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Friday, April 24th

Wow... now what do we do? Josh and I both work and who ever watches the girls needs to be trained on how to give her shots, check her sugar, and count carbs. At this point Dad and Tonya are watching the girls for us and taking Ellee to Preschool for the few hours that she has class. Since we were really slow at work, my boss and I agreed that I could work half days for as long as I needed to. So, our schedule for the next month was for me to get up as early as I could in the mornings and go into work and work half a day, Josh would go to work in the afternoon.


HELP IS ON ITS WAY!!!
It was such a relief when we were able to set a date for Mom and Dad to go to Columbus to meet with Winnie to get their training done. I wasn't going to push it, but Tonya wanted to get trained because she still wanted to watch the girls. I'm not going push some one into doing this because as a parent it was hard enough for me to do it, but I'll take any help I can get!

Everyone meet at the house and we headed for Columbus. Not sure why we didn't take Aunt Susie up on the offer to watch Dani, but we didn't think it would be that bad and she might as well go with us. I think we were planning on going to the Zoo afterwards, but that didn't work out.

There is nothing funner than putting 7 adults and two little kids in a very small room with lots of needles! I'll get to the details in a second, but want to say that I acutally learned something about my little brother... and it's kind of disturbing!!! Here is how this played out:

We're sitting on one side of a table and Winnie is on the other side. She gets out the glucose meter and shows everyone the chip that you have to change with every new bottle of test strips. She then passes out alcohol pads to everyone and informs them that they'll be testing their own sugar. No big deal... right?!?! WRONG!!! Jason starts flipping out! Why??? Because he can't stand to be around needles!!! Hmmm... lets think about that. For anyone that doesn't know my brother, he's about 6'5" and 250 lbs, with 4 tattoos, volunteer fire fighter and his roommate is an EMT! I know that there are lots of people who are afraid of needles, but most of the don't have about 4 tattoos! We argued this fact with him and he still threw a big fit about it! Why did he even come in the first place? Okay, so he admitted that he was there for the lunch afterwards, but still, he knew that there would be needles in the same room! Dani was getting restless so I took her out to the waiting room to play with some toys. When we came back in, they were done testing sugar and some how managed to talk him into doing it.

Next came the shots. Everyone was to give themselves one. Again, shouldn't be a big deal, if your going to give shots to a little kid, you should know how it feels! Tonya and Dad do theirs, no big deal. Then it comes to Jason... will he do it?! NO. =( He again made a big deal about how he's not going to do it, and Josh is giving him the biggest ration of $hit you can imagine! If only I were at the other end of the table, it was the perfect opperturnity to give him a shot because he was going at it with Josh! When the laughter died down, Dad and Tonya said that they had the same thoughts but with as big as he was, they were afraid that he'd swing and do more damage than what it was worth!

For some reason, up to this point, Ellee will not let me give her a shot in the butt! We did it once in the hospital and she wouldn't let us use that spot again. When I use to get Depo shots, I preferred them there, mainly because I couldn't see the needle and it was over as soon as I felt it. So, while we were there, I told Ellee that she could give me a shot in the butt if she wanted to! Talk about estatic!!! Grandma helped her load the syringe up and Ellee gave me the shot! She was so proud of herself for doing that!