What a fun day to celebrate Noah's birthday as he turned one. It is so hard to believe that he is already one!! We celebrated a few days early so that everyone could enjoy.
Holy CRAP!! A whole month has flown right past me and I haven't updated or posted a thing to our blog since the 1st of the month. What is my problem??? Oh yeah, I failed to mention that we had something every weekend in March and we all got ear infections AGAIN!! I think that we are doomed to never be well or escape these nasty infections. It was so miserable at the Sandman house that we didn't do a thing for a week. This is the first week that we were back among the living. I am praying that we stay this way for a few more months. I hope again that you all are staying healthy.
In addition to the sickness, Derek's class is to host the WP Alumni banquet this year and of course he hasn't helped get it off the ground so I have spent several days getting the letters ready, and have begun the organization of this ordeal. And I also recently created my P.E.O. chapter's yearbook with Word and ClickBook (way cool software to create brochures and planner pages and things of that nature).
And tonight we enjoyed a pancake supper at Rainbow Promise for Haylee and Alexa's preschool fundraiser. I flipped hundreds of hot cakes!! And the girls each performed a song of their choice for all of us to see.
YEA for Noah, he took his first steps on his own Wednesday, February 27th!! We were all so excited and cheered him on; he loved it. Now if he would just continue to walk on his own, but crawling is so much faster (I guess). And as many call it; the Frankenstein walk is the cutest ever. I will get some photos taken so that I can post too. But we couldn't let one more minute go by without sharing the news.
It is a new found freedom for him. I am also quite thrilled for him, but that means that he is growing up. It happens so quickly.
On the 10th of February, we had Noah dedicated and enjoyed a wonderful family gathering afterwards. By this time, Haylee was continually coughing her brains out. Then on the 12th, I took Noah to McCook by 7 a.m. MT to have the tubes inserted into his ears. I am thinking, great, things will get better now!! Well, Derek and I take off for our vacation (the first in four years) on the 13th and the kids are all coughing, but I was sure that it was just the common stuff going around. Well by that afternoon, Haylee and Alexa had vomitted and Noah was still running from the nose and ears! This is not the ideal situation for the grandparents. And not probably the best time to be on vacation, but what can you do? You had booked this months in advance and who knew that the kids would get the junk again?? Only this time to find out that all THREE have ear infections. Haylee's was the worst, followed by Alexa and then Noah. Bless my parents for taking all three to McCook to see the pediatrician and get some answers. After a couple of days on antibiotic the girls were better. Noah was still very sick. So we decided to lay very low for the remainder of the weekend and on Monday Noah was still very ill. So after a couple of phone calls to the pediatrician; she prescibed an oral antibiotic in addition to the ear drops that Noah was already taken. She said that we should see an improvement within three days (I sure hope so). Oh, I also failed to mention that Derek was sick the entire time we were on vacation and he thought he had ear infection too. So, off to the clinic on Monday for him; and yes, he had it too. I am continually praying that I will be spared so that I can continue to take care of all my sick ones. Therefore, we are not going anywhere this entire week to insure that we can be well. So, to the sadness of the girls, that means no preschool, AWANA or MOPs this week. And we love everyone of those activities. But I figure that if we can't get well, how can we stop spreading all the junk??? I hope everyone else is staying healthy.
YIKES, Noah just completed his 5th ear infection and upon seeing the ENT today, he still has fluid in his ears! I realized that we don't go to daycare or have children in school yet. So how can Noah have so many ear infections? Well according to the doctor, I have my own daycare at home! I should have known this since there are 3 of them running around. Noah is completely miserable and needs to be held all the time. The doctor says that he will be even more mobile after tubes than he is right now. I don't think this is possible since he is by far the busiest of them all at this stage in babyhood. But, I'll believe the doctor and go with him on this one. I did ask if we could please get the 3rd surgery free (he didn't find this as funny as me). After all, Haylee and Alexa had their tonsils out :-) I thought it was a great question. At any level, Noah is not a happy camper because of this fluid so he will be getting tubes in two weeks. I am praying that he won't have any more infections between now and then. But just in case, the doctor gave us antibiotic to get us through.
New teeth, old teeth. Red teeth, blue teeth. One tooth, two teeth. I feel like I should be writing a Dr. Seuss book...
As many of you know, Haylee surprised us with permanent teeth on her 5th birthday. And then about 6 weeks later another tooth. YIKES!! She is too young to be growing permanent teeth. And this is what the dentist said too. Usually, kids start closer to 6 when they get the big teeth; not in Haylee's case. In fact, she was getting the new teeth and not losing the baby teeth because they were coming in so far back behind the baby ones. And they are 1 1/2 times the size of the baby teeth HUGE!! Having a mouth full of several sets of teeth isn't fun!! So, after a trip to the orthodontist and several to the dentist; Haylee had THREE teeth pulled on the 17th. Now her large teeth will have a place to go. And we will begin annual visits to the orthodontist. Who knew that these trips would begin sooo soon!! Not me. I decided that this is coming from Derek's side, not mine.
