Sick February

February was FILLED with coughs, colds, runs, flus, vomiting...and well, Lindsey's flu and vertigo.  She was a mess!  I think Anna was the first to puke...followed by everyone else (except Dad)...followed by another round of vomiting and some runs.  The climax though was when I got a call at work from Mae around noon on a Friday to come home.  I entered the house to find Lindsey in REAL bad shape.  So she got a fun ambulance ride (I was scared I would hurt her trying to get her in the car).  Aunt Katie came and picked up the girls (Mae got picked up by the bus for school and then by Katie later) and then Papa D and Grandma Weez got the girls at bedtime.  It was a looong day.  Lindsey got tested for a whole bunch of stuff and in the end it was influenza and vertigo.  The next day Brooklyn and Ashley both had fevers, but luckily, no flu.  Somehow though all of it, I never got sick.  When I felt like I was the morning after Lindsey spent the night in the hospital - a miracle was poured down onto our family and I never got it.  We were not said to see February end. 

An ambulance ride!?  Some people have ALL the luck!

11 blankets later, she was ALMOST warm

The Mysterious Limp

So, the aforementioned Mae limp goes a little something like this.  Early one week we noticed that when Mae ran she had a slight limp.  Hmmm.  She has such a beautiful, smooth run so the slight limp wasn't hard to notice.  When asked if her leg hurt she said yes.  We didn't think much of it the next few days, nor did she ever mention it, but we'd again see her run and see her limp.  By the end of the week, the limp was even more apparent and she told us her leg hurt.  The next day was Saturday and we took her into the doctor as now you could see the limp in her walk and she couldn't run fast enough to catch Anna anymore.  I was pretty convinced she had some sort of stress fracture.  After seeing her, the doctor believed the same thing I was thinking and we were off to get an x-ray.  To my disbelief, the x-ray came back negative.  Huh?  So what is it?  They told us if she was still limping by Monday to bring her in again.  She was and we did.  The next day, Tuesday, Lindsey took her down to a pediatric orthopedic specialist.  After a bunch of tests and not really finding anything, they treated it like a fracture and casted her.  They said sometimes you can't tell it's a fracture until it starts to heal.  So...we'll see.  The first evening with the cast was rough - it just broke my heart.  Then when she calmed down but logically processed it in her head and realized, "Do I have to SLEEP with this!?"  I wanted to cry for her. -T

Honey-flavored pretzels will make anything better

X-Ray time!

Like I said - Honey-flavored pretzels will make anything better

3 days later - now with a cast and a Band-Aid from the shot...luckily she's got Anna the nurturer there

After a tough last couple hours of her new world - Mom made everything better with stickers

Mom's 2nd Birthday

So Mom is older than 2 so I guess I could have used a better title than "Mom's 2nd Birthday," but it was exactly that.  Since we had people out of town on Lindsey's birthday, family dinner a couple weeks later turned into a birthday celebration for her.  Can't beat that! -T

Everyone seems VERY ready

Blowing that pneumonia and sinus infection all over

To Lindsey from Cameron?

Sick Days

It all started with Mae getting a runny nose.  That followed with Anna getting the same and Lindsey getting a sore throat.  Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into coughs, coughs turned into trips to the doctor and trips to the pharmacy.  The end result - sinus infection (Lindsey), pneumonia (Mae), ear infection (Anna), lucky (Todd). Four weeks of all this and not a lot of pictures were taken. -T

A lot of days of this

Chapped face and all, she could still smile

Mom made the oxygen mask at the doctor an "elephant trunk" and that made her excited not scared (again, Mom's a genius)