Carson Quote of the Day

So these have been stacking up. It's more like "Carson Quotes from the past few weeks..."

"Daddy, you need to go to bed because if you sleep on the couch, it'll give you bad breath." I have no idea where he came up with this one!

Carson was watching his girlfriend on t.v. when Ryan came downstairs. "Dad, can I have a juicy orange?" Apparently Giada was making something with "juicy oranges." (wink, wink)

He's really been into cooking lately. He always wants to be in the action, helping my stir, pour, and crack the eggs. I asked him if he wanted to be a chef when he got older and he said, "No, I'm going to be a big daddy, just like Daddy."

Same night, Carson was helping me make cookies and he kept wanting to eat the dough. I gave him a few bites but he kept asking for more. I kept telling him that he had to wait until they were cooked and then he said, "Come on, Mommy. You can do anything, you're a mommy!"

I think he's getting a little bored with the songs we sing to him at bedtime because they are starting to go something like this: Whenever I hear the song of an... orange, or look at the blue, blue... orange...

*Update on Carson's recovery* The scabs fell off today, that's a good thing, but he was in a little bit more pain then normal I think because of it. He wouldn't ever tell us when his throat hurt before because he knew that we would give him more medicine but today he kept saying that it hurt. It was really tough a few days ago because he was not getting enough sleep at all. He was staying up late, waking up early, and not taking naps. He looked horrible! He had dark circles under his eyes, pale, eyes half closed, he walked around like he was half dead. We went to his post-op appt and the doctor said to give him some Benedryl to knock him out. I was a little surprised but it helped a bunch! He's a completely different kid when he's on his meds! We can tell when it's getting time to give him another dose because he gets really quiet and weepy and then he gets totally irrational and emotional. It's been a long road, but it's not any harder than I would've expected. I'm just wondering how much longer I have to be giving him hydrocodone. We're going on day ten and that just seems like a long time to be on such a strong drug!