Happy Thaksgiving!

So as it turns out I don't really like to blog from my phone. Don't really know why--I do everything else from my phone.

I have had an insane week or two--I don't know how long its been. Isaac had a fun thanksgiving program and most got to see the video when we went back to minnesota. The trip was great. I haven't celebrated thanksgiving with anyone except Isaac and Zoey in the last eight years so it was a bit overwelming to have four celebrations. Very yummy:). Also while I was there I had my 15 year class reunion and that was fun.

However, while we were there Isaac got his usual MN cough. I thought nothing of it and figured it would be gone by now. I didn't give him any meds today and he didn't get sent to the nurse's office for a mint to calm his cough. Well I went to pick him up from Active Kids and he was crying and freaking out cuz he lost his voice. His breathing wasn't great, but I calmed him down and we went home. The doc's office was closed, but I got the ER to call her. We decided to start steroids in the morning for croup. Well he threw up and had another lack of breathing attack all while not being able to talk to us. So we went to the ER, had a breathing treatment and a few xrays. I find the whole "let's stay at the hospital" thing incredibly irritating. I suppose its not to be fun so you don't want to come back soon but come on. The ER wasn't bad but the nurses on the floor could really be more attentive. I know we are not the only ones here, but could they attempt to get things done when we get up here? They said they would bring in his meds and a popsicle (since he has had nothing to eat since lunch)right away before he is sleeping for the night. Two hours later (after 11pm she brings the meds and of course has to wake him)and doesn't bring him a thing to eat. What time does she think a sick 7 year old goes to sleep? She aslo told me she would bring a cot-I told her it would be fine when she suggested it but I really don't think its comming (got a pillow and blanket at 12:30). And since I'm venting--its freezing in here, cartoons weren't on while Ike was awake, the shows I wanted to watch were over after he fell asleep and I still get to clean up after him. I have to wonder if they would have even known he threw up if I hadn't said anything. Also if he is taped to a pulse ox-- is it really necessary to wake him every couple of hours to take it on the other hand? Really? However, as frustrated as I am, Ike is doing much better now than when we came in. He has croup and his airway is pretty swollen. We are going to swab him in the morning to make sure he doesn't also have strep.Hopefully he will have a good night and most of the inflammation in his throat will go down by the morning so he can go home. But probably a couple days off school. He has been great even though plenty freaked out. Don't think I'll sleep much and just watch reruns of the late shows.

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Isaac had conferences this week. I hate report cards because I think they mark him too low on things I KNOW he knows. But they do it because its early in the year. So I go all fired up just so they can tell me that he is right where he should be. He is in excelerated math, but wasn't able to get into the gate program this year because they cut the numbers of kids who could go. Only 4 from each classroom. His teacher encouraged the kids to attend conferences, but it really confused him. He was convinced that he needed to attend conferences and since they were on thursday and friday he wouldn't believe us that he had any days off from school. He was pretty concerned. The other night I heard him wish upon a star. When he was finished he told me he had made a wish and I asked if he could tell me what it was. He wished for a weiner dog that would go to school with him and the ability to jump as high as houses so that if anyone gets a ball stuck up there he could just jump up and get it. His face has healed up from his bike crash earlier this fall, but fell again at the Rec Center-- two days before christmas pictures! When Ike told the dentist that he falls a lot he really wasn't exagerating.

Zoey Lynn has been doing well also. The other day it started to snow and she says "Mom, its raining white gumballs!". Yesterday we were driving to Solem's and she noticed christmas angels in someone's yard. "Mom, I really saw angels!! They weren't invisible!". She was extremely impressed. Today we went to a princes birthday party and I have been surprized lately at how concerned she is about accessorizing. She does like to dress up and make sure she has her rockstar purple hair, tierras, rings, earings, bracelets, neclaces, shoes--the whole nine yards. She is unofficially done with speech which is great. She stills has to be reassesed in Jan, but no forseeable issues.

This is going to be a crazy week with something going on every night. The first graders have a thanksgiving program on mon, Zoey starts ice skating lessons this week, christmas program practice for church starts this week. While I don't have any set in stone holiday plans--I have a feeling that the next six weeks are going to fly by and 2010 will be here before I am ready!

