Quick Week

Well this week went by so fast! Which is a good thing since it was the first week back since Spring Break. School was school. Nothing too exciting there. Unless you count being one week closer to the TAKS test, and students still not knowing half of the stuff they need to know. We are working on it though, and hopefully when the time comes they will do great. The teachers made a deal with the students that we would all do the Evolution of Dance from U-tube if they passed the test. Should be interesting to see me dance! Home life was busy this week. Ry went to the doctor twice. Once for her 6 month well-baby check-up. She was 14 lbs 13 oz, 26 in long! Such a growing girl. Everything else looked great. She started baby food this week and loves it. We have tried green beans, peas, carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, and pears. She ate everything!! I think she just likes to eat no matter what we give her. We also tried some very watered down apple juice and she seemed to like that too. We went back the second time so they could retest to see if her urinary tract infection was gone and preliminary results are yes it is. We will know for sure Monday or Tuesday. We go up to Cooks Children's Hospital on Thursday this week for some more tests. They will ultrasound her kidneys and look for any sort of abnormalities. Then they are doing a VCUG. It is where they put a dye in her bladder and take x-rays to see if any is backing up into her kideys which is what causes the UTI's. We won't know the results from all of that till proabably the next week. She is such a trouper through all of this, but she is starting to realize that she does NOT like nurses! So smart.

Lynlee is doing her normal thing. She is loving that her NaNa is here during the week. Renee is helping doing the tutoring at my school, so she is staying with us during the week for the next 4 weeks. Lynlee loves it. They go play outside after school and dig up rocks or whatever Lynlee wants to do that day. I am loving it because it gives me a chance to go to the gym once both girls go to bed. Plus the extra set of hands in the morning always is helpful. Lynlee's teacher made a deal with her pre-school class for next week. Apparently, all of the two year olds decided to stop being potty trained this week, mine included. She came home in a different outfit two days in a row. So if they can all stay dry this week, they get ice cream Friday. We have been reminding Lynlee all weekend, and so far no accidents. She took to potty training pretty easy. We have been in big girl panties since January. Through the whole potty training process the funniest thing she has done is tell her dad that he is a big girl and wears big girl panites like her! I laughed for about 30 minutes because she was dead serious when she told Aaron that! She is so sweet as a big sister. The other day we were on our way home from school and Ry was getting fussy and Lynlee reached over and patted her and told her it was going to be ok and we were almost home. She is so funny! Her vocabulary never ceases to amaze me. Well it is bedtime for Lynlee so I better get her ready and in bed.

Life

Sometimes life sucks. And sometimes it is great. Today it was a little of both. I have my wonderful sisters here with their kids and it is awsome to have all of the kids together. Of course with 4 kids under the age of 3 we were up early! Oh well, I guess that is just part of being a mom. A great part of my day was taking my daughters to pre-school with Aaron. It is always nice to get a few minutes together without the kids or distractions. A sucky part was him having to leave for baseball right after we got home. Such is life. Its great that Rylan is hopefully going to be able to hear soon! It sucks getting the estimate from the doctor as to how much it is going to cost. It's great getting to cook for my sisters, it sucks that my husband wasn't home to enjoy it also. Anyway, those are just some thoughts on my day.

Side note, its GREAT to have friends like Taylor, Ashley, and Kamille, but is sucks that I don't get to see them often.

ER visit

Well we made our first trip to the ER last night. Ry had been throwing up for a couple days and last night her fever went up to 105.4! Wow thats high. We had called the doctor Friday and Saturday and thought she had some sort of stomach bug. They told us to call back if she was still throwing up after 24 hours. Ry had slept most of the day Saturday, when she was awake, she was throwing up or dry heaving. We thought she had made a turn for the better Saturday night, when she actually started smiling again. She went to bed with no problems. Then at 9 she let out and ear piercing scream. I went and got her and she was burning up and as soon as I brought her to the living room she started throwing up again. We took her temp and it was 105.4. We called the doctor again and they sent us to the ER at Cooks Childrens Hospital in Ft. Worth. We woke Lynlee up and took her to a neighbors house for the night. Then Aaron, Rylan and I headed up to the hospital. They got Ry in pretty fast. By the time we got there her fever had gown down to 103. They gave her some meds for the fever and to stop her from throwing up anymore. They ran some tests and found that she has a urinary tract infection. They gave her a shot of some serious antibiotics and a prescription for some for her to take for the next 10 days. We had to stay there until she had something in her stomach for awhile and didn't throw it up. We managed to make it that far and headed home. She seems to be doing ok today. She threw up again this afternoon and her fever returned, but I got the motrin in her and it brought it back down. She is sleeping now and seems to be on the mend, hopefully! We go to the doctor tomorrow to check everything out since she got sick again today. She is a tough girl so she should be good.

Ry's Hearing Test

Well as many of you know, Rylan had trouble passing her hearing test when she was born. We have seen two audiologists and an ENT doctor. We went back this Wednesday for the sixth or seventh test and she still did not pass. There is fluid in both ears that could be causing her to not pass the hearing test. At any rate, the ENT doctor said that with that much fluid in her ears, she isn't hearing the way she needs to. It is as if everything she hears is muffled. So in April she will go to Cooks Children's Hospital and get tubes put in both ears. The doctor said it takes about 2 minutes for him to do his part and she wouldn't be out for that long at all. We will only be at the hospital for a couple hours and she won't know anything went on. The doctor said she will be her normal self when we leave the hospital. The only problem is that now she might hear when Lynlee cries at night! About two weeks after they put the tubes in we will go back to the audiologist and do another hearing test. From there we will have a definate answer to whether or not she has any hearing lost. I personallyl think she is just fine and once we get rid of the fluid she will be good to go. So now you are all updated.

Busy, Crazy Week

Well lets start with my job. For those of you who don't know I teach 8th grade science at Granbury Middle School and I love it! Unfortunatly, we haven't exactly had great TAKS scores the last year, so we are really working to fix that. Anyway, we took a benchmark a couple weeks ago to see how the students were doing and it wasn't good. In fact it was horrible. Its never good to find out all the work you are putting into your job isn't helping the way you think it is. At any rate, I spent the better part of the week working on tutorial schedules for the 100+ students who need more work in science. Staring at a computer screen and trying to place 100 students in the right group with the right teacher, at the right time, is not fun! We did finally get it all worked out but now we have some elective teachers who aren't so happy because they won't see their students for 6 weeks! Let's just say I am REALLY looking forward to May!!

Ok, so that was a general breakdown of my week at school, but I had a very trying day in particular on Tuesday. Tuesday was our Reading TAKS test. I gave the test to 11 students who needed to be basically away from all other students and distractions. They were put into mini rooms where they couldn't see anyone else. At any rate, it was a VERY LONG DAY! After school, I went to pick up the girls and I locked my keys in the car! Again. I had done it before a couple weeks ago. Luckily, Lynlee's teacher was sweet enough to go to the baseball field and get a key from Aaron. So Lynlee, Rylan, and I took Ms. Kayla to dinner. When we finally got home, both girls were fussy because they were off their schedules. But such is life I guess.

Aaron has been super busy with baseball this week. He had another tournament this weekend, so he hasn't been home basically since Wednesday. I did get to go watch his game last night because his mom is here for the weekend and she stayed with the girls. It was nice to have a kid free evening. I went up to Ft. Worth and did some shopping then made it back in time for Aaron's last game of the night. They ended up tying 5-5 when time ran out. He did admit tonight that he is actually tired of baseball! I thought that day would never happen. I'm sure he will love it again by Monday, but first he will need some sleep.