Car Accident... not mine!

Donald sent me this link in an email, I was laughing so hard & I just had to share.

This guy was calling his buddy when he witnessed an accident in front of him & started giving a play by play. Hilarious!

Click on the link below. Enjoy

http://www.chumfm.com/MorningShow/FunFiles/FunFilesDetails.asp?ArticleID=72

When it gets quiet...

So I was working on some apartment stuff & I noticed that it was quite. I looked up & didn't see anything awry so I kept answering emails. After another few minutes I decided to get up to see what Payton had been up to. Above it what I found on the couch. And below she had pulled out all of the diaper wipes.

When I asked her what happened to all the babies she picked up one of her babies & showed me.

Yes was very proud of what she had done. I was just glad it didn't involve crayons or tissues!

She is feeling much better now. The sores in her mouth were gone on Tuesday just in time to play with her cousins before the went home. Last night was the first night that she slept thru the night... can you say Hallelujah! All toghether now! She woke up in a great mood & ate a full breakfast. What more could a mother ask for!

Payton's room

So for several weeks I have been wanting to hang some things up in her room & just haven't made the time to do it. So I finally decided to just get it done. Last week I hung up the Princess canvases & the flower (which are actually place mats that I got for .99c each & tacked them to the wall with removable tape). I love how it turned out!The only thing left to do was hang the curtains I got several months ago (are you noticing a theme here?)
So instead of having fleece blankets up she now has black out curtains & shear pink curtains. I love it!
I also have these glittery Butterflies & Dragonflies that I got at Micheals several years ago & now they have a use.
Payton loves her room & I'm glad it is not decorated where it looks like a little girls room instead of a hodge podge of things thrown together.

I love it when a plan comes together...

About 2 months ago, when I was last at IKEA, I got these mirrors. You've probably seen them before, they're cheap & popular. I hadn't decided what I wanted to do with them until last week. While in Utah I got the plaque below at the Quilted Bear & decided I wanted it on the wall in my living room. But having it on the wall by itself looked a little naked until I remembered the mirrors. So I stained them using the darkest stain I could find. It took 2 heavy coats & wha-la!

Yes some of them are crooked. I will be putting tape or something similar behind the crooked ones after I do a coat of spray on polyurethane. Yes I do love it when a plan comes together & the vision in my head matches the result!

Tangent... During this post I was remembering back to that show the A Team! I loved that show. I'm sure if I were to watch it now it would be pretty terrible so I'm not sure I would even watch it if it were on. I wouldn't want to taint my memory of it. With cigar in mouth... "I love it when a plan comes together."

Getting Comfi

Payton has been mostly happy during the day & miserable at night. She still has sores in her mouth & every now and then runs a little bit of a fever. I'm ready for her to start feeling better. In order for her not to be contagous she has to not have a fever for 24 hours & the sores in her mouth need to be gone. Fever... we're almost there & the sores... I'm praying that she doesn't have to suffer much longer.

Our Olympian

Representing the USA, Payton Hicks! This '16' year old hails from Pasadena CA & weighs 30 lbs, dripping wet (including a soaked diaper) & is not missing any of her teeth (baby teeth). She will be representing the USA on the Floor Exercise. We have a lot of hope that this young athlete will win your hearts as she has ours.



She has since figured out how to go straight over the top but I haven't gotten a video yet. She's feeling a little bit better today but is still running a little bit of a fever. Yeah we might already be over this.

Coxsackie Virus

Coxsackie Virus is what Payton has right now. It explains the high fever (which last night got up to 103.5) & if it's not gone by Saturday then we are to go back to the Pediatricians office. Oh joy!

I didn't ask if it was contagious & from the moment I realized it I have been having a kind of sore throat... If I could worry myself into catching something I think that I would have a full blown Coxsackie outbreak myself. I found an article that confirmed that it is highly contagious, Yippee!!

Payton only has had the high fever & is only sleepy now because of the Tylenol/Motrin regiment that we have her on. She's had no more nausea since yesterday morning. You wouldn't know she was sick by watching her play but the moment you touch her you can feel that she's warm.

So we are coming up to the 3rd day of fever, with only yesterday being a really high fever.... So if I don't get it then we should be past this by the end of the week.