After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. ~Emily Luchetti

So here is the pic of Isaac's cake I forgot to post earlier. He was pretty impressed.

Friday night we carved pumpkins.

These are all in backwards order. But this is Miss Candy dressed up for the Halloween party at Just 4 Kids reading them a story.

They played some musical chairs.

Played a little bean bag toss.

Earlier in the week we went to Fright Night at the Library. It was fun for the kids. Zoey dressed up as TinkerBell that night. For her school party she dressed up as Spiderman. But they had face painting that day so she was Spiderman with a clown face. They also got to paint pumpkins.

Later that same afternoon we stopped by Isaac's party. They had treats and read a pumpkin story.

The night of Halloween Zoey chose to dress up as a firefighter. Isaac LOVED being Anikin Skywalker! Looks like Dorothy and a pink kitty cat stopped by for some candy. Too bad Chris still had it in his truck while he was turkey hunting. We went to a party hosted by one of Isaac's friends. We went trick or treating just along Tonk which was more than enough to get the kids candy. Afterward we went to a friend's house for pizza and movies. The weather was nice, we didn't even have to wear winter gear!

Here's his antelope.

And Zoey with it too!






A lot of this and that going on. Work is busy, plus I just put in my first grant so I can run some more fitness programs. I don't yet know if I will actually get the money.

The other day Zoey was going on and on about moving back to MT. Isaac says "Just let her go Mom."

That same day I was dropping Isaac off at school and making sure he had all his winter gear. His hat was on his head but he couldn't find his mittens. I was slightly annoyed, but as he got out of the car I noticed his head was very oddly shaped--"Isaac what is in your hat?" He looked and was excited to find his mittens.

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I just didn't want anyone to miss Isaac's birthday pics. Of course I forgot to post the cake--it'll come. But its 2 posts down and I think it got booted out due to my long windedness.

My hand is fine. And Zoey's temp was so low today my thermometer kept beeping at me and wouldn't take her temp. She's doing great.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn

This is my random blog of the day. Not that I do that as often, but here it is.

So last night I was soundly sleeping, having a really wierd dream when all of a sudden I wake to pain in my hand that feels as though I have just drug it through shards of glass. I wake up rather loudly and turn on the light. I go through my pillows and blankets to see what was so stinkin sharp, but found nothing. I go to the bathroom to figure out what is going on with my hand and see nothing poking out of it or anything deep inside. I look for the antiseptic wash, but can't find it. As I have my hand in the air and am watching it swell up with pain, my fingers going numb--I notice it may be a bug bite. So I go back into the bedroom, turn on the light and ask a sleeping Chris if it looks like a bug bite. Sure he says. I kinda just keep staring at it, wondering why I can't find the wash that is supposed to take the pain away. I wonder if I should put some hydrocortizone on it and finally manage to make myself an ice pack. It hurt, but mostly I was freaked out cuz I had no idea what had just happened to my hand and I kept thinking it was a spider bite and my hand was going to fall off or I was going to die or something. Well Chris kicks me out of bed, cuz he is worried that bringing an ice pack to bed will at some point leak and be uncomfortable so I go lay on the couch, which is good anyhow, cuz I don't know what happend and REALLY don't want it to happen again. Shortly thereafter, Chris says" I think I know what bit you." I wanted to know, but was worried about the spider thing. It was a wasp. I don't know how we got a wasp in our room or why he was crawling around us, but he officially died and was tossed in the trash. I could finally lay in my bed without worry of death. It still hurt, but I could deal with a wasp sting later when I was ready to be up.

Zoey has decided what she wants to be when she grows up. Which is much more than I have done. She wants to be a doctor, a veternarian AND the most important a rockstar!! I told her she would be very busy. But she plans on living at home with me so who knows may be I'll still get to see her on holidays or something.

Isaac has been into starwars lately. He is going to be Anikin Skywalker for halloween and is starting to collect the characters so he can play starwars all the time. He also likes Bacugone ( I totally misspelled that also) but he loves those things. I can't really explain what they are, but I think they give you status at school.

