I didn't take any pictures of
Jevin's little visit to the hospital, but I do have the story.
I always give the kids a bath before we go to bed. We had gone through the bath toy clean up and it was time to get out. Josie accepted it, but
Jevin was reluctant. He loves his bath or "Ba" as he calls it.
I took him out and wrapped him in his towel. Then i laid him on our bed. Where I needed to dry him off and put a diaper on him. He fought the diaper. He was doing those crocodile death spins. It took me almost 5 minutes to put the
freakin' diaper on. When I was done, I put my hands in the air and said, "Fine! Crawl around!" This usually goes on with no incident. Only this time he was so agitated and annoyed at me, that he crawled to the end of the bed and turned around. At that point he decided to sit up, only he was on the far end of the bed. It all happened in slow motion as he fell backwards on to the floor. The sound of his head making contact with the tile floor is going to haunt me for a while.
Needless to say, I ran to him and picked him up. He was SUPER calm. I laid him on the bed again. He didn't move. I grabbed the closest
onsie I could find and told Josie to stop putting her PJ's on but rather change back into her clothes.
Jevin was just so quiet.
I drove both the kids and me to the hospital. All I took was the bottle that he would have had after his bath.
I decided on the biggest hospital. We went to the
registration desk and i asked Josie to speak to the
receptionist in Chinese. I asked her to ask whether we should go up to the
OPD (out patient dept.) or the down to the Pediatric Emergency. The lady said to go up. The doctor they sent us to had the same first and last name as one that I had a bad experience with at another
hospital when Josie was a baby, so I was cursing my choice of hospitals. Thank goodness for small miracles, the middle character must have been different. It was not 'that' doctor. He looked at
Jevin and seemed to think he was okay... until he looked at the back of his head. There was a nice big goose egg! He was like, "X-ray, blah, blah, blah, blah... Pediatric Observation Unit (
POU), blah, blah, blah... 24 hours observation, blah, blah, blah..."
Now at this point it hit me that I ONLY had a bottle. No diapers, no wipes (and someone was farting!), no shoes (for the one who wanted to walk), no change of clothes... And Josie in tow.
So the nurse took me to the x-ray dept and pointed to the
POU so I thought that I knew what to do. Usually I can catch a few Chinese words and figure it out, but perhaps she was using different words or perhaps I was just too flustered to comprehend anything,
cuz I screwed up. My instinct said to wait after the x-ray to see if it was okay or if we needed to do it again. But this lady outside basically pushed me into the
POU. So I handed the rest of the papers to the nurse there. Then the doctor came in and asked if I had gone back to see the
OPD doctor. I was like, "Oh man..." So rather, he just looked at the x-ray and saved me the trip back up. Then they said I needed to buy an ice pack, oh but we needed to put an IV in
Jevin. I asked if we could go buy the ice pack first before any lines were attached...
Definitely made mobility easier.
Naturally,
Jevin thought the ice pack was a toy and would not allow it on his head. He really wanted to figure out how to open it...
And then the nurse came... and gave him an IV... and he ROARED... and little Josie, knowing that she was safe - LAUGHED! The nurse told her to tell
Jevin that it was okay and then Josie became the good sister again.
Then I set both of them up in the crib after
Jevin finally drank his milk. By this time it was 10:30. He had fallen at 7:30. Ugh.
Jason arrived with supplies and took our reluctant Josie home. Lord only knows why she would want to stay at the hospital.
So I tried to curl up on two chairs... VERY
uncomfortable. So I gave in to sleeping on the floor. Later when the nurse came in, I asked if the metal crib would support my weight. she said yes, so I crawled in with
Jevin. It is amazing how such a small baby can take up so much space. I moved him over as far as possible. His body was up against the rails, but his head swung back towards the other side. He is a
freakin' crib hog. Then the baby next to us was in a lot of pain. She kept crying. Poor baby. Poor mommy.
Jevin slept
through it all. And through all the lights going ON and OFF and the teenagers next to us giggling and text messaging... and through the nurses coming in to check on him. I
wasn't so fortunate. At 3 am, Mr
Jev decided it was time for a bottle. So I gave it to him...
