Today is not turning out to be a good day!

Ok, so stupid stupid me decided that I would let my daughter have a friend sleep over last night... PLEASE PLEASE .. P-L-E-A-S-E  kick me in the arse if I ever mention that I am even vauguely considering letting Isabel have a friend sleep over again.

Dear Lord I need LOTS of patience this morning... These two girls managed to trash Isabel's room, Tyler's room AND my living room between the hours of 7am and 9:30am!!!!

I got out of bed at 7 because apparently the two girls and Tyler thought it would be an excellent idea to play Rock Band at this hour... VERY loud and with the tv against the wall on which our head board is... it sounded like they were in my room!!!! WTF!! Seriously... its saturday morning and Sebastian was still asleep, there is no reason for me to be up out of bed.  Ok, so I stressed to them that NO RockBand at this hour and that they needed to keep the noise levels down to quiet.   Apparently this request was made to them in chinese because for the next hour and a half I had to get up twice more to remind them that if they are all in the same room there is no need to be screaming at each other!

When I was finally starting to fall asleep again, Sebastian woke up.... that was it for my sleep.  So I feed the baby and decided that since it was 9am I would get up and make the kids some breakfast.  OH MY GOD!!!! My house looked like a tornado had blown threw it!  Seriously my apartment is not that big, and there was stuff EVERYWHERE!    I think there was steam coming out of my ears... because they looked a little scared... "You need to pick up EVERYTHING NOW!"  Ridiculous, why do they need to trash every room they set foot in? 

So another hour of screaming loudly encouraging the kids that the mess needed to be picked up now... and I got some movement, the living room was clean.  I served them pancakes and strawberry milk, they all ate well.  Then I informed them again that they needed to pick up Isabel and Tyler's rooms in order to play or watch tv.  Yeah... right... about five minutes later they were all playing again. 

I swear I must talk in greek or chinese or something... I thought I was being more than clear.  I have not been so stressed out by these kids in months.  Lately  they've been really good about cleaning and picking up their rooms... today they regressed.

I finally went in to find the three of them on the floor playing, with a beautiful mess in the background... OK SERIOUSLY I AM DONE!  (this they understood!)  They had 5 minutes to clean or I was coming back with a garbage bag and I was doing the cleaning.

Five minutes later, all was well again!  Partially at least... At this point I a told Isabel and Tyler they needed to get ready to shower and get dressed, Isabel's friend says to me "Ok... I'll stay until they are ready..."

Ummmm, NO... Sorry you need to leave now.  I generally don't throw out my kids friends, but seriously I had had enough. 

Sooo, I am now taking a breather... checking out CAT on crochet list and hoping I will not strangle my children today!

I have pics and updates on the last few days, but right now I don't have the patience to write anything else.

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Wordless Wednesday- Who needs the gym???

Happy Wednesday!  if you are playing along this week, link up here at Cate's site... and check out some other fellow wednesdayers.

Do two sets everyday for fabulous beach worthy buns and legs!

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germy germy germs....

We are officially a germy sick household!  I thought I was in the clear because Tyler had gotten over his ear infection and is getting better on the pneumonia, but ooh did I under estimate the power of the sick germ!  Sebastian came down with the cold on thursday night... needless to say he is not the best of patients!  The poor thing has been all congested, bugger bubbles and all!  NOT FUN!  Apparently five month old babies do not understand the need to blow one's nose or in their case the removal of said buggers with the dreaded bulb suction syrienge thingy. 

It has become a two man job to get the gook out of poor Sebastian's nose... I feel awful, but its for his own good!  He's not buying into it and has decided he will fight me at all costs to keep his boogeys right where they are!

This is how he looked on friday morning... not THAT bad... a little LOT drooley, breathing mostly through his mouth due to the horrendous collection of snot accumulating in his sinuses... but still cute and happy for the most part...

Friday night... was a WHOLE 'nother story!  My poor baby grew progressively sicker as the day went on, and by Saturday he was barely awake.  At least just long enough to cough, cry, gag then puke all the snot onto me that was clogging his nose.  Yes, I know... not the prettiest of pictures but its the truth man!

So this has been my poor baby since saturday... Oh, and the nights are even better because I'm afraid to lay him in his crib to sleep because the phlegm is sooo thick... I'm afraid he'll vomit and not be able to turn his head or get it out of his mouth! So I've had a new bed partner... I'll admit the cutest one I could ask for... but come on now... who wants to sleep with a baby coughing and crying on top of them ALL night?

I love sleeping with him on my chest, but I hate to see him soo miserable!  Off to the pedi's office we went today, and like I already knew... he has a really bad cold!  No, really??? but, that's the verdict... although I will admit that today the stupid swine flu crawled into my mind... and kinda scared me a bit.  So I am glad I went and confirmed it is just a cold.

Oh, and for those of you (as if anyone actually reads my blog) that don't have children... You KNOW I came down with a cold too!  There is only so much coughing and sneezing a person's immune system can take before you get it too!  So I'm trying to keep my germs to myself, as Isabel is the ONLY person in our house to still be healthy!

So.. sniff, sniff... I will leave you with that... that is how I have spent the last two days... hence the lack in blogging!

