Fish with Trish

Check out Fish with Trish's Youtube video of the upcoming Discernment Conference at Sovreign Joy Community Church.

http://www.youtube.com/fishwithtrish

I Can't Believe It's Been This Long!

I can't believe it has been over 3 months since I updated this thing! Quinton is now 19 months old and a handful! He is really starting to test his boundaries to see what he can get away with. This includes, but is not limited to, hitting, biting, pinching, etc! He is learning new words and signs everyday and constantly amazes us with the new wods he says. Just today he told my mom, "Go George Bush" when she was asking me whether she should take I75 or the George Bush Tollway. The words came out very clearly!
Thursday we received a record breaking 12.5 inches of snow in DFW. We took Quinton out to play thinking he would love the stuff. Boy were we wrong! HE HATES THE SNOW! Any time Gabe or I would put him down to stand in it, he would scream and cry until we picked him up. We tried to get him to throw snowballs, but he wanted nothing to do with that either. I brought some snow into the house from off my car in a bowl thinking that maybe he was just overwhelmed by the amount of snow outside. Wrong again! He backed away from the bowl shaking his head and saying, "NO, NO, NO, NO!" I shouldn't be surprised. This is the same child who, when he plays outside, tries his hardest not to end up on the ground. If he does fall, he will sit there, holding his hands up, looking around trying to figure out how to get up without actually touching the grass.
Quinton loves to read and is always bringing books to Gabe or I and crawling in our laps for us to read to him. As an English teacher and avid reader myself, I am thrilled by this!! He loves to do "big boy" things and thinks he is much bigger/older than he really is.

The Love Dare

A friend of mine is giving away a copy of "The Love Dare," a very powerful and challenging book. Check out her blog Simply Mel (Melissa Woolbright Meitzner on my blog list) and register to win!

Back to the Doctor

Quinton went back to the doctor today thanks to running a fever last night and coughing/being stuffy all weekend. I gave him Benadryl last night and that seemed to help clear him up some so I gave him another dose this morning. The doctor's office said because of his age and the fact that he had flu 2 weeks ago they needed to see him. Thankfully his lungs were clear, his ears were clear, and they figure it is just allergies. Just to be safe they sent us to get an x-ray of his lungs. They wanted to be sure that there wasn't any pneumonia hiding out in his lungs. Quinton got to have his first x-ray and did excellently!! The x-ray technicians said he was the best 1 year old they had ever seen!! The doctor's office called us back at about 5 to give us the results of the x-ray: No pneumonia!! He gets to take Benadryl for another couple of days and then we can give him Zyrtec if we need to.

Halloween Happenings

Quinton dressed up as Mickey Mouse for Halloween and went to the Fall Festival at North Richland Hills Baptist and then Trunk or Treat at Spring Valley Baptist (Gabe's parents' church). He had a blast and we got some great pictures. I will post some soon.

Swine Flu Strikes Again

Quinton has learned how to share. Unfortunately he chose to share the swine flu with me (Michelle). I am off work until next Monday due to contracting the swine flu from my darling son. He will be taking his last dose of Tamiflu today, while I only began mine yesterday. One of the side effects is dizziness and boy am I feeling it! Everything feels like it is spinning ever so slightly. Gabe went and got a pneumonia shot today in an attempt to keep himself from getting pneumonia if he ends up with the flu Quinton and I have. He is prone to pneumonia, so we pray this helps and that he doesn't get the flu anyway!

Swine Flu in the House

Quinton has the flu. He was fine this morning: a little whiney and messing with his head like he had a headache, but fine. He was fine through lunch according to Gabe. He played with his toys and his grandpa Guess. When he got up from his afternoon nap, however, he was running a 102 degree fever! Gabe immediately called the doctor and got him in within about 15 minutes. I met them at the doctor's office as soon as I left school. We told the doctor his symptoms, and he decided to do a nasal swab to test for Type A. 10 minutes later the test came back positive and the doctor said that generally means H1N1 (swine) flu! The good news is that Quinton's ears were clear and his lungs were clear (no crackling or wheezing) which means no signs of pneumonia or other problems!! He gave us a prescription for Tamiflu which the wonderful pharmacists at Wal-Mart were able to compound for us. Gave him his first dose tonight along with some Motrin to help with the fever. He is sleeping away. I pray that God watches over him and heals him soon and keeps this from developing into something worse. I also pray that Gabe and I don't get it!