Molly's last day of school was Thursday, so summer vacation started Friday! I can't believe it's here so quickly.
The last week was kind of crazy.
On Tuesday, Molly had a dentist appointment. It was the 2nd attempt to fill a cavity, and after 1.5 hours of calmly struggling and attempting to get the now two cavities filled, we again left without any fillings. :( It was a really hard day. Molly is incredibly oversensitive to things in her mouth. Even the air tool that blows air and the numbing gel were extremely painful according to her. :( She really wanted her teeth fixed so they stop hurting, but, even with laughing gas, she couldn't make herself cooperate.
Our next option is to try oral sedation, but she has to be willing to drink a small cup of medicine. Molly has never been a good medicine-taker, and she is insisting that she will not be able to drink the sedative. If we can't get the oral sedation to work, we'll have to take her to the hospital and have her teeth filled under general anesthesia. This is not fun. :( Unfortunately, Molly gets cavities extremely easily, too. Her dentist said her enamel on her molars is defective and weak. Poor girl.
On Wednesday just before 5pm, Alex started crying that his knee hurt and he needed a new bandaid. Alex had scraped his knees after falling on the sidewalk at a friend's house the previous week, so he had had bandaids covering his knees for a week. When he was crying on Wednesday, I looked and saw that one of his bandaids was soaked with blood. I carried him to the bathroom and took off all his bandaids to find several infected areas. :( The spot that was bleeding looked terrible, and it didn't seem normal. After tending to his knees, I did a little internet research because something made me suspect MRSA - the antibiotic resistant staph infection.
After seeing some photos that looked like Alex's knees, I took him to the Target clinic. They swabbed the really bad spot to be cultured and tested, and they put him on antibiotics that would work for MRSA just in case. Cory and I stocked up on bandages, antibacterial soap, and other things to make sure we did all we could to prevent the spread of MRSA. We didn't find out until Sunday afternoon that the cultures did come back positive for MRSA, and thankfully the antibiotics are working. Alex's knees are nearly fully healed! Hopefully nobody else gets this crazy stuff!
Then on Friday, Cory woke up early in the morning with a terrible case of food poisoning. We suspected the Thai food he ate at work on Thursday, and today we found out another coworker (who also ate Pad Thai) came down with identical symptoms Thursday night. Cory barely moved all of Friday. :( It did not look pleasant.
Then on Sunday we hosted a fun update BBQ for friends of ours who have been living overseas in Asia. It was great!
Before our last guests left Sunday evening, our friends Denny and Nicole stopped by to drop off their older two children. Denny and Nicole are going to Haiti with a group from our church to help with construction projects there, and we volunteered to watch Isaac (6) and Leah (4) for the 9 days they will be gone. Yes, we'll have 4 kids for a little over a week!
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Here's a photo of Alex... just because I thought he looked cute in his puppy towel after enjoying the kiddie pool. :)
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The last week was kind of crazy.
On Tuesday, Molly had a dentist appointment. It was the 2nd attempt to fill a cavity, and after 1.5 hours of calmly struggling and attempting to get the now two cavities filled, we again left without any fillings. :( It was a really hard day. Molly is incredibly oversensitive to things in her mouth. Even the air tool that blows air and the numbing gel were extremely painful according to her. :( She really wanted her teeth fixed so they stop hurting, but, even with laughing gas, she couldn't make herself cooperate.
Our next option is to try oral sedation, but she has to be willing to drink a small cup of medicine. Molly has never been a good medicine-taker, and she is insisting that she will not be able to drink the sedative. If we can't get the oral sedation to work, we'll have to take her to the hospital and have her teeth filled under general anesthesia. This is not fun. :( Unfortunately, Molly gets cavities extremely easily, too. Her dentist said her enamel on her molars is defective and weak. Poor girl.
On Wednesday just before 5pm, Alex started crying that his knee hurt and he needed a new bandaid. Alex had scraped his knees after falling on the sidewalk at a friend's house the previous week, so he had had bandaids covering his knees for a week. When he was crying on Wednesday, I looked and saw that one of his bandaids was soaked with blood. I carried him to the bathroom and took off all his bandaids to find several infected areas. :( The spot that was bleeding looked terrible, and it didn't seem normal. After tending to his knees, I did a little internet research because something made me suspect MRSA - the antibiotic resistant staph infection.
After seeing some photos that looked like Alex's knees, I took him to the Target clinic. They swabbed the really bad spot to be cultured and tested, and they put him on antibiotics that would work for MRSA just in case. Cory and I stocked up on bandages, antibacterial soap, and other things to make sure we did all we could to prevent the spread of MRSA. We didn't find out until Sunday afternoon that the cultures did come back positive for MRSA, and thankfully the antibiotics are working. Alex's knees are nearly fully healed! Hopefully nobody else gets this crazy stuff!
Then on Friday, Cory woke up early in the morning with a terrible case of food poisoning. We suspected the Thai food he ate at work on Thursday, and today we found out another coworker (who also ate Pad Thai) came down with identical symptoms Thursday night. Cory barely moved all of Friday. :( It did not look pleasant.
Then on Sunday we hosted a fun update BBQ for friends of ours who have been living overseas in Asia. It was great!
Before our last guests left Sunday evening, our friends Denny and Nicole stopped by to drop off their older two children. Denny and Nicole are going to Haiti with a group from our church to help with construction projects there, and we volunteered to watch Isaac (6) and Leah (4) for the 9 days they will be gone. Yes, we'll have 4 kids for a little over a week!
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Here's a photo of Alex... just because I thought he looked cute in his puppy towel after enjoying the kiddie pool. :)
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This photo is of Alex and his good buddy Jerusha. They were enjoying popsicles after their end-of-year preschool program.
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Yesterday, Alex and Cory were talking, and I overheard Alex say, "When I'm a dad, do you know what car I'm going to have?"
Cory: What kind?
Alex: A hot dog car! With mustard on it. (We saw the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile in a parking lot over a year ago, but Alex still remembers it and thinks it is awesome.)
Then Alex went on to tell Cory that when he's a dad, he's going to have aWii . Instead of buying his own Wii , he said he would take ours. When Cory protested that idea, Alex said, "Well, I'll leave you the games. I'll just take the Wii ." Nice.
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Yesterday, Alex and Cory were talking, and I overheard Alex say, "When I'm a dad, do you know what car I'm going to have?"
Cory: What kind?
Alex: A hot dog car! With mustard on it. (We saw the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile in a parking lot over a year ago, but Alex still remembers it and thinks it is awesome.)
Then Alex went on to tell Cory that when he's a dad, he's going to have a
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