Am I really old enough for that....

I know that a lot of you were very worried about our Sally Dog. She is doing o.k. She has a little bit of a weight problem, nothing horrible if being 127 pounds is bad, but apparently it is really bad for a dog. She couldn't even jump into the back of the explorer yesterday when I took her to the vet and since I have no husband at the moment, I had to be the one to lift her into it! She also has hypothyroidism. Her thyroid isn't working as fast as it should so it makes her gain weight, lose her hair, get depressed and do absolutely nothing. So her regiment to get better is 1) no more table scraps for her and 2) she needs to start taking her medication everyday again. That one is hard since it seems that whenever I have to give anybody else medication besides Kayden I always mess it up. For some reason I NEVER mess up his meds but I seem to screw up everyone else's. Could it be that giving a 3 year old medication numerous times a day for the last 3 years is the reason why I don't mess up his meds. It is only when you throw an oddball one in that gets messed up.

As I mentioned before, Kayden has been sick. We are going on a week now with a stuffy nose, cough, fever (low grade) and the past 5 days a draining infected ear. The last few days we can add sleeping a lot in that equation. Well, I called our transplant clinic because he just seems to be taking forever to get over this and they told me that it is probably just him getting over his viral things and he should start to get better soon.

Now this is the advice that I hope nobody has to hear: Because Kayden is on an anti-rejection regimine for his transplant, it will take him longer than usual to get over things. This really sucks. Isn't it bad enough that I have to worry about him everytime he gets sick that this could be rejection or the EBV virus or the CMV virus. I am always worried and watching for rejection and making sure that I catch the signs of rejection which can also take on the signs of the common cold. Then when symptoms of the common cold should only last 7 days and Kayden's lasts longer because of his stupid medications, I start to worry prematurely and become the overbearing mother. You would think that I would start to ease up a little but I am afraid that the moment I ease up then that will be the time when I should have taken him in because something is going on with his kidney. So I hope that you never have to take advice about your child's anti-rejection meds.

On a different note. Lexi had a meeting tonight about baptism and what happens when we are baptized. I sat there in amazement thinking that my baby girl will be turning 8 this year and will be baptized a member of the church. How proud I am of this little girl. She is getting so big, so fast. I can't believe it! I can't believe that I am old enough to have a daughter getting baptized. She loves her little brothers so much and she is such a good girl. She did get a little sad tonight when they were telling the kids that they could have anybody they want baptize them as long as they held the proper authority and she turned to me and said "I know that my dad probably won't be able to baptize me." and she was crying telling me about it. I told her that he may still be able to we just have to wait and see what the Stake President says once he gets home. I know that Josh is hoping that he will be able to and has been told that it is a really good possibility that he may be able to. It made me sad to see her sad about her wanting her dad to baptize her and thinking that he won't be able to. She loves him so much and I hope that someday she will really understand how much he loves her too.