I'm sitting here at the computer and out of the corner of my eye I'm watching Katherine take an entire roll of floss out of a brand new container. It's giving me some peace and quiet so I don't even care. And it was free from the dentist so, you know...
Now she's trying to press the buttons on the netbook where William and Lucy are watching It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. William tells her no but she insists. Then he says, "Katherine, you're almost going to be two. You need to be a better listener."
And that's called irony, my dear boy.
I took the babies to my mom's this weekend. Brian went to a Notre Dame football game and dropped the older kids off at his mom's on the way there since school was out on fall break. It was a lot of shuffling around and a really long two-and-a-half-hour drive by myself with two babies but it was worth it rather than spending the weekend as a football widow with four kids.
The boys were battling strep throat last week. I used to get all stressed out when one of the kids was sick. Now, with four kids, two in school, it's just become a way of life. The school year begins and I wonder, again, why our clinic doesn't have some sort of punch card program.
But Bobby's situation was especially tricky. He's just ten months old today and that's pretty young to get a strep case. At first I wasn't even certain that's what it was. He was prescribed a powerful antibiotic since our area, in particular, has seen a lot of amoxicillin-resistant strep strains. The antibiotic is disgusting with a capital D. On his third dose he actually gaged himself and threw everything up. And the diarrhea and subsequent diaper rash that it causes...I haven't seen anything like it.
I had so much anxiety around giving him his medicine that by Day 3 I convinced myself he didn't really have strep so I quit the drugs. And so by the next day he had a full on strep rash. I tried to call the clinic to get a new antibiotic but the on-call weekend doc wouldn't budge. I wanted to punch someone.
Regardless, I still had a relaxing weekend at my mom's with half of my kids. The weather was cold but I took the babies for a quick walk outside anyway just to get some fresh air. Katherine refused to wear her mittens even though I'm certain the windchill hovered just above zero. She also refused to leave the playground as Bobby and I were most certainly getting frostbite. Definitely a Minnesotan, that one.
Now she's trying to press the buttons on the netbook where William and Lucy are watching It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. William tells her no but she insists. Then he says, "Katherine, you're almost going to be two. You need to be a better listener."
And that's called irony, my dear boy.
I took the babies to my mom's this weekend. Brian went to a Notre Dame football game and dropped the older kids off at his mom's on the way there since school was out on fall break. It was a lot of shuffling around and a really long two-and-a-half-hour drive by myself with two babies but it was worth it rather than spending the weekend as a football widow with four kids.
The boys were battling strep throat last week. I used to get all stressed out when one of the kids was sick. Now, with four kids, two in school, it's just become a way of life. The school year begins and I wonder, again, why our clinic doesn't have some sort of punch card program.
But Bobby's situation was especially tricky. He's just ten months old today and that's pretty young to get a strep case. At first I wasn't even certain that's what it was. He was prescribed a powerful antibiotic since our area, in particular, has seen a lot of amoxicillin-resistant strep strains. The antibiotic is disgusting with a capital D. On his third dose he actually gaged himself and threw everything up. And the diarrhea and subsequent diaper rash that it causes...I haven't seen anything like it.
I had so much anxiety around giving him his medicine that by Day 3 I convinced myself he didn't really have strep so I quit the drugs. And so by the next day he had a full on strep rash. I tried to call the clinic to get a new antibiotic but the on-call weekend doc wouldn't budge. I wanted to punch someone.
Regardless, I still had a relaxing weekend at my mom's with half of my kids. The weather was cold but I took the babies for a quick walk outside anyway just to get some fresh air. Katherine refused to wear her mittens even though I'm certain the windchill hovered just above zero. She also refused to leave the playground as Bobby and I were most certainly getting frostbite. Definitely a Minnesotan, that one.
Stop the cuteness. Stop it right now. I mean summer's my favorite with swimsuits and sun-kissed skin. But a babies in beanies? I feel sorry for Florida babies.
I beat Brian home yesterday by four or five hours. We did a quick dinner and bath and early bedtime. Then I had time to get my ducks in a row before the rest of the army arrived. And then I got the text.
"L just threw up in the car."
An expletive may have escaped my lips.
I mean c'mon. Give a lady a break.
When she got home she seemed fine. And Brian said she ate dinner fine. I was confused.
"Tell me exactly what happened." I said to Brian.
He said she was reading in the car with the light on. And then playing with his iPhone.
"Brian," I said, "she got carsick."
It happened one other time to her but it was so long ago it didn't even occur to me until I put all the facts together.
She slept soundly through the night. Woke up and ate breakfast like normal and went to school.
But I'm not going to lie. Even though I was certain she was only just carsick and not bringing a virus into our home, I still went to bed with a pit in my stomach. Tossed and turned as every other child woke that night for some reason or another. But not Lucy girl. She was healthy and happy.
Oh dear God, please keep it that way. The Pukes have no place in our home.
I beat Brian home yesterday by four or five hours. We did a quick dinner and bath and early bedtime. Then I had time to get my ducks in a row before the rest of the army arrived. And then I got the text.
"L just threw up in the car."
An expletive may have escaped my lips.
I mean c'mon. Give a lady a break.
When she got home she seemed fine. And Brian said she ate dinner fine. I was confused.
"Tell me exactly what happened." I said to Brian.
He said she was reading in the car with the light on. And then playing with his iPhone.
"Brian," I said, "she got carsick."
It happened one other time to her but it was so long ago it didn't even occur to me until I put all the facts together.
She slept soundly through the night. Woke up and ate breakfast like normal and went to school.
But I'm not going to lie. Even though I was certain she was only just carsick and not bringing a virus into our home, I still went to bed with a pit in my stomach. Tossed and turned as every other child woke that night for some reason or another. But not Lucy girl. She was healthy and happy.
Oh dear God, please keep it that way. The Pukes have no place in our home.
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