"Pump You Up"

My close friend Suzy did a post all about Chad. You can all check it out here. And of course....if anyone is interested, you're all welcome to come!! I'll post all about it afterwards....

WOO HOO!!!!

I went to pick Canyon up from the after school program today, and he was DYING to show me something he had in his backpack. It was a letter from
his school stating that he was chosen as....

(cheesy image I know....it's all I could find though....)

He gets to go eat lunch with the principal at the new Chuck E Cheese this week, and he couldn't be more excited!!!

He's such an awesome kid!!! I just had to post about this proud mom moment!!!

Congratulations Canyon!!!!

"Car Crashes"

I've been wanting to take my boys to a Demolition Derby for a few years now. So we finally got tickets this year to go to the one at the Weber County Fair. Ryker was SO excited to go see the "car crashes". I don't really think it was Chad's favorite event, but the boys and I had fun. It makes me laugh to think that people actually put money into these cars that they know they're going to destroy. I guess to them that wasted money is worth the adrenaline rush.

One heck of a week for Ryker!!

So a week or so ago Ryker got several mosquito bites. I didn't think much of it. One of the ones on his leg started to get a kind of scab on it. No big deal I thought. Well....it didn't get better. I finally took him to the doctor last Wednesday, and he said it looks like shingles, but he couldn't have had shingles without getting chicken pox first. This thing on Ryker's leg doesn't hurt or itch him, it just looks scary to me. So the doctor thinks that it was a mosquito bite that he scratched and somehow got a staff infection in. So we get a prescription for an antibiotic, and he also has my rub this steroid lotion on it to help clear it up. By Friday night, it's not looking better at all. In fact it was "blinking" from red to yellow every time his heart beat. Kinda freaked me out, so back to the doctors we went. That last verdict we got was that he has "vaccine induced shingles" from his chicken pox vaccine. Crazy I know, but I have heard that when you get your chicken pox vaccine, it can sometimes cause you to get chicken pox, so the whole vaccine induced theory makes sense. And since it's not actually caused by the virus that's why it's not itching or hurting him. Since we've stopped giving him the antibiotic and the steroid, the swelling has gone down a lot, but it's still really scabby. Hopefully it will get better soon. I took a video of the "blinking" but you can't see it very well. It was seriously the weirdest thing I had ever seen!!!

So Saturday we venture to Burley to visit family and have a great time. Of course Ryker isn't so lucky. He gets a mosquito bite on his fore heard that made his whole head and eyes swell. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the swelling and it's gone down now, so just picture him with an inflated nose, and gigantic bump on his forehead.

The next event was probably the worst. Canyon and Ryker were horsing around, and I'm not really sure what really happened, but in the end, Ryker ended up falling and hitting his head on our dresser, and cutting his head open. He's not got 4 staples in the back of his head.

THESE PICS MAY MAKE SOME PEOPLE SICK!!!!
Here he is all wrapped up like a burrito, so he can't move his arms.
The wonderful wound.
He didn't cry once during the whole thing. I was so proud of him.


So now onto a good note. Ryker started preshool today. He was such a good boy and had a great time!! I'm excited for him to be going, and I can't wait to see all the fun stuff he'll be doing!!

I arrived a few minutes early to pick him up and caught a few pics of him playing outside!!