On a brighter note, today was Halloween. Ethan was an army guy, Kaylee was an angel, and Taylor was a turtle. They were so cute. Picture will follow if my computer will ever load them. (its taking forever) They went to the trunk-or-treat at the park and then Rob took them around the neighborhood to a few homes. They had lots of fun. Unfortunately they become way to wired when candy is inhaled.
Over the past few weeks things have been crazy. Rob went to Puerto Rico and I believe that he brought back the flu. He came home late friday night and by tuesday the rest of us were showing symptoms. Ethan had a fever for 2-3 days and a little bit of a cough and was extra sleepy for a few days. Other than that he was alright. Kaylee got hit hard. She not only had a fever but developed Croup and was so bad Wednesday the 21st that we decided to take her to the ER because she had a hard time breathing. This was our first trip to the ER as parents. I had Rob give her a blessing before they went. They gave her steroids which didn't help, then some inhaled medicine, which didn't do much, then a breathing treatment. Nothing did a whole lot of good so they (Rob and Kaylee) came home at about 5am. They also tested her for the flu. We got the results Thursday night and it was positive for the Flu and probable for Swine Flu. so it looks like we had swine flu go through the house. Kaylee sounded a lot better the next day but was still fevered and tired. She was sickfor about 10 days or so and had a lingering cough. We all had the chills too. I had a cough, achy joints and muscles, headache, sore throat, the works. It was not fun. Taylor seemed to be alright. She had a very small fever (not quite a degree over) and a tiny cough. she had a higher fever Thursday night and when we found out it was the flu I made sure to call the DR. in the morning. The dr. put her on Tamiflu. She didn't seem to get any worse. No more fever, and coughed a few times and was a little restless. But overall she stayed pretty healthy. For that I am very grateful. We are finally all better. Ethan was so grateful to get back outside and play with his friends. He begged for a week to play. Then it snowed (monday and tuesday this week) and he had to wait longer.
Taylor is basically sitting now on her own. She is a strong girl. She like to sit in the exersaucer and grab at anything she can. she likes "real" food and has now tried 4 different things...peaches, applesauce, greenbeans and rice cereal. She first tired "real food" on October 9. Rob got the honors of feeding her some rice cereal with applesauce. She loved it. She is a huge fan of food and does quite well.
Kaylee sounds more like Ethan every day. She has increased her usage of "ever again" to mean "not" as well. Like when she says "pants dirty ever gen" it means her pants arent dirty.
She also follows her brother in that she will tell me she cant do some thing. This usually occurs when she needs to go to the bathroom and "cant" pull down her pants, and also when she "cant" do what her mom asks. She also adopted the phrase "too much." Ethan tends to cry and complain when we ask him to pick up his toys and always says that there is "too much" or "too many." Kaylee now uses these phrases when she is asked to pick up something. We usually respond with "then i guess we need to throw some away because there is too many." this only sometimes helps. They certainly are funny kids. One thing that i really like is that they have said I love you more lately. This makes up for all the times i am told that i am so mean or that i am not liked. One day while in the car I was "so mean" (Ethan lost his chance for having gum because he hit his sister) and Ethan told me he didnt like me over and over. I told him if he said it again that he would go to a time out. He was about to say it again but caught himself before it came out all the way and changed it to "im never going to play with you ever again." I hate to hear things like this but i guess you cant really be a good mom with out hearing it.
We started a "service jar" where the kids get to put pennies in a jar for either good deeds or acts of service. It is cute to see the excitement on the kids face when they drop the pennies in the jar. I need to be more on the ball with it to encourage the acts of kindness and i know they like it. Right now i will sometimes suggest things for them to do to help them learn what good deeds and service are. But more often then not, they (especially) Ethan will do something on his own. This jar helps me to focus on the good things they do. I need to focus so much more on the good things they do. I think the jar will help me with that.
well i think this is all for now. Until next time....
renee
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