A great day

I spent the entire day with my two boys and we had the best time. We went to Reed's dental cleaning (his pediatric dentist is in Fort Worth, so it made for a good day to run errands). After his appointment, we went to Target. The boys were great as I looked at flip flops and tank tops and other girly things. I wanted to eat somewhere that we didn't have in Granbury, so the boys chose IHOP. They both got the chocolate chip funny face pancake. We had a fun lunch with lots of chatter and yummy food. :) Then it was on to the rest of my errands. We went to Old Navy, Hobby Lobby and Academy. In each store they were very patient and well behaved while I did what I needed to do. After Academy, I decided that we needed to do something fun just for them, so we went to the Movie Tavern and saw Mr. Popper's Penguins, shared an Oreo milkshake and some yummy cookie dessert. We returned some movies to Redbox (my new favorite thing - I know, I know, I'm behind the times) and I got Reed a Mario Brothers movie that he is enamored with right now. :)

Today was one of those days where everything seemed right in the world. I was complemented on how well-behaved my children are, and I agree they were. There was never a fit thrown, please and thank you's were said and they were very patient in each store while I shopped for things that aren't fun for a 3 and 7 year old. I love my sweet boys and I am so thankful that I have them and their awesome daddy. I am truly blessed by these three boys and so thankful that God chose me to be their wife/mother.

Blevins Vacation

The rest of our week on vacation went well. Hudson felt much better and was able to have fun, so we were too. :). We went into
Wimberley and had a cupcake...

Took pictures with my cute hubby...


Sat on some frogs...


Played games (this may be the only picture in existence of Brian playing a game)...


Pulled a very loose front tooth...


Gave Dad a hug for doing a quick, painless job... :)


Held sweet cousin Jake...


Got thrown in the pool...





Watched Cars 2 at the theater and The Little Engine that Could on the couch with popcorn...


And went to the outlet mall for Mom... And Dad thought we needed these hats. :)


We had a fun vacation. Here we are as the Blevins four...


And the Blevins ten.

Vacation

Hudson Update: He is doing great. Hasn't had a fever or thrown up his medicine since Tuesday. His leg is doing awesome- I know God healed him- thank you for all your prayers!

We are having a great time!! Lots of swimming...

Lots of hanging out...





Lots of playing games (is this ridiculous or what- all three kiddos playing an ipad)...






My favorite picture of the day would have to be when Hudson asked to hold Jake. Too cute!

So. Tired. Of. Sickness.

Let me begin this post by saying that if you are grossed out easily, you may want to skip it. There is talk of pus and pictures of bumps and for all of you who know me, you know this kind of stuff is almost more than I can stomach. Just wanted to send a warning out before reading... Proceed at your own risk. ;)

Friday evening Hudson started scratching a bite on his inner thigh. Saturday it was red and festered and he developed a low grade fever.

Sunday he really couldn't walk well because of the pain of the bite rubbing his diaper/ underwear and the spot was very tender- he would barely let me touch it. It had developed into a larger bump that was hard underneath and his fever had gotten higher.


I called the doctors office and since it was the weekend, the on-call nurse called me back. She told me that if his fever got higher, like 102, that we needs to take him to the hospital. At midnight, he had a temp of 103. Brian stayed here with Reed and Hudson and I headed to Cooks. He was none too pleased that someone was going to touch his leg (or that he had to wear the hospital gown).


Turns out the bite got infected and it turned into an abscess. The doc squeezed on it until all of the pus came out and Hudson screamed bloody murder the entire time. They put neosporin and a band-aid on it and sent us home with instructions that we had to squish the pus out 2-3 times a day for the next couple of days and a anti-biotic prescription. We got home at 3:45 a.m. and went to sleep. We were supposed to leave on vacation that morning with Brian's family, but I wanted to make sure he felt okay to go. We went and got his antibiotic along with some other things we needed for the trip. Here is his antibiotics for the next 10 days.


