I am going to try a new thing where I update the blog every Sunday (and yes not just back dating, sorry to all of you on a reader or email that have received the millions of updates the last little while) This blog has taken a major back seat since having Oliver and starting my photography business. Last Sunday we got out some of the past years blog books that I have made and I saw how happy it made Mason and Lily to be able to look through the books. So I am not ready to give this up yet, because it is a great family journal but it is also keeps the family updated all over the country.
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| Lily dressed as Mirada from Brave |
This week was the first week that my kids have been really sick this winter so I am glad that we held out this long. I thank the green smoothies and kefir that is keeping them healthy. Anyway on Tuesday night we heard Mason yelling in his bed and Danny got there right in time to catch throw up in the blanket. We let Mason sleep on the little mattress in our room that night incase he needed to puke again but he never did. He woke up feeling fine, eating normal and running around like crazy so I just chalked it up to a fluke. He tends to have the weakest stomach of all the kids so it could just be something he ate or from coughing too hard which he was doing.
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| His curly mullet |
So after that random throw up all was well until Friday. Mason woke up in the middle of the night from coughing and his eyes wouldn't open. Oh great, pink eye I was thinking and the cold that he had was getting worse. (at different times this winter the kids would have a little runny nose or cough but I wouldn't have called them sick since they acted fine so I am not counting that as "really sick") In the morning I checked out his eyes and they were a little red and glazed over but not terribly bad or gooey. I decided to take him to the doctor anyway because it was Friday and I didn't want to end up with pink eye on Saturday morning, we didn't have time Saturday as Danny had a basket ball tournament and I had a photo session.
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| His climbing skills |
When I took him the doctor wasn't sure it was pink eye but was concerned that his ear could turn into an infection any time. She said it just didn't "look right" and she didn't trust it. And if he did have an ear infection it could make the eyes gooey. So I left with 2 prescriptions one for the pink eye if it got worse and one for an antibiotic incase he said his ear started hurting which it hadn't yet. I was a little disappointed that she was so quick with the antibiotics as the doctors office doesn't want to give it out as much and really I don't like what they do. If he ended up with an ear infection I would have tried healing it naturally unless he was in terrible pain. Luckily his ear never really bothered him but his eyes, oh his eyes! I am glad I followed my instincts because I kid you not at 5:30pm (you know, right when the doctors office closed) he eyes were gooey like crazy, and he was so whiney and said his eyes hurt. Danny ran and got the prescriptions filled and we got the drops in his eyes. I made him wash his hands like crazy and I tried to stay away from him since I had a newborn shoot the next day and I didn't want to wake up with gooey eyes myself :)
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| He was totally flirting with the baby at the next table, it was the cutest thing ever :) |
Oh and this week I decided for once and for all that Oliver was sleeping ALLLLLL the way through the night. I couple of months ago I had him cry it out so he was sleeping 8-5 but I need 8-7. So we have been crying it out this week and it went well. On Thursday night he slept from 8-7:30 and never woke up once, I never even heard him cry it was amazing (too bad Mason got me up with his gooey eyes, ha!) So Friday night I was hoping for the same thing but I didn't get my hopes up and he ended up crying at 4:30 am which was a totally normal time for him to wake up before. Well I decided I wasn't going to go to him for at least 10 minutes to give him a lovey and binky. At about the 5 or 6 minute mark he went back to sleep. AWESOME, I never had to get out of bed :) Yay for Crying it out!
