Tuesday, November 13, 2007

These are the days of my life...

Having three children is a lot of fun but can be very stressful. Here's a glimpse of my life for the past week. Gabe's had a cough for a few weeks so last Wednesday I take him to the pediatrician and we're told it's asthma. (No big shocker...Jonathan & I both have it!) The two older boys also get FLU shots at this appointment. I think it's worse having the older kids get shots than the babies any day. To make a long story short, Noah goes first and screams his head off. Gabe watches Noah get his shot and is terrified, so I have to hold him down (have a nurse hold Joel) and have Noah screaming all at the same time. A very stressful event! At which all three fall asleep on the way home! We give Gabe the inhaler (as prescribed) but he gets worse and not better. Sunday, after we went to church and ate lunch with some friends I noticed his eye was red. You guessed it...PINK EYE! At this point Noah now has the same cough and a runny nose. So...Monday morning we all go to the pediatrician's office AGAIN! Gabe is treated for Pink Eye & both boys are given cough medicine. With the nurse practitioner is still in the room, I go to hand Joel to Jonathan and we look at him with GREEN stuff coming out of his nose. He gets checked too and all is well. This brings us to Monday afternoon...Jonathan leaves to go out of town for the rest of the week and now Gabe is running a fever. His fever was around 102 all night. Today he was fine until this afternoon when he started running a low fever again. (You know Gabe doesn't feel good when he takes a nap...a 2 hour nap!) Noah is feeling fine! Joel however has been running a low fever all day and now has Pink Eye! Of course being that he is only 3 1/2 months old he can't use the same drops as Gabe so tomorrow morning we are headed back to the pediatrician AGAIN! Can I just say...PLEASE PRAY FOR ME!~

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Bad Aim

Well, Julie posted about the Poop Cycle so I had to share and inform about MY current problem. I thought I had it all figured out when Gabe was potty training...put an old burp rag or towel at the back of the toilet so when he has "bad aim" it would catch it and not drip down the sides of the toilet onto the floor. However along comes Noah...He waits until he is just about to wet his pants to go and then it drips down the front of the toilet (he isn't tall enough & is in too much of a hurry to lift the seat). He just pees EVERYWHERE! I normally have to spray their bathroom down everyday with bleach so that it doesn't stink, but even when I've just cleaned it, I will go to bathe them and still smell pee! I will add that I have a two air fresheners one plug in and one behind the toilet & they don't help!! I guess this will be a never ending problem at our house and I'm sure it will get worse when Joel gets bigger. Just had to share my frustration and warn all of you that have boys that this will happen to you too! P.S. Don't use ammonia to clean it up...it only worsens the problem!