Life With Boys

I wish I had good news to report this morning. The cultures have revealed that she has a Staph aureus infection that has spread to all five lobes of her lungs. A normal x-ray will show black with your rib bones. An infected x-ray will look cloudy. Mom’s x-ray has clouds on both sides. One… Continue reading

Hello – Mom is stable. Her heart rate and respiration is in the range they desire. She is still heavily sedated so she doesn’t try (again) to get out of bed and remove the tube. We’re still waiting on tests that should give us a few more pieces of the puzzle. She’ll remain in the… Continue reading

Hello — I hate to put it so bluntly, but there is no other way to say it, Mom is in the ICU at Barnes Jewish St. Peters Hospital, St Peters, MO. She has pneumonia and was put on a ventilator early this morning. Background: They arrived from Utah Wednesday evening 12/28. Mom was sick,… Continue reading

Today, Reindeer, our/Tyler’s goldfish has been with us for one year. Pretty amazing for a 12 cent WalMart goldfish.Matt is a good fish-keeper. Continue reading

Tyler’s Christmas Eve was complete because there was a CANDY CANE tied to the first package he was given. The squeal of delight over a candy cane was far greater than the toy inside. Continue reading

Hello – I’ve been putting off writing this letter in hopes that some kind of creative genius will hit, but it hasn’t, so I guess I’ll just do the best I can. Life is St. Louis is moving right along. Any day the kids manage to stay alive and remain relatively unscathed is a good… Continue reading

5:13 a.m. Tyler crawls in bed and snuggles up to Dad (he’s up for the day). “Daddy smells” and moves over to my side of the bed.Well good morning to you too! Continue reading

Anyone who has watched even two episodes of Bob the Builder knows that Bob talks on his cell phone A LOT.On a recent visit to home Depot, Tyler fished the phone out of my purse and before I even knew it, he was [pretend] calling Wendy (Bob’s liaison — the jury is out — the… Continue reading

OK — after making sure we were totally covered on the duck angle, Tyler has decided Santa should bring him a dinosaur. I guess the dinosaur is going to have a lot of duck friends. Continue reading

Hmm. Flu shots apparently aren’t getting it. The kids are alternating the days they “chew up” (Tyler’s version of vomit) on me and now Matt’s got it too. I’m so lucky. Continue reading