Saturday, March 22, 2008

Titanium Skittle

As Aiden was finishing some work on the computer, I, Phil, was in the kitchen getting something to eat. Aiden stood happily on the computer chair for some time pounding on the keyboard and otherwise "hacking", as we call it. He seemed to be wrapping it up, so I came back and helped him down off the chair. As he was running around the living room, I sat down at the computer. Well, I had 3 little batteries sitting out next to my cd's. You know, the type of batteries about the size of an M&M that you use to power laser lights and things? As I was saying, there were 3 of them...now there were 2. We looked all around and couldn't find it and I thought Aiden may have possibly swallowed it.
As it obviously turned out, he DID in fact ingest the battery and if I hadn't detected the alkaline on his breath, our little charger may have had a corrosion problem. Yeah, it's father's intuition(and foolishness for leaving batteries that size lying around).
So, we took him and got an X-ray done and this is what we found. I asked for a copy of the film and they let us have it.
Regardless, it was a fun way to spend a Saturday night and I liked the family time. I can't wait to have another kid!

Friday, March 21, 2008

Baby Flu

A couple of weeks ago, Courtney and Aiden went on a ski trip with her parents and brother and brother's girlfriend. On the last day, right before coming home, Aiden came down with some sort of flu bug. He was throwing up and it was not fun. The next day, he seemed fine. Courtney took him to her mom's house to take some pictures of the family before her brother, Spencer, and Jen left town. Jen was clicking away on the camera and happend to somehow catch Aiden in a picture as he was throwing up...it was so disguisting. It is the miracle picture because I have no idea how that could happen. He is feeling better now, but we will always have a reminder that he was sick on this ski trip!