So it goes...

Last Wednesday, I started coughing the entire day at work, and by the evening, I could feel that "I'm geting sick" feeling.  Sure enough, by the middle of the night I was in full-on flu mode.  I locked myself in the bedroom and Mel took good care of me, but she was scheduled to work at Starbucks on Thursday night, so she called my step-mom to see if she could watch the kids while she worked.  Of course, she was nice enough to come right down.

By the time Mel got home from work on Thursday, she was starting to feel sick, too... and by Friday, we were both full-on sick with the flu.  My step-mom was nice enough to watch the kids all day Friday, but Saturday morning, she went home sick, and Katie woke up with the flu.  So we got to spend Saturday/Sunday all being sick.  By Saturday afternoon I was feeling quite a bit better.

Although Mel wasn't totally recovered, Katie was the main focus on Sunday... the worst of her sick days.  We called her doctor's nurse line, and the doctor called in a prescription for Tamiflu for her to try to both lessen her symptoms/sickness duration and try to help her not spread it to Josh, but he was already getting a light fever and coughing Sunday night, so we kinda knew...

Josh didn't want his last feeding on Sunday night, so we let him sleep... Mel woke up with him at midnight, and he only ate about an ounce, and woke up at 3am with a 103+ fever and refused to eat.  Because of his recent MRSA, age, and high fever, Mel took him to the Children's Healthcare ER.  They monitored him, put him on Tamiflu as well, and Mel ended up coming home around 10am, and I am heading into work...luckily Katie woke up feeling pretty good, and it seems like she's almost over it.

So, not only did Mel never really get a good day to recover from her flu, but she only got around 2 hours of sleep last night.  And now she's got sick kids at home all day.  And it's her birthday. :(   Oh, the joys of kids during flu season... I'm thinking we'll all try the flu shots next year. :)

Update...

It's official, Katie is allergic to sulfa drugs (Just like mom and dad).  When we took her to the doctor a couple weeks back for her suspected MRSA spot, they put her on a sulfa-based antibiotic.  The doctors said that drug allergies aren't hereditary, so we'd give it a try.  A few days later she got these little spots/rash on her that looked like little bites.  We stopped giving her the medicine to be safe, and we asked the doctor during Josh's appointment last week, and they said it looked like a sulfa allergy.  The spots looked like they've been clearing up this week, so looked like it was.

However, when Katie woke up yesterday, the spots were back, and were raised with white around them, the same way an allergic reaction to a cat's scratch or a bee sting looks.  Her doctor has a Saturday morning urgent care, so we took her there, and sure enough, it's definately an allergic reaction.  At least we know now.  Should be easy since we're all apparently allergic to the same thing. :)

In other news, Friday night when I got home we attempted to all pile in the Nissan and head to the store.  When we tried to start the car, it just turned and turned and turned over, but wouldn't start.  Called AAA yesterday morning and they towed it to the mechanic down the street in Bridgemill, whom, apparently was able to start it immediately with no issues.  (I'd tried again 3 times when the towing guy came).  Not quite sure what's up with it yet, but they're keeping it until Monday to try to test it more. 

Oh fun times!

Updates...

An interesting last couple weeks.  We got the news 2 weeks ago that Mel's grandma (father's side) had passed away.  She lived in Pennsylvania, and after seeing that plane tickets would cost us around $1500 to fly up there on short notice, and knowing how much of a pain it is to fly with one kid, let alone 2, we decided to drive the 13+ hour drive up there with Melanie's mom.  Surpsingly, both Katie & Josh did very very well.  We brought 20+ episodes of "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" for Katie's DVD player, and she was set... although everyone else about went crazy listening to it. :P  Besides the stops every 1 1/2 - 2 hours for diaper changes, bottle feedings, bathroom breaks, etc, it was a nice drive.

It was good to see everyone on that side of the family, as we rarely get up that way, but it's sad it takes an event like a funeral to get everyone together.  It's been pretty much the same way with my family in Iowa, as well... seems like we only get up there for weddings and funerals, too.

I've been battling a cold for the last 3-4 days, and it's finally started getting better last night.  I feel a lot better today, but of course even with my best attempts to stay away from her, Katie wakes up this morning sniffling, coughing, and sneezing.  Hopefully she'll feel better by her 2 year birthday party this Sunday. :)  Crazy that she's already 2 years old... looking back at her 1 year party pictures, she couldn't even walk yet... now she's began climbing up into her car seat by herself, and managed to scale the back of our living room chair and hop in it.   (With supervision, of course). :)

Anyways, we'll post pictures on Flickr for everyone who can't make it to the party Sunday.

Time for an update...

Been awhile since I've posted anything, so figured I should probably update everyone. :) Ever since our hospital runs, everyone has been just fine... Katie has been herself, and is really starting to grow up. She's able to count to 3 and she's putting words together pretty well. It's great to see her really understanding us, when we tell her to go get something in particular, or shut the door, or go get some pajamas, etc. Although, she's starting to get a tinge of the 'terrible twos' I think, fussing when she doesn't get what she wants, or is sleepy, etc... and has figured out the word 'no', but she doesn't generally use it except to answer us when we ask if she wants XYZ... yet. :) But overall she's really well behaved.

Josh is doing great, eating and sleeping well, and generally only waking up once a night, around 3am. He's really growing up, too, and is getting really good at holding his head up. Overall he's really relaxed and really only fusses when he's hungry.

When Josh was in the hospital and Katie came to visit, she was really in love with the aquarium on the bottom floor at Children's Healthcare. So last week we got to take Katie to the Georgia Aquarium. Overall she had a blast, but we made the mistake of going around the time she was due for a nap, so she became kinda restless and grumpy towards the end. Plus the place was just packed, so it was a bit crazy anyways. She didn't even make it out of the parking deck when we left before she was passed out.

Mel started working weekends at Best Buy again this month, so I've had a couple days watching the kids by myself... I have a new respect for what Mel does every day. It's pretty nuts with both of them, and they seem to both start fussing or wanting to eat or need a new diaper at the exact same time. I don't know how she gets anything done around the house during the day, it's been a madhouse for me on those days.

We finally decided to get rid of our home phone (678-581-0932), as we never use it and no one calls except telemarketers, so if anyone needs to reach us, it's best to just call our cell phones.

Tomorrow night we're heading to see the new Harry Potter movie.  Mel has been reading all the books and is really hyped.  We had a mini Harry Potter marathon this weekend and watched the first 4 movies... we'll finish up tonight. Honestly, never thought I would be, but I'm pretty excited, too.

Anyways, not much else new!