our weekend

This past weekend was quite crazy to say the least. On Friday Kaden had a sleep over birthday party to go to, we dropped him off but had to pick him up early because we had an early morning. 5:45 Saturday morning the alarm goes off and we start our day. Let me back up just a little, 4 months ago Tanner and Kaden signed up to be part of the ECU (East Carolina University) child metabolism study. This entails the boys doing treadmill tests, and diet logs. The first week it started they had to get their blood drawn and microdyalisis done. (this is getting 3 shots in their belly's just under the skin. Then tubes were placed in the holes and hooked up to other tubes to collect samples of something I'm not sure what. They have these belts that have 3 pumps and tubes all over them that they have to wear for 24 hours.) Then for 9 hours they do different tests. Go on the treadmill and spit into tubes. And pretty much just hang out and play games with all the college students that are part of the study. They have a really good time after all the torture is done. Anyway back to the present. Saturday they had to finish up the study and go through all that process again. Tanner did really well. He got all the tubes in and his blood drawn, and a finger prick. Then it was Kaden's turn. He was very nervous which is understandable. He got 2 tubes in and quit. No blood, no last tube, no finger prick. The people were very nice about it and told him it was ok don't worry about it. (We will just through away all the results we got from you the past 4 months.) I was kind of upset, because Kaden never finishes things when they get to hard, I was bribing him and threatening him. But no use. I left after about 2 hours of talking to him, hoping that they could talk him into it. Kali and I got to hang out for the day we were going to do a photo shoot in her new dress that she got but I had to finish a poster I was working on for our next ward activity. Time flies when you are having fun, and before I knew it, it was time to pick up the boys. When we got there I asked if Kaden had gone through with it, nope he didn't. They are always starving after this because they are only able to eat 2 lunchables all day. So we stopped by Burger King on the way home. We just hung out, the kids just layed around, they can't do much with all the tubes on. I finished my poster. Kevin got home and we had dinner, then watch a movie and had rootbeer floats. yummy. Everyone was falling asleep because of our busy day so I told every on to go to bed. I went down to get my PJ's on and Kali started screaming, not unusually, I took my time going up to see what the problem was. She had been brushing her teeth and had tooth paste all over her mouth and was curled up in a ball on a bench that she stands on to brush her teeth. We were all asking what was wrong she was crying and screaming we could not understand her. I was getting mad telling her to settle down so we could understand her. Finally we understood that her stomach was hurting her. I carried her downstairs and set her on my bed and called Kevin in to help. She said it feels like something was cutting her inside. Kevin was asking her if this hurt or if that hurt. I had to go let the neighbors dog out that I watch. So Kevin told me to go do that and we would see if Kali had settled down by then. I ran let the dog out and came back. She was still freaking out. She said mom I'm scared, that's when I realized that something bad might be happening. We asked her if she needed to go to the hospital she said yes. By this time it was 10:15 Kevin was just going to take her because Tanner was already in bed and almost asleep. But she needed me and Kevin wanted to be their so we all got in the car and drove to the hospital. On the way Kali said that her heart was going to fast, and that it was dying, she started shaking and gagging. I was so scared. We went to check in Kali was still freaking out, the lady at the desk taking her time with the lady in front of us. Finally our turn, she asked what the problem was by this time Kali was pretty much hyperventilating. If you ever want to get seen quick in the ER you have to tell them that you are having trouble breathing and they will take you right back. Not in this case. Kevin told the lady that she was having trouble breathing (stretching the truth a little) and there is a burning pain in her lower right abdomen. He though it could possibly be her appendix. She said her is your number take a seat and they will see you shortly. The ER was crowed. Kali had settled down a little by now, we sat and we sat for what seemed like forever it was probably 40 minutes. And then our number was called. We went back and gave some info to someone at a computer and he said go over to the other side and wait until you get called to registration. Now it is almost 12:00 a.m. the boys are crying because they are tired. We decided to take them home, Kali wanted me to stay so Kevin took them home. We waited and waited. We were called to registration and were told to wait some more. Kali had settled down now but just wanted to sit on my lap and sleep I told her to fall asleep and I would wake her when the doctor called us back. She fell asleep right away. At 1:15 I gave up, I figured she was doing ok, no fever, the first guy we had seen was not to worried. She was able to fall asleep. There were people still waiting that were here before us. I called Kevin to pick us up. I was nervous to leave especially after all the pain she was in. So slept by her in her bed the rest of the night. She did great and slept the whole time. The next morning at 7:00 we had to wake up and take the boys back up to ECU to get their tubes out and give them all the spit samples. Kevin had asked them when we started the whole thing if we could get our blood drawn (there were checking cholesterol) me and Kevin had been fasting and got our blood drawn. The boys were not doing this for free, they each got $150.00. I don't know if they thought it was worth it. When we got there we were hoping that Kaden would finish what he had started and get his blood drawn, he said NO, and the people were nice about it and said it was fine. When we got in the car we told Kaden that he either had to go back in and tell them that he did not deserve the money or get his blood drawn. He decided to get his blood drawn so we went back in and he did it no problem. Funny kid. I'm just glad that it is all over, and Guitar Hero is in it's way. (that is what they spent some of their money on.) Now about Kali's saga, she woke up and I asked her if her stomach still hurt her she said kind of. But through out the morning she kept whining that it still hurt. I called our pediatrician and took her in just to make sure everything was alright. She checked out fine, all we can think of is that it was maybe gas bubbles, who knows. We spent the rest of the day playing, went for a bike ride, and went to see The Spiderwick Chronicles. It was pretty good for a kids show. I kept falling asleep, I was so tired from the night before.