Still Sick

After 2.5 weeks of this one would think we could shake it, but alas its not to be. At least not without meds. I thought on Thurs that I was doing so good, feeling better and actually had energy etc. Woke up fri morn with the absolute worst sore throat I have ever had. By last night I could hardly swallow, at least without wincing a lot. I went for a strep test yest afternoon while the boys were napping and it was neg. Last night we had a really rough night, Brayden ran a fever again and spent most of the night in bed with us. That keeps us from sleeping very good anyway. Yest I made an appt with our weekend clinic for 9:50 this morning so Brayden and I both attended my Dr apptmt. We each had a new strep test done and they were both positive. He came home with Cephlexin for his antibiotic and I came home with one I have never had before. I know its strong tho cuz the dr also gave me a prescrip for yeast infection in the same apptmt because he expects this to give me one. :-) How often does a dr think ahead like that?? Not much in my experience so I was impressed. He also gave me prednezone because my throat is swelled so bad. I don't expect to take that for very long, the side effects dont look fun at all so will just do what it takes to get swallowing to an easier situation. We all napped for 2.5 hrs today, I felt much better after that too. Brayden is still running a low grade fever so might have just caught his at the beginning stages or something. Anyway, perhaps after 7 days of meds we can count ourselves among the healthy again. I am really looking forward to that phenomenon. We are using lysol like crazy and purell too trying to keep Braxton and Daddy from joining the ranks of the very sick. So far its working. Braxton has been relegated to the shop tho for safe keeping!! Unless he is sleeping that is. We are all occupying one bedroom for now, Brayden is on our floor. That way I keep an eye on his temp without traversing the stairs too much. All for now, just wanted a quick update. But a perspective on how sick Brayden is...he chose to stay in the car while I went into Walmart to get our meds. That NEVER happens.

Breakfast by Brayden

Brayden has decided that he is big enough to get breakfast ready and on the table before I get down to the kitchen. Its a big help really, I don't mind except that he put the milk on my cereal and on his cereal before I was even down here and ready. So it sat and soggied up for about 15 - 20 min before we got everyone to the table to eat. Lesson learned by all involved I do believe!! But he loves it and far be it from me to discourage help!!

Our littlest helper

I had so many pics of Brayden in the shop when he was little. I took the camera out there so Daddy could help me capture some moments, but that never happened. Yest I happened to be in the shop for a bit and caught these pics.

First time on the Trampoline

We had a nice day a couple weeks ago and the boys took a turn on the tramp. Braxton wasn't sure what to think of it at first, but he soon got used to the bouncing. He crawled around while Brayden did tricks. I had to remind him to be careful and watch his feet.

odd conversations

Today Brayden went out to the shop to play, he came back in around 11 and told me that he had fallen hard at the buzzer (basketball) and hurt his knee on the concrete. He told me the bone was out of place and he sure hoped God would come into his room again tonight and fix it for him. :-) He sure has an active imagination. While he was in the house then this morning he dressed his teddy bear in his jammies and was rocking him to sleep and put him in Braxton's crib to sleep. Then he went downstairs and took Mickey and put him in timeout for hitting his little brother. :-) Of course unknown to me that timeout had happened to him in the shop this morning. The funny part was that he left Mickey in timeout for like 30 min, I told him that was an awful long time to be in timeout. He went and got him out and talked to him about hitting. He is a little mimic on so many things, guess its good to see that he is getting the concepts! Braxton has gotten "bye bye" down now, he even blows kisses. I take him out to the shop so he can play with Daddy and he calmly waves byebye and blows a kiss and off he goes. Brayden used to always cry and cry when I took him out there to play. I used to have to sneak back out to keep from having the fits. What a difference between two boys. Its finally warming up here so spring is on the way. We can't wait to get outside and spend lots of time out there. Brayden is already remembering the dirt pile and has been out there a little. It won't be long before he is out there with all his equipment moving it all around. Will be interesting to see how Braxton likes being outside too. For now if the wind is blowing at all he sticks his little tongue out, I wonder if it helps him breath or something. :-) Growing in springtime, flowers, gardens and boys all grow good this time of year!!

3 Wheeler

I kept trying to post these and it wouldn't work so they are a bit late. But better than never.

Pushing blimp