mikey update

yippee!!! my baby's head is perfect - per his CPNP! i love her. she made me feel so much better. his soft spot is small, and we will need to follow that, but all his sutures are fine. she actually worked in peds neurology at children's during her early nursing career, just another plus and reason to love her! she also said that it concerned her b/c i usually didn't over-react about the kids, but she could tell i was really worried about this. now i can relax, and just sit around sniffing his sweet head!

worried about mikey

monday his doc mentioned his soft spot is almost closed up. so i started researching this and i'm really worried. some of the red flags outside of the skull itself are going up (not an avid eater, sleeps alot, high pitch scream - which just started and isn't a colic type thing). the more i reserach it the more worried i get. he is supposed to go back dec 14th for his reg check up, but i think i want to get the ball rolling on checking on this sooner. what i'm reading says corrections is easiest and most successful between 4-10 months. he's 16 weeks this coming tuesday. and if we wait until mid dec and he does need the catscan and referral to a ped neurologist then we're looking at going through all this during the holidays. i have hardly slept at night thinking about the possibility of my precious baby boy having his skull cut apart. and him having to wear protective gear and not being able to kiss his sweet head, i love holding him and smelling his head and giving him sweet kisses on it.

poor mikey bug

little guy is sick. i took him in last week when zach was sick and it was just some snot. well thursday early morning i noticed his cough was changing. over the next 24 hours he would have these strange coughing fits where it was almost like he was choking. so i called first thing this am to have him seen, i didn't know if it was snot or all this damn drool he's got going on (is it really possible to be the beginning of the teething stage already???). anyway, he's wheezing. little guy is hoarse from coughing, and just feels down right pittiful. luckily his sats were 96/97 and now he's on orapred and albuterol. and to top it off, tomorrow night is the night that chris and i are staying in a hotel in atlanta and going to that semi-formal event for his district. i've got him sleeping in his swing and praying the meds to wonders for him over the next 24 hours. my poor mom and a full page lists of the kids and their different meds and when to take them, lol. but there's no one i'd trust more!

i like the smell of construction paper & elmers glue

first off, let me tell you that these days i am pretty much a single parent with the responsibilities of a married person. chris leaves before we do, then doesn't get home until after the boys are in bed most nights. he's working in rome, and then has to come back to cartersville to make his deposit and do any checking in he needs to. sometimes i'm awake longer than 30 minutes when he gets home, most nights not. mikey is still waking every 3 hours at night, so yeah, i'm tired. anyway, i have to find ways to keep the boys occupied, when they get bored bad things happen, lol. and with the weather getting cold and everyone so sick i can't just lock, i mean send, them outside. so we do crafts and attend MOMS club stuff, play at McD's. but their favorite is to "do a project". out of all the kits i've bought of crafts for them, they seem to just like construction paper, glue, buttons, and a hole punch. who knew?!?! ahhh to be young and have life so simple. i noticed tonight when i opened the trash can it smelled of kingergarten, lol, that glue mixed with paper smell, and at that moment i realized that it doesn't take much to make a kid happy.
on other notes. i took them to pottery lane yesterday with the MOMS club. i have avoided that place like the plague, i mean 4 boys in a store full of breakables........like letting a herd of wild buffalo loose right??? nope. my kids were soooooooo good. of course i threatened them before we even got out the car. but they did exactly as i said, had a good time making their stuff, and everyone left happy, without having to pay for any broken items. i even got a compliment from another mom today at the business meeting about their behavior, made me just beam.
i'm loving MOMS club. after the meeting today 3 of us went to lunch, that was nice. and i volunteered to head up the recipe club. for those who don't understand this irony - i'm not the best cook and can't bake to save my life. i love to try new recipes but i'm just not that creative in the kitchen. laugh at me later, but for now i have faith in myself..........i said for now.......geez.
saturday chris and i go to atlanta for a night away. we are staying at the crowne plaza where his work event is. i even forked out the extra money for the romance package, champagne, strawberries, room service breakfast....but you all know they really sucked me in with the late 3pm check out. is it really sad that i'm looking more toward solid uninterrupted sleep than anything else. we joke that we really just want to go for the rest. i told chris i saw no reason to get out of bed before 2:30pm, lmao.
then he leaves sunday night for training in orlando. he won't get home really late friday night. but like i told him, it'll be no different than these past few weeks, lol. actually it may be less stressful, cause the kids are happy with PB&J's every night, lmao.
ok, chris called and i lost my train of thought, my head is pounding, and it's almost my bed time!

zach update

looks like this course of action is working. they called yesterday he does have a little pnemonia in is lower lobes. so they upped his antiB to omnicef (sp). and we went this am and his sats were that magic 94 that we needed to stay outta the hospital. he is moving air better and not working quite so hard, so it seems the atrovant is working it's magic for him. so at this point we keep doing what we're doing and go back monday to make sure he's better. he's on 6 medicines, so it's a crazy routine but worth every minute if it keeps him home. and the orapred has him hopped up like he's on crack, hardly sleeping and going 90MPH. i just keep on trucking, knowing next weekend i get saturday afternoon until sunday afternoon to relax and sleep .... uninterrupted.

holy hell halloween

yesterday morning i was on a roll. everything was going perfect. i had the last minute items i needed for jacob's party and by the way, i totally kicked butt with his party. anyway, there i sit at a red light, heading home to pick up the fridge stuff and head to j's school and BOOM!!. this jerk slammed into my rearend....he thought the light chagned....
just so happened another mom from j's class saw it and stopped. i gave her all my stuff and she took it all to the school. we got the report done and i took my car for inspection to make sure it was safe and legal for driving. got the ok, and made it to j's school with 2 minutes to spare.
the rest of the day from there was a blur of parties and Halloween events. by the time i hit the bed last night at 10pm i was sooooooo tired and sooooooo sore.
mikey is good, got a thumbs up on his carseat from the police and EMT's. they came out just to make sure he was ok.
now today, zach is home sick. we have 24 hours to get his sats up or we're going to children's hospital tomorrow....lovely.
i am beyond exhausted and i'm about to go get him and mikey and pile up in my bed with a little noggin on the tv for some much needed rest.