My day....

I know you love hearing about *those* days. When my children are adults, I want them to be able to look back when they are having a bad day with their children and see what a handfull they were!! About 2 weeks ago sister went to big brothers school for a 'trial' day to see if she was ready to start the 1 year old class for 2 days a week. We have her signed up to start in September, but a spot opened up and the director wanted her to start now. Problem is, I had just started slowly weaning that morning nap for her to start in September. I thought the 'trial' day would give us an idea if she could start now or just wait until September. Her day went great. She loved the teachers, kids, the toys, and Holdyn LOVED seeing her on the playground! I was going to think about it for a few days but since she did so go, why not go ahead and let her start. Well that evening she started acting funny. The next morning she had a clear runny nose. I chalked it up to teething because she is getting several in right now. So during the past 2 weeks, the clear runny nose has turned in to a green faucet, a bad fever, goopy eyes, and a raspy conjested cough. Could be a coincidence, but I doubt it. I am assuming she caught a small something at school and it got worse from there. This was her first time for 3 hours straight that she was in a 'group' setting with children her own age. That is why I am a stay at home mom, to keep our kids from constantly getting sick (well one of the many reasons).  I know she will probably get sick when she starts in September, but she will only be going 2 or 3 days a week and we have to give her immune system time to build up and get used to it. When we put Holdyn in full time day care at 9 months old, he was constantly sick. I would go to class and at least get a call once a week to come get him because he had a fever and then couldn't come back until 24 hours after he was fever free, which resulted in momma missing school and no time to study since I was holding and caring for a sick baby, which led to ear tubes at 11 months old. Ok I am getting off topic... so over the weekend Mr. R even said she needed to go to the doctor. Once everything started turning green I was worried that we would end up at the peditricians office. I called first thing Monday morning. We went to pick up Holdyn from school then headed to her appointment. The teachers loves seeing her and they talk to her everyday. When they were putting Holdyn in the car, they said you could tell that she just looked miserable and had droopy eyes like a sad puppy but she still had the energy to give them a big smile. No matter how sick or hurting, that baby smiles 99% of the time! After the diagnosis, this was one sick baby! She has a double ear infection, double eye infection (ooey green stuff coming out... all connected to the sinuses), sinus infection, and bronchitis. WOW. If I would have known that I would have taken her a lot sooner but she didn't act like she was hurting or sick! So now she is on THREE oral medications (fever, cough/congestion, and antibiotic) and eye drops twice a day. This girl does NOT take medication good. She has a nice trick with her tongue and will block it and it all runs out on both sides of her mouth..... we are both then covered in a sticky mess! I started hiding it in her milk cups... I guess with the 3 different kinds mixed together it didn't taste too good so now I am doing only one med in the cup and just forcing fluids all day just to get these meds in her! She is still not herself even after being on meds for 48 hours. She is still very clingy and fussy and has perfected shaking her head 'no' so hard when she doesn't want something, it practically shakes her whole body.. haha! The girl knows what she wants! Being on antibiotics you know what that means... an upset tummy! I put her down for a nap yesterday and had no clue what I was in for when she woke up. About an hour later I heard her 'talking' on the monitor. I went into her dark room and smelt a stinky and I told her ' oh you have a poppy stinky baby sister!' I turned on the light to reach over to get her and BAM. She took off her diaper for the very first time in her life.... and it HAD to be during a time that she is on antibiotics!! There were poop handprints allll over the crib rails. She was covered in poop and so was everything in her bed. Problem was... our new realtor was expected to arrive to take pictures of the house in 30 minutes.... So I knew I had to act fast!! I threw her in the tub to get her in clean clothes and put her down to let her and brother play with their little kitchen.

As I was pulling the sheets and the waterproof pad (yes it was on that too!) I had to pull the crib away from the wall to pull off the back side and I got another surprise.....

I about had a heart attack. As I knelt down trying to decide the best way to clean the wall, the phone rings. It's our new realtor. She says she is running EARLY... yes early... not late... and she would be there in a few minutes.... all I could do was laugh cause if not, I would have been crying!! I quickly explained the situation to her so she be warned of the foul odor she was about to walk in to! I cleaned it up the best I could, started the washer, and threw a blanket over the empty mattress just for the pictures sake. At least it wasn't a real showing!!

Sister has been in to EVERYTHING lately. She now has a fascination with drawers. I walk around all day shutting drawers. She opens our dresser drawers and pulls out all of daddys clothes then she goes to EVERY drawer in the kitchen and opens them all. As of yesterday, she can now open the top kitchen drawers. I caught her opening the knife drawer yesterday! (Don't know why this pic turned out so small)

You wouldn't even know she was sick just by looking at her. It's funny thinking back to when I was pregnant with her. We were trying to teach Holdyn that her name was 'Hadley' well his speech and vocabulary were that of a 2.5 year old at the time and when he would say her name, he pronounced it as 'Happy'. It  kinda stuck and well all just called her Happy (just like we call Holdyn HoHo cause that is what he would call himself when he was little). It's funny that she really truly is a happy baby. I guess Holdyn just knew that, just like he just KNEW before we even did and he was VERY adament that he was having a baby SISTA.

Now to brother. My wild child! He is an angel and school and NEVER gets in trouble there. I tell his teachers the horror stories of what he does at home or how he acts and they are always like 'oh whatever, he is not!' They just did not believe it since they only see his well behaved side. Well yesterday that got to see the 'other' Holdyn. HA! Bad to say, but I'm glad they now see what I'm talking about!! Teacher Maria but Holdyn in the car and said ' tell mommy the new rules we learned about the sand box today' .... he looked straight down at the floor and wouldn't talk or look at either of us. I knew right away by his actions that he did something bad because he was sooo embarassed. His teacher said he filled a dump truck up with sand, took it out of the sand box and went and dumped the entire thing on the head of one of the two girls in the class. I started getting on to him and teacher Maria said he had been punished and he had to clean up the mess and tell her he was sorry. We got home and he still wouldn't talk about it. I made him sit down and we wrote an apology letter to the little girl and colored a picture and he signed his name and put it in his bookbag. The next morning I caught him taking it out. I asked what he was doing with it and he said " Let's just mail it to her mommy" I told him absolutely not and that he was taking it to her. He then told me "Well I will take it to her tomorrow"... HA! I don't think so buddy! I made him take it that day. I guess he was very very embarassed but maybe that will stop him from doing something like that again!