Give A Kid A Vegan Sausage...

And you've got LOADS of entertainment! Since we are still dealing with a sick Mason here there isn't much to report on our lives... I mean, aside from Mason's fever finally passing.... so I decided it was a good time to report on the most underappreciated toy of all time: the vegan sausage! While we were in Houston on our big Rodeo trip we ate dinner with my parents. My dad has given up meat (among a very laundry list of items!) this year for Lent, so we had spaghetti with vegan sausage. I have to admit that, while it does NOT taste like meat, it was far better than I expected. It had a pleasant texture and flavor. I quite enjoyed it. Mason enjoyed it more. Not to eat.. no... he'd rather use them like nunchucks! He had a verrrry good time swinging them around like mad. So now you all know what to do when you're at the end of your ropes with your kids...give 'em a vegan sausage!

The Neb: A MicoPreemie Mom's Best Friend

Since starting school Mason's spent ALOT of time like this... It's frustrating, but hasn't been overly problematic until now. Last weekend I decided to take a sort of impromptu trip to Houston. My very pregnant best friend, Tam, and I were talking and we decided it would be fun to take Mason to the fair at the Rodeo to get his first Rodeo experience. Well, with the time change and drive it was a looong day. We didn't get to the Rodeo until pretty late - and the lines made for a less than ideal situation. But - we did manage to have some fun. Toward the end of our Rodeo experience Mason was pretty cranky. It seems that he had chosen this weekend to decide he was completely OVER going potty in his pants... he had a fit b/c he couldn't get to a little potty! I thought alot of his crankiness was related to the long day and maybe the smoke from the concession stands. When we got to my parents house I gave Mason a breathing treatment b/c he had started coughing quite a bit. He went to bed VERY late for him and we slept together that night so I know he didn't sleep well. He would cough and move all night- then he got up at 5:30. The next morning we did more treatments and the long & short of it was that he got so sick and was coughing so hard that he threw up... and threw up until he was dry heaving. NO FUN. Thank GOODNESS I didn't let Joseph talk me into detailing my car before I left! We drove back that night - a full day early - and it was the drive from hell... complete with Houston rush hr traffic and about an hr of construction traffic in the middle of nowhere. Just what you need when you are exhausted & have a very sick child with breathing difficulties in your backseat! Today we called the pulmonologist to see if we could get in, but no... it's Spring Break. They are booked solid. The soonest we could get in was Thurs morning.... what to do? 5 breathing treatments.... 3 pulmicort/xopenex and 2 mucamist/xopenex. Of course! That's pretty much ALWAYS what I'm told to do when Mason's really sick. So that's what we're doing... he's running a fever as well.. so it seems this is likely something viral... probably another thing Mason picked up at school. It's a good thing he's also picking up vocabulary, pronounciation and his colors!

Rainy Day Blues

Rainy Day Blues
Originally uploaded by kellyaespinoza

I know.... I know that the rain is a good thing. It's just that we've had SO many rainy days... back to back this year! We had a GLORIOUS weekend here in Dallas and then come Monday......... rain. Again! (And what's worse, COLD ... AGAIN!) I understand that we are supposed to have some beautiful weather mid-week, but for now I'm contemplating relocated somewhere tropical!

BTW - yes, this is an ooooooooold picture (sometime mid-2008!), but it was cute and fitting, so I used it anyway. And really - what is a post without pictures?!

In other news... we have gotten a face-lift here... just in case you didn't notice! I'm not sure how often I'll be changing faces, but it may happen from time to time around here... especially if I'm feeling particularly festive!