Apparently Not Indestructible

About 2 minutes after Olivia snapped these pictures of me and Rhodes, he thought it'd be a dandy idea to give his mother a scare and bust a lip and tooth.  Bust them so hard that the tooth LOOSENED!


I have to say, it's not easy to send me in to "fight or flight" mode.  The last time I remember feeling that kind of adrenaline go through my body was when Landon cut his head open and needed stitches.  I knew seeing a baby tooth hang out wasn't good.

I called the dentist and they told me to come in and check it out.  That meant loading up 4 feisty kids at 3:30 and all heading to see the doc.  They called us back and we ALL had to go back and sit in one of those tiny little rooms.  In those tiny little rooms are LOTS of little things that look really fun for kids to touch and play with.  But they are completely inappropriate for kids to touch and play with.

This is where SIT TIME comes in handy out in public.  I put Landon in the waiting chair, Lillian on the floor next to him, Rhodes in the dentist chair, and Olivia behind him in another chair.  I told them they were to sit there until I told them to get up.  Even Rhodes.  And I'm proud to say they did it!!!

Rhodes scowled at me every time I reminded him to sit still or sit down.  But he definitely knew what I meant and wasn't getting up.

I glad to say that Rhodes is going to be okay.  He definitely has a nice little split on his gum, but they said the tooth would grow back in.  Isn't it amazing how resilient kids are!?!??!

Now, let's hope and pray it's a while before I get another scare like that!!!!

All Better

We are all better!  And thank you LORD, Robert and I didn't get whatever the kids were fighting!

Here they are...they're last "meal" before The Virus of Early 2010.


Maybe I can remind them what happened after they ate their ice cream the next time they hear the truck's music and want to buy one!




They have many more choices these days.  And their price have tripled since I was a kid.  It was $5 for 3 items!!!  That's more that we pay for all 5 of us at Brusters!!

Oh, and did I mention Spring Break starts today at 12:30!!!!!!!!!

YAY!  I'm looking forward to a little sleep and relaxation.  Yes, it's actually possible with 4 kids.   :-)

And we're GOING TO THE BEACH!!!!  I'm looking forward to a change of scenery!!  It's been a long, trying and tiring week.  I will be glad to put my feet in some sand...even if we can't swim in the ocean!

Oh, but the pool is HEATED!!! :-)

Little man is quite excited!  Can't you tell?




We don't leave for a few more days so I hope it's pretty enough around here to get out and about!

Happy Spring Break everyone!

Don't forget to set your clocks forward this weekend!!! :-)

Taught Her Well

Lillian is a little under the weather today.  I'm praying the other kids will be FREE from any of this sickness!

Needless to say, I've been doing a good bit of laundry.  Specifically towels.  

And bless her heart, I found her curled up on her "sick towel pile" with the germ-x bottle right next to her.  She's been watching me use it after each time I touch her.  I guess she thought she'd use it too.

Please pray I don't get whatever she has.  I don't think I could handle 4 kids and hugging the toilet at the same time!!!  'Cause I thought handling 3 when I was sick was hard!


Update at 4:17 pm:

Landon began throwing up and Olivia threw up at school.

But the good thing is that they all have it at the same time and DURING THE DAY!! :-)

So I seriously have the best end of the bargain.

Still praying Robert and I won't get it!!!!!!!!!

UnEventful

And I say that as a good thing!!

Our weekend was quite uneventful compared to last weekend and last week. Last week started with an overwhelming event and didn't stop there! Along with that (I don't even want to speak it back into our life), Landon also got a throw up bug. Yeah. So I had said I'd rather have the throw ups than {the other bug} but I didn't mean BOTH!

So this week is bound to start off better! I'm looking forward to settling into our school routine and getting things back to normal here at the house.

Also on the agenda for the week - PEDICURE! :-) Can't have feet that don't look nice when you're at the hospital! ;-) I'm even considering making a packing list for the hospital - in case Robert has to pack my bags! :-)


Here are some pics from our one outing this weekend - our cousin's 4th birthday party! So Abby and Elaine...if you want any of these pics, just let me know! ;-)










These boys are hilarious together! I told them to make funny faces and show me their muscles!





So sweet! I'm telling ya...Landon really needs a brother.

Too bad I had another dream this baby was a girl. That's 3 dreams for girl and 1 dream for boy. Hmmm......we shall soon find out!

I Wasn't Going To Tell You But....

Any future pictures will most definitely bring up questions. And in order to keep it real around here I might as well spill it. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Backing up a little...

Last weekend was a weekend full of cleaning out, rearranging, preparing for baby, organizing, etc. You name it, we did it. It felt great. I love weekends like that. Saturday was an extremely productive day. I also realized why pregnant women should do the baby stuff much earlier in their pregnancy than I chose to. Because lifting boxes and sorting through stuff is exhausting at 37 weeks.

So needless to say, I was looking forward to a nice, relaxing Sunday. Going to church, lunch with the family, nap and family game night. Our usually Sunday.

Didn't happen.

We were almost ready for church and I was starting to blow dry Olivia's hair. She flipped her hair over and it looked like dandruff. But no. Worse. You guessed it. LICE.

