walking away Colby said, “I miss her already.”

Friday, September 18, 2009: Maren called at 9:45 am saying that the Canton Totplex had openings for Evan and Colby to join a Tot Gym class. It is an 8 week program where they introduce a different sport every week.

. It was fun to watch all these 3 year olds run around. Colby’s in the 3 year old class since Evan still is and Colby just turned 4. The older class was for 4-6 years and that seemed too old for Colby. Colby did a great job. He was all sweaty.

we stopped at CVS to pick up Colby’s second half of his amoxicillin. We grabbed some more night light bulbs and when the guy was putting them in the bag the package opened and he said, “I’m all thumbs.” Colby thought that was pretty funny and has said the phase again.

Saturday, September 19, 2009: Josh went to the 8 am temple session. While Josh was gone I asked Colby if he remembered his scripture for the primary program that we hadn’t reviewed since FHE – he did.

Sunday, September 20, 2009: Colby was on Josh’s “team” and together they helped get ready. We had the windows open to “air out the boys” in the stinky house! The neighbor, Charlie, was outside washing his car. Colby was yelling through the window to home and they were talking to each other then Colby says, “We don’t wash our car on Sunday.” During dinner Colby recited his scripture for primary to the missionaries and then we asked him if he know what it meant to be born of the water and he said, “when you go in the water and come out, like I get born of the water when I go to Houghton’s Pond.”

Tuesday, September 22, 2009: After Josh and I getting 5 hours of sleep, Colby wakes up at 7:30 am and says that he is ready for school. Today is his first day of school but it doesn’t start until noon. Colby had a great day at school. He said his teachers said glue and scissors are just for teachers and he said he asked the teacher if they sing songs and they told him there are no songs in their school. I’m not quite sure about that.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009: Colby had the idea that we play Charades. He is actually getting pretty good at acting and guessing. He just started randomly singing “Get on your boots” he wanted to go to the concert too.

Thursday, September 24, 2009: The boys were eating lunch and Colby wanted to show Evan the clips from the U2 concert. I told Colby that I didn’t think Evan would want to and he looked at Evan and Evan said no. Colby said, “But they are awesome Evan. They go like this, Get on your boots, Get on your boots, Let me in the sound, Let me in the sound, Let me in the sound.” And he was singing and dancing to show Evan how cool they were.

Saturday, September 26, 2009: for the first time ever, some neighborhood kids who live on the other side of our circle came over twice to see if Colby could play. They are 10 and 7 years old. How did Colby grow up so fast? There are no kids on our side of the circle and we never see the kids when they are out. As Colby rides his bike around the block he always stops to say Hi to people and the neighborhood is getting to know Colby very quickly. He is definitely better at making friend than we are!

Monday, September 28, 2009: He weighs 35 pounds and is 41 inches tall. Still on the tall and skinny side.. So when it was time for his shots they had me climb on the exam table too and have him sit on my lap (I had to scoot all the way back so he could sit on my legs because I have no lap) and I was to hold his arms and hands down tight while two nurses came in and each gave him two shots on each arm at the same time. Colby was the best 4 year old they had ever seen they said. He didn’t make a sound or even flinch when they poked him. He was so brave it almost made me cry! When I hopped down and looked at him, his little bottom lip was quivering but he made no sound. The nurse brought him lots of extra stickers and said he did such a great job.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009: The first thing Colby said when he woke up was, “Mom I have something to say to you. Happy Halloween. Can we make a Halloween breakfast?”!

Wednesday, September 30, 2009: After our late breakfast I thought I would call the allergist at Children’s Hospital, the one that the Pediatrician had recommended so Colby could get tested for eggs and then get his flu shot. I was thinking that it would take months and then I probably wouldn’t even end up doing it but when I called they said they had an opening at 12:30 today in Waltham so I took it. I was glad not to have to wait months and them not to have to go to Children’s Hospital in Boston was an added bonus. Colby didn’t really want to go but didn’t complain all that much either. We made it just in time. We talked to the doctor for a while and then they decided to do some allergy testing anyway. He had said that because he can eat foods with bakes eggs in it that he can get the flu shot and won’t have a problem. So to get tested Colby had to get poked again. This time it was 17 times on his back! What a brave little boy. He stood while I sat and gave me a big hug while I hugged his head and bum so he wouldn’t flinch too much. Once again he was so brave beyond measure. He let a few tears drop but didn’t say anything. They asked if he wanted to sit in the chair when it was all done but he wanted to hug me for a few more minutes. They brought in an “I spy” game where you have a little shaker full of plastic beads and there are small little toys hid in it that you have to try to find. That helped occupy him for the 15 minutes that we had to wait for the testing. Turns out that he is allergic to eggs, cats, and dust mites. I thought he was suffering from allergies right now but it must be a cold instead but they did say there are too many different environmental allergies to test for them all so it is possible he is allergic to ones they didn’t test. So they want him to have an epi-pen with him at all times because of the egg allergy but that he can go ahead and get the flu shot and eat foods with eggs baked in it. I don’t really get it. His biggest allergy was to dust mites though and they want us to thoroughly clean his room. We were in the drs. Office for 2 hours.

Friday, October 2, 2009: Colby is all about striking. He told Josh on Friday, "I want you to go on Strike at the Prudential center (where Josh works) so you don't have to go to work. I love you too much." He's been watching Newsies and figures if Josh goes on Strike then he can stay home and play with Colby!