FIVE bottles. Okay... We'll do what needs to be done. So I give him not even half of the first dose and he throws it up within 20 seconds. Um... Okay, we try again and same outcome. I call the doctor, give her nurse the lowdown of what has happened over the last couple of days and she wants to see him. In the meantime, it's time for us to do the warm bath and squish the stuff out of his leg. We do the bath and I go get Brian and ask what he want to do- hold Hudson down or squish the thing. He let's me choose, so I hold down my sweet baby. Brian squeezes around on it and the whole time Hudson is crying and screaming at the top of his lungs "Ow!!! No, Dad! No!" over and over. It was terrible. :(. So we get a band-aid on it and have some time to rest before our doctor's appointment. We go I'm and his doctor tells me some very interesting things... First, that particular antibiotic evidently tastes horrendous. (How the ER doc expected me to get 5 bottles of it down a 3 year old, I do not know). Second, when I told her the dosage, she said " Wow, that's a lot for a little guy." Seriously???? Lastly, he never took a culture of what came out of the abscess. It didn't occur to me while we were there, but after she mentioned it, I was annoyed... That is why I went to Cooks- I thought they would make sure and do all those things. Anyhow, she gave us a different antibiotic and told me that the spot on his leg looked really good and we didn't need to mess with squishing on it anymore. Hallelujah!! I forgot it had been a while since his last Tylenol dose and while we're waiting on the new prescription, his fever starts to rise. By the time we get home he is shaking and teeth chattering. When he gets a high fever like that, he has trouble keeping medicines down... Low and behold he throws up a little of his antibiotic. We get more Tylenol down and put the rest of his antibiotic with his drink in his sippy cup and it goes down too. The poor kid slept from 5:00 last night until 3:00 this morning.


He woke up very hot, threw up, got more Tylenol down him and he went back to sleep. Woke him up at 7:00 and gave him Tylenol and his antibiotic and so far so good. I really think if he can keep his antibiotic down, he should start feeling good soon- bless his heart!! I'm sure he's ready to feel better too!

Update Tuesday evening:

Hudson did great on the 4 hour drive to the vacation house. He swam, ate a few chips and when I noticed he was getting warm, I got out the Tylenol. He promptly threw up. Tried to hide the Tylenol in his cup and he threw up again. Please pray for healing!

My sensitive boy

Reed is sensitive. Yes, he is sensitive emotionally. He cries pretty easily when his feelings have been hurt or when he gets in trouble. But that's not the type of sensitivity that I'm talking about...

Reed likes things to be soft... clothing, blankets, pretty much anything that touches his skin. We have to cut tags out of his clothes and he often tells me that his shirts are too itchy. He gets excited when he puts on a new pair of socks and one of his favorite Christmas gifts was a pair of soft fleece Star Wars pajama pants. There is no doubt in my mind that he has inherited this from his daddy. (Brian also loves soft clothing, but really loves soft sheets, so all of our sets are high thread counts.) On the rare occasions when he has slept in Reed's bed (when Reed has been sick and slept with me) Brian has said that Reed's Star Wars sheets feel like '80 grit sand paper'. For the last few months, Reed has made little comments here and there about how much he likes our sheets. As I was putting new ones on our bed tonight, he laid his head down and blurted out "No wonder you go to sleep so easy - your sheets are so soft!" I've looked on-line for him a set, but I really think he will be a little picky about the softness, slickness, etc. So tomorrow I'm taking my 7 year old boy shopping for a soft sheet set. :)

Summer

So far, we have been having a great summer. We have been staying up late - and I mean late. The boys and I will usually go get in our (mine and Brian's) bed and watch TV, play on the computer or play games on the iPad or my phone. I often fall asleep and Brian carries the boys to their beds when he comes to bed around midnight. :) I have been sleeping until 8:30 or 9:00 and it is totally awesome. (Once I was woken up by a very loud whispered "Mom! Sun says wake up!" from a cutie pie little 3 year old.) Our days usually consist of one or more of the following - swimming, playing games, watching TV/movies, etc. The least fun thing we have done is go to the gym. The boys aren't really fans of it and since yesterday was the first time I had been in 3 weeks, I was none too pleased either. :) We had a game fest of Tuesday and played Monopoly, Lego Creationary (I don't know if it's just me, but that game is hard!!), Uno, Skip-Bo Junior and some other Lego game of Reed's. All in all, we are having a great time! It has been so nice to make our own schedule and not have to be anywhere. Summer Rocks baby!!