It's 2012! Here's a glimpse of what our January was like. I hope every month this year isn't as crazy as this one was. We were all over the place with craziness...!
How can you not love to see sights like these in the morning?
(It's never too early to go to work in the Tupperware cabinet)
Unfortunately we brought true meaning again to the notion that this is a sick house that needs serious fumigation. The babies had constant green stuff pouring from their noses every day. We all still do now, it's lovely. We all visited the doctor this past month.
(Matt and Cole at the doctor--of course Cole is so happy and not feeling horrible at all once at the doctor's office...)
In the middle of the month I got to have a stay in the hospital for a few days. Anyone who knows me knows how much I absolutely despise hospitals. I seriously tried to avoid this at all costs...I had a great morning at MOPS. It was "Spa Day"--I got smokey eyes, awesome make-up done, got my hair curled, and got myself a cute hat and stylish earrings. All set for a fun date night with Matt! Early that morning I started having this weird pain in my chest though. I figured I slept on it wrong. As the day went on the pain grew worse and worse. At that point I thought I just needed a break from my monkeys and a nice night out--with a couple glasses of wine to put me true relaxation mode. Jen from school came over and we went to The Keg. It was awesome. Except I had to keep raising my arms and clutching my chest just to get any kind of breath. Forget deep breathing, it was all shallow and painful. Once we got home I started feeling worse--and this chest pain was the strangest thing, have never experienced anything like it. I started feeling like a spaz, thinking I did something crazy like pulled a chest muscle or something. But since starting that next morning and for another week, we were rarely going to see Matt due to lots of stuff going on all days and nights with his work, I thought I'd just go to urgent care--get things checked out, have them tell me I pulled a chest muscle or something, and then I wouldn't worry so much and would just deal with things while it would be just me and the babies for the next week.
Go figure, no Urgent Care around here is open past 8:00pm. Huge bummer to me that I had to go to the ER at a hospital. I really hated that option, but the chest pain/hard to breath issue was a little too pressing. Tests and scans into the middle of the night showed that I had a spot of pneumonia on my lung. Pneumonia???? I've never had a single cough--and still haven't to this very day.???? I was totally thrown off by all that. To make matters worse, with all my other auto-immune issues going on, a fever that wouldn't go away, etc. they admitted me. Cue the depression. I was miserable. Stuck in the hospital the rest of the week was NOT going to work with how our schedule was supposed to run. Luckily my Mom was able to fly up the next day and she took over. What was a nightmare for me was actually a dream come true for Cole and Cam--a whole week and a half with Mimi taking care of them???!!!
On top of everything else horrible about being in a hospital and all the stomach terrorizing antibiotics, the doctors there were first class A-holes. Total jerks. They didn't listen to a word I ever said, then literally raised their voices at me when I refused certain medicines (medicines my auto-immune, lack of a large intestine body CANNOT handle), followed up with me crying to them--calling one a jerk to his face, then apologies to me when I reminded them that if they had listened to me in the first place they would've known why I can't take certain medicines and it never would have been an issue. They were so surprised that I knew my body so well and was familiar with my conditions and medications. That's shocking to me. The whole experience couldn't have been worse. And another side note: WHY is it necessary for the person in charge of sheets, drink refills, etc. to HAVE to change my sheets at 5:00am when I've finally been able to sleep for longer than 30 minutes at a time? I was going on 45 minutes of uninterrupted sleep when she barged in saying she HAD to change my sheets right at that moment. Are you kidding me???? I don't think the concept of common sense exists very much throughout hospitals. Until I ever have a good experience, that is my opinion. No offense to my friends who are wonderful workers at hospitals...If only you could be there with me instead!...So incredibly angering. Needless to say, I will drive double the time somewhere else to totally AVOID that hospital ever again. More than that though, hopefully none of us are ever in a situation again to have to be at a hospital.
