April Fools

I'm happy to see April has finally arrived. March brought nothing but illness to our house, so I'm very happy to see it gone.

Everything started back on Valentine's Day. I know, that was February, but the majority of stuff happened in March.

I think the last I posted was when we took Josh to the ER for his hernia. We found out that night it was a hernia and we got an appointment with a pediatric surgeon for the first week of March.

Well, the last weekend of February we took him back to the ER for his hernia and they admitted us with a surgery scheduled in a day or two. After seeing the surgeon on Sunday morning, the 28th, she told us the earliest she would do the surgery was that Friday. We were outraged that it would be that long. We couldn't understand why they would send us home if we were still having problems with the hernia. On Monday, the 29th, we saw Dr. Page and see told us Josh had an ear infection and put him on a strong antibotic and talked to the surgeon. She told us the reason why surgery was put off until Friday was so Josh could get over the ear infection. This made no sense to us, but we finally decided to wait.

Friday, March 5th, Josh had his surgery. Everything went well and there was only the 1 hernia on the right side. We brought him home after an hour and half in recovery and he slept the day away. Thankfully we got the Tylenol 3 filled for him because he was still complaining of pain for 2 weeks after the surgery. When we saw the surgeon at his post-op appointment she said everything looked good, but he may have pain for awhile during the healing process inside. She said if he's rough houses or is active for a long period he may have some pain.

During that week, I came down with something horrible. I must have picked something up at the hospital while we were there. My fever spiked to 103F and I went to the doctor the following day to get some medicine. I had to go back the following week for a second antibotic since the first didn't completely get rid of whatever it was I had.

Jason ended up having hernia surgery on the 18th of March. He went in with 1 hernia and came out with 2 repaired. The doctor was surprised that he had one on the left side and that it was larger than the right one, but his pain was all on the rightside. He took a few days off of work, but went back the following Monday. He was still in considerable pain that following week, but he's now almost back to himself.

Kaitlyn came down with an ear infection the week after Jason's surgery. I had to pick her up early on the 22nd, my birthday and I kept her home the next day to help get rid of the fever. Josh came down with a fever on the 23rd and so the 3 of us stayed home and hung out. Kaitlyn went back to school on the 24th, but Josh got to stay home with mommy. When I took him back to school on the 25th he cried. He wanted to stay home with mommy. He didn't understand that mommy doesn't go home after I drop him off at school. I wish I could go home on some days, but no, I go to work.

We finally got everyone back to normal for the last week of March!

During the month Kaitlyn has become more independent (could she get more independent?). She had her first tantrum, which broke my heart, but learned to give real kisses.

Her first tantrum was over taking off her jammie shirt. I was trying to get her changed for school in the morning and she didn't want to take off her shirt. I was able to get her pants on her, but when it came to the shirt...she did not want to take it off. I finally got it off of her, amist tears and screams, and then she plopped down on her bottom and flung herself over and laid down, face down, and cried. I just sat next to her and rubbed her back and told her mommy loved her and I would be there when she was finished. This happened for 3 days in a row, but now it's just random and more for when she's frustrated because we don't understand what she wants. She had a tantrum the other day because I didn't give her the right cereal and then, for heavens sake, I tried to hand her a sippy cup too. She has decided she likes to drink out of "big" girl cups. We'll give her a little drink at dinner time in a "big" girl cup and she does pretty well with it. Every once in awhile some drink will dribble down her chin, but 98% of the drink goes in her mouth and down the hatch!

Also, Kaitlyn has learned to give real kisses. She will pucker her lips and lean in to give you a kiss if you ask for it. She was never really one for the one mouth kiss, she did a few times, but she's very stingy on her kisses. She's actually pretty stingy on being affectionate, to my dismay. I love to snuggle with my kids, but she doesn't want anything to do with being affectionate.

Josh has continued being a wild 2 year old! He goes, goes, goes!!!!! We have moved his bedtime to 830pm now vs. 8pm and this seems to make bedtime easier. He LOVES to snuggle and actually, yesterday morning he got up, came out to the living room and climbed onto my lap and said he wanted to stay home and snuggle with mommy. Of course I was ready to say YES! but I knew the snuggling would last a whole 2 minutes and then it would be time to wrestle. This boy loves to wrestle!!!! He was very unhappy when he couldn't wrestle the first few days after surgery and also the week after Jason had his surgery. Mommy had to take over the wrestling department. It's pretty safe to say Josh is happy daddy can wrestle again. He has asked me once to wrestle with him since daddy said he felt better.

Josh is also super excited about his birthday coming up. He started getting excited the day before my birthday, when he sang Happy Birthday to me! All he talks about now is his birthday. When you ask him what kind of cake he wants he'll go between Wolverine and Spiderman! One time he told me he wanted 2 cakes for his birthday. I informed him he will get 1 cake and it will be Spiderman, did this make any inpact? No, he said the next day he was going to have a Wolverine cake. Both Jason and I know he will go CRAZY once he sees his Spiderman birthday cake. I just hope it turns out as well as I'm hoping it does. If it looks like anything like it does in my mind, he was love it!

So that wraps up March. Like I said in the beginning, I'm glad the month is over. Now let's hope April brings better weather and better health!

Cheers!