Tommy spent the first half of the week cranky and sleepy and feverish. Monday night we had a scare with his temperature. Around midnight he woke up shaking and crying - he was up to 104 degrees! Mommy was worried. Tommy was really hot. We undressed him and gave him medication. Daddy gave him a priesthood blessing. We gave him a popsicle and cooled him down with a spongebath. After a few hours, his temperature was down to 100, and he fell asleep. The next day he was back up to 102 and we took him to the doctor. Antibiotics have been helping. He is more active and the fever is gone, but he is still clingy and grumpy. We just want to be healthy again!
Happy news.....the driveway was finally paved. It seemed like last week took the entire week to do the prep and cement curbing. The asphalt was done in less than two hours! I forgot to get a picture of the finished project. It looks and feels awesome.
Lily's dance recital is just two and a half weeks away. They are still practicing hard. Lily loves to dance. She especially loves it when I can come in and watch.
I was able to drag us out of the house for story time at the library. Of course the girls were in their Frozen dresses. This moment was so sweet because they sat down and held hands all the way through the stories.
Tommy has figured out the backdoor steps. He refuses to crawl down them! We're still struggling with the steps to the basement too. He tries to walk down them or go down head first. He just won't sit on his bum or slide down backwards on his tummy. But the back door has rails to hold on to. Tommy is pretty fast at getting up and down the three steps. He is always do proud of himself when he gets up or down. And it is so strange to see him walking nearly all the time. I turn around and see him standing or walking right next to me. Such a big boy!
Annie has inherited Mommy's eye allergies. We had a scare with her on Friday night. She was complaining about something pokey in her eye at bedtime. We told her to leave it alone and go back to sleep. A few minutes later she came out of her room screaming with an eye that was swollen shut. We felt like the worst parents ever. Daddy tried to flush it out with eye drops while Mommy was cleaning the house. Annie just screamed and wouldn't let Jeremy get near her eye. She finally got so miserable that she was desperate. Annie let Mommy flush out her eyes with water in the bathtub. She cried but Mommy tried to be very gentle and slow. We took this picture after the water flushing. It helped a lot - at least she could open her eye again - but things were still bad. We gave Annie a dose of Benadryl and a cold compress. Then after she had relaxed and was trusting us to go near her eye again, Mommy flushed out her eye with drops and swiped out the itchy mucus with a Q-Tip. It was a long process but Annie woke up totally normal in the morning. Poor little one.
Through all the sickness and grumpy days of this week, Lily has been a big helper and our comedic relief. She made herself a tortilla face mask and ran around saying funny stuff the other night. It was great to have a little silly time. Thanks for being such a tender and intuitive little bug Lily. We are blessed to have you in our family.
We're all starting to feel better. The cough is lingering, but all the fevers and other symptoms are gone. Hopefully Daddy will not get as sick as the rest of us. The weather was cold and rainy most of the week which was nice for laying low and resting. Hopefully we'll be able to enjoy some warmer days and more peaceful nights in the coming week.
