UGH I’ve been working on a post called “Remembering Summer” for over a week now and finally went to finish it and it was GONE! It took over a week to write it and now I can’t even remember what it said. It has been that type of week for us… blurry and a mess!
It has been a crazy couple of weeks. I wish I could remember what has gone on to update everyone but my lack of sleep and tired body are keeping my mind in a fog!
I do remember the Buddy Walk it was great! We had so much fun and can’t wait to do it again next year. Addilynn started off with the group in her stroller but before it was half way through she decided she wanted to walk. After this kid gets something in her mind, she doesn’t forget about it. I used to think she would always be easily distracted but boy was I wrong. She is as stubborn and bull headed as her mommy! Needless to say, Addilynn walked almost the entire way. She did hitch a ride with one lady who was in a wheel chair. Her name was Kathy. Addilynn thought that was pretty neat for about 5 min then she was ready to walk on her own again. Lets just say we started out in the front of the line and came in closer to last. We didn’t mind though it wasn’t a race… that was Sunday!!! After the walk we had lunch at Roadhouse and it was amazing like usual! Addilynn even got down and danced again with the music she loves that place!
Sunday was my first race!!! It was great. I was able to jog (which is my run… just ask my family) the entire way! I was really proud of myself. Not to openly pat myself on the back, but it took a lot for this lazy girl to get into shape for that! It will definitely be a tradition next year too.
Now on to this weeks DRAMA!!!!
Addilynn has been crabby for about a month now. I didn’t realize it had been that long until I was reading back through my old blogs. What would I do without them??? Finally after running a fever Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night we decided to take her in. Now for those of you who are judging our parenting skills thinking “why did they wait so long??”. I’m going to tell you why. Most of the time we take her into the Dr. at the first sign of a runny nose, cough, or fever, but this time we decided to wait it out so we weren’t jumping the gun. We did call the ER and check with a Dr. to make sure there was nothing they could do for just a fever and cough and they said no of course. So finally by Thursday I just had a bad feeling so I had Dustin take her in that morning. She had a full blown ear infection in her L ear and one starting in her R. Wow double ear infections, by this time I was feeling pretty low.
To cut my rambling down, I will cut to the chase. Addilynn was resistant to the Amoxicillin and by Saturday when she made her second trip to the Dr. she had two raging infections and the pediatrician couldn’t even see either ear drum only puss. The last few days have been frustrating and sad because we know how much pain she must be in, but she wont let us comfort her when she has her rage blackouts (more on that later). We have been exhausting our resources for sitters since she can’t go to daycare in her condition when today we decided she just had to go. This made me sad to think she would have to be around a lot of screaming kids. Lucky for us, my mom knocked on our door at 7 and said she had to take a vacation day to take care of her grandbaby! WOOO HOO what a relief.
Today Addilynn is feeling better and I came home to a clean house, clean sheets, clean baby, lunch and dinner, baby snacks, and a bag of cat litter. Don’t ask me why the litter… apparently in all this madness I’ve been slacking on cat duties:) How she manages to get all that done I don’t know. I can barely go to the bathroom when I’m home with her during the day!! Thank goodness for family we have been so blessed this week to have such great family to pick up our slack!!! Thanks to Ggma Jeanette, Nona, and Grammy you guys ROCK!!!!
Daddy and Addilynn at the buddy walk and Addilynn reading one of Beau’s books
This is what I’ve been seeing the last week I haven’t been able to put her down so no good pictures to update with after these they are all frown faces and side shots of her head!
This next part might be a little disturbing to some because it was definitely disturbing to us. Addilynn has been acting crazy the last couple days. I’m not sure if it is just pain, or if she has figured out how to play the cards to get attention. Her first fit was the worst and they have been continuing ever since. Sunday we laid her down for a nap and the rage started. Now keep in mind I said earlier that this child is stubborn and mean so she normally throws some pretty good fits but this by far topped them all. She was in her crib throwing what I thought was a normal fit. She usually kicks the wall and screams for a bit but then realizes she needs to sleep and does. Her screaming escalated to one we don’t hear much so we checked on her. She had blood from ear to ear and looked like the joker it was also all over her crib rail and mattress. She was bleeding so bad from her mouth I couldn’t tell where it was coming from. From the blood smears we came to the conclusion that what we thought was her kicking was her pounding her head into the crib. This was followed by more of those same fits where she would throw herself into the wall and bang her head repeatedly. I’m not so sure why this is all happening, but if anyone has any ideas feel free to let me know. Her pediatrician is calling me tomorrow night to determine if she needs to go in for rounds of antibiotic shots and I am going to let her know about her new form of crazy.
