Interesting Week

This past week was a little on the crazy side. It all started with Abi on Monday. As you may remember Abi had surgery not even 2 weeks ago to fix the hematoma she had on her ear. Well Monday morning I noticed that the ear had swollen up again. So I called the vet and we had to bring her in. So another trip to the vet with both girls. Turns out that Abi messed up her ear and needed to have surgery. Again!

So Tuesday morning Aaron takes Abi to the vet and then takes Natalie to school. Right after on his way in to work he got hit by a Direct TV van. Neither car was going too fast and Aaron was not hurt but you can imagine van vs jetta. Needless to say the jetta is not looking too great. The damage is not that bad but it pretty much covers the entire passenger side of the car. So now Aaron needs to deal with the insurance people and we are trying to figure out if we should get the car fixed or not. The car runs fine but we are debating fixing the car given that it is 9 years old. We will see what we decide to do.

Ok so now we are on to Wednesday. Natalie had an ENT appt in the morning. It was her 6 month check up on the ear tubes. I thought it was going to be a nice quick visit. I had the appt first thing in the morning so Aaron stayed home while Izzie took her morning nap. Well turns out both ear tubes had fallen out. We were hoping they will at least last through this upcoming winter (if it ever gets cold here). Natalie screamed the whole time and it was horrible. Then they had to do a test to see if she has fluid in her ears. Again screaming non stop. It was almost impossible to do the test. The test showed that she has fluid in one ear, the other one not sure since she was screaming and kicking. She has no infection but could possibly get one if she gets sick. The doctor said to wait and see what happens. But if she starts having ear infections then it's tubes again (for the 3rd time). He said that we may consider putting "T tubes" which I guess last longer.

After the ENT Natalie & I stopped at the vet and picked up Abi. We went home and Aaron went to work. At 1:30 I noticed that Abi had taken her bandage off. So I called the vet and they tell me I have to bring her back in. Both kids are asleep so I have to wait until they wake up and then head over to the vet, again! They put the bandage again and luckily she did not pull any stitches out. Now Abi has to be on that E-collar (or hat like Natalie calls it).

Thursday was pretty uneventful. Well I had a little incident with a roach but I survived and the roach didn't so everything was good in the end ;-)

Friday was going to be another crazy day. I had scheduled for Natalie to get her flu shot and given how well she did on Wed at the doctor I was dreading it. Plus this time I was going to have to bring Izzie along for the ride. Well thankfully Aaron volunteered to meet me at the pediatrician. I took the opportunity to schedule flu shots for all of us, that way Natalie could see that we were getting them too. Natalie was very excited to meet Aaron and was very happy when we told her we were having lunch together. She did ok with the shot, it was quick so that was good. It was actually faster than we had thought so we had some extra time before lunch. Natalie wanted to be with Aaron so he took her to work with him for about 1/2 hour. She apparently walked in with her backpack and had fun looking at everyone. Aaron had her coloring on the dry erase board. Then we had lunch and Natalie had a nice long nap. At least the week ended much better than it started.

Oh I almost forgot, through all this Izzie has been extremely cranky. She is getting her top front teeth and she has been miserable. Crying and not eating. The left one finally broke through the gum yesterday. She is even having some problems sleeping because I guess hurts so bad. Can't wait for the other one to cut through and hopefully she will start feeling better.

Yesterday we went to a doggy festival. They had it to benefit the ASPCA. There was a little walk and some music and a bouncy house. They had other stuff scheduled like a doggy costume contest but we had to come home and put the kids down for their nap. The girls had lots of fun looking at all the doggies. We bumped into one of Natalie's friend's from school named Dylan and they had fun playing in the playground and in the bouncy house. Natalie was a little scared at first but she followed Dylan and then we could not get her out.

Today Natalie got invited to a b-day party from twin boys from her school. She is starting to really play with the other kids so I can't wait to see her playing. She of course is excited because of cake!

Well that has been our exciting week. Abi is doing ok, although she is miserable in her cone. But given how much we have paid on the 2 surgeries she is wearing the cone all the time!

Hopefully next week will be nice and quiet :-)

Here are some pictures taken this week.

Here is Izzie having some fun in the chair.


Abi after her surgery before she pulled her bandage off



At the doggy festival



Natalie & Dylan jumping around


Natalie had so much fun


We put Izzie in but she just sat. She was smiling the whole time though. Natalie wanted Izzie to be with her.


Our little helper....


Helping Aaron put bricks around the tree