It has been a very busy week, a little too stressful even for me and I am simply exhausted. Last Friday Maddie had to go to the Doctor for a fever. It is really dangerous for a heart patient to get a fever. However 5 hours after seeing the doctor and medications she was still burning up and her heart was racing, really racing. I called the doctor and he sent us to the children's hospital. After several hours and several tests they sent us home. Thankfully, Saturday morning the fever was gone.
Poor Phil has worked everyday since September 8th. At this point, it is a contest to see who is more exhausted. I think I will just let him win. Some day I will catch up on my sleep.
My friend who had surgery Tuesday had a rough 24 hours after surgery but she is stable and very slowly getting stronger. It has been really rough on her family and my stress and lack of sleep is dull in comparison as they watch over her as she recovers.
Even Katie and Jack have had it rough. Phil has worked late almost every night this week so it has just been me and the kids. We take care of Katie's agenda for school and we have been practicing learning and writing words as she will soon be able to read. However when it is just me they only get me 33% of the time and I am sure for Katie it is even less. Hopefully all of us will get more sleep over the weekend and start fresh Monday.
Jack not to be out done wants to do "homework" too. He is just sucking everything in that I am teaching Katie. However, earlier this week he came home with a paper he was to practice writing the capital letter "A" at school. He was very lazy about it at school so I made him sit down and write it twenty times before he could play. He did it. Surprisingly with very little argument. I think he wanted the attention from me.
While I have been working with Katie and Jack, Maddie either plays in the pack n play where she can see us or sits in the booster seats and eats a snack. Another big thing I did this week was to take the bottle away from Maddie. I had a meeting with the nutritionist Tuesday and she gave me ways to supplement the milk till she stops refusing to drink the milk from a sippy cup. Now mind you she will drink juice from a sippy cup but refused the milk. That is until today. Maddie had a great week for eating.
She ate all the lunches the school provided which is all table food. She even had their afternoon snack. She still is giving us a hard time with table food at home but it is getting better. I have to be careful though. I will supplement a little bit of baby food to make sure she gets enough calories due to the sippy cup milk boycott. However, tonight at dinner she had pasta, a little chicken, some puffs, peas, oranges and she drank 4oz of milk out of her sippy cup. It was a small giant victory.
Once Maddie can feed herself completely and drink 16oz of milk a day with the sippy cup she will move to the next room. The teachers at the school all know Maddie and what she has been through. They cheer everyday at her little leaps and bounds. Because they have had to also make cut backs all the teachers help out in every room. Some days they disagree over who will be in the baby room because it is a day that Maddie will be there. It is kind of cute.
As I close this days post I will leave you with something that happened today. As I went to go pick up Jack I always check his folder and read his daily report. This way I can ask questions if it has been a not so good day. So as I am reading it I see the following.....He ate most of his lunch.....He slept at rest time.....He enjoyed show and tell and writing today.....His over all day was good.....and then I see this............
.........Jackson's sucker was thrown away because he was told not to eat it and he hid in the refrigerator eating it.........So yes he crawled in the housekeeping center plastic refrigerator and ate his sucker thinking they would not see or find him.
An "A" for creativity my son.
So as you can see I survived the week I am getting ready to send the kids to bed and go find mine. Hoping you have a great weekend.
TTFN
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