Home sick

It seems lately that the only time I can blog is when I am home with a sick kid.  This time it is Julia.  She had an ear infection in January (see the last post) and about 10 days ago she had another one.  We finished the round of antibiotics, and she is still sick.  She was vomiting and her ear was draining.  So we are doing another round of a stronger antibiotic and we are having the gunk from her ear cultured.

In some good news, she is finally talking!  She will say Mommy, Daddy, and night night.  As long as she keeps adding words every month, we won't need to add speech therapy.

We had a two snow days a few weeks ago.  I ended up only working two days that week because of President's day and two snow days.

 

 

 

And Daddy got a new tractor.  Jed actually wasn't too thrilled with the ride, but he loves "helping" Daddy fix it.

 



 

 

As far as the EYE goes - it is pretty much status quo.  We had to order a new set of snuggle wraps (arm immobilizers) because she has started ripping off her patches again.  She has a doctor appointment over spring break and I am anxious to see what our next step is since we are past strabismus surgery.

See my EYE.

 

 

 

Jed's been having fun too.

 

He found a box of outgrown clothes.  These are a pair of Julia's 6 month pants!

 

 

 

 

We are ready for spring so that we can play outside!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 



 

 

 

Feeling better

I haven't blogged since Tuesday, when we lost Julia's contact.  I was trying to stay so positive, looking on the bright side, accepting the inevitable.  Well, on Wednesday morning when we went out to load the kids into the care to go to daycare and work, we realized someone had bashed in the rear passenger window on our SUV.  This was the straw that broke the camel's back and I lost it.  Just when we had settled into "normal" we have 2000 dollars of hail damage on our car, ear and eye infections in the kids, a lost contact and now a smashed window.  I needed a few days to fume, vent, cry and whine a little. It just felt that I could not win.  Was it not enough that we were dealing with Julia's eye and all the things that come with that?  Isn't that enough for one family?  Why all this extra stuff?  I basically needed a small pity party.

 Now that I am done with my pity party, I feel like I can face the world again.  The sun is back out and the world looks a little brighter.

The day before the lost contact.

We are enjoying our week of no contact and no patch.  Her eye definitely turns in a lot more without her contact, but there is nothing we can do.  Her doc ordered her a new one and we are waiting for it to come in (it is made in Colorado).  She has her normal eye appointment on Tuesday anyway and may need a prescription change.  So the next few weeks could be interesting when it comes to the contact.  I am a bit nervous about this appointment because I have noticed her eye turning in a lot more even when she was wearing the contact.  And her good eye seemed to turn in sometimes as well.

The kids are finally feeling better and it seems the ear infections are clearing up.  Jed has been super rambunctious and has definitely hit the terrible twos.  This is how he "plays" with his sister's toys.

Saggy pants!

The playmat must be conquered!

I think the playmat conquered him!

But overall, we are feeling better.  The good weather is helping to lift our moods and keep our spirits up.  And Julia deciding to sleep through the night helped too!  I can't say that too loud.  If she hears me she will probably stop!

When it rains...

Seems like life is a bit crazy again - okay, a lot crazy.  To start with, we had a hail storm yesterday evening.  Unfortunately it hit while James and I were shopping with the kids at Wal-Mart.  The hail was so big, it actually broke through the plexiglass skylights!  My poor car got a lot of damage.  The insurance adjustor is coming on Wednesday to make an estimate. 

Last night Jed would not sleep.  He kept coming into our room.  Over and over and over and over.  And repeat.  Eventually James slept in his room on the floor.  Hey, you do what you have to do.

This morning I noticed that Julia had some eye boogers.  I figured it was just from sleeping.  No big deal.  Well, during work, I got a text from daycare that Jed's eye was red but not goopy or watery.  Then I got another text that he had drainage from his ear.  So off to the doctor we went.  Turns out he has an ear infection and eye infection.  Our wonderful doc checked out Julia too and she also has an ear infection and eye infection.  Thankfully I had taken out her contact before we went because she had more goop in her eye.  I guess she gets a little vacation from her contact and patch.  This is her second eye infection since surgery.  It just seems that as soon as we all get well, the cycle starts over and the sickness just runs through the house.

To make matters worse, I was alone with the kids at the doctors so I went to Wal-Mart to pick up all their medicines.  They said it was going to take an HOUR so I wandered Wal-Mart with Jed and Julia.  They were out of popcorn chicken (Jed's favorite).  Then I noticed his diaper had leaked and soaked his pants.  So I had to buy him new pants to change into.  I fed him goldfish, oreos and lemonade as we wandered the store.  He was a mess with cookie all over him, snot on his face, goopy eyes and gunk coming out of his ears.  Then we waited and waited and waited.  An hour and a half later the prescriptions were ready but the insurance had denied them!  Twenty more minutes and it was worked out - but I realized I was THAT mom.  You know, the mom you judged before you had kids.  Before you had kids you saw the mom with the messy, wild kids that wouldn't stay in the cart and you wondered why she didn't control them?  I ask forgiveness for ever judging that mom - because I am now that mom.  With two sick kids who have reached the end of their rope - they were messy, snotty, crying and crazy.  But I finally made it out of there with two sets of eye drops and two sets of antibiotics!

On a good note, Julia turned 5 months on Thursday!

The other good news - Ortopad released their new patches!  And they have pink camo!  And leopard print.  There are new boys patches too.  I can't wait to order some.

You can find them here.

And last - just a pic of me and my babies.  I don't look the best, but I am happy.  They are my everything.