Just a few things...

Today was Peyton's last soccer game. He had a good time playing for his first season. It was pretty frustrating for Dan and I because by the end of the season Peyton really just wanted to run around and fall on the ground, if the ball came near him he would give it a kick but that was pretty much it. He just isn't very competitive yet and you can't make someone be competitive, especially a 4 year old! He started out the season pretty aggressively but by the end he really just lost his drive. I'm sure as he gets older and understands the game more he'll be a pretty great player but until then Dan and I just need to watch, smile and cheer him on.

When I picked the kids up from daycare on Thursday they told me that a kid in Bailey's class had H1N1 so I knew that Bailey would probably get it. Sure enough a few hours later the fever started. I took her to the Dr. later that night and they did a rapid Flu A test (H1N1 is a strain of Flu A most everyone that tests positive for flu A have swine flu -at least right now). It was a 10 minute test and they came in after 2 minutes and said it was already showing Flu A positive! She has been pretty sick and miserable. 104+ temps ,tossing and turning all night and a nasty nose and cough. This morning her fever broke so hopefully she is on the down side of the illness. Yesterday I started having a cough and feeling yucky, today of course, it's worse. I'm still not as bad as she has been so that's good. Dan and Peyton are fine so far, so hopefully they wont be getting it.

The kids are so excited for Halloween. Peyton is going to be Darth Vader and Bailey is going to be Bat Girl. They would wear their costumes everyday if we would let them. It's going to be fun watching them since they actually know what is going on now.

Again...

I am starting to think that Bailey might just be sick for the rest of her life! We spent 3 hours in the Dr's office and and Davis Hospital on Sunday-waiting, seeing the Dr, waiting some more and then finally having a Viral Respiratory Panel done on Bailey, her regular respiratory symptoms had been joined by fevers so we decided we should take her in. The results of the respiratory test showed that she has Adenovirus, again (this is the first time they have done the actual test, the other 3 times they have told us she had it they were just guessing based on her symptoms). We have spent the last 2 nights lying awake due to a fussy, restless baby (I say baby but she is really almost 2!). Last night she did a little better and slept from about 1:30- 6ish when she woke up screaming, then threw up. After throwing up I said "are you okay?" and she said "I spit out". During the day she is in pretty good spirits singing and playing as usual but during the night she does really bad tossing and turning and it seems like she can hardly breathe. Her tonsils are almost touching each other and her temps have ranged from regular to 105.3 deg. I really hate Adenovirus I think it's one of the worse viruses to deal with because basically they have high temps for almost a week (or more) and there is nothing you can do to make them feel better other than Tylenol and Motrin. It's a good thing I am on Spring Break this week so Dan doesn't have to miss work and I don't have to miss school or go exhausted. According to the CDC there are 49 types of Adenovirus, only 45 more to go and we've beat them all!

Recovering...

Bailey is FINALLY on the mend. After we took her to the Dr. the first time, she was taking the antibiotic they prescribed and she just wasn't getting better. Her ear was still draining quite a bit and she was pretty much up all night every night. So, last Wednesday I decided I should probably take her to the Dr. again because I didn't think the antibiotic was working. Well, it wasn't! Her other membrane had ruptured! No wonder she was so miserable still! So now we've got her on a different antibiotic plus some antibiotic ear drops they seem to be working. We are going to see her ENT this coming Tuesday so if there is still a lot of goop in her ears they can suck it all out and her ears will heal quicker. We will probably also discuss the possibility of doing tubes again. We'll have to see what happens. I'll keep you all posted, as I'm sure you are all so interested in our ear drama~!

So sick...

After 5 ear infections in 7 months we (us and the Doctors) decided it would be a good idea to put tubes in Bailey's ears, that was March 2008. Since the tubes were put in Bailey has bee sick many times (at least 6 since we started her at daycare in October!) but, she hasn't had any ear infections since the tubes were put in.

Well, with school starting back up at the beginning of this month, the kids headed back to daycare and of course Bailey is sick AGAIN, remember, she's a thumb sucker! It started last week with a bad runny nose, then runny eyes, then Tuesday a cough, and a fever. Usually when Bailey is sick she is still pretty happy, but this time she has been miserable! I think the hardest thing about being a parent is knowing when to take your kids to the Doctor. Most every time I take them (even when they have had really high fevers 104+) I am told it is a virus and just to control the fever. So, needless to say, we didn't take Bailey to the Dr. right of the bat because we figured it was just a nasty cold and it would run it's course.

Anyway, yesterday we decided we should take her in just to make sure. With the tubes in her ears they told us if she ever had an ear infection we would see drainage coming out so we would know for sure. I kept checking her hears and asking if they hurt, she would say no and not respond at all when I would pull on them or take her temp. So Dan was watching the kids while I was at school (since we can't take the kids to daycare when they are sick), and I met him at the Dr's office. As we were sitting in the room waiting for the doc to come in, Bailey all of the sudden started crying real bad and grabbed her ear and was saying "owee, ears ears!" so I looked at her ear and all around and in it was dried up blood tinged puss!! Bingo!! So the Doc came in and he looked in her ears and said on one side the tube was out and it looked infected and on the other side (the crusty side) there was so much in there that he couldn't see if the tube had come out or if her eardrum had burst! Poor baby! Both Dan and I felt so bad that we hadn't seen it before, especially Dan since he had been watching her all day. Hopefully the antibiotics will take care of it and she wont start having lots of infections now that her tubes are out. Otherwise we are going to have to do tubes again this year!

She slept better last night then she has in a while so I was thinking she must feel better but she woke up this morning screaming with more drainage from her ear, then she threw up because she was coughing so much!! I hate this :(