Ohhh but the noises were so interesting and the lights were everywhere... So he decided to wake up. He was so noisy. Happy noisy.. until he realized I wasn't going to let him run around. Then he was angry noisy. The baby next to us had fallen asleep so I decided to take
Jevin out to the hall. We walked for a bit. All the chairs were being slept on so we sat by the elevator. This man got out and stopped and stared for like 5 minutes... I kid you not! I mean, its
uncomfortable to have someone stop and stare for 10 seconds and then walk away, but this guy just stood there ... staring... staring... staring.... UGH! (And you know how much I love to be a circus
attraction!)
So we walked
again... This time to the main area of the Pediatric ER. They had chairs but no one was sleeping on them. So I chose the farthest one away.
Jev allowed it for a few minutes. But then wanted to move again. At that time, I guess the doctor must have seen us walk by. He came out from the ER to the lobby. After some small chat, it was decided that in fact I could take
Jevin home. THANK GOD!
As soon as he was in his crib in our dark room, he fell asleep and slept really late too.
And that was our exciting night!
So our birthday dinner for Josie was delayed slightly by a traffic jam... Why was traffic so jam packed...? well, there had been an accident. The first car was flipped upside down... Note the driver by the side of the road...
The second car was cut in half... Again, note the person to the right.
The third car had its back window smashed out.
And the truck that caused all the problems went over the mountain...
Cheryl's Monster Bowling
Mommy and Daddy gave her a bike and helmet.
Swim Suits... Hannah Montana clothes... books... from grandma and grandpa
Books... shoes... undies... undershirts... from Mommy and Daddy
The whole stash before she got to it..... with the cards she opened on her real birthday from Auntie Tammi and Mama and Papa.
I loaded all the pictures and they came in backwards... so go to the bottom and work your way up.
And the cake....
And then we had a marshmallow game.
The kids went crazy over the candy....
We played bingo ... and then we pulled the strings on the Dora Pinata....
So it seems every kindergarten has a show here in Taiwan. Jevin got his as well. He was a bee as you can see... Complete with a stinger....
Oh, and we took him to the hair salon to spike up his hair.
My student came to class with these 3D glasses... But wait, they were not red and blue... They were black. I asked him why and he said it was for the sun. I had forgotten that we would have an eclipse. My students had told me months ago.
So I wrote something about it on my facebook status, and Jason saw and also remembered. He took his camera outside and put a filter on it and put his sunglasses on as well. These are all the pictures he took.
Very cool and very rare.
Even Josie got to see it. She said that her and her class got to look through black glasses at the sun. She said, "The sun ate the moon!" It was cute.
Jason suggested we go to the night market last Friday. It is the first time we have gone as a family. We thought the kids would like to go fishing, so we we got our rods with magnets on the end and fished for the fishies with screws in their heads.
So a day or two after the terrible day I described below, Josie was using the livingroom blanket to make her supergirl. She was whizzing around the room. I told her to stop, but she continued... As a modern mother, I use timeouts... OFTEN! So I gave her a time out. Well, she gets scared if I put her in a room by herself, so as a compassionate mother, I let her stay in the livingroom but closer to the door where the action isn't happening. But she will play... So as a bitchy mother, I will make her stand with her hands up for the duration of her time out.
So Jason was driving around Homei... when all of a sudden he saw this. A new baby store was being built and of course they will sell Kuku products. Well, on one wall outside, our 12 foot son is displayed. Wow... Talk about parental pride!
So we made it to Kending. We went for a walk and found a little shopping center. This was outside the center by an ice cream shop. We took the picture for the dairy lovers in Saskatchewan. You know who you are...
And we are suckers for the night markets. We just love them. Right near our hotel there was a lady who made name paintings. As she painted she would explain the image. So the top of the J is an eagle... The S is a bird... etc..
Josie loved the games. Above she was loading balls in the air gun thing and shooting cartoon characters off the shelf. And below Jason and Josie were hitting frogs into a pond. Josie just hit them on the floor. Jason came near the lily pads once or twice.
