Nickels and San Diego

Last Thursday Amber and Todd went to New York City for their anniversary so my mom went to San Diego to babysit. She decided at the last minute she wanted me and Milo to come along and bought us plane tickets for Saturday morning. Friday night I was getting everything ready for our trip. I could hear Cody and Milo playing on the deck. Cody yelled to me inside, "Milo just swallowed a nickel!" "Well is he okay?" I replied. Turns out he wasn't. Cody brought him inside and he was crying ( a good thing, he was breathing) and throwing up (a bad thing. Not only scary but I was afraid he might throw up the nickel and it would get stuck higher). So I did what I always do in an emergency, I called Hayley. I then called the pediatrician and they told me if he was having a hard time swallowing we needed to take him to the emergency room. We decided that would be best and headed to the E.R. We had to wait only a few minutes and they got us back for a chest x-ray. There it was.....stuck. Then the waiting game began. We had to wait for them to call in the ENT (ear, nose and throat specialist) and the anesthesiologist. Over an hour later they arrived and they took my baby to the operating room to be put to sleep so that they could use a scope to go down his throat and retrieve the nickel. He was then taken up to pediatrics to recover for a couple of hours.

We got home around 1:30 and had to wake up at 7:00. Milo's poor little throat was hurting him. He had popsicles for breakfast and we headed for the airport. We got on I 2-15 and they had it closed down to 1 lane. WE MISSED OUR FLIGHT! Luckily they had room on the next flight.

Don't worry, our weekend got a lot better from there.
We spent our time hanging out with the kids and relaxing. Milo loved the beach! He loved everything about it. The water, sand, splashing and running.