Tommy Turns Two!!

This was definitely a weekend to remember. My little boy turned two years old!!!! I can hardly believe it - it seems like yesterday that we were celebrating his first birthday, how could another whole year have flown by?
The celebration was fun - unfortunately, there were very few pictures and I didn't take any, I was just too busy with chatting. I think Kathleen got some photos so I'll post them when I get them. Attendees at Thomas second birthday: Da (Emmett's Dad), Kathleen, Emmett and I (of course), Thomas (duh), Tasha and Timmy, Doug, Michelle, Sasha, Sebastian, Henry, Zuz and Nico, Don, Michelle, Lauren, Paris, Oscar and Kris. It seemed like a good balance of kids and adults this time. Not so many children that it was out of control haha, but enough so that it seemed like a kids party. I don't know how to explain it better than that, other than to say that last year there were so many adults that it was more of an adult party than a kid's party and this year my goal was to make it more of a kid's event. I did feel bad about not inviting more of my South Bay family, but hopefully we'll be able to have a summer barbeque sometime soon and invite the whole gang. Alas, I digress...Tommy had a lot of fun at his party, he seemed to enjoy having the other kids around. He got so many presents it was ridiculous!!! We should have put most of them away and given him one per month until his next birthday! But all the kids were having so much fun playing with all of his toys, that it just got out of control and pretty soon all the toys were in play. I got him a bunch of teletubbies stuff: the rest of the videos, an Actimates Laa Laa doll, three other big teletubbies (t.t.) talking dolls, 4 small t.t.s that clip onto things, and some t.t. beach shoes that are really cute. He loved all of them (of course). He also seemed to really love the stuff he got from his Nana - a whole bunch of refrigerator magnets, one set of magnets with various fruits and vegetables and then another set with pictures of family members. She also got him his "pack-pack" which is what he calls his Scooby Doo backpack - he loves it and looks so cute wearing it all over the house! He just got so much stuff that it's impossible to list it all - and, amazingly enough, he genuinely seems to like it all - there really wasn't anything that he put aside. Oh, another one he loved was this alphabet book with magnets inside that illustrate every item, each item represents a letter, so there's a picture and magnet of and apple for "a" and so on. He loves it, going through the book and pulling all the magnets out and playing with them. He keeps pulling it off the shelf as fast as I can put the magnets back and put it back on the shelf. ahhh well, at least he's having fun with it.

He really had a great birthday and that made me so happy because it started out so rough. Friday night when I came home from work at 12:30am, I noticed that he was coughing in his sleep. The next day while we were running around getting everything ready for the party on Sunday, he was coughing a lot as well (Emmett was gone to San Diego for a wedding all day Friday and Saturday returning Sunday at noon for the party). When I went to get him ready for bed on Saturday night I noticed that he sounded like he was wheezing, that whistling every time he exhaled. Oh noooo....I didn't know what to do - I couldn't reach Emmett, I didn't want to end up in the ER all night and mess up his party if he was fine and I was just being paranoid, but I didn't want him to go into a full blown respiratory problem and die in his sleep because I was more worried about his birthday than his health, either. See the dilemma? In the end of course I decided to go to the ER, better safe than sorry and we went to UCSF so they rolled out the red carpet since I'm an employee and all :-). It turned out that his oxygen saturation was fine but he was definitely wheezing. He had a couple of shots of an inhalers and that didn't work so he had to have a breathing treatment and a dose of steroids. Finally the wheezing subsided a bit and they were able to send us home with medicine and inhalers for him to use at home over the next 48 hours to help him breathe. It was scary and made me sad because now with two asthma-like episodes, we will have to consider that he may have asthma. :-( But I can't complain - there are so many children that have so much worse problems than my little guy. He's doing great now and ended up having a fantastic birthday in spite of the setback.

All is well that ends well. :-)

Love,
Melissa