911... what is your emergency?

Yesterday Brody and kyle stayed home from school sick. Brody had been puking all night, and Kyle had been coughing all night! I made Brody a little bed on the couch, and Kyle lay in my bed watching cartoons. I kept checking on him, he was coughing a lot and had a low grade fever. He looked really tired. I decided to give him some delsym cough medicine, to help suppress his cough and let him get some sleep. I read the back of the box. The dosage was the same for children ages 6-12. I was getting ready to give kyle some tylonol too, but I held off because I didnt want to over medicate him. He is 7 but he is quite small for his age, so I felt that the delsym would be enough medicine for now. He quickly drifted into a deep relaxing sleep, and I checked on him a several times (smiling to myself that a good sleep would really make him feel better!!)

About 2 hours later, Kyle woke up and came through to the family room and sat on the couch by me, he was looking a lot more lively and was very chatty. I pulled him onto my knee as we talked about his school project he wanted to get done. He did not feel warm, and was happily chatting away when suddenly (and in mid-sentence) he started shaking uncontrollably. I started panicking, shaking and screaming I dialed 911, I stumbled out my address and was crying and screaming to send an ambulance! At this point Kyle had stopped shaking and was now completely stiff in my arms, his eyes were bulging and fixed upon the ceiling! I was terrified!! "hurry please I screamed to the operator!!" I could hear her talking to someone else saying "I dont know what she is saying!!" When I knew the ambulance was on its way, I hung up so I could call Mary (my sister-in-law who lives across the street from me)
She came over immediately and calmly took Kyle out of my arms, He was lying there staring at her, but vacant. Mary got very scared and started crying too. I called Mark and he raced home and got here just after the ambulance.
The police arrived first, closely followed by several firemen and paramedics, Kyle was crying now and just wanted me. I held him while they took his blood pressure, checked his sugar levels. Kyle would not let them put the oxygen mask on him, so I held it close to his face. I was happy to see him put up a fight, it calmed me a little somehow.
Since he seemed to be more responsive we decided to drive him ourselves to the hospital (5 mins away). I sat in the back with him. He was too weak to walk but would only let me carry him. He kept crying and telling me he was scared of getting shots!! He didnt have to get any shots (to his relief) but he did get a chest xray and they did a urine test. They found some infection in his chest that appears to have caused the fever. The fever spiked rapidly causing the seizure!!

Mark and his dad gave him a blessing (a special healing prayer) he was blessed that he would make a full recovery. The doctor sent us home with instruction to keep him drinking and stay on top of his temp, with Motrin and Tylenol. What a day!!!! When we got home, I would not let him out of my sight!! I had him sleep in my bed so I could keep an eye on him. We checked his temp every hour through the night and he was great!! Today he has been perfect! playing outside, drawing fab pictures, and eating really well!!! I am sooo grateful that he is feeling better!! I am grateful to have such supportive family and friends and neighbours. Most importantly I am grateful that we have our little kyle. I love you soo much sweetheart, that was the scariest moment of my life. I am glad you are feeling better xxx

more funnies...........

Me:~ What would you change, if you were king for the day?
Kyle:~ I would turn all the healthy restaurants in the world, into Mcdonalds and Krispy Kreme's!




Brody~ I know why Jesus gave us families.
Me~ Why?
Brody~ Because he is good!




Brody~ I know what Jesus' favourite State is.
Me~ What is it?
Brody~ It's america!


Me:~ Owen did you hit your sister?
Owen (offended by the accusation) "NOOO.......... I kicked her!"

Me: I can smell something??
owen: what? my poop?



I was changing owen's poopy nappy when he asked.. "my poo-poo blue? I replied...."no it's..er brown" to which he asked "Sam Brown?" no sweetie, your poo-poo is not your cousin! what a strange conversation that was.

Owen's response to being told to sit and have a "time-out"
"well..... I got BOOGERS!" owen grant (age 2)


I was really impressed today with Kyle who did his homework without being asked as soon as he got home from school. ME: Kyle you are getting so responsible and big, I think you are turning into a man. Do you have a beard yet (jokingly)
Kyle responds (seriously) "Yes actually my beard is starting to grow" as he rubs his (little dry patch) on his chin. hahahhaha ♥ I love my serious boy!!!

