The Name Game

I saw this tag on someone else's blog but thought it was so fun.

1. Your Real Name
Deanna Louise Semendoff

2. Your Gangsta Name (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle)
Deaizzle or I would just say D'izzle

3. Your Detective Name (favorite color and animal)
Blue Monkey

4. Your Soap Opera Name (middle name & current street)
Louise Shawnee

5. Your Star Wars Name (first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letter of your first name, first 3 letters of mom's maiden name)
SemDeLev

6. Your Super Hero Name (2nd Favorite color and favorite drink)
Purple Pepper

7. Your Witness Protection Name (mother's middle name and father's middle name)
Levi Daniel (my mom doesn't have a real middle name, just her maiden)

8. Your Goth Name (black & the name of one of your pets)
Black Leo

I know, who has time on their hands to do silly things like this. I found a few minutes and did it. It made me laugh, so it was worth it. Now you go and do it!

My, Oh MyEYE

My poor kid doesn't have any luck when it comes to health. Of course I don't want to jinx us, he has a healthy heart, no major allergies, etc. But he seems to always have something going on. He had so many ear infections his first ear that when we switched insurance companies they won't cover any form of "otitis" for TWO years. He also had bronchitis (probably RSV) when he was 5 months old so we've had a nebulizer since then. At 16 months he broke the snow globe and had six stitches. Then we found the cyst in his eye and that eye surgery happened just before he turned two. And a variety of other small things that normal kids get. Well just this month he was having a hard time breathing and had this really nasty dry barking cough so we went through a couple days of breathing treatments at the beginning of last week.

Now to the present time. Keaton's eye was starting to get all goopey on Sunday afternoon. We put some AzaSite drops that were left over from his surgery, meant to prevent infection. Monday morning he woke up screaming at 5 am...his eye stuck closed with all the goop. So I called the doctor at 8:30 am. They had no openings until 7:15 at night! I thought about taking him to urgent care but didn't know how expensive that would be and no one answered at the insurance company. So I bought some homeopathic stuff from walgreens that seemed to work ok. This morning his eye was stuck again but cleaned off easily and didn't look so bad. Well when I picked him up from daycare, she had him in a separate room from the other kids watching a movie rather than playing with the kids. His eye was swollen and totally nasty drippy and stuff. So I took him to urgent care.

The verdict: conjunctivitis (pink eye), otitis (ear infection), and peri-orbital infection (something to do with his eyes being all puffy, maybe sinus) After two prescriptions (one that was 65 bucks and didn't have a generic) and a shake from Burger King we're relaxing watching Kung Fu Panda and I'm feeling bad I didn't pay more attention yesterday.

Ta Da...here he is...complete with dirty shirt and a booger nose!

Kicks for Kids

Yesterday Keaton started in a little soccer class for toddlers. I was so excited. Since I have to work it's hard to find activities to do with Keaton. There are lots of great things out there but they seem to be at 9:00 am during the week days. So when I found this little Saturday soccer class for 2-3 year olds I was super excited. The only catch...8 am on a Saturday. I had to drag him out of bed he spent 20 minutes fighting me to get dressed, kicking, putting his pajama shirt back on after I took it off. Running away from me naked when I changed his diaper etc. I forced him into his car seat and he cried half the way there. Luckily we came out of it and he had a good time. I took a few short video clips with my new Christmas camera.

The first one is Keatons first attempts at dribbling. Well his first few attempts failed because it takes a lot of control for a little boy to only do little kicks, he wanted to swing away! But here he is...he's about average for the class, they all mostly do it this way but it's the first day...maybe we'll be able to move a little faster by the end of the 6 week season.

This one is at the very end when they each got to kick a goal with the big soccer ball. He had done this a few times with a regular ball so I thought he'd do the happy goal dance on his own but he didn't, he needed help. Plus I pushed the wrong button on the camera so I missed the first kick that got the ball close to the goal, and just got the little kick at the end.