Sleep Apnea

I was reading a blip on one of my groups.  The woman was describing the little man to a T.  Like me she had tried lots of things.  And then she hit on sleep apnea.  Her son is a mouth breather.  So is the little man.  And that is a sign of sleep apnea.  Who knew?  I was always aware of the snoring and the stopping breathing.  She took her son in for a sleep study and he ended up having his tonsils and adenoids removed.  The behavior improved greatly. 
Dave suffered from sleep apnea all his life.  I can remember many many times where I would kick him to make him breath.  An anesthesiologist told me he could die in his sleep from sleep apnea.  Mom would tell the same stories about my dad.  And then my mom was diagnosed and got that wonderful cpap machine.  My brother was diagnosed after one Thanksgiving when he was getting really angry at me for moving him when he wasn't breathing while napping.  Mike had sleep apnea as a child and he had  his tonsils and adenoids removed and it stopped.   I have no idea if it returned as an adult or not.  My little man comes from a long line of sleep deprived people. 
The little man has the biggest tonsils I have ever seen.  I kept waiting for him to choke when he ate when he was little.  Now I am listening and I can hear him stop breathing.  I did a little research and decided the first step is to see his pediatrician. So we have an appt. next week to get that ball rolling. 
I don't expect this to fix everything but if it is contributing I want to do what I can to help. 

Trick or Treat

It wasn't even dark when the little woman finished getting ready and out the door she went.  Well that made the little man completely change his plans.  He did not want to wait and have his makeup put on to be a vampire.  So he was a skeleton and he chased out after her. 
My understanding is she did not let him go with her but he did follow her part of the time.  And part of the time he followed Nathan.  And part of the time he went by himself.  Came back after an hour and a half with a bag full of candy. 
At some point the little woman returned briefly home with Maggie in tow and then she went out with Maggie.  She was gone for over two hours and had a full bag of candy and hurt feet when she got back.  They had a good time.
I was left to man the door with the candy.  They had used our treat bowl for playing store and there was granola bars, panda cookies and mini nilla wafers in it as well as our candy.  I was hugely amused how all the non candy items completely disappeared before half an hour was up.  We were left with half a bowl of chocolate.  Going to have to pass some of that off to Mom. 

Quick

The dog needed her toenails clipped.  Really bad.  She didn't let me know in her usual way.  She happened to be laying on her back and I noticed her back nails.  So today was the first free morning sans kids and the vet was open. 
After the kids got on the bus I rounded up the dog.  We went to the vet and there were only two people waiting and they were checked in.  Someone helped me pretty quickly.  She asked if I wanted to pay first and I'm like ohhhh yeaaahhh.  Paying seems to be the thing that takes the longest at the vet.  I have never been offered that in all the times I have brought her in for nails.  So yes, I paid first. 
The tech came and got her and a few minutes later brought her back.  The dog almost pranced to the car.  Her back feet must have felt so much better and I was happy that we were in and out in like ten minutes. 
I'm sure it will never happen again, but I will take it for today.

Papa's Day

Dave's birthday is today.  He was born 62 years ago.  I would have made a cake, but we are still working on that lovely pumpkin cake that the little woman picked for her birthday.  

We talked about Papa and his age.  It was a day for remembering.  

So I see him every where.  There are a lot of men around here who have the same build, the same color of hair, the same beard.....Now granted he did not have the beard when he died, but he had it for several years before that.  It's always kind of weird to see these guys who look like him and remind me of him so much.  

Light and love Dave.  

Chuck E Cheese

And a grand time was had by all.  They all used up their play cards and it timed out just about right.  They ate pizza and cake.  The little woman opened her gifts and was ecstatic.  She got razor wheels from her brother, lost kitties and a cat hoodie from Daddy, money from Mommy, a fingerling, a jellie thing that is really cool and an assortment of girlie potions.  I gave her LPS and a pomsie.  She gets the rest of my gift when we do the family thing. 
I'm sure she would say the best part was the ticket blaster which is where you get in the tube and the tickets fly all over and you try to catch them.  Hard to catch and hold.  She ended up giving most of her tickets to her brother.  I'm not sure if it was just sharing or if he coerced her. 
She had three guests this year.  Only one didn't come of those invited.  So I call that a huge success.  I got to spend some time with Emily's grandmother.  She babysits Emily a lot so we had a lot to talk about. 
I can remember doing Chuck E Cheese back in the day and swearing to never do it again.  Well they have come a long ways since then.  I love the ease of a party there.  No work, no muss, no cleanup.  It was just lovely. 

Pumpkins

The little man carved his pumpkins today.  He made a plan while I scooped out the seeds for roasting later.  Then we had to go to the store to get new carvers/  The ones I used to have must have gotten tossed as they were probably pretty bent. 
Came back and he carved his two pumpkins.  One of like Hector from Coco and the other is just a mean pumpkin.  We will light them up tonight to see how they look. 
I was amazed at his skill and his initiative to do his work.  The little woman on the other hand did do a drawing but she did  not like how I transferred it to the pumpkin.  At that point she refused to carve.  Her pumpkin will sit on the counter till tomorrow and then if she still won't do it, I will.

Fun

The little woman was invited to a Halloween party at her friend Emily's house.  So after dropping Uncle Pat at the airport and making a quick stop at Scented Acres to grab a pumpkin, we dropped her off.  Then we had to quickly go home because the little man decided he knew best and that he did not need shoes at Scented Acres.  Well no, no he didn't.  But he did need clean socks for bowling and the socks he was wearing then had mud and some chicken poop on them. 
We left the pumpkins at home and we gave them a quick bath.  Grabbed new clean socks and headed to Tiger Bowl.  We bowled two games.  He loved it.  He started off using the aimer but decided he did not want to do that.  Maybe we should have used the bumpers, but we did not.  So we just rolled balls.  And had fun.  The score was important to him but not over the top so.  Bowling is not something he is just naturally good at. 
So the plan is to go bowling again before his birthday for some more practice.  He wants to have his birthday party at the bowling ally.  Good plan little man.
And today we had fun.  And the pumpkins got dry so maybe tomorrow we carve them and roast some seeds.