Wow, it feels like it's been forever. Since my last post, Channing has turned three months old and Makoy has turned five. I will post about Makoy's Birthday on another day. Be warned, this is a long post. If you don't want to read it, scroll to the very end for some cute pictures! First, the uninvited guest. This guest came with no warning, unexpectedly and definitely was NOT invited. The name of this guest....illness. Oh illness, I LOATHE you. I can easily say that this has been the worst winter our home has seen. Lets start with Channing. She has had a cough that sounds like she is a 45 year old smoker for six weeks now. Extremely long story short, after me being a stalker at the Dr. office, they decided to listen to her breathing again. When they had before it was "just a cold" I'm "just a mom" so I don't know what I'm talking about. This time instead of the "just a cold" answer I heard "Oh, her lungs are awful noisy. Lets send you over to EIRMC for an rsv test." We got that done, negative. Phew. Then the next day they called and had us go back for a whooping cough test. No one told me what that required. I thought it would be a swab like the rsv, but no. It took five nurses holding my poor baby down to get to a vain to draw blood. They poked and prodded and had to do the other arm as well. She absolutely FREAKED and for good reason. We still haven't heard the results on that. Here she is below after her blood draw. I had to get a pic of her little arms.
Next, Makoy. He got a fever a few weekends ago that lasted from Friday to Sunday. He slept from 10 AM to 6:30 PM, so not like him. Come Monday though he seemed fine and we carried on with life. Thursday rolls around and he is lethargic. He slept from 7:30 Wednesday night to 3:30 the next afternoon. I woke him up to go to the doctor and he fell asleep again in the car. Crazy! Turns out he had strep. I have never seen him so miserable. I had to carry him everywhere, he didn't eat for a good week, and all he did was sleep. We felt terrible because he had to miss his Birthday party at school Friday, but we were going to make up for it for him over the weekend. Party hardy right?! Wrong!
Poor, sick boy. He did not move from this position, even when they swabbed his throat and nose.
So Thursday night I started feeling like I had a cold. I was not feeling great, but thought by morning all would be well. In the middle of the night I was begging Shane to just kill me. By morning I knew I had to go to the doctor. I couldn't even walk without help and my fever was 103. The diagnosis- Influenza B. Awesome. Makoy's party was canceled and I felt so terrible. I could go into more detail but basically I have never wanted to die so bad in my life. My knees hurt from smacking together from the chills, I was seeing double, I couldn't walk on my own, my fever never went below 102.5 for FIVE days straight, my body ached so bad I could not help but thrash around, my cough was so painful, every hair follicle on my head throbbed, I couldn't talk, the room did nothing but spin. Those are just a few of the fun things that came with it. Then Saturday, I started puking my guts out on top of all that. All I could think of..."I'm puking up 90 dollar medicine!" We all were put on medicine to try and stop the whole fam from getting it. I could not stop puking so off I went to Urgent Care. I don't even remember the visit. I know I laid my head in my barf bowl I brought with at one point. Don't worry, it was empty. I got a shot and was told I must be one of the lucky ones that got hit with this strand that makes you throw up as well for whatever reason. Including surgeries but not including birth, that is the worst I have ever, ever felt. I'm finally out of bed today and able to walk around and everything. So awesome!! Thank you SO much to everyone who has helped us out during this. I physically could not take care of the kids, so they were passed around and taken care of. Thank you! Thank goodness for family. Also, a shout out to my hubby for all of his help. He was run ragged taking care of me and the kids while trying to study for tests this week and work. Thank you so much for taking such good care of me and the kids. I love you! I have missed my kids so much. It's times like this you're reminded how much you have to be grateful for!
Sorry for the extremely long and probably boring post for most people. I'm not really sure why I talked about it since it's not really a fun memory, but it's what we've been up to! Anyway, Channing turned three months on the 10th. She is getting so big! At the doctor when she was getting tests done she was 10 lbs 9 oz. She seriously looks like she weighs about 20 lbs though. She's got some seriously chubby thighs goin on! Since she has been formula fed she has been so much happier and better at night. I have many more pictures to put on here, so I will do another post soon of just pictures. Anyway, here are a few things she's doing.
She is trying to sit up when on her back
She is giggling all the time
She's eating 4 oz every 3 hrs
She gets excited when she sees you and will kick her legs and snort out of excitement
She has a death grip on my hair at all times
Her hands and fingers are her best friends. She chews on them all the time.
She is starting to figure out she can use her hands to grab things.
She usually sleeps for about six hours straight at night. HUGE improvement from an hour at a time!
We got her ears pierced. Judge all you want...I don't regret it!
Look how stinking cute she is!
Sportin some majorly chubby cheeks! She really does smile, I promise.
This is her figuring out she can use her arm for things like hugs =)
Sweet baby
Munching on her fingers...always. Look at those chubby legs!
I love my kids so much, and I love being a stay at home mom! I'm so grateful.
