Life is never dull at the McKenzie home. We fought w/ the squirrel some more last night, put some “food” up there where he was chewing in hopes he’d go away for good. but the darn thing we just as persistent today. before fixing the roof the other day the contractor went into our attic and made sure there were no animals. We’ve never heard any animals and he said he saw none so he fixed the holes and that was that. This evening I heard what i thought was a baby bird, but after I realized the squirrel wasnt going away even when I tried to make it and the noises from the baby were louder, I began to worry there was a baby in our attic, baby squirrel that is. So when Dean got home I made him listen and he went up and couldnt see the baby either but definitely could hear it up there. So he went out and tore up our new gutters and such to get out the squirrel. In his attempt to not touch the squirrel in case the mom would know he did and not want it, he somehow was scooping the baby into a box while on the ladder on the roof, and the squirrel fell. for a while it appeared dead, but shortly after we heard it moving and it was making noises again. So it’s alive but it might be hurt pretty badly from the fall. I feel horrible about it all, and I’m sure dean does too. we would have tried to get the baby out had we heard it before. I’ve never heard it until today. He was pretty big considering it was a baby. so I’m not sure why we never heard it before today. So we left the baby in a box under the tree in our yard, hoping it and the mom are gone for good from our yard. Hoping the mom wont want to hurt us after it realizes we hurt the baby, more than anything hoping the mom isnt sick from the rat poison we left out on the gutter. ugh….at least now we know why it was so persistent in trying to get back in. poor thing!

aside from that last night was horrible. Caleb got up shortly after we put him to bed compaining his mouth hurt. we thought he had bitten the inside of his mouth since he grinds his teeth so much. but he kept screaming how bad the pain was, yet refused tylenol. so we told him there was nothing we could do but give him medicine or take him to the hospital. he eventually fell asleep but woke up throughout the night in severe pain. this morning he didnt want to go to school but after realizing he really just didnt want to go to school all day we werent sure if their was any real pain or if he was just trying to avoid school. I had mentioned yesterday that today was to be his first full day of school, that he’d go all day. he took that to mean he’d go until the time Dean got home from work, which is all day to him. I told him no, just as long as he went to school for preschool last year, that he’d be home a few hours before Dean. he finally decided he was ok to go to school today and Dean told the teacher we werent sure if it was real or a ploy to get out of school. but she called during the day and said he would calm down if given attention and a drink so she wasnt sure if it was real pain or not either and left it up to us if we’d get him early from school or not. I was working today and since I only do so once a week I made Dean call to make an appt for him to see the dr after school so I could finish working , run to get Caleb then take him to the dr. it was a fun afternoon. Caleb said his ear did hurt at school, but that at lunch time he felt like he was going to throw up then after that felt better. Then on the way to the dr he said theres something in my ear, yucky stuff. sure enough it was draining pus, his ear drum had ruptured, which is truly painful. poor kid was in miserable pain all night and wouldnt take tylenol, so I am sure he was hurting! so now he’s got medicine and should be much better by tomorrow. but after it started draining he was already feeling better, at least not screaming in pain! so it was a rough night, and a very very busy day. tomorrow will be busy preparing for our trip to Ohio. I’m worried about leaving the house unattended since there’s flood warnings for the next few days and the history of our basement flooding. Granted it hasnt in quite a while, but so soon after doing repairs any water down there would ruin so much hard work we’ve put in to make things nicer around here. thinking we’ll have the neighbor come check the basement for us while we are gone, but dont know what it will matter if we wont be here to clean it up!

I’m exhausted beyond belief. We’re planning on heading back on tuesday, I have my u/s on Wednesday to find out why I have been in so much pain and having so many problems since having Zeke. Thursday afternoon I have an appt w/ my primary care dr to discuss some things too. So next week should be fun too. At least I can look forward to a few days of hanging out w/ the hubby instead of working on the house or taking care of the kids all day while he works. well I gotta go clean up and start packing.

may or may not update again before our trip, depends on how the day goes tomorrow.