So, about 1/2 way into the day on Thursday we got a very scary call from Ribbit's daycare owner, a closer friend of mine saying that Ribbit was basically being unresponsive..couldn't catch her breath, wouldn't eat, wouldn't talk and had a rapid heartbeat. We went straight to the Peds ER and they took her back straight away. To make a long story short she had low oxygen levels, was very congested and has an ear infection. Her blood tests showed pneumonia, her chest x-rays did not. She is so chunky that it took them 5 times to stick her and find blood...which was just plain awesome. She wet herself, would make the heartrate machine go crazy..over 205 at some points and I had to restrain her the whole time..it was plain awful. They even gave her 3 breathing treatments, the same we gave her at home, back to back with steroids and only saw little improvement. Therefore, to add to our nightly routine we are now giving her a breathing treatment every 4 to 5 hours, steroids twice and antibiotics once. It was pretty scary and for those of you who know Ribbit, you know that no talking equals a very sick child.
Here are some pictures from the glass blowing field trip I took my advanced art students on last week .
Look at those sweet faces....I think they are just excited to be missing school :)
The furnaces and the laurie...or glory, does anyone remember?
One of my students picking out her colors and dipping the hot glass in.
Another sweet boy choosing colors.
My student, neighbor and babysitter :)
Headed down the street to visit the local blacksmith.
One of the neatest things ever...he talked about how he builds using God's perfect ratios...something we teach our students. He told them that God is perfect and that even the organic things in nature are based off this golden measurement. It's how Noah's ark was built as well!
Testing to see if they are proportionate.
He told us to stand in this spot and he would get our picture.
Then he told us to look up and see what we were standing under ..haha, apparently I was the only one who thought it was real. My students told me later that it was painted styrofoam.
The bellows he built himself.
Some of his work.
He and the glass blowing studio got together and made this beautiful piece.
Today was much better. A large church hosted an event for all families who had ever fostered children or who are currently foster parents. It was all free. They had valet parking and washed our car while we were there. They had hot dogs, chic fil a, cotton candy, sno cones, lemonade, water and tea. They had about 10 different bounce houses and about 10 other booths were the kids could play games for prizes. They also had a free hair cutting station, free manicure station and a masseuse for parents. We took advantage of almost everything and the kids walked away with face paintings, gobs of toys, full full bellies (goober had 3 sno cones) and Ribbit got her nails painted. It was a pretty nice day outside and little brother did great. We were there for over 3 hours so I am hoping this means long and deep sleep tonight :).
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