Toys R Us and Thievery..

For the sake of argument, let's all assume "Thievery"is being used correctly (and for all I know spelled) for the rest of this post. It'll make this whole thing go smoother. So 2 days ago I got an email from the bank that the balance was SUPER low. Like. Really low. I thought that was odd, but went online to figure out what was going on, to discover that *someone* had gone to Toys R Us in TULSA and  done 3 transactions totaling almost $1000. Since C hadn't left the house that day, nor had I, a call to customer service was made. Thievery of C's card number had occurred.  He HAS his card. He never "loans" it out. The girl said she would stop the charges from going through and it shouldn't actually hit the account. She said the fraud department had already flagged it and canceled his card. It SOUNDED like it was taken care of.

Until today. I start balancing that account and those charges are there. All 3 of them. ARGG. I call them again and THIS girl says that they have NO way to stop charges to go through. And Really, what I should do - is call Toys R Us and see if they will refund the charges themselves. OH HELL NO I will not. I already was told you were going to block the freaking charges, plus Toys R Us is going to LAUGH like no tomorrow if I call them and say "Oh, can you just give me $1000. I was never there. Thanks. A receipt? No. Proof? Well I have charges on my account." Yeah. Good luck with that one. It's also obvious someone at Toys R Us in on the thievery of the card numbers since the number was run 3 times. Who would DO that if it wasn't stolen?  So now it's going to be up to 10 business days before we get the $1000 refunded by the bank.  And the moral of the story? If you go somewhere where you hand your card to a person and they walk off with it, give them an actual credit card like the experts keep saying. Apparently people CAN skim or scam or whatever it's called and steal your number and spend everything in your account causing a giant pain in the arse.

People!

So this post was originally going to be titled "You Can't Beat the Autistic Kid.." as you may figure - that's how the past week has gone. But I had about half of it typed out and then I got lazy and saved it and went to answer the summons of "But MOMMMYYYY" and never got back to it. Then this morning we went to a Playdate. It was with People. We haven't left the house and seen People since before Thanksgiving. (And yes, the capitol "P"'s are on purpose thankyouverymuch.)  The to-do list is just as long. The kids moods aren't really any better. But it's surprising how much better being around GROWNUPS for just a few hours can be even if there are screaming kids in the background.  Not that we had hermitted that long by choice, illness made it necessary, but it's obvious by the fact that I seem to actually like my kids again that perhaps there was a bit of The Shining effect going on. REDRUM. REDRUM. Never know what's going to happen when it's all work and no play and odd topiary creatures appear in the lawn.

Anyhow. T1 went to the dentist again and is down some more teeth. Of course the tooth fairy came and left a small tooth pulling prize and some cash. The teeth that were growing in all wonky are already starting to look flatter and more straight in her mouth, which makes me think that it's *might* all be worth while in the long run to do this whole tooth pulling business. (You know, typical parental doubt.) If it saves her from having years and years and years of work with braces and what not later.. 


T1 ALSO got her ears pierced.

She did remarkably well with it and has been really good about reminding me to help her clean them and not playing with them. She almost changed her mind when I reminded her it was an actual hole they would be poking through her ear, but she wanted to be like the other girls in her Girl Scout troop.  I  had told her about a year ago that as soon as she decided she wanted to get them done, I'd take her.

Still Sick..

Yup. They're still sick. Took them in to the doctor. They have the flu. Apparently H1N1 and the regular flu got together and had a love child. They have the Love Child flu. T2 also has croup. He is absolutely horribly miserable. He's lost his voice. They both continuously have a fever over 101. T2 wants to just be held continuously, which heck, so would I. 

The doctor said they will both probably feel completely miserable and fevery for another 4-5 days on top of the 5-6 they've already had. BAD Baby Love Child Flu. BAD.

Poor Sick Babies!

T1 and T2 are sick. Super sick. T1 started off with a fever of 103.5 on Thursday and has been bouncing back and forth with Motrin between 102 and 99. It's Sunday night. Her eyes are glossy, she's got under eye circles. She doesn't bounce, play, frolic. It's rather pathetic. We've had to miss her Christmas Parade with her Girl Scout troop on Saturday as well as the circus Saturday evening. She's going to have to miss the Girl Scouts ornament exchange tomorrow too because we just can't get her fever down. We missed Ms. Jennifer (her behaviorist) Thursday. We are having to miss Ms. Chan (her beloved OT) tomorrow too. She is so miserable she doesn't even care. I have no idea what's wrong with my precious wee girl, other than the fever and feeling overall blech, she's only said her belly has hurt a little bit. We've gone to just basic therapies to keep her on schedule, but pretty much dropped everything else because they are both just SO lethargic.


Then we get to T2. His started Wed. His fever has been more mild overall but more constant at a 101-102. He started coughing some last night and has lost his voice mostly today and has both legs completely cramped up now to the point of him crying he "lost the use of his legs" all day.  He barely eats, hasn't slept unless he's been laying on me, is in a foul mood, barely moves around. He's miserable. There's no way around it. But there's no real "symptoms". I would guess the flu if he were snotty or sneezy more or complained he ached. But neither have. He's been drinking fluids well, so we put off going to the doctor so we could see HIS ped. since he has such a complex history for a 5 year old.

We have done SO many craft projects since they got sick, it's disgusting. We made Christmas trees out of tissue paper, snowmen out paper plates, glittery pine cones, snow globes, ornaments... I'm running out of ideas of what to DO with them other than let them watch tv and play video games and read to them. T2 literally crawls on the floor like an sad, pathetic inchworm. For some reason, it hits them both worse in the middle of the night too. The Motrin wears off - and those 2 can take up some serious bed space now that they are bigger.

But, we got our Christmas tree up. This is the first time we've ever gotten it up and decorated this early, but had to think of something to do with them. The kitten LOVES to climb it.