The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The Good:

(Completely unrelated photo)

These guys successfully stayed with a babysitter Saturday night. We haven't tried to leave them with anyone in months since they were AWFUL in nursery and Isaac had serious trauma the last time we left him. This time I talked about us leaving them all day. When the babysitter came, I just said we were leaving and said "bye, bye." And it worked!! Our babysitter said he didn't even cry. Why didn't we try this earlier?!?!

And we tried it the next day in nursery. We walked in with them and I put Isaac down. He immediately started to say, "Mama, up, mama, up!" I just knelt down and said, "Mommy and Daddy go bye bye. You play and we'll come back." One of the nursery workers showed him a toy and he was off. He didn't cry at all. Everyone was SHOCKED! One worker asked us if we gave him Nyquil. Who knows... but some kind of light bulb went off in his head and all I can say is, it's about time!!

The Bad:

Sadly, they did not do very good during the first hour of Church. I had to give a talk, so I left before Shawn and the boys so I made sure I was on time. I saved them a row behind some YW who wanted to help if Shawn needed it. Oh boy, did he need help. As soon as he got there they refused to go into the row. Austin literally was trying to crawl out of the row. And then Isaac noticed where I was and started screaming, "Mama, up!" And so it began. Shawn went in and out of Sacrament Meeting trying to keep Isaac from screaming for me. He did quiet down a few times. The nursery leader gave him some crazy toy that would light up. But, by the time I got up to speak he really lost it. Shawn had to walk out with them again and half the congregation was laughing. I actually said, "Sorry Isaac," from the pulpit. Thankfully a very nice couple walked out after Shawn and basically took the boys from him so he could come back in and hear me talk. Miraculously the boys stopped crying when the couple let them write on the chalkboard. So as usual, we continue to be a source of entertainment for our ward.

(Don't they look smart?)

The Ugly:

Sorry babe.... but this one's for you. Saturday night, we left the boys with the aforementioned babysitter. We went to dinner at an Indian restaurant with some friends, one of whom happens to be Indian. Before we even arrived, he had ordered for everyone. He forgot that Shawn was allergic to nuts. We reminded him as soon as we arrived and he pointed out which dishes had nuts. But in the family style setting of the restaurant Shawn accidentally had a few bites of a cashew dish. He knew quickly that something wasn't right, but he just felt sick to his stomach (his standard allergic reaction). As we were driving home things started to get worse. He could barely drive. When we got home I took the babysitter home. By the time I got back he looked BAD, really bad. He was experiencing a lot of swelling and severe chest, stomach and back pain. Needless to say, we had my aunt and grandma come over and we headed to the ER.

After some epinephrine, Benadryl, Pepcid AC, and Prednisone...

He started to look a little better. I was a little too preoccupied to take a picture until his facial swelling had gone down quite a bit. But just imagine that the bridge of his nose is essentially gone from swelling and his eyes are a lot more cat-like. It was freaky.
So we stayed in the ER until about 4am. It was a GREAT Saturday night. Let's just say that our bishopric is really lucky I still spoke the next morning...