But do not fear, I have stuff from middle and end of last week, some pics and stuff...I will post tomorrow... really I will...

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Friday Fragments

So this is my first time participating in Friday Fragments, brought to you by the lovely Mrs. 4444.  I love to read other's fragments, especially my friend Melanie's at Smellyann Strikes Again... her kids are too cute! 

I thought I would let you all get a glimpse of the "wittiness" of my children, at least the two that are able to verbalize...   so I hope you enjoy!

**The kids got a Wii for christmas, so of course this is the toy of the moment... While playing Wii Fit, Tyler (5 yo) and Isabel (10 yo) created their "Mii's" and were weighing in and getting ready to be fit... Tyler gets on the Wii fit board and the starts getting weighed... Isabel says to him "Tyler you gotta practice your body control"... to which Tyler responds with a very serious tone "it's not fun about my body control!!!" 

**Tyler came down with the beginnings of pneumonia this week, so he has been home sick all week.  Isabel on tuesday asks after getting home from school, "Mom, so how's Tylers ammonia doing today?"  I say, Bella its PNEUMONIA not ammonia... "Yeah mom... that"

**Wednesday after school, Isabel inquires "so mom, is Tyler's anacoma any better today?"  WHAT??? haa haa haa... Isabel, do you mean PNEUMONIA?  "Yeah mom, that's what I said"

** Tyler asked me this week if we would be going to Colombia on thursday this week... ummm, no Ty we can't go on Thursday because we don't have that kind of money to go right now.  His response to me is "But mom, I have like a hundred twenty fifteen dollars in my piggy bank... I can pay for the tickets!!!"   I love my boy!!!!

That's all I got right now... its been a slow and very sick week here in the Castano home!

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Wordless Wednesday- 80's throw back

Link up here if you playing along this week....

For all of us that remember Run DMC!!!! Meet the newest member!

All that I can say is.... "WALK THIS WAY!!!  Talk this waaayyy..."

Happy Wednesday!

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Update.... sick, sick, sick

Ok... so my sick child with pneumonia and an ear infection is up and playing Wii fit!!!  I think he's feeling better!!!

At least he's not moping and whimpering like he was the rest of the week!!!!  I'll take it.

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Sick, sick, sick

I finally have a moment to sit and type up this little post to update you all, (all two of you!) on our actions of the last few weeks.  I've wanted to post since last month, but life has not motivated me nor given me reason to!

So let's start with monday... I woke up to find Tyler burning up with a fever of 104.1!! What the...  granted he seemed sniffley on sunday and he spent about 90% of the day napping, which is not normal for him.  But it was freezing and snowy out, so I just figured he didn't feel good and since there was nothing else to do why not nap?! Right... WRONG!  My poor baby was burning up, coughing something awful and look like death warmed over!  So I got on the phone and got an appointment to bring him in to get checked.  Well, let me tell you, good thing I did... poor Tyler has an ear infection and the beginning of pneumonia in his left lung!  Where the hell did that come from! 


Since his fever was so high, he had that rapid breathing that no mother likes to see... nor the doctor apparently, because Dr. Cruise decided that she wanted his pulse/ox taken to see what his oxygen levels were.  Not good!  I was told that normal for a 5 year old is 95-100% saturation, Tyler was at 92%... low!  So she gave him a nebulizer treatment and afterwards his levels went up to 93%.  Still not good, but a little better.  So she wrote a prescription for ammoxicilan and told me to come back tomorrow for her to check his O2 levels again.


So on tuesday I hiked over to the clinic again, with Tyler and Sebastian, and again his O2 levels were at 92! Not good!!!  But he still had a fever of 102 and was coughing a lot!  So another nebulizer treatment, and his level was at 93 again... this time the doctor told me to give him an inhaler treatment 3 times a day to help his lungs open up and get the junk out. 

Off to bed with the sick boy, and lots of TLC... I prayed a little, because it just breaks my heart to see any of my babies sick and there is nothing I can do other than give medicine. My poor baby just lay in bed all day monday, all day tuesday.... Thankfully last night though, I heard him cough a lot less then he had the other two nights.


AND... lo and behold this morning, no fever, well 99.3, and a much healthier looking boy telling me "mami, I feel sooo much better today!"   Thank you Lord!!!  Tyler has been playing and moving around... no naps today! 

We went to the clinic for another check of his O2 today at 1pm.... his temp was still at 99.1 and his O2 level was up to 95%!!!! Yea team!  I was sooo happy, and the doctor also noted that he looked so much better!  So she told me to finish the antibiotic and give him the inhaler three times a day for the next two days, then after that only if he seemed tight in the chest.   She would follow up with him at his physical on the 28th!




So right now, Ty's in the living room watching Sponge Bob... woo freaking hoo!!!  but he's not lethargic and he is actually up and about, requesting food... I love it when my baby feels better!


So taking care of my sick boy and running around to the doctor's has taken up the last three days of my life.


and with that... I will leave you for now.  I need to get dinner started, I just realized its 5pm and I'm HUNGRY!!!!  I'm thinking maybe grilled chicken breasts with mashed cauliflower with cheese and garlic!  oooh.... I'm running to the kitchen right now!!!!


More soon, I promise!


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