Eventful WEEK

We had a very eventful week after Christmas...

Sunday night we had a family dinner with John's extended family. His aunt's Lori and Vicki were in town with their families from Utah and his Aunt Karen and Uncle Wendall came to town from Vegas so that we could all be together. It was lots of fun. We have not all been together in a very long time.

Then on Monday night we went to Chuck E Cheese for family home evening. A few months back we had a problem with Charles peeing in the house. Yes you read that right. He would pee in the middle of the floor or outside. I was getting so frustrated nothing worked to get him to stop. Finally I decided to do positive reinforcement instead of taking things away for the bad behavior. So we made a Chuck E Cheese jar and every time he went potty in the toilet he got to put a marble in the jar, but if he peed any where other then the toilet he he had to take 5 out. It only took about a week or so for him to correct the behavior. And once he filled the jar we was able to go to Chuck E Cheese. It worked great!!!! He had a blast at Chuck E Cheese. We invited grandma and grandpa to come along. It was a nice evening out!

For the past week or two Madison has been very whiny and clinging and not sleeping very well at night. At first I figured to she was cutting teeth. Which is was. But she never got better. A few times this week she woke up with a high fever. So I would give her Tylenol or Motrin through out the day to help her feel better. She would start to act a little better but was not acting normal. Finally on new years eve I decided it was time to take her to urgent care. (On January 1st our insurance would be changing to Kaiser and I didn't have all the information yet, so I figured this was my last chance.) We picked John up from work and headed to Fullerton. Of course when we got there there was a long wait. But the kids did great waiting. We went to target to get a gift for our nephew and pick up some more Tylenol. Then when we went back to urgent care to wait some more Madison was doing SO GOOD!! She was acting like herself again. I questioned weather or not I should be there, but decided to at least let the doctor's tell me nothing was wrong. We finally got called in and the doctor ruled out all the normal issues, No ear infection, No strep throat. But possibly a urinary tract infection. Yikes! But how do we test for that? She says we need a urine sample. Urine sample from a 2 year old are you kidding!!! She said well if she's not potty trained then we can bag her. I was very puzzled by this suggestion. But said well let's just do it. So they but a bag over her private area that was to capture the urine. Then we just waited... and waited... I gave her as much water as she would drink... waited some more...then finally after 20 minutes she PEEd! I was very excited. The did some tests and concluded that she did in fact have a Urinary Tract infection. She gave me a prescription and sent us on our way. Being new years eve many pharmacies closed early. We found one close to home and made it in time to get our prescription filled with just minutes to spare before the closes. (And this was a 24 hour pharmacy, but since it was a holiday they were closing.) So we made it just in time to have our current insurance cover it. Within a few days Madison was back to her old self. Boy did I miss that little girl.
On Friday we decided to activate our Disneyland passes. (Not such a good idea with our little lady still not feeling well.) She was not a happy camper. She did NOT want to sit in a stroller and screamed when the ride ended. It was not such a happy time. But we were able to get on a few rides and then we finished the night with Jamba Juice and Wetzel's pretzels for dinner. (Charles NEW FAVORITE dinner!)
On December 30th we found out that the 2nd loan had approved the short sale and on the 31st we CLOSED ESCROW. HOORAH!!!
Now comes the huge task of preparing to clean, paint, move, and get all utilities activated!
But we are NOW HOMEOWNERS!!!!!