Vacation????

Hmmmm.....there were relaxing times....I think.  :)

It was so hard to relax after all this year.  I was worried Cole would get his incisions too wet, then Chelsi had a febrile seizure and then Kaelin ended up with a temp.  We didn't really go outside two of the days since the girls had fevers.  We didn't want to chance them going up any.  We did get lots of great photos, although I left my camera battery charging the day we went to Sea World, so we have to rely on M and mom for those pictures.  I was pretty upset about that.

It was the evening of our Sea World visit that Chelsi had her first and hopefully only febrile seizure.  We stopped at Burger King just a few minutes from Sea World.  She wasn't really eating and she felt a little warm.  I kind of thought she might have a UTI again since she hadn't been wetting as many diapers....or it didn't seem like it since we'd left.  I figured we'd just give her some of the tylenol I'd brought after our 1 1/2 hour drive back to the condo.  A couple of minutes after pulling back onto the interstate Chase said Chelsi was doing something weird.  I looked back and knew exactly what it was, but watching your baby do it is horribly aweful!  I'd never actually seen one either and now that I have I can't say it would make it any better to see it again.  She seized (her entire body) for a few minutes.  We pull off the interstate at the next exit I could get and pulled into a church parking lot right of the exit.  M called 911 and they said it was only a few minutes later that the EMT's arrived.  It felt like forever to me.  She wasn't responding to us verbally or moving her body.  She would look at us when we talked to her, but it just didn't feel like she was there.  I fe3lt bad for Chase because I just started crying right in front of him.  I was so scared for my baby.  The EMT's took us to the Orlando hospital and talked to me during the drive to reassure me that we couldn't have done anything to help it or stop it.  They informed us what to do if it ever happens again.  We were there from about 7:30 to 11:30 or so.  I told them about her prior UTI's, so they checked that and did a chest xray.  UTI came up positive right away, so they started her on antibiotics and released us after her temp was under control.  It felt like forver to drive back to the condo.  Once we got back to Ormond, we still had to go to Walmart to get some ibuprofen to alternate with the tylenol to be sure her fever didn't spike.  We gave it to her regardless for the next day.  It was just under 106 at it's highest at the hospital!  I can't believe it, but Chelsi woke up singing the next morning.  She had no recollection, just like the doctors, nurses and EMT's said.  They were so nice there.  I'm just so relieved it's over and she's okay.  I don't care how normal it can be, it's scary as hell!

As for actual vacation, we did get lots of swimming in.  Not so much on the beach.  Chelsi got knocked by a wave the first evening and wanted nothing to do with it after that.  Chase kept getting a rash when he swam in the ocean, so we started to give up.  The condo, Plantation Island Ormond Beach, was okay.  It wasn't as nice as some of the others mom has traded for.  It was clean enough; though the pool could have used a little clean up.  It was just so small.  Mom said they're all small like that in that area.   The drive was too long too.  The beach will have to be closer if we ever go again.  Sea World was fun with the exception of the trip to the ER that night.  The boys loved the rides.  There was literally no wait!  We could just run through over and over and over again.  We did get to touch the dolphins while feeding them in Dolphin Cove which we all thought was cool!  One day isn't enough!  We definitely could have done another day if it weren't for the ER the night before and the horrendous traffice getting to Orlando from Ormond.  Can you say over 2 hours for a 70 mile trip!

Here are all of our pictures from the trip.  It's a long one, so enjoy!

Our car riders on the way there.

The first sight of the beach!

The next day at the beach.

Daytona Lagoon for the boys!

I think this was the last day there after everyone's fevers were gone.

Eating seafood our last night.

The drive home was so tiring.

Chels got to have the dvd player to herself.

A Post of It’s Own

My girl deserves her own  separate post for this one.  She lost her first teeth....yes teeth, on vacation.  I could just put that in that post, but it's special.  It was also traumatic.  :)  She did NOT want me to pull them, but her permanent was already behind one of the baby teeth.  It fell right out when we pushed on it.

Bad mommy, bad mommy!!

slap on the hand please!

I was looking through my posts real quick and realized I posted about Kae's anniversary, but not Chels'.  I'm so sorry my baby girl.  With everything going on with dad and now big brother and just trying to be mom, I guess I never got a chance to get online close to your anniversary.  You are my sweet, ever so sweet girl.  I love you, love you, love you.  You are funny, smart and my little angel.  What would life be without you?  Something would always be missing.  You are a light in our lives.  A completed puzzle piece.  That day 2 years ago was very much one of our happiest.

We love you Chels, Chels.

Mom and Dad

Happy Birthday Chaser Racer

Luckily, we had a little cake and ice cream the night before Chase's birthday since big brother ended up with his appendix out on his birthday, but still kinda stinky deal.  I can't believe you're 8 already.  It's so hard to believe just a few years ago on Mother's Day you were my gift to bring home.  What a happy day and you've give us so many more.

 HAPPY BIRTHDY CHASIE!!  WE LOVE YOU!!

 Mom and Dad!

Too many hospital tours in such a short amount of time

UGH!

First Brian and his accident, now Cole.  Poor guy ended up needing his appendix out Monday.  He said he woke up at midnight with bad stomach pains and vomitting and woke us at 5:00 am.  We assumed he had a stomach bug until he started crying because his stomach was hurting so bad.  I couldn't figure out why his stomach would hurt right in the center and he was vomitting, but nothing else.  He wasn't sore to touch and no fever.  I called the doctor to see if because of his anatomy I was maybe missing something.  They finally called back and said they should take a look at him.

 Still when we got there, he had no temp and it wasn't sore to the touch.  They weren't sure what to do with him, so they sent us to the ER, knowing he could then get bloodwork done.  They gave him something for the nausea right away, as well as some antibiotics.  They took his blood after setting up his IV and getting him the meds.  Later they sent him for ultrasound to see if they could verify if it was his appendix or not.  The tech was excited to get his case.  We've yet to meet a medical professional who has had someone with situs inversus totalis.  She had a bit of a time finding his appendix.  She said that if it was where she thought it was, it was funky shaped.  His lymph nodes in the stomach area were so swollen on the screen, I could see them.  There was definitely an infection she said.  By them time we went back to ER they had already verified his wbc was over 14,000, so they were ready to do surgery.  He officially began at 6:30 pm and was done by 6:55.  All the surgeon could say as he was walking away from talking to us was "definitely backwards, definitely ALL backwards". 

Now, a couple of days later, he's doing pretty well.  He's hunched a bit when he walks, but he never got sick from the anesthesia and I'm thankful for that, because I got violently ill after I had mine out.  I was REALLY worried about that for him.  He's not allowed to swim for 2 weeks, so no swimming on vacation.  No ball either for 2-3 weeks.  He's pretty sad about those two things, but he's pretty darn happy he's not feeling the way he did Monday.  He said "mom, thank God you only have one".  So right.

 Lisa