The thing is, Olivia has been complaining about her head being itchy. So being normal, fairly concerned parent, I had my dad check it out and even had the PEDIATRICIAN look at her at the doctor last week!!!!!!!!! People...I asked the DOCTOR!!! So I don't know how this escaped our attention.

So, wanting to fix it NOW, I bolted out the door in 1.5 seconds. Bought $40 worth of lice kits and beelined it home. Robert and I spent the next 2.5 hours hand combing every single strand of hair on Olivia's head. Both of us!! It was tedious. But absolutely 100% necessary.

It didn't even cross our minds to check out Lillian and Landon because we were so consumed with getting Olivia better. I felt so bad for her! Lillian checked out okay but Landon, not so much. It was not NEARLY as bad as Olivia had it but he still needed to be treated. The most obvious and helpful solution was to shave his head. {heavy sobs}

I was racking my brain to figure out any other way around it. We were due for a haircut the next day (I ♥ his barber so much) to prepare for his first day of school. But that didn't seem right. So Robert brought out the clippers. I cried, oh I cried. I cried so hard the only thing I knew to do was call my momma! And I did. I think it was a culmination of how the whole morning unfolded, the ache for my kids having to go through this, and of course, the lovely raging pregnancy hormones.

Mom was so nice and told me that I'm not a bad mother because of this. And that we had it every year for 3 years during elementary school. Even our neighbor was telling us stories about having it. So we aren't alone in the "lice club". Still. I was a little embarrassed in the checkout line at Walmart. And I've bought things that should have embarrassed me much more before! :-)

Needless to say, after the humans were dealt with, we tackled the material things in the house. I've never actually had to strip every.single.bed. at the same time - I rotate sheet washing. But there's always a first time for everything.

The worst part is, you have this whole "bug idea" in your head. So you start to feel all creepy crawly. I'm scared to touch anything in the house without sterilizing it. I'm not sure if I need to wash sheets every day for a while or just keep spraying. I don't know what the protocol is. Do I call everyone she's been in contact with? It's not like she's shared a brush with anyone recently. I just don't know what to do from here.


But here's what my sweet little boy looks like now. {more tears}



He was SO mad when he first saw it in the mirror. I mean, M-A-D. Sooo mad, it made Robert do this.

(picture removed at request of husband - it was his hair shaved as a mohawk) :-)

Then he finish it off. And Landon was happy.



Thank goodness his hair grows at lightning speeds.


And now, I officially have no one that will want to be in our vicinity this week.


**UPDATE**

I feel much better about this whole situation after talking with the doctor - who, by the way, said they are seeing this everywhere. They said the kids were fine 24 hours after being treated. We will still aggressively treat it just to be safe but I am confident with our efforts so far. Even though we weren't obligated to tell their school (and thank goodness they hadn't started yet!!!) we let them know anyways - in my heart, I felt it was the right thing to do.


It's also funny that everyone I tell has a "lice story". Kinda makes me feel better. Though OVERWHELM was the best word to describe how I felt the past few days. Because I assure you that this WAS NOT on my list to tackle before this baby comes. I think I even broke a record for number of loads of laundry done in one day.

Put it this way - I would rather us all have the THROW UP BUG than have lice!

But all is good now!!! :-) So no worries!

3 Kids In Bags

This is how most of our day was spent. Except the time that they were actually in their beds. Three days before the beach and they all get sick. But thank you Lord we caught it beforehand!! Bless their hearts!

They are pretty darn cute and cuddly when they are sick, though. ;-)

You're Not Going To Believe This

So you know all know how fabulous a Friday I had. And how much I was looking forward to this last weekend, right? Well, forget that! It was so fabulous because it knew how horrible my Saturday would be!

Woke up Saturday morning throwing up. Yes. Sorry if TMI. But I get this bug maybe twice a year. And it had to be this day. I could have sworn it was food poisoning. But I stayed in bed all day while Robert so lovingly kept the kids out of my way. Again, kept the healthy, fun, playful kids.....

So I'm all sick in bed and just about in tears. I was going to go to this wedding.

I manage to pull myself out of bed and shower just in time for the wedding. I did myself as best I could. We made it to the wedding and the bride was beautiful. So was the reception. And I'd love to tell you about all the yummy food, but I can't. :-( I nibbled a bit, but my stomach just couldn't handle it. So I nursed my 1/2 diet coke 1/2 real coke drink and water all night. I did manage to stomach down about 2 bites of the bride's cake. It was one of the best I've ever had. But that could be because I hadn't eaten in 24 hours! And when the server took my mostly-not-eaten-but-I'm-finished piece of cake away, I almost cried again. That was a first. Usually I polish off a piece of bride and groom's cake, plus half the buffet! But I sent away a pretty much full piece of cake. :-(

After leaving the wedding much earlier that I ever wanted to, I crawled into bed and got a nice night's sleep. My stomach even growled Sunday morning.

OH, but it get's better.

I wake up to Robert sick in the bathroom AND Landon telling me he threw up in his bed.

Wonderful.

Our den floor was quickly covered with towels and movies were started. I kept eating to a minimum until I could tell how sensitive everyone's stomachs were going to be.

