Super E Mustachio

Yeah, he's pretty awesome

Big first

 Mark your calendars, Lucy had a note worthy first on Sunday night. She got her first kiss (you thought she took her first steps, huh?) I'm pretty sure Mike started pricing shot guns once we got home.
Here's what happened; for the third week, our Sunday, family dinner was cancelled due to illness. Mike owed Ethan a date, we didn't have anything for dinner so Lucy and I crashed the date. We went to Itz (it's a lot like Chuck E Cheese). I was walking Lucy around and there was a little boy (maybe 1.5) running around. Lucy kept following him, his mom told him he should go say hi. He walked right up to her, kissed her on the mouth and ran away. It was very cute.

  

Wordless Wednesday

  

 

Lucy, what are you smiling at? Wait, that's not a smi...what's that smell?

Lucy, quit trying to distract me, it isn't coming from Daddy

 It's true, what they tell you about buying expensive toys and kids play with the packaging. We have toys coming out of our ears and the thing that has kept these 2 busy? The tupperware cupboard, good thing we keep every random piece of tupperware we come across.

 No explanation needed, Daddy needed a good take down and there were two volunteers

Ethan, I don't want a picture of the inside of your nose or mouth, let me see your face! (These phrases have actually come out of my mouth, I couldn't make it up if I tried)

 Again, the kid has at least 5 masks in his toy box but turns a Happy Meal box into a helmet with laser spy goggles. You have to admit he's creative.

SIck, sick, sick

So, Ethan has finally gotten off his 5 day post on the couch. He is slowly returning back to his normal self. I can say that this was the longest, hardest, most emotional illness we have gone through so far with him. He was not even close to being the energetic kid we know. He could barely eat or drink and wouldn't really move. He slept terribly and napped on and off while watching movies. We put in at least 3 calls to the doctor as well as the visit we made there on Monday. Diagnosis: very bad chest cold (probably RSV but it's not usually tested in older kids unless they have other medical conditions). Bad news about his diagnosis, there's no medications to treat viral infections, we just have to ride it out. I think we're finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with him, he's eating more, he actually slept in his own bed last night and he played a little at Grandma's house today.
But of course, now we have 2 children, what the older one gets from school or church or wherever else, the younger one gets from him. Lucy had a small fever Tuesday night and didn't sleep well. Wednesday, she was coughing a bit and we noticed a small wheeze. Thursday morning the wheeze was a lot worse so back to the doctor we went. I guess we were very fortunate that we even got an appointment, the office was short 1/2 of their staff and is booked with sick and well visits, they were sending most patients to urgent care. Once in our appointment, we found that she weighs 17 pounds, 12 ounces and her oxygen levels were good (higher then her brothers). They tested her for flu and RSV and the RSV came back positive. RSV is a viral infection (aka not treatable) that is like a bad chest cold (sound familiar?). It can cause respiratory distress and could potentially be very harmful to babies. With Lucy's age, health, the fact that she has been nursing well, having regular diapers, her temperament is wonderful, she was sent home with the instructions to watch her breathing, if it looked like she was struggling, get her in. She's been doing well, still a happy baby (unless she's tired), the wheeze goes away when she's sleeping (thank God, cause I was checking on her every 15 minutes last night), she let me sleep in about 2 hour increments (not great but not as bad as it could be).

What do you mean I have RSV?

That's terrible news!

Those pictures were actually taken on Valentines Day, before our little miss was diagnosed with RSV. These were taken after

Look at those boogers!!

After going through this, I can't wait to have a date night with my husband. We have been such a team going through this (how do people do this with 3 sick kids, there's more kids then parents).

Happy Valentines Day

 My baby's first Valentines day, her shirts says "Free Hugs (While Supplies Last)"

 And, although he should be at his Preschool Valentine's day party, Ethan is spending his third day on the couch, sick. It's been a hard few days (and nights) at our house. Whenever one of the kids gets sick, it's hard to watch them go through it, knowing the only thing you can do is cuddle them and be there, but this illness has gotten us all a little emotionally unstable. He's never been this sick, this long. I'm talking not eating hardly drinking, had to go to the doctor's, sick. Then add in that because of it, we're not sleeping well. We're just doing what we can to make him comfortable and and hydrated.
Hopefully within the next day or so he'll be back to his normal, goofy self