Wow - it has been a crazy 2 weeks!!! I wanted to record some of the "adventures" we have been going through.
Sunday - It started last Sunday night (Mar 7) when Ethan woke up crying in the middle of the night because his throat hurt and he couldn't breathe.
Monday - I took him to the doctor on Monday (dr. apt. #1)and it turned out he had croup. He was given a steroid to help the inflammation in his throat so that he could breathe better. After the doctor appointment I went to the DR Horton offices and put money down on a lot we will possibly be building our new house on. While we were there (me and my three kids), Ethan and Eli were exploring the model home while I wrote the check and then I hear hysterical screaming and an electrician comes in carrying Ethan who had stepped on a nail!! WHAT!?! I couldn't believe it. The guy was carrying Ethan's shoe with a nail and a 2x4 stuck to it. Ethan had angels watching him because when I took off his sock, expecting to see blood everywhere, there was barely a scratch!! What a lucky little boy!
Tuesday - I had plans to meet the builder out at our future lot and discuss the house plans. I was taking all three kids to a construction site the day after my 4 year old stepped on a nail! So, my dad was a gem and met me out there to sit with the kids while I walked through the construction site. We left there and went to Arctic Circle for lunch. Before we got home Ethan had a red, swollen, itchy eye. Yes, it turned out his croup had spread to his eye. He now had an eye infection!! I called the
dr. and got a
prescription phoned in!
Wednesday - I discover Wed. night that my c-section incision had opened up and started bleeding! YIKES!! Ethan wakes up screaming in the night because his eye is stuck shut from all of the dried eye puss - yeah! Of course, Ellyse is still awake 3-4 times at night - oh joy!Thursday - Ethan is pretty miserable and says his ears hurt!! So, we go in for Dr. apt. #2 and he has ear infections!! Now, we get to give eye drops and oral antibiotics. Thursday night Eli wakes up with the croupy cough and can't breathe.
Friday - Eli wakes up with the eye infection too! We go to
dr. apt. #3 and get the croup steroid for Eli and eye drops as well. I also go to the
OBGYN and get my
incision checked out. He said my body reacted to one of the sutures under the skin and it worked its way to the surface and caused fluid under the skin and then burst through. Sounds bad to me, but he said it was fine and nothing to worry about - just put a bandaid on it! Okay, sounds good to me - I have other things to worry about - like not letting my 5 week old baby catch the croup that my 2 boys have! Friday night, Tim cleans the garage to prepare for house showings on Sat. and I deal with crying Ellyse and then take care of Eli who throws up in his bed!
Saturday - We have a totally sleepless friday night, but wake up to 4 house showings (oh, did I mention we put our home on the market again on Thurday morning) starting at 10am. We run around like crazy on Sat morning working a miracle with cleaning our house and staging it for the showings, while we have 2 sick kids and a crying baby!!
......Okay, so I guess life got too busy to finish my entry about how busy we have been - ha ha!!! To quickly finish up the week, we had a total of 8 doctor appointments and three very sick kids and house showings nearly every day!! But, we all survived!!
While we were house shopping the other day, Ethan found a bird egg. He was so excited and wanted to take it home. We couldn;t find a nest nearby so we brought it home. It had a a baby bird still in it, so when we got home we put it under his lamp to keep it warm.
We even made a little nest out of tissue for the bird egg. We thought we might have a little baby bird soon, but unfortunately Eli got a hold of it and smooshed it :(. Oh well, I don't know what we would have done with a baby bird, but it was fun for the boys to take care of the egg for a day.
