If you tweet or facebook, you probably know by now that this was not your run of the mill stomach bug.
After a night of watching Jack writhe around in pain, we ended up here.
Waiting for surgery.
(Seriously, why do we even have appendixes?)
Thankfully we caught it early and his appendix was able to be removed laparoscopically.
It was a crazy 30 hours.
By 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, I had met with the surgeon in our ER room. Jack was given an IV and some morphine for pain. Seeing a 5 year old on morphine was quite entertaining. Especially when I asked him how he felt, and he poked at his stomach then said, "Hey. I feel gooood."
At 9:00 they took him into surgery and he was in recovery around 11. (While they did want to get him into surgery pretty quickly, there happened to be a cancellation in the OR that day and he ended up being the first case of the day.)
He got up and walked for the first time just a little after dinner time.
And by Thursday morning he was ordering pancakes and bacon for breakfast!
We were discharged around 11:15 and he's now at home
already torturing playing with his little sister!
I guess that's a good sign. (Sorry for the poor quality photos...some of them were taken with my Blackberry.)
I try not to over-do candy at our house at Easter time since I end up eating it all in one sitting don't think kids need it. So we usually end up doing books and/or dvds in their Easter baskets.
Last year, the Easter Bunny brought Jack the Disney movie Bambi. This was despite the fact that Alex thinks Bambi is "liberal propaganda trying to teach children that animals are like people and hunting is bad." Blah blah blah. However, we're also not big movie people so we didn't actually watch it until one day that summer.
Jack and Alex were hanging out while the other two were napping and I suggested they put it in. I reminded Alex of the hunting scene and told him to prepare Jack for what happens. As it turned out, that part didn't phase him one bit.
Later that day, I asked him what his favorite part was.
"The part when the hunter comes and shoots that deer!" was his excited reply.
Yes, the murder of poor Bambi's mother hunting scene.
I don't think Alex has ever been so proud. (He's not actually hunting. This was his Halloween costume. And he told everyone he was a hunter because Bambi is his favorite movie.)
Our party theme was Breakfast at Tiffany's Melody's!
Unfortunately, my pictures aren't that great. It was a lot of work chasing around 7 three year olds while trying to socialize with the other moms attend to other party duties.
We had our cafe
And our Bloomingdales where the girls could dress up.
Here is our birthday cake cupcakes. I really wanted a cake shaped like a Tiffany's box, but Melody wanted cupcakes with hearts on them. I figured it was only fair to let her choose at least one party detail!
She's ready for the party to start!
Apparently her birthday dress wasn't fancy enough. Belle's dress was much more her style.
After all the girls dressed up, we went on a jewelry hunt. After all, what's an outfit without fabulous accessories!? The jewelry hunt was a lot of fun but you'll have to use your imagination since I neglected to take pictures of that activity.
After our jewelry hunt we had fun playing freeze dance. I don't have any pictures of that either. It's hard to take pictures and be a dancin' queen at the same time.
Then it was tea time. The girls were so cute at their tea party.
And then presents! Melody's friends were all so cute and sweet wanting to help her open their present. It was quit a scene to watch.
Finally it was time to sing to the birthday girl. She was wondering why we were singing when there were cupcakes to eat! Priorities, right?
Melody has a blast and after her last friend left, she promptly said she was ready to nap, grabbed as many of her presents as she could carry and hauled on up to bed. That's a sure sign of a rockin' party!
And a big thank you to my mom who helped. I couldn't have done it without her. She used her mad preschool skills to think of all the activities and party favors as well as did most of the work for the party. She got the tables set up while while we playing and then cleaned up as well. There's no way I could have done it without her. Thank you, Grammy!
