Last week

I'm not even sure how to begin to tell you of all the things we did this weekend.  Ryan had Friday, our ice day, off from work but I'd hardly say he didn't "work!"  I suppose I'll start from the very beginning (a very good place to start!).

Last Monday, January 31, was Luke's doctor appointment with our pediatric GI.  We'd been waiting about two months for this appointment, no joke.  We went in and I described my poor Luke's symptoms of chronic constipation, experiencing no relief from Miralax, and more icky details I won't pollute your mind with.  He decided to take an x-ray of his midsection, which Luke did not enjoy.  I was getting Luke dressed in our little room when I heard a gasp from the next room, and the doctor came to get me.  He showed me the xray, pointed out Luke's bones and then he said, "See all that gauzy looking stuff all over the place?"  "Yeah?" "That's all poop!"  Luke's colon was so swollen and full of, ahem, the gross stuff, the doctor said he hadn't seen anything quite like that before.  To make a long story short, Luke needed a drastic colon cleanse.  Two enemas and a 7-dose Miralax-Gatorade cocktail later, he's now pooping on a daily basis again, now to the opposite extreme.   We have to keep things running smoothly for a few months to allow his colon time to shrink back down to normal size, then maybe we can start talking about potty training!  I am so thankful I took him... Hearing him cry every time he made a dirty diaper and at every diaper change was so difficult for both him and me.  I only wish I'd taken him to the minor ER instead of waiting so long for this doctor appointment.  (Note to self: Always trust Mommy instinct.)

So my week started of filled with many, many, MANY dirty diapers.  He's probably lost five pounds!  The rest of the week went by relatively uneventful as we got excited for the pending "snow day" that didn't happen.  The good thing about an ice day was Ryan still stayed home from work, and he and I got an itch and got busy in the house.  We rearranged our bedroom, put together and organized new-to-us bookshelves upstairs in the game room (purchased from a friend!), cleaned out our closet, and still managed to maintain the household.

The upstairs looks great, I am so happy to finally have a place for all of our school and office stuff!  I wanted to paint very badly but Ryan, still traumatized from the yellow bathroom, vetoed that project.  Another day!  We've also fired out Ryan's old college computer for the kids, we hope to use it for some of Beth's learning programs, movies, and music.  First I think we need to clear it all off and upgrade from Windows XP!  My ideas for the future of this room include a sofa or two, floor cushions, a couple of projects to decorate the walls, and a long wooden table for our work.  I want it to be a dual-purpose, very cozy space that invites the children to learn on one side and read and play on the other side.

While the change in our bedroom hasn't been that drastic, I do like the furniture layout a lot better now.  I have room for a (future) pretty chair and lamp in front of the window, and we moved the desk out and upstairs so there's no media in the room.  We also still need to paint this room but again... Another day!  Sometime in the next couple of months I hope to go out and buy some nice pretty touches like candles, curtains, and art.  We will probably wait to put our pictures back up on the wall until I get around to that.

The closet clean out was nice too because we were able to find things we'd been looking for since before the move... Like my Sansa mp3 player!  We have old CDs coming out of our ears (anyone need any bad 90's country CDs?), sooo many pictures (is there any reason to keep a million negatives?) and textbooks.  Yes, college textbooks.  Why we have these, I don't know, but someone please tell my husband that he will never need these books again?