It ended up not being too bad. Just sore tummies, as the kids said. But I still had some messes to clean up. And I still wasn't comfortable taking the kids out in public. Thus, we were stuck at home. :-(


But this is my question. And it always seems to be like this. Why is it that when I'm sick, everyone else is just fine. Therefore, Robert just has to keep the kids out of the way and leave me to myself to get better. BUT, as soon as I get a little better, EVERYONE ELSE gets sick. Leaving me to clean up not-so-lovely-messes of 4 people by myself all while not quite 100% better yet!?!? I don't get it.....the life of a mom. Got to love it!! And I do. :-)

I hope y'all had a better weekend that we did!! I'm looking forward to a great week though. We go for our big ultrasound tomorrow. I'm excited to take Olivia so that she will have a bunch of pictures for herself of the baby. It's always fun to peak in there. Even if we aren't finding out!!!

I'm a New Woman!

Well, we ALL went to bed before it was dark outside last night. I thought the kids would have trouble...but we all got a wonderful night's sleep!!

I feel so good. Except I'm a slave to my washer and dryer today. Oh, and the Lysol bottle.


On a different note, Lillian has her one year check up today. I can't wait to see how much she's grown. She's just gettin' so big!

Our new favorite game is chase.


And she loves ice cream cones from Bruster's! (No surprise there!)

the domino effect

yup...it was quick...first robert, then lillian, then landon, then me.....all-night-long.

Hopefully it's gone.

And yes, Annie...there is somthing out there. Olivia hasn't been sick like that in months or years even!

I'll be sleeping all day.

Speaking Of Being Sick....

The kids knew Daddy was sick and they weren't to bother him. So, in order to do our normal evening routine without any of Daddy's awesome help, I sent the kids outside while I cleaned up dinner and took care of Lillian!

While they were outside, they were up to much good. (I'm not sure I'll ever say that again!) After a while, they came inside with papers in their hands heading towards Daddy. I reminded them they could not go in our room.

They immediately ran and got scotch tape and headed, once again, towards Daddy.

They were taping pictures that they had made outside for him on our door!

Awe....they just want him to get better...and spent their evening thinking of what they could draw him to let him know they were thinking about him!!



And the whole time I thought they were out there up to no good!

I admit..I was wrong. (for once) :-)


On another note, I may be sleeping on the couch tonight. I can't afford to get sick!

Just Call Me Nurse Lindsay

First Landon (with stitches), then Olivia with somethin' (we'll call it the "stomach ache bug"), now Robert.

I just pray Lillian or I don't get it.

It was a few rough nights with Olivia. The longest "bug" I've ever experienced with any child. Other than the initial throwing up, there were really no other symptoms but a bad stomach ache/nausea. Probably the worst kind out there. Finally she got better.

Then, Robert comes home way earlier than expected. Beelines it for the bed and hasn't come out. Poor thing. They say things are worse when you're an adult.

Thanks goodness I have my act together this week!! ;-)

What a Weekend!

Well, what a weekend. Recently my cousin emailed me and said, 'you ought to blog about what you do with you have food poisoning and a 16 month old!'. Well, here it is. It all started Friday night when Olivia said her stomach hurt. I hear this on almost a daily basis. So, I took it lightly. Well, 8;00 pm, bedtime at our house, she starts throwing up!!!! Really?! You couldn't do this during the day. You know, kids don't know how to throw up during the day. Their little bodies have this internal throw up clock that thinks to itself, "Are the parents as tired as they can be?? Have their heads hit the pillow yet?" And then it's off!!

So, in between cleaning up and taking care of Olivia at all hours of the night, I was trying to feed Lillian! Robert took over around 2:00 am - while I got up with Lillian!! (THANKS DARLIN') So I had nearly NO sleep! Not to mention I had a cold/sinus thing going on!

I did manage to make it to my friends party (see post below!) and it was really fun. I need some good food and girl time! But I didn't quite get caught up on sleep from the night before Saturday night either!

So Sunday - we're exhausted!! I took Landon to a birthday party and Olivia went with her Daddy to a farm where he was working on some doors!

She got to fish - and caught quite a few I heard!


So, Sunday night, I can't wait to get in my bed, take some nighttime Tylenol medicine for my cold and SLEEP!!! I haven't been this tired since I came home from the hospital!!

Midnight rolls around and my stomach hurts - NOOOOOOOO!!!!! I think I actually said that out loud!! I run to the bathroom and cling to the white porcelain throne the rest of the night.

Robert helped me Monday! I'm not sure what I would have done without him - he was a life saver!!! He made Olivia's lunch and got her off to school. He cooked and cleaned up dinner for the kids and got them to bed for me that night!! My mom took Landon, Olivia was at school, and he brought me Lillian when she needed to eat! I'm still feeling only about 75% good, but it's such a change from yesterday!

I pray that Robert, Lillian and Landon aren't affected by this virus! Or anyone else for that matter! It's awful!! And hopefully I've had my "one big sick" for the year and now I'm on call for all the "little sicks" that kids get in the wintertime!

Now I plan to get back to some fun blogging!!!