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| Danny let Oliver chew on a nail polish bottle. Oliver throws things. Oliver threw the nail polish bottle. It broke. It ruined the floor. Danny was "watching" Oliver when it happened :) |
He ended up waking up at 6:30 which is fine, and went in and started nursing him and I smelled something funny. I was really drowsy still so didn't think much about it but then it hit me it smelled like throw up. Well yup, he slept in his own vomit. I feel bad because it most likely happened at 4:30 when he was crying. But really I wouldn't have changed anything since I have been having him crying it out anyway and my other kids have slept in throw up so I guess it was his turn (sorry sweetie) Danny wasn't too thrilled that I got him up at 6:45 to give him a bath while I cleaned up the bed :) But the crazy thing again is that Oliver acted fine, he ate breakfast he was happy. So again I chalked it up to a fluke because really I deny my kids are sick until they are really sick :)
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| Mason likes to play on the iPad under a blanket |
So on Saturday after getting up early with Oliver, Danny headed to his basketball tournament, came back just in time for me to leave for my photo session and all was well. Mason was acting a little better but I can tell he is still sick with the cold, Oliver is fine and Lily is great. My sweet Lily no runny nose, or cough or throw up, what a good girl! Welp no! She decided to throw up her lunch and everything before. Luckily she was by me and I could tell she was trying to hold it in. I grabbed the wipe box and threw out all the wipes so she would have something to throw up in. And my sweet Mason saw us and ran to get the throw up bowl, he is wonderful! So now she is sick so I guess I can't chalk the throw up to a fluke! I put her on the couch and turned on a movie and set the bowl by her but she was acting fine. I gave her some water because that is my trick to see if they are going to throw up more. Well she didn't right away so I thought that it was like Mason and Oliver just one time.
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| Mason visualized, planned and executed this rocket ship out of lincon logs all by himself. He is my little engineer :) |
Its a good thing I kept the bowl by her, because I walked by a little later and there was throw up in there. She didn't even say anything, yikes! And then a while later she was walking around and started at it again on the floor. Oh boy, sorry for the details but that is life :) She went to bed early that night (well we all did because of day light savings) and then she was waking up a few times last night to get some drinks. I could tell she felt better at 2 am because she was having a party in the bathroom and getting some water haha :)
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| Lily deciding to wear all of her bows |
AND THEN Saturday night when I was nursing Oliver before bed he fell asleep which he never does when I nurse him and I felt that he was warm. GREAT, another sick kid. He worries me a little more because he has been sick for the last 2 weeks. He has had a cough and runny buggery nose. I don't want to bring him to the doctor because they will just want to put him on antiobtics for a "sinus infection" I am sure. But the fever has me worried. We all stayed home from church today and Oliver has been super clingy. I will wait one more day to see if the fever goes away and he feels better before I take him in (or if he is super crabby tonight) I am worried that he could have a secondary infection of some sort since he has been sick for the last couple of weeks. But the extra snuggles and sleep have been nice today.
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| On my walk with Lily |
On a more positive note we got to play with our little friend Ella one of the days which was fun. Lily is so cute with her and treats her like a baby and wants to take care of her. She even tried carrying her around a few times which Ella was not too sure about. But Lily loved playing with her and having a little person follow her directions. She is used to Mason telling her what to do when the play, and Oliver obviously doesn't listen yet :)
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| Lily playing with Ella |
We had snow this week, close to 6 inches but we never really got to enjoy it because of the sickness. And then it was 50 degrees for 2 days so the snow melted but we couldn't really enjoy the warm weather because again we have been sick. Mason is counting down the days until it is Spring on March 20 as we have it marked on the calendar. He told me today "I am done with the snow and being cold, can it please be spring" I am right with you kid though I didn't have the heart to tell him that Mother Nature doesn't always listen but hopefully she does :)
Oliver is as crazy as ever, he has mastered the pushing of the kitchen chairs which is awful because I have to either keep the counters clean (which lets face it, we are talking about me here) Or lock him out of the kitchen which makes him mad. It is funny because I put the chairs in the middle of the room and he will either push the chairs to the sink or the table. Every time he pushes it to the table he gets it all the way under the table then tries to climb on the chair which is now under the table and gets mad because he is hitting his on the table, hahaha. Then he gets extra mad when I drag him and the chair away from his goal.
I went for a walk with Lily today in the sun since she is feeling better. She loved finding puddles to jump in and wanted every rock and stick she could find. She also liked finding which snow was clean for her to dip her finger in to lick. On the way we made up a princess story which was a mix of beauty and the beast and tinker bell. I love her little imagination. Her story went something like this " Princess Ameana and Spike was the prince. They lived in a castle and they danced and danced (as she dances) then there was a beast and they killed him. And then the beast was nice and he came back to life. Then there was a room with butterflies and they danced and danced. Then end.
