Adventures in Dentist's

Can you all take yet another story from the diary of the Walker Family? I guess that really isn't a question since if you are reading this you must somewhat get a kick out of the adventure's we seem to have in our house. Anyhoooooowwwww...here goes the story of the Adventures at the Dentist....

Monday morning Aubrey wakes up saying my tooth hurts...me thinking she just doesn't want to go to school "Aubrey you are fine, now hurry up so you aren't late for school" she comes home from school and goes to play with a friend. Around lunch time I get a phone call that says Aubrey says her tooth is hurting can I give her some Motrin...I say sure hang up and pound my head against the wall for not listening to her, buck up and call the dentist. We were able to get her an appointment for 4:30...Mind you this is the first really BIG thing Aubrey has had in her life. Never had a shot (no I don't immunize her), never had to give blood nothing. So we get there and they do an X-Ray they see that her tooth is BAD I mean to the point the infection went down into her jaw!! Can I just tell you I feel like the worst Mom ever!!! Dr. Miller tells me there is a very slim possibility to save it, but the pain wouldn't be worth it since it is a baby tooth so we decide to pull it....

We get the happy gas on her and of course she gets all happy and giddy it was actually quite hilarious. At one point she became quite un-girly like and started tooting!! I said "Aubrey say excuse me your a girl" Aubrey's reply "NEVER giggle giggle giggle" this had us all laughing pretty good. They started the anesthesia and she was such a big girl no tears nothing...it was good...until Dr. Miller tested the tooth and it wasn't numb...UGH...so we had to move up to the "high pressure" numbing stuff...mind you I am getting really nervous now..and this time the shots hurt her she had alligator tears and everything....I am trying to hold back tears of my own and then....finally this stuff started working and we were able to get that puppy pulled out!!! WHEW is all I could say....

After we got home she was actually in pain poor baby and she didn't want Mommy how sad is that???? she wanted Daddy who was out tilling the garden...so I go outside and tell Jim Aubrey wants Daddy, so he comes inside dirty boots and all Aubrey says "Daddy I want you to hold me it hurts" For those of you that know us well know that Aubs and Jim don't always see um let's say eye to eye they actually butt heads quite a bit so I am really surprised by all of this...Jim proceeds to take off his boots and get Aub's comfy blanket and cuddles with her all night!! It was the cutest thing actually even if my feelers got hurt I am glad that Daddy and Aubs are getting closer.

Needless to say Aubrey is now a member of the. "I lost a tooth club" at school, she got a nice present from the tooth fairy can you imagine 5 bucks!!! tooth fairy must have deep pockets now days LOL! (or be a total sucker, i am going with that one) She was proud to go to school today and even pose for some pictures of the gap now in her mouth.

I guess for the first experience it went as good as it could have....unless it wouldn't have happend in the first place..but then again these are the days of our lives!!

Kitty Meow

Jim & I had to make a sad and heart wrenching decision regarding our Kitty better known as the fat cat that lives under our bed.....Kitty has been with me for 7 years now, honestly I don't even know how old she would be.......as I seem to have this weird ability to inherit animals from other people. I inherited Kitty from the owners of the house I rented next to the church. She has been a good cat, very quiet and shy she doesn't like crowds or kids probably why she decided to make under our bed home. She ruled the house though even though she was a hermit, the dogs knew not to mess with her unless they wanted a good butt whooping, Cloe (my friend Jen's cat who I am watching) wouldn't mess with her either. The kids knew that if she was on the bed they better not come close or they might loose a finger lol. However every night without avail she would come out from her "hiding spot" climb up on the bed and lie on Jim's chest and purrr....we both came to love this about her she would morph from being this grumpy fat cat to this loving cuddly kitty.

Kitty lived a good life full of love, joy, food and family. Her physical ailments were starting to get the best of her and we wanted her to go in dignity so we decided to put her to sleep. On Thursday morning the vet came to the house and gave her some sleepy medicine. Jim was able to hold her until she was calm then I took over. Kitty peacefully passed in my arms at 8:23 am. Jim had to go teach a CPR class so it was all on me at this point. The vet offered to take her, which we had decided we were going to do, however I couldn't bring myself to let her go when it was time. Instead I wrapped her in her favorite blanket that she would kneed and buried her in the yard. Kitty will forever have a place in our hearts and our home.

We will miss your fiestyness, spunkiness, purring and love in our lives. We love you Kitty!

Fall Break

We had the pleasure of having the Bascom family come visit us for fall break. It was so nice to see and visit with Jen & Mike and to see the kids, they are getting so big...it is crazy what you miss when you don't see your family as often as you used to. I guess I have learned to lavish every moment of being able to spend time with my niece's and nephew's since I don't get to do it very often. Austin, Cody & Mistee I LOVE you guys so much thank you for coming to visit us!!!!

The weather was very pleasant for the most part....We enjoyed the hot tub one night, watching Gary-Unmarried and having us all in stitches while poor Mistee puked, watching Aukmed the dead terrorist on comedy central, visiting newspaper rock, the dinosaur tracks, watching the kids both big and little (i.e. Jim) sliding down the red dirt slide trying every possible way to come down...YAY no injuries reported there!, taking the scenic route home, making carmel apples, visiting, good food, family what more could we ask for???

We had a great time hanging out with them and the kids sure enjoyed seeing and playing with their cousins! We hope the Bascom's enjoyed the visit as much as we did. Thanks for coming down, we know it is a long trip, sorry that Mistee got the stomach flu courtesy of us...and we are glad we got you addicted to a new show!! We love you lot's!!!

Connor's Hospital Visit

Thing's are never dull at the Walker house that is for sure! The stomach flu made a stop at our house of course getting all of the kids sick, however what it did to Connor was much worse than the rest. On Saturday night the 11th he was really sick after a night of no sleep and constant vomiting (i know i know to much information) I finally decided to take him to the ER at 4am. It was a very exhausting night for all of us....After some fluids, having to drink some nasty contrast that he didn't like to much and getting a CT scan we found out that he actually had an infection of the lymph nodes in his abdominal cavity...there is some fancy dancy medical term that goes along with it but I have no idea even how to say it let alone spell it...lol...Anyhow, Dr. Redd admitted Connor on Sunday and he stayed until Tuesday getting constant fluids and anti-nausea medicine. It finally calmed down and they let us break out of there on Tuesday not early enough for any of us! Connor was a trooper thru all of it...even after the lab tech poked and prodded him a gazillion times to get his blood, he cried for daddy to come poke him and once Jim stepped in the room the lab tech wouldn't touch Connor again she kept saying Jim you do it you do it...Well he got it and we were all good!! Some days that Paramedic license does come in handy!

An emergency room visit $100, A CT Scan w/contrast that tastes HORRIBLE when you are already sick to your stomach another $100 bucks.....The fact that my kids cry for their Daddy to be the one to draw their blood or start IV's PRICELESS!!

I think MasterCard has a new spokesperson!

I am a sLacKeR!

I know I know I am starting to slack again on keeping my blog updated...But hey at least it hasn't been a year...yet....It has been pretty hectic between football, soccer, cheerleading (which are now over YAYAYAYA!), dance, scouts, homework, baths, hospital visits (and it wasn't me this time), birthday parties, ok I could go on for hours but you get the drift...I will get you an update of the coming's and going's sometime this week.