Zoey has one up on me as she knows what she wants to be when she grows up. I am always frustrated and trying to balance things out. I don't know. I would just stay home with the kids, but they have school during the day and I can pay more bills if I work. This month has been all about the business. I put paypal on my website so customers can purchase packages and gift certificates from the web. I will be starting Free Consultation Friday in November. I got a beautiful sign put up at the golf course. Tomorrow I will have a booth at the Taste of Home show and Friday I have been invited to a health fair. In addition to all that I still want to do performance enhancement. I really like working with the kids and if I didn't have my own, this would really take over my life. Anyway, I am in the process of filling out a grant so the kids of Gillette can join my program for free. Its going to be such a great program, but I am trying to schedule after school programs around my own kids afterschool programs and that is interesting, but keeps things in perspective.

Well I gotta go--I have to make supper before I go give a massage. I did have to redue my schedule today as Zoey has a cough and yesterday she had a nasty fever. Isaac has gotten the cough, but no fever. Hopefully they both will stay fabulously healthy!!!

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~Liz Armbruster, on robertbrault.com

Isaac has had a fabulous month of birthdays. Grandpa Wayne came out for a hunting trip during the first week of October and brought with him presents from all the family. Thank you very much, Grandpa Wayne.

Isaac brought cupcakes that he decorated to school with him on the day of his birthday. He got to wear a birthday crown all day and he was delightfully happy. We rented the party room at Skateland this year. They provided the pizza, pop, plates, napkins, forks, cups ect. I figured that way I would less likely to forget stuff like last year. So I packed up candles, the camera, the video camera, the ice cream scoop and a knife to cut apart the cupcakes. I thought I was doing well. I remembered to buy the ice cream when I picked up the cake, but forgot to actually bring the ice cream with. Chris had to go out and save the day.

Everyone had fun skating. Well there were a couple of kids that didn't want to skate, but everyone had fun and no one broke there ankle or anything.

One thing I forgot to think about was the whole boy girl thing. I knew last year that the boys chased the girls and whatnot. But I forgot. And I didn't know that one of the girls we invited was Ryan's girlfriend last year and she definately still has a crush on him. Everyone seemed to get a chance to hold his hand.

I really can't believe that he is 7! It seems like yesterday that he totally surprized me with his early arrival. He has grown so much and is a fabulous person to have around. I am so proud of him!!! He likes to play soccer and has joined the Squad, which is a music group that sings and will put on performances during the school year. He is still doing very well in school and will be starting the Gate Program again this year.

Zoey's new phrase is "Did you not notice?" Not always sure why, but she says it all the time. She has been learning her letters and numbers and can't wait to learn how to read. I so wish I was a better teacher, but there are reasons why I don't home school.

Isaac's new phase is "Mom, you just don't understand." to which I reply, "Yes, I understand everything, just because I say no-- doesn't mean I don't know what you want."

I don't know that I have a minute to blog- won't know til I try. I'm waiting for a client. Things are always busy at the Soost house. We have been to the magic show, the pumpkin festival, a nature walk through the arboredum. Isaac had a friend over for a sllep over. Chris and Wayne went hunting for 9 days on the other side of the state in Pinedale. Unfortunately, they mostly just got snowed on.We also got snowed on for about 6 days in a row. We got a good 6 inches to start which shredded all of Gillette's trees. We still have not been able to clean up the town. I think it stopped snowing about Mon or Tues and today is warm and sun shiny with 60-70's in the forcast for the weekend. We might be able to have our deck party after all. Isaac went to a birthday party last weekend, we celebrated Sydney's birthday yesterday and Ike is having a rollerskating birthday party on friday. With a batman cupcake cake. And of course hunting on saturday. Isaac's reading is comming along well and getting 105% on his spelling tests. Zoey still thinks she should be able to do anything her big bro can and is very determined to read also. She does well with the letters and numbers at preschool, but I don't know if I have the patience to teach her how to read. I miss Montana's Montessori school so much. With them I could be such a lazy parent and no one wuld ever know--cuz they did such a good job. Enough about my Blah blah blah-- gotta go. Have a cheery day!!