Pneumonia gone, asthma being naughty, over all - breathing much better and getting back to life. 

Saw ortho today.  Having surgery on left thumb on 2/8.

Last 3 babies that I predicted the sex based on what I saw in my head was right.  Just found out a very good friend IRL is having a girl.  They are concerned her placenta is not getting enough blood tho.  She gets another u/s in 6 weeks.  The good news is the baby looked perfect at her 21 week u/s.  I think that is a good sign.

Pre menstral.  Crying at everything.  I cried at the Rachel Ray show at the gym the other day when I was walking on the treadmill.  How pathetic is that!

Sam is blowing her guitar teacher away.  She is already whizzing thru her beginner lesson book.  Reading music is coming so naturally to her!  Sam is also doing basic math problems (She LOVES when I give her stars, stickers and smiley faces for a good job!) every morning with me and is reading very beginner books.  We are talking with the school district about having her start right in 1st grade gifted.  However, the prob is we want what is best for her emotionally and intellectually.

Kit freaked me out the other day when he picked up one of Sam's BOB books are started reading the very first one, MATT.

Susanna is walking so well and climbing stairs too.  Today she started stacking blocks and she has learned her first baby signs, MORE, PLEASE and UP.

Am I a shameful bragger?  Not really.  Ok, maybe a bit.  But I haven't blogged in ages and where these should have been spaced over several blog entries where I don't sound like such a bragger - they have been condensed in to little, efficient blurbs.

Best of all, Ben and I have been having some really nice quality time and then some really, really nice quality time *wink* *wink*&

Night!

I have been so sick and so have the kids.  The good news is that the kids just have a very nasty virus.  The bad news is I have both a very nasty virus and very nasty pnuemonia in my right lung.

I have been feeling so crap.  This morning, I knew Ben had to work all day and I lost it, sobbing like a small child.  I called my mom at 8 AM and asked her to come up cause I didn't trust myself to be able to take care of the kiddos.  I didn't think I'd be all like Ya Ya Sisterhood on them - but I wasn't sure I had the strength to take care of them  I have NEVER done that.  I also called Ben once I made my doc appt and told him that he had to come home and drive me.  He first starting going into how the store is short cause 2 people are on vacation.  I cut him off, "In the 11 years we have been married, have I ever asked you to drop what you are doing?  I am telling you that I am too sick to drive especially with our children in the car.  Do I need to say anything else?"  He was like, yup, right, see ya at 11.

What really made me nervous was that my fever stopped responding to Motrin and I started having new symptoms like stiff neck, sensitivity to light, disorientation.  I was so relieved in some respects that it was pnuemonia!  And the other symptoms were cause I was dehydrated.  My doc said if my symptoms got worse that I'd have to be admitted for IV fluids.  I promised I'd go home and drink tons of water.

So here I am at home.  I still feel like crap, but I am home!  And with the proper meds should be feeling better in a few days.