work

Work is good. My manager is pleased with me, she is also the one who hired me. My sales goal for the month of Sept was non-existant, because newbies don't have a goal their first month on the floor. The next 3 months are steps up to the expected sales goals. Well, I managed to hit the goal of a full time employee as though I had been there 4 months (the top tier). I have been told that I have to stay in my department for 12 months before I can put in for another department. I would really like to get into mortgage or business banking and work my way up to being an underwriter or a personal banker. I have also been told that if my sales are good that I may can change departments faster..... GOd has really shown favor in my life and at work . My desk at work is literally sourrounded by Christians. I mostly talk to Reubin and Chris. Reubin is an older man and with it has some good wisdom. Chris was one of my ojt coaches and is a youth pastor at his church. His wife had to have an emergency c-section a couple of weeks ago, they had to put her under b/c the epidural didn't work and she was shaking from the pain, please keep her in your prayers.

Corban 7 months

- has 2 bottom teeth
- is dealing with his double ear infection
- has decided that sleeping at night is over rated.... even more than before
- has been saying mama for a couple of weeks eventhough Eric won't admit it.
- decided this weekend he could say dada too
- when he wants someone to hold him he doesn't reach for them he leans head first towards the person
- loves to bounce.... on anything, even if it is not supposed to bounce
- loves to sit up- if an object is out of reach he doesn't crawl to it he just leans over and falls on his head in that direction
- in the past he has managed to army crawl but no real crawls yet
- he can get up on hands and knees but it stops there
- his favorite toy is the tv remote
- he is not a fan of socks or shoes..... they end up in his mouth
- EVERYTHING ends up in his mouth
- he is starting to try and pull up.... mostly with 2 fist fulls of my hair.....

The dreaded phone call

So Corban has been running a temp this past weekend. We gave him tyolenol and motrin and they both did the trick. While Corban's first tooth didn't bother him much this second one, we thought, was giving him fits. Well he went to daycare yesterday and Eric and I went to work. After lunch Eric went to the Calera Chamber gold tournament to help out. Around 4:20 he gets a phone call from Corban's daycare. Corban has a temp of 104. something and is lethargic. THey stripped him down and put wet cool towels on him. Eric was there within 5 minutes and was on hold with the ped. office as he arrived. Eric quickly gave Corban some tyolnol and headed north. The ped office said that he could either go to after hours or they could see him in the morning. Eric was on his way to Children's after hours. In the mean time I walk out of my building at work and check my voice mail. Its Eric and Che says Corban's temp is 104 and they are on their way to Children's. I am off to Children's as fast as I can go.... When they were taken back Corban's temp had dropped to 102.5. I arrived and the staff was super nice, they sent me back to Corban's room. The doc was also super nice. She initially though it would be a virus since his temp was so high, but after looking in his ears determined it was a double ear infection. ... which was triggered by the cold he had almost a month ago....

Oh how I LOVE the fact that

my almost 7 month old can pull his diaper off..... yay.

Quick updates...

After Corban's surgery he is a different kid... not even half the spit up.
His hind quarters are healing nicely.
He will be 7 months old on the 20th... too fast!!
He can sit up by himself.
He likes to "talk"
He has discovered how to "bounce" in his bouncy thingie
He is on stage 2 foods.
Still no visible teeth, I can feel one on top though... leave it to my kid to do everything backwards.
He likes his teacher at daycare.
He got his 1st cold the week before last.... so sad!!!!
Corban's 6 month pics are on Eric's blog and our facebooks, no need to post 2x.
I managed to find a paci clip that doesn't use velcro so maybe he will not rip it off.
Corban's cousin Connor should be here Nov. 14th ish.
Corban has another cousin on the way, Eric's sister, its a girl, due to arrive in late Jan.
I like my new job, now that we are done with the "classroom" training and are on the phones the day flies by....... I talk to some very, stupid, um, interesting people.
Eric is still busy with the chamber and city council...... that he is still not "officially" on.
The chamber is gearing up for the Christmas parade....
Eric is also doing Relay for Life for the 3rd year running.
I am helping my dad coach some volleyball, when I can...
And that is what is going on in our world... oh, I need to remember to order ornaments form Cristal, I know if I put that on here I will read it later and remember to do it.....

Corban's Surgery

We started our day at 3:45am. We arrived at Children's Hospital a little after 5am, where the wait began.

After checking in and taking his vitals we were sent back to Corban's room to do more waiting. The rooms were small but nice. It was good to not just be out in one big waiting room with everyone. The had a refreshment area with sodas and coffee for the families. Corban was sleepy and starving... since I woke him up at 1:45 to feed him since he could not have milk after 2am this morning.

We had to put him in a little hospital gown, and that is when reality hit me. Some stranger was going to take my baby away from me and put him to sleep. Don't get me wrong, all of the staff and the surgon were great. I just didn't want to give my baby up!!!!

He really was a trooper. I know he was starving because they did not come to take him back till a few minutes after 8. He was a little fussy but considering the circumstances he really did great, even the surgeon commented on how surpised he was at Corban's behavior.

The long and the short of it- Corban had an afistula, in english there was an opening in the skin in his rectum area. Well when poop passes through there some would sit in the opening. All poop contains e. coli. The opening became infected with e.coli and it attempted to find a way out by forming a trail from the opening that was infected to the skin's surface thus we have a boil. The surgeon took a laser and "burned" all of the effected tissue in his bum and put a couple of stitches to help keep it closed, although we can not see the stitches. It looks like a little burned line on his bum. We are just happy that it is GONE!!!!!

Poor Baby

We will be at children's at 5:30 for Corban's operation in the morning.... keep us in your prayers. We spent all afternoon at Children's doing his pre admission stuff, details to follow later.