July 18, 2011

• The Wedding of Mannah

  Zoe’s Daily Funny:
  Zoe loves mermaids. I remember being fascinated by them too at a young age. I mean people who are half fish living in the water? Totally interesting, hello? So recently I had just got done reading her a bedtime story and had just shut off the light. We kissed each other good night in the dark and I closed me eyes….for 10 seconds when I hear her talking to me in a soft voice…
  
  Zoe: What are you dreaming about?
  Me: Nothing. I’m not even asleep yet.
  Zoe: Mommy, what are you dreaming about?
  Me: I’m dreaming about going to sleep.
  Zoe: Are you dreaming about mermaids?
  Me: No.
  Zoe: Mommy, are you dreaming about mermaids?
  Me: Yes.
  Zoe: Me too.
  
  I love how she controls the conversation and also controls my responses.
  

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  { 07.02-05.11 } Mannah
  The weekend of July 4th we drove 10 hours to Perth, Ontario (with 2 kids it felt like 20). My sister flew in from Vietnam with her fiance, Matthew to get married in Canada. On our side it was just our immediate family plus 2 of my aunts. On Matthew’s it was his immediate family, his aunt, uncle, and some cousins, and a whole bunch of friends. It was a really cute and personal ceremony. Matthews family had rented this huge lodge-like compound for everyone to stay at.
  
  The day of the wedding fell on Sunday. The kids woke up, had breakfast and all went to play in the kiddie pool with water guns. There was a lot of laughing, and tattle telling, and fighting, and crying amongst them. Ellis was left out a lot because Zoe and Josie just wanted to play with the girls and Owen just kept bullying him but I also think it’s cause Ellis was annoying him as well. Hahaha…Poor Ellis. So he came in and we got him to color as he sat next to me. By early afternoon everyone started to get dressed for the wedding. They had the ceremony on the dock by the lake. The wedding march was played on kazoos by all the nieces and nephews (Zoe included) along with my youngest sister, her boyfriend, and Matthew’s younger brother and his wife. The bride and groom made the entrance to their ceremony on a canoe. It was really cute. I especially loved the wedding march. Zoe still sings the song now. Lucky me. The bride and groom looked awesome in the custom made (in Vietnam) attire. Nancy(youngest sister) had made Hannah her veil and my aunt had put together Hannah’s bouquet. Nancy even made the “Just Married” banner you see in the background of some of the photos out of newspapers. The ceremony was short and sweet. It rained for a bit at the beginning of the wedding but it was literally for about 10 minutes or so. After the ceremony we had hors d’ouves and drinks. Mannah gave their thank you shout-outs. There was a little pavlova (New Zealand dessert) cutting contest between the new Mr and Mrs. And the celebration went well into the night. My side of the family checked out early cause of the kids.
  
  

  On Monday Zoe refused to wake up. When I got her to talk she kept saying she was tired. She didn’t even want to play with her cousins! She loves her cousins. She couldn’t wait to see them and now she just didn’t have the energy to even play with them. I thought it was a little unusual but my mom and aunts were saying she was probably just exhausted from playing so much with her cousins all day the day before. So I let her sleep. By 11 I tried to wake her to see if she would eat. The way she talked was as if she was too tired to talk but she told me “eggs over easy and bread”. So I make it. I’m back in 15 minutes and she is out again. Like she fell back asleep standing up with her feet on the floor, butt in the air, and the upper half of her body laying on the bottom bunk. So I let her sleep. By 2 I wake her again and tell her to eat. So she tells me she wants “eggs over easy and bread”. So I go make it again. I come back and she fell asleep again. I make her wake up and she eats a bit and then wants to go back to sleep. I go to put the dishes away in the kitchen and my aunt comes to tell me that Zoe threw up. That’s when I knew something wasn’t right. Ziggy mentioned that it could be heat exhaustion so we looked it up and she had all the symptoms. They said to take the child to the ER. So we left Kayden with my family and headed to the local hospital. ISN’T IT THE WORST WHEN YOUR KIDS ARE SICK ON VACATION!? She threw up a lot on the way to the hospital and then once more at the hospital. She also complained of stomach pains. They said she had ketones present in her urine which meant she was dehydrated. So we had to give her just a little bit of Pediatlie every 15 minutes so she wouldn’t throw it all up. I think it was around 7:30ish when they discharged her. She was still really weak. Poor thing. The room we were sleeping in I’m sure didn’t help the situation either because it was hot. Like sauna friggin hot! There was no AC and I think all the heat during the daytime just stayed trapped in our room. We had a fan going but that wasn’t really helping much either so we moved to another room so the kids could sleep more comfortably. Zoe threw up one more time before completely passing out for the night. Oh and I also remember passing through the kitchen and some of my sisters and their husbands were sitting around just conversing and all I heard were the guys talking about how the Lee sisters had “a tone” sometimes when we would get annoyed at the husbands. I just thought that was funny how they were comparing husband notes. My husband wasn’t there but I’m sure he would have whipped out his husband notes the length of a Harry Potter book.
  
  Tuesday morning Zoe was still pretty out of it. She was defintiely conversing more but still wanted to sleep whenever she could. Ziggy and Nancy were really good trying to get her to converse and be more alert. I was busy packing all morning. By early afternoon we said our goodbyes and headed to the 2^nd part of our family vacation. By the time the evening started to set in she was chatting up a storm.
  
  There was a moment at the hospital where she was dozing off and C and I were talking about how Zoe’s non-stop chatter would drive us nuts at times. This was a time where we would have given up anything to hear it. I’ve never heard her so quiet.
  
  Congratulations to Hannah and Matthew! Matthew, welcome to our family!

  
   
  
  
  
   
                                           
          
  
   
                                          
  
  
  
  
   
                                          
  
  
  
  
      
  
   
                                           
  
       
                                       
   
  
  
          
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  (You wouldn’t know by looking at this beautiful photo of Ellis and his mommy that she’s clipping his nails)
                                        
  
          
  
  
  

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