Good News

Our prayers our answered!  My Grandpa is home from the hospital and doing well.  After all of his cardiac tests came back good, they determined that one of his medications was causing his problems.  So another blessing to be added to our list!  Along with healthy kids, at last!

Tonight we had baseball sign up for Christian.  He is so excited to get back out on the field again this summer!

Last week, we had soccer sign up.  I was a bit sad signing him up for Soccer since I will not be able to be at any of Christian's games since they are all on Saturday mornings. So while I sit in class, Christian will be out playing Soccer in April and May.  Good thing we have amazing family that will be there cheering him on since I can't :( I just have to keep in mind that in 3 more years I will have my degree and then will then be able to make it to ALL of the kids sports events!  In the meantime, I carry on!

On another note,  Happy Ash Wednesday!  Now begins our Journey to Easter, one of my favorite celebrations!

A Little Prayer Needed

My Grandpa was admitted to the hospital today for some heart troubles and difficulty breathing. If you all could keep him in your prayers, we would really appreciate it! Hopefully it is a short stay for him but we also want to make sure that they make sure he all healthy before he comes home!

On a more positive note,  Christian is finally starting to feel better.  He did end up going to school today.  He had a mild fever yet this morning but he insisted that he wanted to go back to school.  So after a chat with his teacher to call if he isn't feeling well,  he went to school and did great. We could tell that he was worn out by the end of the day but we he was happy to be back. His daily writing assignment was sent home and he had wrote, "I'm happy to be back at school!"  So now we will be saying little prayers to keep us all healthy until Spring when we can finally open all the windows and air this sickly house out :)

Lots of Rest!

Nurturing this very sick boy, is all that has been going on around here...

Lots of rest, smoothies, and cuddling!  His poor throat does not seem to be getting better at all :(  We'll see if he will be able to go to school tomorrow, otherwise it may be back to the doctor we go!

Back at it again...

Well, just when I thought that we are healthy and back to normal, BAM, Christian winds up sick.  I should have known that he couldn't escape the furry of sickness :)

Christian went to weekday bible class last night but only after a full blown emotional breakdown because he didn't want to have to sing.  He ended up doing just fine at class but when he got home, he looked exhausted.  I felt his forehead, and sure enough, he had a 102 fever.  We figured that he was getting the stomach bug that Bryleigh just recovered from. He stayed home from school today and later this afternoon started complaining of his left ear hurting.  I decided it would be best to take him to the walk in clinic.

We were in and out of the walk in clinic within 15 minutes and the diagnosis....Strep Throat!  We went in figuring it was an ear infection and came out with a completely different diagnosis.  It makes sense though because Christian was just unable to identify his pain to us. Although, we were told to keep him home from school again tomorrow, Christian has been in such a great mood.

It breaks my heart seeing the littles sick, especially, since tomorrow is my Mandatory Field Placement Seminar for school so I won't be home until Saturday afternoon to care for my sick little guy.  I'm so blessed that he has an amazing Daddy to take care of him but I still feel guilty :( There will be lots of time spent with him when I get home on Saturday though!

Getting Smarter

I can't say that we have much exciting happenings going on over here.  Besides our Super Bowl Party that we attended at Bryan's Uncle's house, we have been hanging out at home.

I've had massive amounts of readings for school and a few assignments  that (dare I say it?) enjoyed doing!  I had to create an Eco Map and a Genogram of my family which was a lot of fun to create. They both basically look at the social systems and family dynamics in my household!

And the best part of it all was that I was able to poke fun at my sister a little bit since her marriages/divorces made up the majority of my Genogram!  Hey sis,  you know I love you, but that's what sister's are for :)

Bryleigh's First Haircut

Thankfully, Bryleigh seems to be healthy again!  She actually woke up this morning and asked for breakfast immediately.  She ate toast, yogurt, and applesauce!  Woohoo, for her first real meal in at least 4 days!

And since she was feeling better, I decided to take her to get her first haircut...

Waiting...

Waiting...

Our favorite hair dresser, Shannon

Before

During

Such a big girl :)

After

After

She did amazingly well. She sat so very still and had a grin on her face the entire time. She still has baby fine, thin hair so there is not a big difference, but it sure needed to be evened out a bit.  We will keep growing her hair out but at least now it is all one length and the ends are healthier!

And of course, we saved a snip of her hair for the baby book :)

On the Mend

I was pretty worried that we were going to have to take Bryleigh into urgent care today since she has not been getting better. Last night was the worst, poor girl was so sick.  She hasn't eaten in almost 4 days and she has it coming out both ends :(  I have never seen her that sick and it just broke my heart!  I felt so bad having to leave for school this morning.  But she had her Daddy taking care of her and thankfully, she appears to be on the mend. Let's hope she keeps getting better because for the past few days, just when she appears to be doing better, boom and its back.

When I got home from school, we had a low key night of games....

...and Army men!  Christian is coming up on his 100th day of school and one of his activities involved bringing in 100 of an item. So Christian chose Army men! And we had a few to spare which entertained him for a good hour!

If Bryleigh is doing well enough tomorrow, we have plans to go to a Superbowl party.  We are looking forward to getting out of the house with the kids because it has been a long week for all of us :)