Sick Week!

I cannot believe that February is already HALF over! Seriously! Why does time have to go so fast? My bubbas are almost 5 months old! In 2 days my (2nd) baby will be FIVE!! And then a week later my (1st) baby will be SEVEN! Whoa! I don't know how that happened! How am I already the mother of a 7 year old...and the mother of 4 children?!?!I've been doing great! Tired, but great! This week was not so great, but it's bound to be that way some time, right? Last Sunday night Jonathan was really really fussy. Yah, so babies get fussy, but not my babies. They have been the best babies, sleeping through the night for nearly a month and a half. He was up several times that night, never to eat, but crying! Poor boy. The next morning when I got up to feed them he felt warm and had a temp of 103. I gave him some tylenol and he went down a 1 degree. He was pretty fussy all day, that afternoon I took his temp and it was 101. I gave him some more tylenol and called the dr. They said since he was recently sick with a cold I should bring him in. His fever was gone by the time we had gotten there. Isn't that they way it ALWAYS works?

She checked him and his chest sounded great, throat looked great, but she couldn't get a good look at his ears! She tried using some tiny qtips and getting some of the wax out, after several tries she had the nurst come in to clean out his ears. Poor guy...he HATED that! They got so much wax out. She came back to check and looked and said there was still too much and tried to get some more out with the tiny qtips, by then he was freaking out. She said she felt bad, had tortured him enough and decided to treat him for an ear infection. She said with the previous cold, sudden fever, and everything else looking great, she just had to assume that's what he had. So...off to the pharmacy to pick up my little ones first medication. Sad. :(

While we were at the dr's office Kaitlyn started telling me her head was hurting. By the time we got home she was really complainging of a major pain in her head. I gave her some tylenol and put her to bed. She had a fever all night and Jenica was also up all night coughing. What the heck!? The next day Jeni said her throat hurt and she stayed home from school coughing the day away (besides the sore throat). Kaitlyn had a fever pretty much all day, and her voice sounded really scratchy, but come wednesday she was back to normal. Thank goodness. Jeni stayed home wednesday and thursday from school. She's had a fever, sore throat, horrible cough by this point. Jonathan was pretty much back to normal and Julian was my only healthy child. Then out of the blue he spikes a fever and starts hacking and weezing!

Jenica went to school on Friday, when I picked her up she had a major boogery nose. Great. Add that to the list. Kaitlyn started sounding scratchy again. Saturday everyone was about the same, exept now Jonathan has whatever Julian has. So now we have 2 hacking/weezing babies! Will it ever end? Julian has been waking up a lot the last few nights. Sometimes he just cries and cries and nothing helps, but luckily most of the time he just wants his binky! We stayed home from church today, obviously you all know why! And this morning Josh told me he woke up last night and Jeni was throwing up! Seriously...do we really have to throw that one in the mix? Luckily she hasn't done anymore of that. By this evening the bubbas are starting to sound a little better, so that's good. Here's to hoping that his week is better!

Did I mention that I have been sick too? Guess that kinda takes the back burner when you have a family to take care of! And I just have to tell you all how awesome my friend Aimee is! She brought us dinner on Thursday night! The most delicious Beef Stew and corn bread muffins. Mmmmm! Comfort food! :)