A long few weeks

It's been a while since I've blogged. Our house was under quarantine. The last 2 1/2 weeks have been a little crazy with everyone sharing their diseases. After all, what is the ONE thing the boys are more than willing to share.....germs! :-)

Ty's had it the worst, with Tom pulling a close 2nd. Two Mondays ago I took Ty to the doctor. He had virus that was coming out like the worst cold in the world. His eyes were gunky, boogers everywhere, fevers, coughing, he was miserable and I couldn't blame him. It also didn't help that he's cutting 7 teeth right now. This kid is a trooper. I really can't believe the amount of teeth coming in for him. He hasn't had any new teeth for MONTHS! And now, he gets 7 all at once, 2 of which are molars. So the doctor gave us Zyrtec and sent us on our way. Of course at this point most of his virus was working its way out since he had the worst of it over the weekend. He seemed to be doing better, other than the normal teething symptoms.

Then Jack had preschool on Tuesday and when I picked him up his teacher asked me...."Have you seen his eye?" Uh OH!!! On Wednesday we were back to the doctor for Jack and he had the dreaded pink eye. Normally I can handle sick kiddos and the lack of sleep that comes with the coughing through the night but I got stuck with a sinus infection. Let me just say I REALLY miss being able to take the good drugs! Advil Cold and Sinus and NyQuil are my go to cold busters but being preggers I get stuck with plain, nothing fancy Robitussin and Sudafed which doesn't seem to help my cold, just makes me jumpy. So I wasn 't at the top of my mommy game when all this was going on and Tom wasn't able to hold the torch either because he had a bad cold then got Strep throat last Tuesday. Tom NEVER goes to the doctor, so you I knew he was hurting! And then 2 days after his doctor visit he got Jack's pink eye. Like I said....the boys are great at sharing germs! So our house was hurting for awhile. I'm pretty sure if anyone else got pink eye or strep we were going to have to fumigate the house!

The weather was pretty terrible while we were all sick too. Lots of rain for days! When this past weekend rolled around everyone seemed to be doing so much better along with the sunny weather. There were full nights of sleep, no puking episodes, medicines were running their courses and the moods of all were turning to happy, and the sunshine was GREAT!! We went out to breakfast, did lots of errands, and ventured to the playground.







On Sunday we bought trees for our barren yard and finally got to put Tom's new ride to use hauling them all home. Some how Tom managed to dig holes and plant 6 pine trees and 3 weeping willow trees in a few hours. Plus he gets to do it all again this weekend with our 2nd load of trees. I was no help since these things weighed a TON and we're not exactly ready to have "Pickles" pop out just yet. :-) The trees look great and the yard looks so much better already.




While we were enjoying the great weekend I of course said, "I think we're on the mend" out loud and jinxed us!! We noticed this thing growing in Ty's right ear canal. It's much bigger than a pimple, and looks like a piece of puffed rice sitting in his ear canal which was about to close off if it grew any bigger. He didn't seem to be pulling or itching at it so we just watched it for a few days. It didn't get any smaller so I made him another doctor's appointment for yesterday while Jack was at school. We had a real asshole of a nurse (a male nurse) which just ruined the whole visit. Ty's usually really great with doctors but this guy freaked him out so bad that Ty was everything but cooperative. Anyway, the doctor got a look in his ear and ruled it as a bacterial infection of a gland in his canal. So Ty's now on antibiotics and ear drops for a week. After one dose of each last night, the growth is getting smaller and it looks like it's opening up and the nastiness is leaking out which is great....and gross! Hahaha! He was up through the night a few times but I'm sure he was uncomfortable, how could he not be? When he's awake, he's his normal happy self so we'll see how tonight goes.

Hopefully this is the end of our unhealthy craziness since we're going to have a full house starting tomorrow. Three of my best friends from PA are coming to visit with kids in tow. Christy, Carisa, her son, Ethan who is 1, and Karen and her 2 kiddos, Aiden and Cooper who are 2 1/2 and 1 will be making the drive to Newtucky. I can't wait to see them. Who has friends that are willing to drive 11 hours for a long weekend with KIDS?? :-) Hahahah! It should be a blast though! Jack is very excited about having a sleep over and we're heading to the zoo! I can't wait to hang out with them for longer than the occasional dinner together! Should be a great girls weekend....Tom's looking forward to planting 8 more trees. Hahahah! :-)

So that's the latest with the McMurtries. It's been a long few weeks but we're getting there! Not sure how I'd be without Tom through everything. He's been amazing! He's been keeping me from breaking....pregnancy hormones/mood/crazies are in full swing and I don't know how he's putting up with me. I think he really enjoys going to work! Hahahah!