Saturday, October 3, 2009. As we were almost asleep and it had been quite for a while, Colby says, “Mom, I’ve been thinking and I have an idea. I think we should have a Halloween party at our house.”

calm down by playing Charades and then reading books.

Monday, October 05, 2009: For FHE Colby wanted to play Charades again. He acted out the scene from The Apple Dumpling Gang where Theodore is trying to light his cigarette and catches his pants on fire. He was very cute at doing it but in the mean time it brought on an opportunity to talk about the Word of Wisdom, which we did.

Friday, October 9, 2009: Sports class was hockey today. It was fun to watch Colby play. He was all over the ball (they play on turf so they used a ball instead of a puck).

Friday, October 16, 2009: Josh took Colby to the circus tonight for his first time. Colby talked about the animals and the clowns but before he even had his shoes off he said, “There were some random parts in it.” He said there were some “ ladies and some tall guys that were kind of random.” Over all he had a really fun time. Josh said that they ate at McDonalds just outside the arena and couldn’t take food in so everyone was sitting on the ground eating and Colby sat by a lady and started talking to her and said that they were going to the circus and asked what her name was and then when they left he said, “I’ll see you in the circus.”

Sunday, October 25, 2009: - Primary program was today. I am so happy to be able to have made it so I can see Colby in his first program. He did such a good job. He said his part so clearly and slowly. He was the only kid under the age of 8 I think that you could actually understand. Each time they sang a song Colby made sure he made his way to the very front. He would say, “Excuse me” until he got all the way to the front. He wasn’t quite as loud or into it as he was yesterday but he still sang Families can be together Forever at the top of his lungs. It was so great! Josh took me home after sacrament. I just couldn’t last any more. I was given quite a few gifts at church. Doris Gomez gave Colby a gift too and what a perfect gift and perfect timing it was. When Josh and Colby got home from church and the baptism of the Bradys which Josh baptized them; Colby was just screaming and crying to go to Timnas. After church he always goes into RS and since I wasn’t there TImna said that he could stay with her. I guess he thought that meant going home with her. So being as tired as he was he was out of control. When I told him he had a present to open he finally calmed down. IT turned out to be the perfect ting for him. It was snapping blocks kind of like Legos. Him and I ended up playing with them for 7 hours that day! HE totally forgot about TImnas.,

Saturday, October 31, 2009:. Colby (aka Batman) was very excited to go trick or treating. Colby ended up heading out around 6ish. Josh and Bonnie went with him. They came back just about 20 minutes later with Colby screaming. It was fairly warm and humid out and he had put his crocks on the wrong feet and ended up getting a blister and was done trick or treating. He had made it around the block and his pumpkin was completely full! I guess all the excitement has finally caught up to him!

November 1 - Josh said he bore his testimony and Colby wanted to come with him and that he bore his testimony too. He ended up saying his Primary Program scripture again.

November 4, 2009: We still hadn't officially picked names yet but when Colby walked in the room he said, "Where's Eliza and Delaney?" So it was decided for us!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009: He was now complaining of an itch head. I thought it was because he hadn’t washed his hair for so long. So in the tub he was asking me to wash his hair and it itch his head. He hates me playing and touching his head so this was really weird. So I was scratching his head hard and he said it felt good. So we rinsed him off and as the water was draining out of the tub I saw little brown things on the washcloth that had been in the tub. Colby was now out of the tub and drying off. I looked at the wash cloth and called for bonnie – it had about 10 lice crawling on it! Colby hated to get his hair combed through. It’s small teeth pulled his hair and he just cried and screamed for about 6 hours. He watched a movie at the same time which helped.

Friday, November 20, 2009: Colby and I left right away to go to the doctors because he was getting his H1N1 flu shot. We got there and it was an actual drs. Appointment because of is allergy to eggs they wanted to monitor him. Even thought I told them he didn’t need it they still made us see the doctor rather than just get the shot and go. We had to pay a co-pay and sit and wait for 15 minutes after and check Colby out. Needless to say he was not happy with the whole idea. He started crying just walking into the doctors. I thought that they were going to give him the nasal one but they ended up bringing in the shot. I guess having the twins around the doctor didn’t want him getting the nasal one because it has a live virus in it. So it took me and the nurse holding him down but he finally got it. He felt a little sick but that was because he was crying so hard and couldn’t calm down. Finally he did and we were able to go with no problems.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009: Colby made a turkey in school today out of paper bags. When I asked him what he talked about today he told me, turkeys. When I asked him what he learned about turkeys he said, “Mom this isn’t science school, this is preschool.”

Thursday, November 26, 2009:. At 5 pm we sat down to dinner and as we did, BAM, Colby just started crying and pulling on his ear and saying that his ear hurt. He tried laying down for a while but just cried and cried. Josh and I ended up eating way too fast and not enjoying any food on the way down. I was so worried about Colby and felt really bad.

Friday, November 27, 2009: We called the doctors in the morning right away and they said to bring him in. It took some convincing Colby that he wasn’t going to get a shot and the doctors would make him feel better. He finally agreed to go if he got a special toy from Shaw’s that he had seen when he went grocery shopping with Josh last time. Of course he had an ear infection and he got put on Amoxicillin again. It was his first ear infection ever.

November 30, 2009: He says he knows we celebrate Christmas because Jesus was born but really likes the fact that it revolves around Santa Claus.