Hoping for the Best

It's now Day 3 of the hubby being in the hospital. After suffering with a fever for over 2 weeks, and the antibiotic not making him better, his doctor suspected meningitis and admitted him to the hospital. Thankfully, meningitis was eliminated without having to the a spinal tap.


Pneumonia has also been eliminated. After a CT scan which only showed acute sinusitis, and a clear x-ray, the Infections Disease doctor said he could be battling both a viral and bacterial infection (or more than 1 of each). The doctor is thinking this could be epstein barr, but this cannot be confirmed as of yet because most of the cultures that were taken would not be back until a week from now.


The neurologist has his guesses on what this could be, but again, there will not be any confirmation until a week from now.


The good news is that he will be released tonight, but on orders to rest and not go back to work for another week.


The little man was out of sorts since Friday and on Sunday, he had a fever of 104.2 which warranted him a tepid bath. On Monday he complained of his ear, but I didn't think anything of it. Yesterday I took him to the doctor and it turned out that he has an ear infection. He has also been out of sorts since his Daddy didn't come home on Monday. But all was made right when we visited Daddy yesterday. All he needed was some Daddy time.

Rolling from Back to Front

I must go ahead and write this milestone somewhere or I may never remember to do it.

Katie finally rolled from her back to tummy today. Both she and Jordan have been experimenting with this movement for a month or so but have never really gotten it. Katie did it this morning and then again tonight.

They are also becoming more and more different, socially. Katie smiles easily at people she knows, and she gives the biggest open-mouthed smile you will ever see. While Jordan treats her smiles as precious commodity and does not easily give it. You must work for it. Plus, when she finally does smile, she gives a small grin that starts on the side of her face first. Her smile will make you think she knows something that you don't.

Sick Men

The little guy stayed home on Friday because he wasn't quite feeling like himself Thursday night. Yesterday he had a fever on and off and last night he had a high fever. This morning it got even higher, 104.2 F. I was about to nurse the girls when the hubby told me to put the girls down and go with him and the little guy to bathroom to give him a tepid bath. Actually, the hubby wanted to use cold water (to shock the heck out of the fever, I guess), but thankfully he listened to me when I said it must be tepid, NOT cold!

After about 10 minutes in the bath and the little guy shivering, I thought it was enough. We had given him Motrin so it was time to check the temperature again. The thermometer read 102.5. Not bad.

After getting dressed and sitting down on the couch for another 10 minutes, I took the temperature again and it was 103.3. Darn it! I gave him Tylenol and dabbed his body with a wet towel. After another 10 minutes, he had enough and was off to play. Phew.

I took the opportunity to go to the pharmacy and pick up another thermometer (the battery on the one we have is running down) and pick up lunch. When I got home after an hour, the hubby reports that his fever is back again.

The hubby and the little guy are now taking a nap and the girls are also napping. Time for me to rest.

Is it wrong for me to wish that I get sick so that I can just watch over myself and no one else? Nah, chances are I would be sick AND care for everyone at the same time.

Big Boy Bedroom

Matty's big boy bedroom is finally finished. Actually, it's been finished for a while, we just had to wait a long time for missing parts. It was highly frustrating to wait for pieces that were missing, and replacement pieces for the ones that were broken.

But here it is finally. The Cars appliques are great, which are all removable. The pictures are special request by Matty. He wanted pictures of his family right there. The picture with Santa is his favorite one.

Twin Parenting Hair-Brained Idea #1

(Jojo on the left, Katie on the right)

So I finally decided to try and give the girls a bath together for the first time the other day. Daddy was home sick, so I had an extra pair of hands should I need it. Boy, did I need it.

There was slippin' and slidin' going on and it took all of 3 minutes before everyone started screaming. And that included me too.

Off to the internet to see how other moms of twins do this. Or maybe they're all smart enough to not even try it?

Explotion in the Neighborhood

A lot has happened this past few days and I have a lot of pictures to post. But I have no time right now except to enter a post.

Yesterday at about 3:30 pm, Matty had just woken up from his nap and we were all in the livingroom, when we hard a bang. It wasn't loud at all. What was alarming enough that Daddy had to get up and check it out, was that the whole house vibrated. I thought maybe the a tree branch had fallen off and hit the roof. Daddy checked the perimeter of the house and didn't find anything out of the ordinary. He checked out the attic and found nothing.

This morning after I got back from driving Matty to school, I saw police everywhere. There was a police car about every 300 feet or so. And when I turned into our neighborhood, I could hardly drive through the street. There were tons of cars, mobile units, fire trucks, etc.

I didn't find any cops that I could easily talk to without getting out of the car, so I just drove straight to the house with all sorts of horrible thoughts going through my head. Was there a kid that was hurt? Surely some brawl or domestic violence, or even homicide wouldn't require that many police unit.

I turned on the TV when I got home and found out what it was. A house, about 1/4 of a mile away had an explosion. A person, who handles civil war munitions in his detached garage died when the thing he was handling exploded. Twenty or so houses were evacuated yesterday because of possibility of other things exploding.

Wow. We moved from a neighborhood with noisy teenagers, loiterers, illegal immigrants who constantly rang our doorbell at 5am (only to find out that they got the wrong house) on days we would rather sleep in to a neighborhood with older people who keep to themselves, who apparently handles exploding materials in their house!

I have 3 young kids. My heart can't take this kind of excitement. Sign me up for a community in a bubble.

On the upside, I'm thankful our house wasn't one of the ones that had to be evacuated. A sick hubby, a toddler with endless monkey energy (there was no school yesterday) and 8 month old twins would not have been easy to evacuate.

My condolonces to the family of the person who died.

Valentine's Day

It's my 11th wedding anniversary and I got roses and chocolates from the hubby and cards from the kids. All is good and yummy, plus we had lunch at The Cheesecake Factory. Really yummy!

The little man got tons of valentines from school and tons of chocolates. Can we say yummy dinner? He's two favorite occassions now are Halloween and Valentine's Day.

Happy Valentine's Day to all!