Prom & Mother's Day

A boy in our ward has met my sister a couple times when she was out here, so he flew her out for his senior prom. So on Friday after her track race she jumped on a red-eye flight and flew here. He picked her up, they went to breakfast and then she came back here to sleep a bit and then get ready. Phil and Noelle also came up since Michelle was here, so we had a party. Brayden had his first soccer game that morning, so we were all there to cheer him on. Then Noelle and I went with Michelle to get her hair done and I got my hair cut while Michelle was styled (first good hair cut in a while!). We came back for pictures, the happy couple took off in their party bus and danced the night away. Or more like they laughed at how everyone else danced. A little (or a lot) too much grinding for their taste. While they were at prom, we had our own party and did parmesan cheese fondue, tempura and then we tried to do chocolate fondue, but we were so stinkin' full that we really couldn't eat any of it. We then all piled on Phil and Noelle's areobed to wait for Michelle and Sean to come back. I gave them a 2 am curfew. I'm not sure what Sean thought seeing four adults all asleep in a bed together, but we had fun with our slumber party. Then we had mother's day. It was pretty fun to have everyone here. Good food, good company. On Tuesday when everyone's gone I think I'm going to be pretty depressed.

Asthma Action Plan

Preventative: Pulmicort (inhaled steroid) 2 times a day through nebulizer
Rescue: Albuterol every four hours as needed
When to use Albuterol: bad cough, retractions, grunting, belly breathing
Call doctor if Albuterol doesn't help.

Caleb started wheezing about a year ago, and they told me that if he continued to wheeze when he got colds, it could be asthma. For whatever reason, I just knew Caleb would have asthma. Now it is officially diagnosed. He does pretty well with the nebulizer (what he's wearing in the picture) and he seems to be sleeping a lot better since we started his asthma medication. So with tubes in his ears and preventative asthma stuff, I'm hoping that we can take care of him at home for the most part and not need to go to the doctor so much. We have a follow up visit in six weeks or so where we'll see how he is doing on the pulmicort and then we'll ween him off and wait to see how he does. I believe this is so we can figure out what kind of triggers his asthma. I feel really good about what we're doing for Caleb and I've just been waiting for them to tell me he really did have asthma, so now we're going forward.