Me and Mark were discussing our bouncy castle business, and were disagreeing about something..... Mark~ " no Beth, you are a nice person, but you just don't know business ethnics"

hahhaha are you kidding me???



I love my family!!!!!

i have funny babies

"mum.. I got fingernails on my feet!" Owen age 2

I was singing to myself " I- I love you like a love song baby" Brody said~ "hey mum, you sing better than the real singer!!" ME~ (flattered) "Really???" Brody~"no, I just said that so you'd think I was being nice!!"

at the christmas party brody was sitting eating his food when he saw his cute little friend "sadie" he asked if he could go and say hi to her... as he approached her, a meatball rolled off of his shirt and on to the floor in front of his girl. Brody looked up and said... "that was awkward!"

Owen~ here your hiccup mum! (handing me my make-up)

Brody~ "there's a lady at our school with a crumpled face!
Me~ "That is not a nice thing to say, that would really hurt her feelings!!"
Brody~ "NOOOO mum, her cheeks are really crumpled!!"

funny boys

sometimes you just fall asleep (with one shoe on) in the middle of the kitchen floor surrounded by cheerios! Life is hard!!!

If the wind changes will my face really stay like this??

finally!!!!

before~



after~

merry christmas from the pugs

christmas priorities.......

It has been a stressful week, financially and emotionally. One of my best friends in the world is having a baby and I am throwing her a shower tomorrow night! I wanted everything to be perfect, Mark took 3 of the kids with him on errands, and (with Owen sleeping in his room) I could get a head start with cleaning and decorating for Christmas and Ruth's baby shower.

I actually got more accomplished in those 2 hours, than I had the entire week!! I was feeling very liberated and in-control, The house was looking pretty and the Christmas tree was neatly decorated. I was very pleased with myself.

Then Mark returned home with the kids, and quickly the boys headed into the front room. I was hoping they would be excited with the decorated tree, but instead they seemed disappointed that it had been done without them. In an attempt to compromise, I told them they could put a few (left over) ornaments on the tree. I walked away to check on dinner, at this time Owen had ripped a decorative paper off the shelf, and Kyle and Brody were "decorating the tree kid-style" Milo (the dog) was chewing up one of the ornaments, I began trying to "fix" the decorations on the tree, and I blurted out to Mark... "see I can't get anything done when they are here!!"
Immediately Kyle ran off to his room. I went in after him and asked him what was wrong. He told me I had hurt his feelings, My heart felt like it was going to brake, I didn't mean what I had said, and I had completely missed the point of Christmas. I was truly sorry to the point of tears, I asked kyle to forgive me. I learned an important lesson, the most important thing in my life are my precious children, that Heavenly Father trusted to me. Their little feelings matter!! All of a sudden, I didn't care about anything else, I didnt care if my house looked pretty, or if the dinner got burned, or if I was going to throw the most perfect baby shower, The only thing that I care about is that my children are happy, and feel loved and safe.

I went back into the front room and took off several decorations, and let the boys put them on however they would like! I am going to leave it just the way they did it as a reminder to myself to remember to keep my priorities straight.


I learned an important lesson today, taught by my sweet little boy.

my baby is SEVEN!!!

where has the time gone???


I cant even express in words how much I adore this little boy!! He is everything I could hope for!! smart, handsome, kind, good, clever, caring, adventurous, compassionate, polite, energetic, loyal, sporty, and everything in~between.

Here are some random snaps of my little Kyle.....


He writes me little love notes.... how sweet!!

















some of kyle's 7th birthday party, you might have to tip your head to the side! :)

my little pumpkins.......

We started the festivities at the school fall festival, we played games it was a lot of fun. Kyle asked to go round the stalls with his 2 little friends from his class, I let him go. I felt mixed emotions seeing him act soo grown up! I would keep a sneeky eye on him from a distance, but wanted him to feel the pride of his new-found independence.

The children had lots of fun this year at our ward trunk or treat! Then they also got to go to their cousin's ward trunk or treat! We kept recycling candy, but it seemed to keep multiplying. Finally we went to our friend sonja's house for a wonderful halloween party, it was perfect! We came home and went trick or treating our neighborhood. The kids had soo much fun!!!




If only I could turn american candy into british chocolate!!!