Happily Ever After: February Fevers

The month of February was really not a highlight for our family. I think we all took turns being sick. If you look at my kids faces in the pictures, you can tell they look "sick." We spent a lot of time in our pajamas and watching shows. We also spent a lot of time at the Dr.'s and the pharmacy! As you can tell from the picture, the boys are glued to the TV while snuggling with their dad. I don't love that they watched TV a lot... but you can't ask a lot from them when they feel so crappy. I actually blame this month for what got Dax really hooked on his binki. He always liked his binki, but now he's obsessed! I think he used it a lot when he was so sick.

We got to purchase a new humidifier cause ours died. Dax and Isaac picked out the penguin, which they love, it works great, and it's cute in their room! The head comes off which has become a permanent "hat" for Dax while sitting on his changing table. Isaac had normal stuff, flu, throwing up, fevers... and always, his awful asthma cough that comes and stays with every cold. Brett and I BOTH got strep throat about a week apart from each other. And poor little Daxton had a cold, pnemonia TWICE, and RSV. He had a couple different antibotics, a nebulizer, and some LONG, scary nights. One night we couldn't do much for him. He was upset and couldn't calm down. Brett was walking around with him and Dax saw a ball. For a minute, he stopped crying long enough to show Brett he wanted to throw the ball in the hoop. Then he went back to crying. Brett finally figured out playing peek-a-boo with the blinds made him very happy! What a good dad! We didn't know at the time, but Daxton's sickness kept flaring up and not going away because he too has asthma. Now both of our kids are on medicine. Yay.

Dax was a real trooper with using the nebulizer. We would have to have crackers, bottle, or a nutri-grain bar sitting next to use to bribe him to sit there. It's a pretty loud machine, so when he didn't want to put it right next to his face, I couldn't blame him. To distract him, we would watch "Bubble Guppies" (a new favorite show of his and Isaac's... specifically the episode called, Fish-kit-ball, cause it's all about balls!) Now he's a little obsessed with the show because of how much we had to sit and watch it while doing the nebulizer treatments.

I wish that was the only thing we had to do, but we had to do x-rays at the hospital. That was traumatic for both me and him. If you haven't had to do baby chest x-rays, be glad! They took him and put his arm straight up and sat him on this tiny bicycle seat. Then they took a tall, skinny plastic tube (like the braces people where on there legs) and strapped him in with his hands over his head! It looked like he was being smashed in a tube. Then they expect you to walk away from your toddler who is screaming, stuck, and scared! It's horrible! Hopefully, we won't have to do that again.

Daxton Doings, 15 Months Old

Even though most of his 15 months were busy being sick, Dax still had a few highlights. When he was hungry, he would help himself to anyones food and chow down! He learned about forks. He wasn't great at using them, but he liked to have them like everyone else.

Dax still didn't have a big desire to walk, why would you when you have a brother who is willing to carry you wherever you want to go?!! But he did figure out he could push his little chair anywhere he wanted and use it as a stepping stool.

He climbs on desk, tables, and chairs, just to get a little higher up.

His favorite was reaching the light switch. For a while we had a constant, "on, off" flicker at our house.

He was pretty proud of himself when he accomplished getting what he was after! If he did want to "walk" he would scream at the top his lungs and bounce until someone would come hold his hand.

He loves our little slide. He sits at the very top and he puts both of his little pointer fingers in the air, wiggling them by his face while counts "1, 2...." and then slide down!. It was so dang cute!

Valentines Day! 2011

We did celebrate Valentines Day. Brett and I planned a weekend getaway, but it was quickly postponed when both of us could barely talk or move do to strep and feeling like crap. But the boys woke up to a fun little surprise!