My Mom stayed for a week and a half. It was a huge help. The chest pain is gone and my tiredness is getting so much better. I was really worried about my energy level for a while, but it's getting a lot better, thank goodness!! I got well just in time to have yet another colonoscopy (we won't go into the horrible prep endured before-hand). Still the same level of inflammation and unfortunately my fistula was more noticed this time too. Having a couple more work-ups and tests done, then will take on a new plan of action in the week or so to come. BLAH!!!! SO OVER all these annoying health issues. Seriously. I'm so incredibly frustrated with the situation of my health lately, I so wish I could just toss it under a rug and never deal with it. But then I'd be dealing with the alternative that I am currently and that's less than ideal as well. My body needs to realize that there are other important priorities in life--especially in my life, right now--and I'm OVER IT! Okay. Done venting.
On a much happier note, here are some smile-worthy images...
Puzzles are so much fun to play with!
Cole loves to climb up on furniture and channel Tiger and Mario by "watching over his pride"! He perches up on furniture...
...and crawls on top of anywhere he can get on too...Cole, PLEASE don't make me step foot in a hospital again, PLEASE!!
We had a most wonderful weekend "at the Mountains" in Copper one weekend with The Hendricks and other great friends. It was an amazing house and we filled it with lots of kiddos and lots of fun times! The house was right at the base of one of the lifts, it was so fun watching our crew and everyone else get on and then ski down the mountain past us.
For Cole and Camryn, the highlight of Copper was the huge shower in our room. Endless fun playing in there..???!
Cole is watching Cooper do something very cool--He's probably watching Cooper climb and crawl on top of the chair, to which he then copied and did himself...!
"At, At, At, At" aka "Jayhawk Jayhawk Jayhawk Jayhawk"! For some reason "Jayhawk" is "At" and the babies love every opportunity to point out the "At's"...especially on Maya's jammy pants.
There was a great snow in the mountains which made driving home the next morning a little more adventurous!
Hanging out at home--we now love the grocery carts to not only push our stuffed animals around in, but to also lounge in!
We've got some good eaters lately. It's either the Mickey plates/bowls, Elmo forks, or the amount of butter that is sprayed on their food. I think butter is the winning factor (doctor's orders, promise!) but I'm going to hope Mickey and Elmo have something to do with it too.
Wearing our hats from Grandma Dolores. This is at MOPS the other week. We went in right after I took this picture, just in time to beat the snow that started up!
This pretty girl ONLY wanted to wear a dress last weekend. Seriously! She's wearing a dress at Anthony's wedding this weekend and as we were trying it on, she all of a sudden got this look on her face--a look that she knew she looked beautiful. She even came out of her room to show Matt--and she did a spin to model it and show herself off! As I took the dress off and started putting pants on her she cried horribly and kept kicking the pants off. We went and picked out this dress below to wear instead and she was instantly happy. More modeling and showing off followed...!
Believe it or not the babies were actually good when we went out to eat for lunch last weekend. Maybe because it was a Mexican restaurant with endless chips and guacamole. The babies go nuts for guacamole!
At the end of the month Cole was due for another hair cut (Cam's hair is still growing in--Slowly but surely it's coming in though!). Camryn and I went shopping next door while Cole got his hair cut. It's extremely rare for the babies to get one on one time--especially while out somewhere--So Cam really got into being a big girl sitting in the cart with Momma!
Post-hair cut for Cole and enjoying their kid camelback water bottles. They both figured out how to use Matt's camelback water bottle--which resulted in all THREE of them fighting over it. Everyone is happy with their own now.
Despite lots of positive, fun things that went on, I'm kind of glad this January has come to an end. As mentioned before, it was just too crazy for me and the structure in life I constantly work hard for. We've had several great things to note this past month--graduating to camelback water bottles, a 2nd hair cut, size 5 diapers at night for Cole, and Camryn saying a TON of words daily. I'm very excited to see what all good things February brings for us.
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