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Mystery Illness Solved

Posted on July 16, 2007 2:58 am by TheAngelForever

At about 4:40 NHL woke up from a nap and he was starting to burn up again. We asked him what hurt and he said his ear with some help on things to pick from. He was highly agitated with being up and taking more medicine. JL and I decided to get him checked out. So JL took him to the Urgent Care that just opened near here quickly since they close at 6:00.

They left quickly and got there at 5:40 and were on their way home at 7:30. The diagnosis – an ear infection. So NHL was given a script for an antibiotic. I took the script and left the three boys home to head to the 24 hour pharmacy. An hour later I had the medicine with watermelon flavoring added. Then I went to pick up dinner. It was 9:10 when I got there and they closed at 9:00. Luckily there was someone still there and she let me in to get my order.

NHL took his medicine and is in his room watching Curious George. Now we are debating giving him something to keep his temperature down since it has been about 6 hours since that. I hope to head to bed soon since it will be a challenging day with both boys home with me tomorrow – ACK!

C’est Moi

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Posted on July 15, 2007 12:39 pm by TheAngelForever

In an attempt to keep NHL away from JSL we decided to put a television with a DVD player in the boys room (JSL is sleeping in our room while NHL is sick). Let the fun begin! Poor JL. . . he worked on this from just before 7:00 this morning to now – 8:40.

JL was going to put the little one in there, but we didn’t have the thing to make the DVD player work. We had given it to my parents since we didn’t need it. So JL brought the BIG television from upstairs down. Got it down here and NO sound. Ugh! No matter what he did there was nothing – not even on the static channel. We have a feeling it may have been fried when we had the storm the other day. So my parents said we could take the converter thing back to try to use the little television. We tried that and it worked upstairs so I went to my parents house to pick it up.

JL got the little television down and put it in the room. Hooked up the DVD and ready for this? The stupid thing was fuzzy. Yes, we had sound, but the picture was full of static. Ugh! We changed out the DVD player to see if that was the issue. Then he thought that since it was the picture this time it may be a wire gone wonky. So he switched it out and . . . WAHOO it works!

NHL is in his room now watching Bear in the Big Blue House in bed. Now we just need to make him rest and keep meds and fluids in him.

C’est Moi

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Rough weekend

Posted on July 15, 2007 2:32 am by TheAngelForever

This morning NHL and JL got up and let JSL and I sleep a little longer. I got up just in time to make sure JL was ready for the handy man that was coming to look at repairing the siding on the house and checking out our basement pipe that keeps spewing. The man came and did both things for a very reasonable price. After that I took a shower and tried the sample of the Venus Breeze razor that I was sent and I am in LOVE! I used it since I didn’t have the time to use my electric razor. Man this was so nice. You don’t need shaving gel and it left my legs feeling amazing and no cuts either!

Once I was done and had tossed a load of towels into the wash we went out to the mall. We went to EB to get Big Brain Academy for the Wii (with a gift card) and then went to an early lunch in the food court since it was empty. JSL was sleeping so the three of us were able to get things and eat. Then JSL woke up and I fed him a bottle of milk I pumped before we left. After this we went to Borders to look at things since I have a ton of gift cards for there. We all went to the restrooms there. I took JSL and changed his diaper and JL was with NHL. When I came out NHL was curled up on JL’s lap. He was acting tired all morning and JL thought he was warm. No temperature this morning.

We got NHL a few books (buy 2 get 1 free) and went home. JL had to carry NHL to t he car since he was so out of it. We got home and he napped. At 4:00 NHL was up and acting odd and was warm. We took his temperature and it was 100.3 so I went to CVS to get some meds since the liquids we had here were WAY old. At dinner he started talking a mile a minute. NOT a good sign. At 7:45 we took his temperature since he was really acting odd. It was 102+ with the motrin in him. My parents went to get us Tylenol. He got that at close to 8:00. At 8:45 his temp was 103 – so we called the doctor. The new woman was on call. She called at 9:15 and told us how much to give him (more aggressive on the motrin). So we have our game plan for the night, but are always afraid since he had the febrile seizure July 17, 2004. . . ACK!

So at 12:30 we have to wake him up for more Tylenol and 3:30 for Motrin. Then we’ll see how it goes. Meanwhile JSL is sleeping in our room and he’s all cranky. UGH! We’re doing our best at keeping the little one away from NHL, but it’s tough in small quarters.

On that note I am off to get some water and rest before we have to fight NHL again to take more meds.

C’est Moi

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Memories of July 4, 2004

Posted on July 4, 2007 3:48 pm by TheAngelForever

Awwww. . . the memories. Here are some photos of NHL’s first 4th of July. We took him to Hoffman’s for the first time and that night we slept in our house after camping out while it was finished.

*sigh* Where did my baby go?

C’est Moi

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Swing, Sleep & Play!!!

Posted on July 3, 2007 7:45 pm by TheAngelForever

The other day I asked JL to get the Take-Along Swing out that we had from NHL. He got it out and below is a photo of JSL in it for the first time. This swing was something that NHL LOVED. He was always happy in it. He loved the movement and being able to watch things. It was also a great way to keep him up after eating.

JSL’s first time in the swing:

Sunday night JL decided to rent a game for the Wii. He got Cars and he played that while I fed JSL and did a few other things. After a while we actually managed to have both boys to sleep pretty early in their room. Here’s a photo of the way I found them at one point when I went to look at them:

This week we are going to try to get the crib up into the room. JSL is just all over the place in the Pack N’ Play bassinet. He needs more space to rest in when he’s in there. After all he’s now sleeping 5-8 hours more nights and only gets up once to nurse and then goes back to sleep soon after.

In addition to sleeping, JSL is really starting to do more and more each day. He has already rolled over from his tummy to back at least once. He’s drooling and teething like crazy (and he’s only 7 weeks old). He likes to laugh and “talk” to people and smile all the time. Within the last week he started to really like playing with toys. He’s really figuring out that his arms can get/hit things that are in front of him. Here’s a photo of JSL playing on his play mat with some toys. As you can see when I tried to do tummy time with him the result was not quite what I was looking for.