Be a Better Listener!

So, when Miles said "I have a scrape on my throat", I should have heard what he meant, which was "I have strep throat"! Oops, what a bad mother. It took him waking up at 3am today and not going back to sleep for me to take him to the doctor. During the day he has seemed totally fine - but add tiredness to the mix and the grouchies come out. Am I talking about him or me? Not sure.

Anyway, hopefully he will be on the road to recovery after he starts his 10 days of antibiotics. At the moment, he is taking a nap. He has been awake since 3am after all.

Verbal Gems

Lately, since Elizabeth has been on her steroids, she has been very chatty and hyper. She also had a couple of melt downs in the evening but that's a whole nother story. Fortunately she only has 1 more day of medicine left. Not that I'm drawing big Xs through the days or anything. She has never been much for describing what is wrong with her - in fact most of the time she's "fine", "I'm fine - I said I was fine!"

Miles, on the other hand, has had a runny nose for a couple of days, but today woke up and said "I have a fever and my lungs have a scrape on them" These were his exact words. He in fact did not have a fever and was offered Tylenol but forgot about it before we even got the kitchen. Hopefully he'll be over it in a couple of days.

Gingerbread House

Miles has been dying to make a gingerbread house. We keep seeing those fabulous kits with all the pieces and the frosting ready made. This of course won't work for him due to his nut and egg allergies so we improvised and made our own house out of graham crackers, frosting and candy. It ended up being little, but cute, and most importantly yummy. The evidence has been eaten already, but for the 3 seconds that the house was standing I took a quick photo.

I Love Face Paint

As a result of Elizabeth's CT in November and seeing her doctor earlier in the week, she has started on a 10 day course of oral steroids. It has been a long time since she had taken this medication - I hope it doesn't give her any adverse side effects. All I remember from before was that it made her so hungry that she ate 4 bowls of Cheerios and 2 bananas for breakfast. We were at National Jewish in Denver (she was 2 1/2 years old!) So, I have been packing her a bigger lunch than normal. We'll see how she does.

The steroids will hopefully reduce swelling and allergic response in her sinuses, shrink her polyps, and if she does have allergic fungal sinusitis it should help that. Of course, don't ever hope for a diagnostic test to give you a definite answer because it probably won't. The CT showed stuff in her sinuses, but whether it was allergic fungal sinusitis or just inspissated mucus (I think this is doctor speak for thick old snot) couldn't be seen.

So, we are trying the meds for 10 days and will follow her closely and check back in 3 weeks. At least it might help shrink up her polyps. In spite of all this as usual, she seems remarkably fine and full of energy!

Og's Letter Pail

Wednesday was Miles's turn to bring home Og's letter pail from school and fill it with things that started with I. He choose:

Ice cream (plastic of course)

Ice pack

Incredibles DVD

Icicle (Elizabeth drew this for him)

Injector (for squirting cream into pancake puffs)

Hopefully this will start his wheels turning so that he can start to work on recognizing beginning sounds - if only so that he can be better at playing I Spy! At the moment he says, "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with Tree!" He'll get the hang of it soon.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Now, I know the holidays get stressful - there is so much to do, ornaments to hang, lights to put up, gingerbread houses to make and cards to mail. Oh yeah, we haven't done any of that stuff yet. But we did feel the spirit of the season last night at Miles's Christmas show at his pre-school. His class sang Rudolph and did lots of actions and everything. It was adorable and hilarious all at the same time. Miles is the one with the green antlers. Note the great spot I had for filming before the teacher came and sat in front of me!

Merry Christmas to all!