Silent Storm

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Wordful Wednesday: Motherhood

I love this picture. Its a rare moment for me to actually be in the shot with my kids since I'm usually the one behind the camera. We were up in Pend Orielle, Idaho and they had a giant swing. I got up on the swing with Kieran and Seamus climbed up there to sit with us and look at the trees blowing in the wind and at the lake.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Eco Week at The Mommy Homemaker

October 10th through the 25th is Eco week at The Mommy Homemaker. She is having awesome reviews and giveaways durring the event. Stop by and say "Hi," read some awesome reviews and enter some cool giveaways!
One of the awesome giveaways is for a Kolcraft Jeep Stroller!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Cloth Diaper Giveaways part 2

Some more Cloth Diaper giveaways

A Kindred Spirit's Thoughs WoollyBums OS Diaper Giveaway (ends 10/31)

The First Time Around has a few going on;
Softbums: win a microfiber SoftBums basic pack from TFTA and Softbums (ends 10/30)

Bummis Package: win 6 Bummis Organic Prefolds, 1 Superbrite cover, and 1 Whisper Wrap cover from TFTA and Cuddle Wuddle (ends 10/26)

Kushies Infant Trial Pack: from TFTA and Kushies the pack includes; 2 10-22 lb diapers, 2 washable diaper liners, 2 washclothes, and 10 biodegradable diaper liners (ends 10/19)

The Cloth Diaper Whisperer Fluff Friday #51, this week you can win a Bummis Organic Cotton Diapering Kit (ends 10/23)

Happily Domestic is haivng a Cloth Diaper week:
Itty Bitty Bunz Win a Thirsties Duo-Wrap or gift certificate of equal value (ends 10/25)

Nubunz win a Nubunz OS Diaper in your choice of color (ends 10/26)

Nifty Nappy win a Nifty Nappy OS Diaper in their choice of fabric, a Woolie Wrap and a 1/4 lb of lanolin to care for your wool! $45.00 value! (ends 10/29)

Prairie Tales win 2 pocket diapers (ends 11/1)

Knickernappies win Knicker Nappies OS Diaper (ends 11/2)

Diaper Discussions Pimp Your Stash #10, you can win TWO Tweedle Bugs OneSize Diapers (ends 10/23)

Cloth Diaper Blog Feed Your Stash Friday you can win 1Kissaluvs V2 Fitted Diaper, 1 Kissaluvs One Size Contour Diaper, and 1 Kissaluvs Marvels Diaper (ends 10/23)

Newly Wed, Newly Bred has a couple going on:
Wild Child 2 winners, the first winner will win: any item of their choice from the in stock goodies, the second will win: any in stock item of their choice up to $10 (ends 10/27)

2 Diapers read an awesome review and enter for your chance to win 2 diapes one of each from Nubunz andSweet Doll Baby (ends 10/23)

Saturday, October 17, 2009

H1N1~Swine Flu has hit......home

I thought we could pass this up, I didn't think it would actually hit our house. I mean the kids stay home with me, I don't belong to any play groups(don't know of any in the area that don't cost), hubby is the only one that goes out every day and that's to work. Yes hubby can get exposed at work and that's one of the things we are thinking. Seamus woke up yesterday(Friday) morning and threw up all over my bed, then showed me that he had done the same earlier on his bed, afterwords he seemed fine through out the day just not quite as wild as normal, except for the poos(3-4 and normal is 1 for him). Then this morning we woke up and he seemed groggy still, we went and picked up my 15yr old brother to watch Seamus while hubby, Kieran and I went to a consignment sale. By this point Seamus hadn't ate yet, so I got him some yogurt and he didn't want it which was odd, but I guess he ate it after we left. We get back and bring McDonalds(As a thank you to my brother) and Seamus didn't want to eat it or drink his chocolate milk, both were very odd for him he usually loves it. He just sat there watching tv like a zombie...also not normal hes normally all over the place. I asked Scott if he was like this when we were gone and he said ya he just sat there....again not normal, Scott is Seamus' favorite person in the world and hes usually climbing all over him. I looked closer at him and he was super pale and his eyes looked sunk in, I asked Scott if he'd drank anything...nope he didn't, which means he hadn't had anything to drink since around 8pm Friday night, and this was after 12pm today. Ken gets our only thermometer which is a mouth/rectal one. He puts a cover on it to get a mouth temp, he could only keep it in for about 20 seconds and it jumped right to 101.4, its a 60sec thermometer so we knew that it was probably a little higher. I called his ped's office and got an appt for 2:15. We take my brother home and take Seamus to the ped's. WOW I've never seen that place so packed before, sick kids and teens everywhere. We get back into the room finally and his temp is 104.6! My poor baby! The doc said his lungs were clear which was good, but she did a Flu culture on him and did the rapid flu test on it....POSITIVE for Influenza Type A, which they are calling Swine Flue(H1N1). As of right now we are to give him Motrin then 3hrs later Tylenol, repeat, and pump him with fluids. Hes not wanting to drink but he will take Popsicles. We also have to watch his breathing if it gets bad go to the ER.

Now we have to watch hubby and I, I've been told that we are at the prime age that its hitting. And Kieran too, we were going to get her the flu shot but after this we decided to get it for her even though it doesn't cover the H1N1 stran.

Hopefully the rest of us don't get it and I hope Seamus can get past it without the lung infection part.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Another thing to be worried about

Seamus has had lots of issues in his short 3yrs 3mo of living. He had major developmental delays that we never found the answer too, pretty pad Torticollis, Plagiocephally and Macrocephally. He's improved and done better each month and finally is almost all caught up developmentally with his age group. But his behavior is worse then any 3yr old that I've seen, he has very odd quirks too. One of the quirks is, when we are talking to him or tell him to look at our eyes it always seems he's looking past us, we always thought it was a possible mild case of autism(with his other quirks it seems highly likely). But the other day when Kieran's Early Headstart FC was here, Seamus went up to her and crossed his eyes. She kind of freaked a little and asked how long hes been doing it, (now she was his FC from 1.5yrs till 3 when he aged out) and I told her for probably around a year and he thinks its funny. She said she didn't' think he was doing it on purpose all the time. She just go trained in doing quick eye exams so she took out her little light and check him for a couple minutes, sure enough hes not doing it on purpose all the time. His left eye would cross or not move as fast, really similar to a lazy eye. Now we've always been concerned about one of the kids getting this as hubby's dad has one, but we didn't know if it was hereditary or not. Our FC put in a referal to a Pediatric Ophthalmologist and Seamus is going on the 27th of October to get it checked. I'm thinking a patch will probably be what she does, but the other night we were at my moms and I told her about it, she was watching him and said ya she notices it too but they'd most likely do glasses. Either way glasses or a patch will be hard for him but hopefully we can get it fixed now.