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Well, yesterday started the same with a bit of clingy Ben at drop off. He was tired and had a cough but you never know with kids. They are "sick" and then the minute they see their friends they are fine. Well, that was not the case. We got a call at 1015 that he had pulled himself out of the pool at school to lay down. And yeah, my kid who you can't get out of the pool was voluntarily getting out to lay down. I got there and he was not well. He was coughing and his breathing was awful.

Got him home and snuggled up with books and tv while we waited for his doc appt at 330pm. He was almost inconsolble for feeling bad and his head hurt. I got him some tylenol and it took forever to kick in....(I really hope he hasn't inherited my drug resistance) before he settled down in a light doze watching the tv. He was awake, mostly but resting which was good. Got him to the doc and he fell asleep in the car. I got him there and after some questions and having Dr. McMahon see him they started in on breathing treatments. His sinuses and ears were clear of infection but he had some nose congestion. She was shocked by his breathing and wanted that under control.

So, we sat and read books through the 3 treatments. He was getting squireelly due to the exhaustion, the drugs and being Ben. But we got things doing better, not great but much better than when he came in. He has to take prednisone for 3 days to help with the inflammation and has a rescue inhaler with the spacer. Did you know that they want everyone to use a spacer now? Seems to be that most people were really only swollowing the meds versus really breathing them in. Huh...I think I have one some where in my stuff under my sink. I will have to see. If not I'll get a scrip for one. So, after the doc we got gas, go the scrips, got Ben a Happy Meal for really doing well at the doc and to make sure he'd eat something other than the gogurt and a milk I finally got him to eat before the afternoon. He ate well, but slowly and was happy to get the little stuffy of Snowball from Secret Life of Pets which I want to see (though park place is stopping playing it today...its only been out a month! WTF?). Got home, he finished his dinner with his first dose of bubblegum flavored prednisone (bleah) and then it was shower and bed. I gave him an inhaler dose about 715 just before Mel came home and we kept checking in on him to make sure it was all right.

Mel came home and I was exhausted. I'd had enough wherewithal to ask him to pick up Pizza for dinner. He didn't question it and that was nice. We had dinner, I explained the day and what we needed to do and then I dinked around on my phone for over an hour before I got the gumption to actually be productive. Being a worried mom was making me addled.

Anyhoo, I sat down with the fabrics for the skirt and started sewing all of the strips together for each tier. Basically there are 3 main tiers which have a base fabric (white with silver stripe), a silvery under-ruffle and a gauzy blue over ruffle. There is a 4th tier which is just the silver under ruffle and the blue gauze which has lace trim on it. Its a lot of pieces. The 4th level has 7 pieces of guaze and 9 pieces of silver and I think now I'm to separate the pieces into quarters and gather them together but the directions are confusing. I think I've sussed it out though. We shall see. I also may need to serge the edge of the gauze fabric but not certain yet and I may also take the lace off and gather it a bit since it has space for ribbon to do that. Again, not certain. We shall see.

But today I'm at work and Mel is home with Benton. I wore my shoes I plan on wearing for the lolita to start breaking them in. I have socks coming from Sock Dreams for the dress so we shall see how it all goes together.

I have 2 errands to run after work and then it will be home to the boys for the weekend. I had hoped we could go to the zoo or the air or children's museum but it may be better to hit a movie. We shall see.

This will be separated out by costume/ensemble:

Hyrda Cheerleader:
1) Make Hair Bows 50%
2) Attach alligator Clips to bows (need to buy larger ones)
4) Fluff pom poms (25%)
4) Attach letters to shirt
5) ~~Buy sneakers?? or~~ wear my combat boots

Zatanna:
1) Make or buy top hat
2) Make bolero
3) Make Choli
4) decide on trim attachments to sari
5) Drape and pin sari for wear
6) Make wand
7) Validate skirt fits

Star Wars Lolita
1) ~~cut out last of ruffles~~
2) Cut out fabric for trims
3) decide on trim shapes
4) ~~fix peplam error cut and sew peplam~~
5) ~~sew sleeves (now to expand pattern!!!) 60%~~
6) trim sleeves 30%
7) trim bodice 10%, more thinking
8) Make skirt 20%
~~9) order socks~~
10) break in shoes, 20%, wearing now!
11) make chun-li buns/covers
12) Test hair style
13) make cyber dread clips
14) Sew bodice to peplam
15) trim coat
16) make chemise/collar

Crown
1) re-pattern under dress for shaping
2) cut out under dress
3) decide on trim color for under dress
4) decide on pattern for over dress (split side versus normal)
5) Cut out over dress and trims
6) sew under dress
7) sew over dress
8) trim under dress
9) Trim over dress

D*Con Other items
1) Make bags 5x (give to willa for help?)she can help!
2) Sew halloween skirt
3) Sew comic skirt
4) Insert zippers in skirts