Not Everyone's Mama

Oh my son waited and waited and waited for this.  He was so happy when I moved it up so that instead of being with Mikayla’s birthday party, we did it with Cambria’s birthday party.  You see, there are so many birthdays in our family in September, it was easier to combine them than have everyone get together another time for another event, plus, it gave the older kids something to do while we adults socialized.

Jordan has loved beyblades for many many years.  He’s 11 now, but he got his first few when he was 5.  He begged and begged and begged some more as I sat there asking, what in the world are beyblades?  I grabbed him some finally.  We brought them home and for the life of me, I could not get them put together.  Pato was at work and Jordan couldn’t/wouldn’t wait, so he took his little stash of beyblades down to our neighbor’s apartment.  His friends’ dad put his together in no time at all.

I actually think they are fun to play with.  Jordan and I have had many battles against each other.  As the other kids got older, they get involved and like to play too.  There is something about a spinning top that every child loves.  Have one made out of metal with a rip cord that makes it spin forever and they are in heaven.

So, on to the party!

The decorations….Cambria was turning one, hence the girly colors.  She’s not too concerned with Beyblades yet.

Some of the food – I love cheese dip.  Those are little smokies in bar-b-que sauce in the back.  I hate bar-b-que sauce, I didn’t partake.

On to the fun!  The party was supposed to be for 14 kids, and I am so glad that we just invited cousins to the party.  There was only 5 beyblades sent.  Usually when we have a party there is enough to go around to each kid, I would have hated to disappoint anyone.  There was also a set of cds that came with the party, but none of them worked, so above is what the kids actually got to play with.

After a bit of squabbling over who got to take a turn, they got down to business and had a blast with the beyblades.  Jordan was quite picky about which Beyblade would be his.  He wanted the one that defeat the most opponents.  And he did.  He beat all of us.  Even me.  And he’s so modest about it too. 

Jordan helping Carter put his Beyblade together. You know, I was worried that these would be too hard for my little 3 year old nephew, but after a couple of times watching me put the rip cord in and having him pull it, he was able to do the rip cord part by himself.  2 Days later he was putting the Beyblade into the launcher and inserting the rip cord.  Child rocks.  He’s a boy’s boy.  He loves anything for boys cars, trucks, and now beyblades.  He’s also a determined little guy, when he wants to figure something out, he does.

Carter and Taylor – Taylor is helping Carter here.  One would think I had more pictures, but the kids were running around so much that a lot of them came out blurry, and you know how much I hate pictures that don’t come out well.

Battling!

Solo blade

All in all, it was a blast.  We decided to split the beyblades up between Carter and Jordan, since they were the ones most interested in them.  Plus, they each got coupons to get some more.  They really aren’t that expensive $5-8/each.  With the coupon and a buy one get one sale that you can find sometimes, it works out well.  I think Shelley is going to grab some more for Carter for Christmas. I’ll probably get some more for Jordan for Christmas.

Thank you to House Party and Spinmaster for sending for us the box of Beyblades!

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I just got up and went into Jordan’s room to wake him up.  I just about froze like a popsicle.  He had (brilliantly) opened his window last night and it was –

I’m not liking Jeriann.  41 degrees in not fantastic weather, it’s a horrible prediction of things to come, you know, like winter.  At leat it warms up for the rest of the week.

I felt so bad for the budgies.  They are under Jordan’s loft bed and off to the side of his window.  I’m surprised I didn’t frozen birds this morning.   Their cover probably kept them warm enough, but he has been told not to open his window when it’s getting this cold at night.

It’s finally starting to warm up in here after I piled on a sweatshirt, sweatpants, socks, and slippers. 

On to Christiano being sick.  Last night his fever dropped out of nowhere.  LIke, one minute he was burning hot and the next his temp was normal and he was running around playing like he hadn’t just been sick since Wednesday night.  After his bath, Pato and I noticed that there was a rash of little red spots all over his tummy.  Turned him over, some on his back, a few on his legs, not much on his arms. 

I was sitting there thinking, he had his MMR….didn’t he?  Yeah, he had his MMR, it was at 12 months I think.  He had his chicken pox vaccine at 15 months.  What could this be?

Have you ever Googled measles?  OMG.  Nasty.  The images.  I just about lost my supper.  Then I Googled chicken pox.  I think people only put up absolutely extreme cases of things because I had the chicken pox, my brothers had the chicken pox, my sister had a nasty case of the chicken pox and none of us looked like those pictures.

I think he has roseola.

A child with roseola typically develops a mild upper respiratory illness, followed by a high fever (often over 103° F or 39.5° C) for up to a week. During this time, the child may appear fussy or irritable and may have a decreased appetite and swollen lymph nodes (glands) in the neck.

The high fever often ends abruptly, and at about the same time a pinkish-red flat or raised rash appears on the trunk and spreads over the body. The rash’s spots blanch (turn white) when you touch them, and individual spots may have a lighter "halo" around them. The rash usually spreads to the neck, face, arms, and legs.

That’s exactly what has happened.  Plus, Jordan had it as a baby, if I stretch really far back into the deep recesses of my mind, it looked like what Christiano has.  I remembered freaking out because of how high his temperature.  I took him to the doctor and was doubting him when he said, he has roseola, watch for this, this, and this.  I was amazed that everything happened exactly how he said it would, when he said it would.

I’m calling the doctor right now, but I’m pretty sure he’s going to tell me to just watch him if it’s roseola.

There’s nothing you can do for it and the fever is the part that is dangerous.  It can cause febrile seizures.

We’re past that part now, thank goodness!

Here’s hoping Alyce doesn’t come down with it.  It’s a childhood illness, I think Kat and Jordan are probably past catching it, but who knows about Alyce.  I guess I’ll ask when they call me back.

I’m going to take the kids to school so Kat isn’t standing at the bus stop with wet hair.

Have a great day!

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