We have had a good, but busy weekend. Friday we got home late what with Braeden's eye doctor appt. Saturday we had a birthday party for Braeden's bio brother who was turning six. It was about 40 min north of us at one of those newer bounce house places. It had about 6 huge bounce activities and a party room where we had pizza and cake. It was a bit crazy, but fun. My friend is in the process of adopting him and their 4 year old sister.

At home, we also spent some time outside since it was finally nice out again.

Today we went to church, then to my friend's foster daughter's four year old birthday party at a pizza buffet in town. We then went home for naps and back to church for my child dedication class. Braeden is going to be dedicated next Sunday. I'm so excited about it. I wish family lived closer so they could come, but it will still be a very special day. Olivia will be dedicated following her adoption as well.

After the class we came home for dinner and then had some more outside play time. It's fun to see them relearning how to play with some of the toys. Braeden was still pretty young for a lot of them last year. They get something out, play with it for about 3 min, then go on to something else. They are too excited to be out again after such a long indoor season! :)

Well, Braeden's new glasses will be in in 5-7 business days!!!

At his appointment today he did a GREAT job! We went in and he was first tested by an assistant. She then dilated his eyes, which he handled just fine (when Olivia had it done not long ago she screamed bloody murder after the first eye and I didn't think we'd ever get the second one done!). After they left us for a while so the dilation could take over, the doctor came in to test him again with other testing. He put a picture up on the wall and asked Braeden what it was. Braeden was answering things like "the cow jumped over the moon." (He really did say that for the first one!) I told him he needed to stop fooling around and that they were giving him a coupon for a free ice cream cone if he did a good job. The doctor then put on the "glasses" that he changes to see what people's prescriptions are, and Braeden knew right away what the pictures were. OK, mom's an idiot. He was saying anything because he couldn't see the pictures! I felt so bad. He continued and did great though and the doctor then went over the results.

He says some fairly major vision problems. :( BUT, we caught it now and before school, reading, etc. We then went to select frames and didn't really have much of a choice. The person helping selected about 10 frames that are very kid friendly/proof and would look good with the type of lenses he needs. Only one fit. The rest were too wide, or came out too far. So, next Friday or the following Monday, we'll be back to pick up his new glasses. He needs to wear them all the time.

The frames are great, she showed me how they bend all the way back so they can take some rough handling. I found them online and here is the link to see what they look like:
http://www.bestbuyeyeglasses.com/avatar-elements/266246.html
I think they'll be great. I'll post a picture when we have them! :) Of course, ended up that they wouldn't take his medicaid, even with the referral, because it was a routine exam??? So, another $360 on my charge card!

At least we have a Six Flags charge. We'll be going to Great America free this summer!!! And, they have Wiggles World there as of this summer - Braeden will be in heaven! And he'll be able to see it!!! :)

Braeden's new birth certificate came today! How strange and exhilarating to see my own name on his birth certificate. Wow! The weird thing, because nothing right now can be perfect of course, is that such an important document and they put my old address, where we were definately not living when the adoption went through, and they spelled the name of our city wrong. They spelled it right at the top for birth city. Go figure!

Call at 3pm from brand new day care: Little One was just dropped off from his visit with mom. Caseworker says he is sick, dehydrated, won't drink, etc. He has a temp of 101.5. You need to come get him.

Message on my voice mail on the way to get Little One after telling my school I need a sub for tomorrow: (From cw) Yea, um, Little One is sick. Mom was very concerned at visit and told me his eyes rolled back in his head. She said he is dehydrated and she is VERY concerned. Said some other things too. Just thought I'd let you know. You can take it from here.

Once home, yes he does have a slight fever, but he is otherwise fine. Dehydrated my butt. He is laughing and playing and ate all of his dinner. Once meds for fever kicked in he has been in high gear on top of it. I left cw a long message about how he is NOT dehydrated, he must have just started not feeling well during visit, and how I'm sure his "eyes" were because he was trying not to fall asleep what with not feeling well and the fact that he is now missing his one and only nap for these visits. At his "old" day care, she made sure he took a 1-2 hour nap in the morning on Wednesdays because of visits. They don't have that luxury at this type of day care. He is up when the other kids are up. He was TIRED. That was the biggest problem. Not to mention, where were you when this supposed eye thing even happened??? These are supervised visits! Where were you!?

My problem: another day off work and another huge chunk of my paycheck not making it into the bank. I may as well just get nothing for my next check. This has GOT to end!!!