.the 2014 year so far has been....
awful.
.we have seriously been sick for 3 weeks, since coming home from utah for christmas.
.think im kidding.
.b woke up with croup monday morning, when we woke her up to get on a plane ride home.
.not kidding.
.only good part about it. it totally wore her out and she just wanted to sleep the entire plane ride(s).
.i called the doc's office while we were waiting to get off the plane to set an apt the next morning.
.surely croup.
.next morning. parker got it. called and doc office and my fabulous doctor just called in an order for him. we know each other too well. i also woke up with a head cold and a yeast infection. awful.
.friday i finally went into a doctor (3 hours later) i got a prescription and started feeling back to normal over the weekend.
.and that ^^ was week one.
.week two.
.we had just gotten over croup and yeast infections, and head colds, and were doing well. tuesday parker and brooklynn are playing at the art table and i hear parker fall and start crying.
.we walked over to me. i cuddled with him. he stopped crying. and i figured it was time for a nap.
.put him down for a nap. he sleeps and than i go to wake him up.
.he is crying. in his crib. laying down.
.weird.
.i start making dinner and he is just whining a TON.
.than dinner time comes around and i realize he is not using his right arm.
.GREAT.
.i went to basketball that night, but told andrew if parker was still awake when i got home, I would take him to the emergency room. he wasnt. (i had a wellness check up scheduled for 10am wednesday ANYWAYS...so i figured i would see what she thought).
.wednesday. wellness check. both kids are getting big. b is 26 pounds. parker is 22. parker is in the 97% for his height and 8-10% for his weight.
.doc comes and takes a look and sends me to get xrays.
.that was a nightmare. i went to the wrong place, like 3 times. finally kinda found it. (another long, boring story). but we made it, we got them done. they said they would call my doctor and i will hear from her.
.an hour passes. doc calls. parker has a buckle fracture (no room between his bones, its just bone on bone). call cast doctor tomorrow to set up apt. until than give him ibprofren every 6-8 hours to bring down any swelling. otherwise NO cast.
.thursday. call cast doc, they say sure, we can fit you in at 9:40 (its 8:40, i have no one to watch b, still in bed, both kids in bed, and i havent showered, oh AND its a 25 minute drive). my awesome vt volunteers to watch b. i threw a headband in my hair to cover my unwashed hair. we got there like 10 minutes late, but we survived. we find out when we got there that not only does parker have a buckle fracture, he also cracked the main bone in his elbow. awesome. parker did AWESOME. he seriously was so great. went home with a blue cast and told to NOT get it wet at all.
.weekend goes by, we are adjusting to a cast. andrew is fighting allergies like mad.
week three.
we get all the way until WEDNESDAY with no major complications.
i deliver dinner to two fabulous families. one being in my old ward and about a 20 minute drive. I wasnt thinking about traffic when i said i would drop it off at 5:15. drop off dinner, and start the drive home. 7 minutes into our drive parker is crying. and than.
puke. all over my car. all over his toys, all over his books, all over him, all over his cast.
the smell was awful. and we were STUCK in traffic for 40 minutes.
.got home. cleaned/disinfected my car. hosed off his carseat, took it apart to wash.
.knock on the door, missionaries, unannounced. they were talking to us, and than....
puke. all over me, all over my floor, all over parker and his cast.
the missionaries quickly said their goodbyes and we dealt with cleaning.
cleaned parker AGAIN, cleaned my floors, disinfected, i took a shower.
.3 hours go by. its 11. time to put these kids to bed.
.kids to bed. i lay down, hear parker gasping for air.
.run in, he threw up all over his clean bedding, and him.
.bath again for parker. and than i hear crying.
.brooklynn threw up. all over her clean bedding, all over her stuffed animals, all over her ipod.
.bath for brooklynn.
.get them cleaned up, and made do with what blankets, sheets we had left that werent in the washer already or waiting their turn to be washed. finally get to bed at 12.
.2 b comes in crying. starts to throw up, and race her to the toilet. she left her track as we ran.
.andrew hears parker start to stir, grabs him and runs him to the toilet, and they made it. change brooklynn. put both kids back down for bed. and pray we can get some sleep.
.hour hour later, im running to the toilet, and doing so every hour.
.we made it to morning. andrew went on a walmart run at 6:30am for more disinfect wipes, gatorade, sprite and crackers.
.i continue to throw and feel awful. at 4pm i finally stopped throwing up, and still am SO weak and feel horrible. the kids are almost completely back to normal and at that point had gone 14 hours without throwing up.
.9pm i get a blessing from andrew. <<<----this 2-3="" 8="" a="" and="" awful="" better.="" but="" clean.="" crackers="" dinner="" doing="" down="" every="" fed="" felt="" fluid="" forced="" from="" guy="" he="" home.="" hours="" house="" i="" kept="" kids="" laundry.="" made="" me.="" met.="" my="" nbsp="" needs="" night="" on="" p="" runs.="" saint.="" somehow="" still="" sure="" the="" thursday="" time="" up="" walmart="" was="" went="" were="" when="" with="" worked="">
.next morning i felt WAY better. still a bit weak, but i could function. i took both kids to the doctor to get parker a new cast, since it stunk like vomit. (it seriously was so bad we put a thick sock over his cast for 2 days so we didnt have to smell it). b came with me this time and was so interested in everything. i let her pick parker's cast color. after telling her pink was NOT an option because daddy would kill us, she picked BRIGHT neon green.
.saturday we caught up on house cleaning, me and b went shopping at oldnavy and target. my grand total was $68.00 but after deals and rewards, and coupons, i paid $8 total. it was fabulous. we survived one more week.
.and now its monday. another new week and parker has a cold. nothing bad. just runny nose and a bit of coughing here and there.
.and if you made it all the way to this part of the post, you may be thinking, this is the LONGEST post ever. and it is. because it has felt like the LONGEST 3 weeks of my life. i just pray we are done with sickness in our house, and broken elbows.
.here are pictures from the last 3 weeks. most are captured during the 2-3 day gaps of happiness, because the nightmare of another sickness took over.
.waiting to get x-rays.
.pre cast...waiting for them to come in and put it on.
CAST. (yes he has a different shirt on, i brought it just in case the other was too hard to get on overop of his cast)
.this was what was wrong...in medical terms.
.before he hit his eye in the ONE small spot with no padding.
.mid january and i am out enjoying shorts and a tshirt. it was 80 degrees.
.fall at the gymnastic place and hitting his eye on the ONE spot that does not have padding...the other eye is from him falling and hitting it on his cast...cast burn i guess you call it?
.parker waking up b and telling her to come play.
FIRST DAY OF NURSERY. He wanted to make a statement....a mark on each eye and a cast.
.my sil did this in her daughters hair...it was SUPER cute...but i realized b pulls off "high" pony tails and crazy buns better...but it was still way cute.
.lunch date with daddy. kids played on the play ground while we ate lunch.
.b makes her bed every morning... i think she does a great job.
.parker PEED and POO-ED on the toilet 2 times! He was dry for 2 days.....and than...the flu hit us.
.she LOVES building towers.
.sick with the flu. see how awful we look.
.new bright green cast, sister picked out.
.she went shopping with me. when i looked down, she had these boots on. she wanted them SO bad.
.everyone who reads my blog and knows Emma...do these not remind you of her...the boots she wore with the fuzzy balls that would bounce around. i had to take a picture to show andrew.
.yogurt was a must after a long and successful day of shopping...and because it was buy an adult cup, get a kids cup free.
.treat us a little better 2014. will you? at least through valentines day so i can enjoy my birthday and valentines day with my family?!?
